Angels

I'm reading about angels right now and came across this excellent view from Dion Fortune's "Applied Magic":

"Buddhist, Hindo and Mohammedan theology are equally explicit....It is said by the rabbis that these beings are perfect, each after their kind; but they do not evolve, and it is noticeable that they are non-intellectual. One might almost call them divine robots, each strictly conditioned by its own nature perfectly to fulfil the office for which it was created, free from all struggle and inner conflict, but changeless, and therefore unevolving."

This struck me as fascinating and really resonates with me. I've never really cozied up to the idea as angels being humanoid creatures or talking to us in endearing terms. For as long as I can remember I've thought of them as disturbing, nonhuman and powerful.