It
was not written expressively in the scripture how the angels were created. But
it was written in the beginning of the bible in a taciturn tone.The words of
the first chapter of Genesis are as follows:
1.
“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
2.
“And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep;
and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
3.
“And God said: Be light made. And light was made.
4.
“And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the
darkness.
5.
“And he called the light day, and the darkness night and there was evening and
morning one day,” etc.
Of the first day the first book of the bible which is
Genesis says that “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” He created
heaven for angels and men; and the earth as a place of pilgrimage for man. The
heavens in their beauty manifest his magnificence and glory, because in them is
deposited the predestined reward of the just. It was written in the book of
Genesis of the first chapter that the
earth was void, but it was not written
that the heavens were void; for God had created the angels at the instant
indicated by the word of the scripture:“God said: Let there be light, and light
was made.” The writer of the book of genesis did not speak here only of
material light, but also of the intellectual or angelic lights. He does not
make express mention of them, but merely includes them in this word, on account
of the proclivity of the Hebrews to attribute Divinity to new things. But the
metaphor of light was very appropriate to signify the angelic nature and
mystically, the light of their science and grace, with which they were endowed
at their creation.
The
Lord was presently to divide the light from the darkness and to call the light
day and the darkness night. And this did happen not only in regard to the
natural night and day, but in regard to the good and bad angels; for to the
good, He gave the eternal light of his vision and called it day, the eternal
day; and to the bad, the night of sin, casting them into the eternal darkness
of hell. The angels which is more excellent and more like unto the spiritual
being of the Divinity were created in the empyrean heavens and in the state of
grace by which they might be first to merit the reward of glory.
