(125) Now as all Angels are bound to the King, so is the King also bound to God his Creator as Body and Soul; the Body, signifies God; and the Soul the angelical King, which is in the Body of God, and is become a Creature in the Body of God, and abides eternally in the Body of God, as the Soul does in its Nest, and therefore also has God so highly glorified him, as his own Property, or as the Soul is glorified in the Body.

(23) Thou must not understand this in an earthly Manner; for an Angel has no Entrails, neither Flesh nor Bones, but is constituted or composed by the Divine Power in the Shape, Form, and Manner of a Man, and has all Members like Man, except the Members of Generation, and the Fundament or going out of the Draught, neither has an Angel need of them.

(59) The Person or Body of a King of Angels is generated out of all the Qualities, and out of all the Powers of his whole Kingdom, through the moving boiling Spirit of God, and therefore such a one is their King, in that his Power reaches into all the Angels of his whole Kingdom, and he is the Head and General or Leader, the most beautiful and most powerful Cherubim or Throne Angel. And such a one was Lord Lucifer also before his Fall. ["And this also is more fundamentally described in our Second and Third Book; viz. in the Three Principles of the Divine Being; and in the Threefold Life of Man."] Of the Ground or Foundation, and Mystery.

(2) So the best thing on earth is the most pious man; and the best thing in heaven, the nearer in place and purer, is an angel, the partaker of the eternal and blessed life. But the nature of the Son, which is nearest to Him who is alone the Almighty One, is the most perfect, and most holy, and most potent, and most princely, and most kingly, and most beneficent. This is the highest excellence, which orders all things in accordance with the Father's will, and holds the helm of the universe in the best way, with unwearied and tireless power, working all things in which it operates, keeping in view its hidden designs. For from His own point of view the Son of God is never displaced; not being divided, not severed, not passing from place to place; being always everywhere, and being contained nowhere; complete mind, the complete paternal light; all eyes, seeing all things, hearing all things, knowing all things, by His power scrutinizing the powers. To Him is placed in subjection all the host of angels and gods; He, the paternal Word, exhibiting a the holy administration for Him who put [all] in subjection to Him.

(11) Now behold! An Angel and a Man is also thus: The Power in the whole Body has all the Qualities, as it is in God the Father.

(88) But when the Heart of God shows forth itself with its Clarity or Brightness, then there rises up the whole Host or Army of all the three Kingdoms of the Angels; and in this Rising up of the Heart of God the Man JESUS CHRIST is King and Chief. He leads the royal Chorus or Quire with all the holy Souls of Men till the last Judgment-Day. And then the holy Men are perfect Angels, and the wicked perfect Devils, and that in its Eternity.

(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.

(36) Answer. The Holy Soul of a Man, and the Spirit of an Angel, is and has one and the same Substance and Being, and there is no Difference therein, but only in the Quality itself, or their corporeal Government; that which qualifies outwardly or from without in Man, by the Air, has a corrupt earthly Quality, yet on the other Side it has also a divine and heavenly Quality hidden from the Creatures.

(2) But with this Difference only, that an Angel and a Man is a Creature, and not the whole Being, but a Son of the whole Being, whom the whole Being has generated: And therefore it is fit that it should be in Subjection to the whole Being, seeing it is the Son of its Body.

(4) But I observe that Angels first were initiated in the Divine mystery of the love of Jesus towards man, then, through them, the gift of its knowledge passed to us. Thus, for example, the most divine Gabriel instructed Zachariah, the Hierarch, that the son who was to be born to him, beyond hope, by Divine grace, should be a prophet of the God-incarnate work of the Lord Jesus, to be manifested to the world for its salvation, as becomes the Divine goodness; and he revealed to Mary, how, in her, should be born the supremely Divine mystery of the unutterable God-formation. Yet another Angel instructed Joseph, how, in very truth, should be fulfilled the things Divinely promised to his ancestor David. Another declared glad tidings to the shepherds, as being purified by their separation from the multitude, and their quiet life, and, with him, a multitude of the Heavenly Host announced to those on earth that often-sung doxology. Let us then ascend to the highest manifestations of light contained in the Oracles, for I perceive that even Jesus Himself, the superessential Cause of the super-heavenly Beings, when He had come to our condition, without change, did not overstep the good order which becomes mankind, which Himself arranged and took, but readily subjected Himself to the dispositions of the Father and God, through Angels; and, through their mediation, was announced to Joseph the departure of the Son to Egypt, which had been arranged by the Father, and again the return to Judaea from Egypt. And through Angels we see Him subjecting Himself to the Father's decrees. For I forbear to speak, as addressing one who knows the teaching of our hierarchical tradition, both concerning the Angel who strengthened the Lord Jesus, or that even Jesus Himself, when He had come to manifest the good work of our beneficent salvation, was called Angel of Great Counsel. For, as He Himself says, after the manner of an Angel, "Whatsoever He heard from the Father, He announced to us."

(1) BEHOLD! as the Being in God is, so is the Being also in Man and Angel's; and as the Divine Body is, so is also the Angelical and human Body or Corporeity.

(123) so also are the three angelical Kings, Lords over their Angels, even to the Heart and deepest Ground, though they cannot corporeally or bodily vary or change themselves, as God himself can who has created them; yet they rule them (viz. the Angels) corporeally, and are bound or united to them, as Body and Soul are bound one to another.

(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.

(12) And as all the Powers in God the Father rise up from Eternity to Eternity, so all the Powers rise up also in an Angel, and in a Man, into the Head; for higher they cannot rise; for they are but Creatures which have a Beginning and End.

(14) first the Body is out of all the Powers of the Father, and in those Powers is the Light of God the Son; and now the Powers of the Father and of the Son, which are in an Angel creaturely, generate an understanding Spirit, which rises up in that Angel.

(137) For the holy Soul is one Spirit with God; though indeed it is a Creature, yet it is like to the Angels: Also the Soul of Man sees much deeper than the Angels; for the Angels see only to the heavenly Pomp, but the Soul sees both the heavenly and the hellish, for it lives between both.

(7) And as the Son of God is generated in the Midst or Center of the seven Spirits of God, and is the Life and Heart of the seven Spirits of God, so there was one Angelical King created in the Midst or Center of his Circumference, Sphere, Extent or Or Province. Region out of Nature, also out of Nature's Heaven, out of the Power of all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits, and that now was the Heart in one Host, and had in him the Quality, Might, Power, and Strength of his whole Host, and was the fairest among them, or of them all.

(60) in this Body of Nature now was the Kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels also were created; and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindedness, then their Body might have stood eternally in a Stillness, and in an incomprehensible Meekness, as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without, distinct from this World, and their Spirit had generated itself eternally in their Body of Meekness, as the holy Trinity does in the Body or Corporiety of God, and their inborn or innate Spirit had been one Heart, one Will, and one Love with or in the holy Trinity: For to that End also they were created in the Body of God, to be a Joy to the Deity.

(45) now seeing thou hast thy Reason, and art not like the Apple on the Tree, but art created an Angel and the Similitude or Image of God, instead of the expelled Devils, and knowest how thou canst with thy astral Birth, in the Part of Love, qualify or unite with the Word of God, therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word, set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven, and thou canst, with thy Soul, even with thy living Body in this dead or mortal Palpability, rule with God in Heaven.

(63) Yet every Angel has all the Qualities of God in him, but one of them is strongest in him, according to which he is named, and glorified in that Quality.