I was thinking about spiritual titles this morning and was about to write an article about them, but things got in the way.

Anyway, what’s interesting about it is that I didn’t actually pay attention to them until recently despite intuitively understanding the concept and its importance. I always focused on growth of your soul in qualitative and quantitative sense, on spiritual substances and their meaning, and first and foremost on making spiritual choices and affirming them through actions in your life.

Sure, that’s extremely important. However, there’s more to say about it.

The Christians intuitively understand spiritual titles, despite not explicitly defining the concept. For instance, Judas is a Traitor. St. Lucas is an Evangelist. St.Peter is an Apostle, a Saint, a Pope and a Keeper of the Keys of Heaven. St. Stephen is a Saint and a Martyr. Jesus is a Saviour, Messiah, Redeemer and so on. It’s obvious that they understand the idea – titles can be positive or negative, and one person can hold multiple titles.

Obviously, Titles don’t designate properties of one’s soul. They, however, designate one’s choices; they say what one did, or what position one holds in spiritual society. They are separate from one’s species; Jesus, as a species, is both a Human and a Person of God. St. Peter is a Human. Michael is an Archangel. Satan is a Demon and a fallen Seraph (Angel of the choir of Seraphim).

So, a question arises: is it possible that a person of a lower order can have a higher position in the spiritual hierarchy due to a greater title, than someone who merely has a soul of a higher quality, but who didn’t really do anything, and thus has no titles? Honestly, I can’t think of a precedent from my own experience. Usually, souls that got to grow really large also did great things. Souls that earned prestigious titles usually did that in the context of great spiritual challenges that resulted in spiritual growth as well. Also, I know Goddess is the most impressive being I ever met. I honestly can’t tell if she has some impressive title; she probably does, for instance the Eternal Wife of God, the Power of Creation and Destruction, or the Queen Consort of Heaven. and as a species she’s a Person of God. Her title, however, is not the first thing I thought of in her holy presence; it was gratitude, humility, awe and deep love, because she is such an incredibly awesome and holy person, and she always handled herself with such purity, simplicity, brilliant intelligence and absolute virtue, that I always just stood there like a dumb statue or something, in complete shock. What’s actually most shocking of all is that she actually tried not to be impressive, and that made her even more so.

Satan had a title – King of the Earth, Prince of This World and so on. His presence was the opposite of impressive. He felt like a peacock at best – a small being trying to puff himself up to seem large. At his worst, he felt like an envious, hateful, disgusting, demonic creature. Any good person is his spiritual superior, to be honest.

So, obviously, titles are a secondary thing, but they certainly tell you something important. They tell you of choices, they tell you what someone actually did, what they chose, or how God sees them. They kind of go hand in hand with spiritual advancement, that is true; however, beings of a similar level of advancement can have different titles that designate their different position in spiritual society. One may be an Artist; another, a Teacher. Also, some may be Traitors, Slanderers or Denouncers, but those might find themselves in the company of Demons, rather than the society of God. In any case, it seems that incarnation in this world seems to force one to choose, and the result of this, more often than not, isn’t just spiritual evolution or degradation, but also earning titles that give one a place in God’s world, and I think it’s super important.