The original sin of the angels
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- By John Eagles, April 2, 2001.
This page is part of an ERW course, Divine Principle.
Much has been said about the sins of man but little about the sins of angels. Like Adam and Eve committed an original sin, so also Lucifer committed an original sin. These original sins are not exactly the same.
The original sin of Adam and Eve was their spiritual fall under Lucifer and then their physical fall with each other, which both took place under the spiritual dominion of Lucifer. The essence of the original sin of man is that man fell under the dominion of Lucifer, that man began to accept Lucifer as their god and father and therefore lost faith in their own identity of being God’s children.
When we look at the original sin of Adam and Eve, we look at it from the viewpoint of man. But it is important to also look at the original sin of Lucifer.
When you are restoring yourself as Adam or Eve you must overcome all the type of sins that you yourself and your ancestors committed. You especially have to overcome the original sin of Adam and Eve.
But when you are restoring yourself in a position of archangel, or when you are an angel or archangel, you must overcome the sins committed by angels. It is therefore very important to have a good view on what is the main sin that the angels committed.
The original sin of the angels is that they denied God’s identity as Parent of man, that they contested man’s right to have full dominion over the earth, and that they denied that man has an eternal spirit created as God’s child.
We are not speaking here about the actual fall of man under Satan, we are speaking here about an internal attitude, an opinion, a way of desiring and thinking and feeling that was present in Lucifer and which he then expressed in relation to Eve and Adam.
One could say that the original sin of Lucifer was committed already before there came to pass the original sin of Adam and Eve.
The original sin of Lucifer was invisible. There were no clear deeds connected yet to that sin. The original sin was taking place entirely in the spiritual heart and mind of Lucifer. Yet this was the worst sin that has ever been committed. That invisible sin, 'just' a way of looking at God and at God’s creation, became the cause of all misery in the world.
The spiritual fall of Eve with Lucifer was already a kind of expression of the original sin of Lucifer. The spiritual fall of Eve was not the original sin of the angels. The original sin of the angels had already taken place before that spiritual fall of Eve with Lucifer. Eve had come under the influence from the spiritual efforts of Lucifer and those spiritual efforts did first exist only on the level of desires, thoughts and feelings.
We must imagine that Lucifer had certain wishes or desires based on his not accepting the positions as God had installed them.
Lucifer had known already for long that God planned for a higher creation. Lucifer knew very well that on one day there would walk on the earth God’s children and that those children would have a spirit elevated above the spirits of angels and that those new creations would one day rule the universe. But when the situation came about, Lucifer did not like it. He did not like it that the position that he had always had would now be transformed into a new one. Though Lucifer’s position did actually not go down after God created Adam and Eve, but Lucifer felt like this. Lucifer’s position after the birth of Adam and Eve even got elevated compared to his old position. But Lucifer also had to accept creations above him. That is what Lucifer resented and so Lucifer also resented God. He began to deny God because he denied the existence of spirit beings in a position of children of God above that of him. And so he also denied God’s real identity. Lucifer also denied the value of the spirit of man.
Because Adam and Eve fell under Lucifer they did never find out what their real value was. People descending from Adam and Eve have only found out about the world of spirit as it was reigned by fallen angels.
The future of spirit world dominated by original children of God will be completely new, completely different from what we have ever seen. It will be a world with creations going far beyond the creations that we know in the physical world. In the future, there will be such a unity between spirit world and the physical world, that people who deceased will be living among their descendants on earth almost just as if they had never lost their physical bodies. Such a world never came about and today we can only dream of it. But it is the world that the angels have blocked.
The problem with the original sin of the angels is that everything takes place in the realm of the invisible. I don’t mean invisible because it is spiritual, but invisible because it is in the realm of the internal heart and mind. The original sin of the angels concerns desires of their heart and thoughts and feelings resulting from these evil desires. Those evil desires are mainly evil because they are expressions of a heart of creations that don’t want to take their correct position of object to God and man.
All evil comes from beings who don’t want to accept their positions in the way God created them. In such people or angels do come up certain desires from that refusal to take the correct position. And it are those evil desires that destroy everything what is good and beautiful.
