I've wondered a good deal about what angels actually look like. Joy responds: "The angels are love as an active force, the personification of the compassion that contains and pervades all existence in its active phase. We have manifest characteristics only in your perceptions."

This explanation is simple and straightforward enough, but does it satisfy the innate human need to have a clear image of the angels in order to feel fully connected to them—their celestial, otherworldly friends? In my own case, at least, it did not.