Whom we have access to the Father," Source of Light, let us aspire, as far as is attainable, to the illuminations handed down by our fathers in the most sacred Oracles, and let us gaze, as we may, upon the Hierarchies of the Heavenly Minds manifested by them symbolically for our instruction. Invoking then Jesus, the Paternal Light, the Real, the True, "which lighteth 4 every man coming into Forģ all things are from Him, and to Him, as said the
"Every good gift 2 and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights."įurther also, every procession of illuminating light, proceeding from the Father, whilst visiting us as a gift of goodness, restores us again gradually as an unifying power, and turns us to the oneness of our conducting Father, and to a deifying simplicity. That every divine illumination, whilst going forth lovingly to the objects of its forethought under various forms, remains simplex. It also unifies the things illuminated.Ĭhapter 2: That Divine and Heavenly things are appropriately revealed, even through dissimilar symbols.Ĭhapter 3: What is Hierarchy? and what the use of Hierarchy?Ĭhapter 4: What is meant by the appellation "Angels?"Ĭhapter 5: For what reason all the Heavenly Beings are called, in common, Angels.Ĭhapter 6: Which is the first Order of the Heavenly Beings? which the middle? and which the last?Ĭhapter 7: Concerning the Seraphim and Cherubim and Thrones, and concerning their first Hierarchy.Ĭhapter 8: Concerning Lordships and Powers and Authorities, and concerning their middle Hierarchy.Ĭhapter 9: Concerning the Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, and concerning their last Hierarchy.Ĭhapter 10: A Repetition and Summary of the Angelic discipline.Ĭhapter 11: For what reason all the Heavenly Beings, in common, are called Heavenly Powers.Ĭhapter 12: Why the Hierarchs amongst men are called Angels.Ĭhapter 13: For what reason the Prophet Isaiah is said to have been purified by the Seraphim.Ĭhapter 14: What the traditional number of the Angels signifies.Ĭhapter 15: What are the morphic likenesses of the Angelic Powers? what the fiery? what theĪnthromorphic? what are the eyes? what the nostrils? what the ears? what the mouths? what the touch? what the eyelids? what the eyebrows? what the prime? what the teeth? what the shoulders? what the elbows and the hands? what the heart? what the breasts? what the back? what the feet? what the wings? what the nakedness? what the robe? what the shining raiment? what the sacerdotal? what the girdles? what the rods? what the spears? what the battle - axes? what the measuring lines? what the winds? what the clouds? what the brass? what the electron? what the choirs? what the clapping of hands? what the colours of different stones? what the appearance of the lion? what the appearance of the ox? what the appearance of the eagle? what the horses? what the varieties of coloured horses? what the rivers? what the chariots? what the wheels? what the so-called joy of the Angels? TheĬhapter 1: That every divine illumination, whilst going forth lovingly to the objects of its forethought under various forms, remains simplex. The Celestialĭionysius the Areopagite, Works (1899) vol.
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