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Why did the Angels "Chose" to Fall?
There's a big
question arousing from the fall of the angels, and so much for the ones
which followed Lucifer to his rebellion towards God but especially for the
Watchers/Grigori.
Lets say that the
angel in Heaven which followed Lucifer they where deceived by him and so
they went into war against God and his Angels.
But the Watchers/Grigori had no excuse to be disobedient as the knew what
happened to Adam and Eve when they did so.
So what was it that made these angels to
"chose" to fall?
Matthew Bunson
says on this:
The precise
manner and events surrounding the fall of the angels is a matter of much
speculation over the centuries. There have been many theories and legends as
to how it happened.
For example, St. Thomas Aquinas (basing himself in part on St. Augustine),
proposed that angels were created by God initially with free will to permit
them to make a choice to accept or reject him forever.
As they had been made with natures that were eternally decisive, their
decision was irrevocable.
 One can also trace the presence of fallen angels and how they became so by
tracing the historical development of Satan.
In the Old Testament, the name satan was used to describe the
“adversary” of God, bringing about evil and tempting human beings (Wis.
2:24; 1Chron. 21:1; Job 1:6-12).
Jesus was also subject to the temptations of Satan in the wilderness (Mt.
12:24).
The references to Satan are extensive in Scripture, and by the time of the
New Testament, it was common to consider the presence of evil spirits,
attaching the name Satan to the devil or Archfiend (as in Rev. 20:2), and
variously describing him as the Evil One (Mt. 5:37; 13:19), Beelzebub (Mk.
3:22), the Accuser (Rev. 12:10), etc.
Specific reference to Satan as a fallen spirit or heavenly being (i.e., an
angel) is found in 2Pet. 2:4 and Rev. 12:7-9. There he is characterized as a
leader of hostile angels who was ejected from heaven.
He is thus able to disguise himself as an angel of light. The description of
Satan as an angel was one that received considerable subsequent development.
 In his Moralia,
Pope St. Gregory I the Great wrote that Satan was so great in glory and
knowledge that he wore the other angels as mere garments. Opinions have
varied, however, as to whether he belonged to a specific choir, with most
speculative writers proposing that he was chief of the seraphim and the
virtues (as well as prince of the powers and archangels).
St. Thomas
Aquinas, meanwhile, made the important point that Satan was of the choir of
cherubim as he excelled in knowledge, not love or charity.
The cherubim are honored in the second choir of angels and are best known
for their knowledge and power.
Matthew Bunson
As we have seen in the chapter "The Fallen Archangel" Lucifer and Satan are
two different fallen angels with Lucifer been the first. As the two became
interchangeable so it happened that St. Thomas Aquinas had in mind Lucifer
who was a Cherubim when he referred to him with the name Satan.
I
am not going to elaborate on the reasons which made Lucifer to fall, because
whatever the reason he did so out of his egotism and pure malice.
 But when it comes to the Watchers
- Grigori it seams to me that the fallen
Watchers - Grigori did not think of their help to humans as a big sin, if a
sin at all.
To have done so that means that they loved humans so greatly that they chose
to help them.
Besides it was the same love of God towards Adam (or was it Jesus) that
cause the rebellion of Lucifer.
The Watchers/Grigori as angels and with the divine gift of Free Will made an
irrevocable choice out of love to human kind, to change their path of evolution,
and experience humanity/mortality, and thus been humans with physical form
they got married with human women.
Although they appealed to Enoch to mediate and to speak on their behalf to God,
they remained bound for 70 generations, (is that time period big enough? or the
sin was not so big after all?). Hmm!
Some, they wants us to believe that the fallen Watchers/Grigori where allured
by human women who were in the habit of walking abroad naked, and they gave
themselves up to every conceivable manner of lewd practices. Of such were
the women, whose beauty and sensual charms tempted the angels from the path
of virtue.
Sorry, but I fail to see how a being of light like an angel will be tempted
so easily by a naked human woman to fall. A Watcher, watches everything and
nudity or the shape of human body should have not be even worth looking upon
it for an angel.
I had this idea "theory" of mine which suggests that it might be the fallen Watchers/Grigori that gave
all the knowledge to the people from Atlantis (the lost continent).
Knowledge so powerful that the Atlantians where not ready to handle it and
it "destroyed" them.
It was said that the Atlantis "experiment" failed and that it was a mistake
from the Hierarchy's behalf.
I don't think that the Hierarchy is capable of such mistakes.
This theory can be supported theologically from the "fact" that the fallen
Watchers/Grigori and their children where destroyed in Noah's flood... the
coincidence here is that Atlantis was also been said to be destroyed by the
same flood around 8498 B.C. Hmm! That makes my wonder!
Whichever it's the right answer these are just my views on the subject,
without claiming any theological specialty and not saying that I am correct,
these are just thoughts for ponder.
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