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This same blessing and service of an archangel is also offered to each one of us who can accept it. Just as the stone was pushed away by Gabriel’s hand from before the door of the tomb in which Christ lay, so also can the problems and density of our own lives yield to the light if we will allow him to enter our world. As the tomb of materiality that stands before each one of us as our own human creation and density is rolled away, we can see within that tomb the resurrected Christ of our own Holy Christ Self standing above us in the ethers, radiant in all the splendor of his glory and perfection. | This same blessing and service of an archangel is also offered to each one of us who can accept it. Just as the stone was pushed away by Gabriel’s hand from before the door of the tomb in which Christ lay, so also can the problems and density of our own lives yield to the light if we will allow him to enter our world. As the tomb of materiality that stands before each one of us as our own human creation and density is rolled away, we can see within that tomb the resurrected Christ of our own Holy Christ Self standing above us in the ethers, radiant in all the splendor of his glory and perfection. | ||
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[[File:Tizian 004.jpg|thumb|<translate>Archangel Gabriel, detail from the Averoldi Polyptych, Titian (c. 1520)</translate>]] | |||
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== Their service today == <!--T:14--> | == Their service today == <!--T:14--> | ||