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The Angel Ophalie
The Angel Ophalie watched over Auberon from Elanthe, the angelic world, as he traveled to earth to give his message of hopefulness. She sat long hours in study of him. Her hair, tied at the nape of her neck, fell in a thick braid to the ground wound with threads of silver and gold, dove feathers and stardust, which were lifted by the breezes to fly delicately up about her head and then to drift down about her face and shoulders. But Ophalie didn't notice.
After Auberon had completed his work on earth he returned to Elanthe and, when he did, he showed Ophalie the book he had written, The Angel Chronicles. He played for her the music he had wanted those on earth to have, Angel Music.
But permission would have to be obtained before further stories were written. Ophalie visited the incandescent angel, Inspira, who was Above All and close to Michael the Archangel in the Hierarchy of Angels. Should the mysteries of the angelic world of Elanthe be told? Should the story of the Universe known as The Aurelia of which Elanthe was a part be explained?
Inspira sat for many hours amidst the spiraling clouds and turquoise mists of the angelic realm to ponder Ophalie's question. When she had made her decision she went to Michael and suggested to him that there might be a book and that such a volume might be called "The Inherent Angel." Michael responded, as Inspira knew he would. "Why, yes," Michael said. "Yes, it might be."
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