WHY ANGELS?

WHERE THERE ARE HUMANS, YOU WILL FIND FLIES... AND BUDDHAS - KOBAYASHI ISSA

- EVA LEWARNE

We need help to rise above our own humanity and understand mortality. So we invent angels as more than humans who are messengers of the beyond, the afterlife. In aboriginal traditions, this would be akin to nature spirits symbolized by birds and other animals. We ask ourselves the question if we are to die, why are we born in the first place. We look to find meaning in our existence on earth. We want to believe that there is more to this world than just the material.

To see an angel in the other is to love them. Even the evilest people have a light inside them, albeit some very tiny that says there is more to us than just this skin and bones. I believe something lasts after our bodies become corpses, you are only to look at a dead body to know there is no one left there.