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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called. (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.
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (23)
Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner; for an angel has no guts, neither flesh nor bones, but is constituted or composed by the divine...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (112)
But here I speak with an angel's tongue, thou must not understand it earthly, like unto this world.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (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 a...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (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 genit...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (51)
Therefore the angels can do no other than their Father does, as also our angelical King JESUS CHRIST testified, when he was with us on earth, as it is...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (55)
As when the flash of life riseth up in the centre of the divine power, wherein all the spirits of God attain their life, and highly rejoice, there is...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (114)
O no, dear man, thou half dead angel, that is not so, but all is done and consisteth in power; for the divine being stands in power. But the holy...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (64)
If I had the tongue of an angel, and thou hadst an angelical understanding, we might very finely discourse of it. But the spirit only seeth it, and...
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Celestial Hierarchy, Caput X (2)
Now all Angels are interpreters of those above them, the most reverend, indeed, of God, Who moves them, and the rest, in due degree, of those who...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (68)
For there is no difference between the spirits of God and the angels, but only this, that the angels are creatures, and their corporeal being has a be...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (41)
Now it may be asked: Question. What then do the Angels when they sing not? Answer.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (86)
And as is the rising up of the spirits in every place, so the tone also formeth itself, but very meekly, and incomprehensibly to the bodies of the ang...
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (24)
Therefore has he created the holy angels out of himself, which are as it were little gods, answerable to the being and qualities of the whole God, tha...
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (21)
There are two things to be observed in God; the first is the Salitter, or the divine powers, out of which is the body or corporeity; and the second...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (115)
Antiquity has represented the angels in pictures like men with wings, but they have no need of any wings, yet they have hands and feet as men have,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer.:136-137)
No, by no means; for they were not thus imaged or framed for that end: For the Creator had for this cause incorporated or compacted the body of an...
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (17)
The angel's body, or the comprehensibility, is from or out of the seventh spirit, and the birth or geniture in that body is the six qualifying or...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (90)
"So when it is written, the angels are created out of God, then it is understood or meant out of God's eternal nature, wherein is understood or meant...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (143)
For as God works in nature to the producing of all manner of forms, ideas, images, vegetations, springings, fruits and colours, so do the angels also,...
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