Testing the Spirits

When an alleged heavenly being appears, how can you tell whether it is good or evil?

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God" (1 John 4:1).

While this familiar New Testament passage is easily quoted, it's more difficult to put into practice when you have encountered what appears to be an angelic being of light. It would be so much easier to identify fallen angels if they appeared as grotesque monsters. But as we are warned in 2 Corinthians 11:14, "Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light."

Scriptures of different spiritual paths advise that faith, purity, adherence to revealed truth, and the performance of good deeds are the best way to ensure fellowship with spiritual beings of the highest levels. At the same time, we know that the greatest and most devout saints were not immune from contact with alleged heavenly beings who sought to lead them astray.

Our physical earth plane world is closer to the realm of the lower, more chaotic, spiritual frequencies than it is to the dimension of the most harmonious, so efforts to communicate with heavenly or enlightened beings will always contain more of the lower vibratory realm than of the higher, and thus we attract more astral masqueraders who seek to deceive us to achieve their own selfish goals.

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