The Apparition
A boy abandoned by his parents and left to die in the wilderness, the last day of life for a suffering cancer patient, a girl struggling through the heartbreak of a lost love, a homeless man addicted to drugs, a woman haunted by the memories of childhood abuse. These are just some of the people whose lives and souls have been touched by the Archangel Adriel.
The Apparition is a story about human lives. The Angel of Benevolence, Adriel, is one of the seven archangels of Heaven whose main function is to preside over the lost, the downtrodden, the meek, the suffering of children, and the innocent. He is a warrior who is a combatant in the never-ending battle of spiritual warfare. A war that exists unknowing to normal humans in a realm that is unseen by the naked human eye
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The Apparition is the story of an angel, the Archangel Adriel. He is an alien being whose sole purpose is to dispense divine benevolence on a humankind that can never see or thank him, but who are continually receiving his critical assistance in their lives.
The Archangel Adriel, "The
Apparition," affects the stories of many lives. Adriel is not a human recycled into
an ersatz St. Teresa, but an entirely separate species of being, alien in thought, body,
and perception. The challenges of dispensing Divine Benevolence and how these challenges
impact on a creature created primarily as a Heavenly Warrior are primary concerns of the
series. Also developed as subplots are Adriel’s "theological reality" and
the miscellaneous details of his extraordinary manner of living.
All this results in a unique vision of angelic existence, which by contrast throws a
relevant and revealing light on the human existence. Adriel’s observation of people
show them to be flawed, yet infinitely precious things that can be a constant source of
inspiration. Not the artificial inspiration of conventional storytelling in casting its
characters in a hazy stereotypical idealism, but rather in examining people honestly and
impartially. Even in all the Angel’s magnificence, he was not created with Free Will.
Therefore, the human creature’s gift of a Choice of whether to do Well or Ill shows a
finer, if harsher magnificence than even the splendid Host of Heaven.
Adriel serves as a symbol of the hope of Man, in his dogged warrior-like tenacity that
never gives up in constantly trying to encourage men to the Good.
The thematic insistence of "The
Apparition" is that the people Adriel is "assigned" to safeguard are
remarkable beings, capable of making excellent choices which lead to a significant Good.
The series is a realistic view of the world, and unfortunately Adriel’s people do not
always make the best choices.
And there is the additional danger of encounters with Adriel’s opposite number, the
horrific Demons, or Fallen Angels. It is the paradoxical Beauty and Curse of the Mortal
World that human Free Will enables mankind to hurt itself as well as to glorify itself.
This supernatural conundrum is magnified by the observations and actions of this superior,
though often imperfect alien Angel. Whether he is helping an aged man across the threshold
of Life and Death, saving an abused child from the implicit dangers of his sad existence,
or working desperately to convince a suicidal teenager against the taking of her own life,
Adriel faces everyday life at its most critical and most fascinating, and with a radical
new perspective.