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Angels and
Dimensions - Description of the "ANGELIC HIERARCHY"
Part I
All three major religions of the Western world, Christianity,
Judaism, and Islam, as well as virtually all of the world's other
systems of religious belief, include celestials in their cosmologies.
Their scriptures all contain references to angelic interventions.
Angels, like people, belong to families or clans. Many names have
been given to them, but in the opinion of a number of angel
historians, the most familiar can be arranged in three categories, or
spheres, starting at the top with those closest to God, and moving
down to those who are connected to the physical world. The word
'angel' itself is used both as a generic term to refer to all
heavenly beings, and as a specific term to refer to the members of
the third sphere, those closest to the physical. So, too, the word
'archangel' is often used as a generic term to refer to all
the high orders of heavenly beings, although they are in fact but one
of the higher orders. According to Abigrael, there are four orders
within the heavenly hosts that particularly concern us now: angels,
archangels, principalities and thrones.
"While it looks like there is a higher and lower echelon,
it's more accurate to visualize all these orders in a great
circle, with the "highest" and the "lowest"
holding hands. For example, seraphim, who appear to be closest to the
Creator, also serve the God in us." In the New Testament
celestial beings are grouped into seven ranks: angels, archangels,
principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, and thrones. Plus, the
Old Testament adds cherubim and seraphim, which with the other seven
ranks, comprise the nine choirs of angels in later Christian
theology; although the number has generally been fixed at seven. The
angels receiving the most attention and veneration were the four
angels mentioned in the O.T. and the Apocrypha. The Spiritual
Hierarchy: The 9 orders of angelic beings (1 being the highest
order).
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"The highest order
of the highest hierarchy are the Seraphim, the celestial beings said
to surround the throne of God, singing the music of the spheres, and
regulating the movement of the heavens as it emanates from God."
"Beyond the thrones are the Cherubim. They are the guardians of
light, and of the stars. Remote from your plane of reality, still
their light touches your lives, the divine light that they filter
down from Heaven." Lucifer is known as the 'The Morning
Star' and 'angel of light, whom God's light shown
through' before his 'sin against God'. "The first
order in the third sphere is the Thrones. They are the companion
angels of the planets. At this time in your history it is important
for you to be aware of the particular throne, the Earth Angel, who is
guardian of your world."
"The Dominions are the heavenly beings who govern the
activities of all the angelic groups lower than they are. Divine
bureaucrats, they also serve to integrate the spiritual and the
material worlds. Although they take their orders from God, and rarely
contact individuals, their work is connected to your reality."
Part II will appear in the next issue of
Insight.
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