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(6) Nor yet any of the angels: for in the way that angels, in virtue of being angels, speak, men do not hear; nor, as we have ears, have they a tongue to correspond; nor would any one attribute to the angels organs of speech, lips I mean, and the parts contiguous, throat, and windpipe, and chest, breath and air to vibrate, And God is far from calling aloud in the unapproachable sanctity, separated as He is from even the archangels.

(37) Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels; for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this World.

(153) Also I have not gone up to Heaven, and beheld it with my fleshly Eyes, much less has any told it me; for though an Angel should come and tell it me, yet I could not apprehend or conceive it without Illumination from God, much less believe it.

(27) His Immensity, Height and Depth, no Creature, no not any Angel in Heaven, can search into it, but the Angels live in the Power of the Father very meekly, and full of Joy, and they always sing in the Power of the Father. Of GOD the SON.

(119) So that the holy Angels cannot sufficiently enough rejoice themselves, nor sufficiently enough converse, walk, and most lovingly sport therein, nor sufficiently enough sing that Te Deum laudamus, We praise thee, O God, in Hallelujah’s, as to each Quality of the great God, according to his wonderful Revelation, and Wisdom, and Beauty, and Fruit, and Form.

(111) For the total glorious Face of God, together with all the holy Angels, will shine bright and gloriously above them and under them, and round about them on every Side.

(3) "And all rulers and all authorities and all angels therein were thrown all together into agitation because of the great light which was on me. And they gazed at the radiant vesture of light with which I was clad, and they saw the mystery which contains their names, and they feared most exceedingly. And all their bonds with which they were bound, were unloosed and every one left his order, and they all fell down before me, adored and said: 'How hath the lord of the universe passed through us without our knowing?' And they all sang praises together to the interiors of the interiors; but me they saw not, but they saw only the light. And they were in great fear and were exceedingly agitated and sang praises to the interiors of the interiors.

(15) For He who prohibited the making of a graven image, would never Himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things. Nor is there at all any composite thing, and creature endowed with sensation, of the sort in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, and the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers fight and left; and the voice is delightsome glory in ceaseless contemplation. Let it suffice that the mystic interpretation has advanced so far.

(13) For as none, no not any Thing, can destroy the whole Deity, so also there is not any Thing can destroy an Angel; for every Angel is formed, figured, let together or composed out of all the Powers of God, not with Flesh and Blood, but out of the Divine Power. And

(35) "What flesh can see with eyes the Heavenly, True, Immortal God, whose dwelling is the poles?

(3) Besides, the Angels never showed themselves in any other Form or Shape to Men here on Earth, than in a human Form and Shape.

(135) Seeing then God had incorporated or compacted together out of himself eternal Creatures, they should not qualify or operate in the heavenly Pomp in such a Way and Manner, as to be like God himself. [Now behold!]

(22) As the Children of Israel in the Desart could not behold the Countenance of Moses, and therefore he must put a Veil before his Face, when he drew near to the People.

(2) "And all the angels of the æons and their archangels and their rulers and their gods and their lords and their authorities and their tyrants and their powers and their light-sparks and their light-givers and their unpaired and their invisibles and their forefathers and their triple-powers saw me, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for the light which was about me. And they were thrown into agitation the one over against the other and great fear fell upon them, when they saw the great light that was about me. And in their great agitation and their great fear they withdrew as far as the region of the great invisible Forefather, and of the three great triple-powers. And because of the great fear of their agitation, the great Forefather, he and the three triple-powers, kept on running hither and thither in his region, and they could not close all their regions because of the great fear in which they were. And they agitated all their æons together and all their spheres and all their orders, fearing and being greatly agitated because of the great light which was about me--not of the former quality that it was about me when I was on the earth of man-kind, when the light-vesture came over me,--for the world could not bear the light such as it was in its truth, else would the world at once be destroyed and all upon it,--but the light which was about me in the twelve æons was eight-thousand-and-seven-hundred-myriad times greater than that which was about me in the world among you.

(29) This therefore is the only Ground and Meaning, that the Holy Father, who is ALL, would have in these angelical Gates his most joyful and most richly loving Qualities, out of which the most joyful and most richly loving Light, Word, Heart, or Fountain of Powers, is generated; and therefore has created his Holy Angels in this Place for his Joy, Honour, and Glory. In the Abyssal or bottomless Eternity indeed, it is in one Place as well as in another; but where there are no Creatures, it cannot be known but by the Spirit in its Wonders.

(3) And the disciples had not seen Jesus because of the great light in which he was, or which was about him; for their eyes were darkened because of the great light in which he was. But they saw only the light, which shot forth many light-rays. And the light-rays were not like one another, but the light was of divers kind, and it was of divers type, from below upwards, one [ray] more excellent than the other, . . ., in one great immeasurable glory of light; it stretched from under the earth right up to heaven.--And when the disciples saw that light, they fell into great fear and great agitation.

(58) For he shows that the Divinity cannot be captured by a mortal, or apprehended either with feet, or hands, or eyes, or by the body at all. "To whom have ye likened the Lord? or to what likeness have ye likened Him?" says the Scripture.

(54) O no! The Angels in Heaven do not so; but they love one another, and rejoice in the Beauty and Loveliness of others, and none esteems or accounts himself more excellent than the other; but every one has his Joy in the other, and rejoices in the other's fair Beauty, comely Form and Loveliness, whence then their Love one towards another rises up, so that they lead one another by the Hand, and friendly kiss one another. Observe the Depth.

(97) But here thou must know, that the Bodies of Angels cannot apprehend the Birth or Geniture of God, neither does their Body understand it, their Spirit only understands it, but the Body holds still, as the Nature in God does, and lets the Spirit co-work and labour with God, and play lovingly.

(41) When King Lucifer, together with his Angels, was so gloriously, beautifully, and divinely created, as a Cherubim and King in God, then he suffered his bright beauteous Form to behold him, in that he saw how noble, glorious, and fair a Spirit rose up in him.