4. The Angel: Balance and the Human “I”

A Contemplation on Equilibrium and Freedom

Where the Eagle soars, the Lion breathes, and the Bull bears, the Angel stands.
Its gesture is quiet uprightness — not static, but poised between worlds.
It does not flee into height nor sink into depth; it mediates.
Its essence is transparency: the ability to receive light and to transmit it as love.

The Angel is not a being of dominance, but of harmony.
In its wings the movements of the other three are interwoven — light, warmth, and substance joined into one living equilibrium.
In the human being, this archetype lives as the I, the self-aware center that holds the cosmos together within consciousness.

1. The Axis of Balance

The human form itself is angelic in outline.
It rises vertically, spanning heaven and earth, arms extended like wings, heart at the center.
When we stand in stillness, we enact the gesture of the Angel — the world’s forces brought into symmetrical peace through inner freedom.

This equilibrium is not mechanical balance but moral composure:
the ability to remain centered amid the play of opposites —
between thought and will, light and gravity, courage and surrender.

To stand thus is to transform existence into presence.
It is the quiet act by which the human being becomes a mediator between the kingdoms — not above them, but through them.

2. The Gesture of the Angel

The Angel’s gesture is holding without grasping.
Its movement is circular and encompassing, never forcing.
Through this gesture, it unites what would otherwise fall apart — the cold light of the Eagle, the fierce heat of the Lion, the heavy will of the Bull.

When this gesture lives rightly in the human being, the soul becomes translucent; thought warms, will brightens, and feeling finds measure.
When distorted, equilibrium hardens into neutrality or sentimentality — balance becomes indecision, harmony becomes passivity.

True angelic balance is dynamic stillness: continual self-offering renewed in each moment of awareness.

3. The Gospel of Matthew

In the Gospel of Matthew, the Christ appears as Emmanuel — God with us.
Here the divine does not hover above or labor below, but walks among.
Matthew speaks of genealogy, law, and fulfillment — of the descent of spirit into human order.

His symbol, the Angel (or winged human), embodies this middle path.
Through Matthew we meet the Christ as teacher and reconciler, the living balance between heaven and earth.
The Angel in us awakens wherever consciousness becomes compassionate — wherever we not only know or act, but understand.

4. The Human “I” as Angelic Principle

The “I” is not a static ego, but a living act of mediation.
It arises when the human being learns to hold the tensions of existence consciously, transforming them from struggle into harmony.

This “I” works like a silent conductor:

• From the Eagle it receives clarity,
• From the Lion it receives courage,
• From the Bull it receives strength,
  and through itself it unites them as freedom.

In the Angel, evolution remembers its purpose — to awaken love that is neither instinct nor abstraction, but choice.
Through this balance, the human being becomes trustworthy to the cosmos: a being who can carry light into deed without distortion.

5. Contemplative Practice

Stand in quiet equilibrium.
Let the head, heart, and limbs align along one vertical axis.
Sense above you the clear heights of the Eagle, before you the radiant warmth of the Lion, beneath you the patient power of the Bull.
Now feel yourself at their meeting point — the Angel between them, breathing their harmony.

Inhale clarity; exhale compassion.
Inhale strength; exhale peace.
Remain for a moment in stillness, aware of the luminous space behind the heart.
This is the Angel’s dwelling — the presence of the “I” in balance, the still flame of freedom.