Throughout history, humanity has grappled with the eternal struggle between good and evil. Whether we call them Angels and Demons, divine and evil forces or the light and dark sides of human nature, these concepts have shaped our moral compass, guided our choices and defined what it means to be human.
This article explores these profound concepts across history, philosophy, religion and human psychology - examining their relevance to our moral choices and personal growth.
An "Angel" is generally a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. The term "Angel" has also been expanded to various notions of spirits found in many other religious traditions.In art, angels are often depicted with wings on their back, a halo, robes and various forms of glowing light. The word "angel" comes from the Greek word "anglos," which means "messenger" in Hebrew. Angels are traditionally depicted as appearing in human form, often surrounded by glowing light or an aura of radiance.
The role of angels includes protecting, guiding human-beings and carrying out God's task. Often, especially in cases of averted tragedy or disaster - angels will not be seen at all, but instead their presence recognized by their actions. If something good, unexpected, and seemingly inexplicable happens, it's often assumed to be the result of divine or angelic intervention. Indeed, the word "angel" has come to describe any hero or benefactor. Though angels, by their nature, serve God, they also serve mankind directly. Angels are believed to assist in matters both profound and seemingly mundane - from healing the sick and finding lost keys to guiding lost souls and inspiring human compassion. Many believe that angels come when summoned and there is a long tradition of people using magic spells and charms to bring angels to them.
Having examined the nature of angels as divine beings, we now turn to their counterpart: "DEMON".
The term "Demon" is also defined as an supernatural being but associated with Evil [*Evil is defined as the opposite or absence of good] where in general we can say demon is completely opposite to the term angel. A demon is believed to be a spiritual entity that influences a person’s character which is considered as demonic possession, an exorcism is performed.
A demon is also referred to as the enemy of God and Humankind.
Actually, if we go through history, we will find the definition of Demon has been remodel in many religions, literature, fiction, mythology, folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies and television series.
Today, if you conduct research on "Angels and Demons", then you will find many variations in concepts and theories by many religions, myths, literature, fiction and other factors. Actually most know about the term "Angels and Demons" as per the community or by other factor influence but the important point to understand is, why these terms are used or explained from an era to us, what exactly the role or importance of these terms in our life, do they really exist, if yes then where we can seek them?
Now when you look into the fact - many human believe in God, as so he believe in Angel and Demon in a different form. Lets say God, Angels or Demons are fake, they are not real then that means we are denial to our ancestor history and their belonging which was gifted as inheritance.
So is it our ancestor was moron or is it us?
Human evolved themselves physically, socially, mentally, technically and in all those aspect which we can think or have knowledge about. And the generation we are in today, human race only believe in strong evidence. If we talk about the evidence in relevance to god, angel or demon; we can witness the ancient sculpture, myths, literature and many other source but they provide us theoretical or visual understanding for their existence but none of them prove its true. To be honest as individual, I really don't know who can prove their existence instead of claims. However, I generally respect all the concepts, art, sculpture, philosophy, myths, theories and sources provided by our ancestor which actually en-light us with our history.
But we need to understand - Why our ancestor was more focused on this concept to socialize and Why this concept been adopted by many religions, tribe, community on social platform? Were they misguided or genuinely visionary? Actually if you look into the facts, you will find no source of evidence in relevance to God, Angel or Demon but the only common and direct connection was Human.
True or Lie but all it was witness and depicted by Human, might be for Human or Humanity.
But what makes us different from animals when both eat, sleep, think and communicate. Actually humans have a highly developed brain which enlarge the ability of complex reasoning, use of language, to solve difficult problems, use of senses to describe thoughts and feelings. Human took centuries to develop such skills and abilities to be different from any other species. So human race doesn't appeared on this earth instantly, life on earth is a result of evolved microscopic organism in billions of years.
Now we will continue understanding the Ancestor theories, concepts and the relevance of today's topic in our life.
As human, we all are individual and unique by their gender, religion, community, knowledge, social, physical and mental state. Our individuality and uniqueness leads the action, behavior and belief without any analyzation or judgement on it. Today, you can seek humanity where you can also see the dark side of human cruelty which results to criminal, terrorist and many activities which we do in our daily life but never realize. This is 21st century and we can't deny the inhumanity and cruelty still there in human which queue us with animal.
Hereafter, if we look back then imagine, what could be the situation of human individuality and uniqueness without any law, direction, restriction, morality and many such factors which really make us human. Even our ancestor knows, no one can change it with a blink of eyes hence they came up with such concept of god, angel, devil, demon and such supernatural being who are superior then human kind to show them a better direction, setting up the meaning of humanity and humankind. Because all this concepts, stories, theories set an definition of good or bad, positivity or negativity, humanity or inhumanity, dark or light which shows us actual path to being an real human.
Today, we are in 21st century where each individual grown up with particular aspect depend upon the situations, education, knowledge, guidance, society, environment, adaptable nature and many more. Physiologically our mentality, behavior and act is based on agreement and disagreement of facts. But its just a matter of time and direction which leads human accordingly.
What all this about and How it's impact our life?
Human is just like a Coin which has two sides, either positive or negative and more precisely its defined as Angels and Demons. We are human but if Angel and Demon exist, then both exist in us. We need to identify - what we carry, what we are and what we are going to be?
The great mind of ancestor already knew that they can't change any one personality by dictatorship or leadership where they can influence the upcoming generation with such stories, sculptures, drawings, philosophy, theories and many source of artifacts to lead them forward on path of humanity. First we need to understand, as an individual if we can't fix our-self then we can't expect the change around us.On individual platform, We need to pick a time for our-self where nothing influence us and we stay focused. We need to use our brain for self analyses on our thought process, the acts which we generally perform, the pointers which make us weak and we change our-self. Human nature is adaptive where we try to change our-self as per time, state and situation but when we're talking about the change in our-self in between, that's really a point where you are dealing with Demon because if you do good, you satisfy yourself. So is your Demon stronger then your Angel or its always your Demon who overcome your Angel?
So try to think about it and look for a way to make your Angel strong where building a strong mentality, keeping patience and more than thinking positive doing good will satisfy you and your Angel. Yes, when there is a dark night then there is a beautiful sun rise which means there is always a light or hope to save our angel inside us, also to stop our Demon to overcome and impact our life.
Its always on us to choose "Angel or Demon".
