Identifying an Angel..., Can someone help? Options

(Hi - I'm new. First post! Yay!)

But I came here to ask about an angel - I guess I should start at the beginning.

It was during my "awakening" I suppose - when I was becoming more and more aware of spiritual things around me, when I had a dream (they're all usually straight forward, so I don't think this was symbollic at all) - I was in a garden, and seeking out someone - and when I found him, he was an angel. I forget even how I knew - He was floating just a bit above me.

He wore long white robes with a red cross upon them. I can't really remember what he looked like, or what he said (he said something very cryptic) and then I was awoken as if someone had dropped me/pushed me on the bed.

Is there any way of identifying angels by the garments they wear? Colors?

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More often than not I now chant a mantra made up of my own earthly name to summon my own true self. I find I gain much more instruction by doing this than by trying to summon something else. Nine times out of ten when an entity meets me on my journey matching that which I called ... it turns out to be my own angelic expression ... my own true self in disguise ....

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neat idea! i must try that

hmmm..how would one discern it once it came?

'are you me?' seems a bit too lame!

as we are all complex energy patterns (harmonics and all), i suppose comparing energy fields would suffice

very interesting