The substance of angels

I’ve been wondering about angels, who and what they are.

I wonder if they are consciousness that has evolved into perfect alignment with the Source of All. That much seems widely understood. I like this quote from Meister Eckhart’s sermons. “A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to to so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

But maybe also that fine light of their consciousness is formed into individual angels  or groups of angels as need arises.  And further maybe that light in some ways provides the templates on which we build our human selves, and even all manifest reality.  And maybe their purpose is to help us bring out that light which is their substance into every part of our lives.

But if that is so, where does all that is unrealised in us come from?  Maybe we as beings are a little slower than the angels, and ultimately that’s all the difference; that we bring slower energies to the mix and their swifter light creates the vehicle by which we may learn swiftness.

Certainly for me there is a sense of them preceding us; we follow on after them.  Maybe they are the beings who preceded us back to Oneness and come back along the way to guide us home.