{"database": "deitydb", "table": "v_public_angelic_beings", "rows": [[23, "ENT_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS", "New Age Guardian Angels", "Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion", "New Age angelic devotion", "['personal guidance', 'protection', 'healing', 'reassurance']", "Devotional engagement is documented and sincere: practitioners petition personal guardian angels by name, ask for signs, thank them, and seek their guidance through angel cards, automatic writing, and prayer. Codified in Doreen Virtue's best-selling angel literature and angel oracle decks, and earlier in Hanegraaff's account of New Age angelology. Distinct from the Christian doctrine: here every person has assignable, nameable angels reachable on demand, blended with reincarnation and the 'ascended masters.' A real historical taproot is the Zoroastrian guardian-spirit complex (fravashis / amesha spentas), widely cited as ancestral to the Judeo-Christian guardian-angel idea, hence the reception_of edges to both the Christian and Zoroastrian anchors."]], "columns": ["rowid", "entity_id", "canonical_name", "tradition", "category", "primary_domains", "short_note"], "primary_keys": ["rowid"], "primary_key_values": ["23"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6472699999449105, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}