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Gabriel
In Christian and Islamic tradition, Gabriel is
one of the two mightiest angels. He is the
only angel mentioned in the Old Testament,
as the destroyer of Sodom and Gomorrah. He
is said to sit on God’s left hand and to preside
over Paradise. Mohammed credits Gabriel
with dictating the Koran to him. In more recent
times, an entity named Gabriel, identifying
himself as an archangel, channels through
a New York City man named Robert Baker.
Gabriel has spoken through Baker since
1990. His principal platform is the weekly
meeting of the Communion of Souls meditation
group. Baker has a cable-access show,
Gabriel Speaks, on a New York television station
every Monday afternoon. Gabriel, who
speaks of himself in the plural, says, “We
come to you at this most important time in
the evolution of your planet, a time of unity
of Soul and Spirit in the physical body
through the Light and Power of your being.
We encourage you to stand in the Power of
One, as the individual Light that you are, to
create a new vision for your world, a new
Heaven on Earth through your individual expression
of unconditional love for yourselves
and one another. We challenge you to act
upon life as creators rather than having life act
upon you” (“Gabriel Speaks,” n.d.).
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Further Reading
Davidson, Gustav, 1967. A Dictionary of Angels In -
cluding the Fallen Angels. New York: Free Press.
“Gabriel Speaks,” n.d. http://childrenoflight.com/
gabriel.htm
Gef
Gef is the central character in an episode that
p s ychical re s e a rcher He rew a rd Carrington
called “p re p o s t e ro u s”—a “palpable absurd i t y” —
e ven while conceding that it baffled him. Acc
o rding to one of the most peculiar stories eve r
told as true, Gef was a talking animal—a selfi
d e n t i fied mongoose—who plagued a family on
the Isle of Man between 1931 and 1938. Num
e rous investigators came to the site and, despite
suspicions of trickery, left empty-handed.
T h i rty years later, when located and interv
i ewed, the one surviving member of the family
s w o re to Ge f’s authenticity.
In 1931, the Irving family—father James,
mother Margaret, and twelve-year-old daughter
Viorrey—lived on a small farm known as
Doarlish Cashen (Cashen’s Gap in English)
on the Isle of Man on the Irish Sea to the
northwest of England. Facing the sea and 750
feet above it, sat their two-story stone house.
Inside, the walls were lined with dark matchwood
paneling set a few inches from the