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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 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (136)
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 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (105)
No; but I speak in a corporeal, or angelical, or human Way, that the Reader may the better understand it, in such a Manner, as the angelical...
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 Entrails, neither Flesh nor Bones, but is constituted or composed by the...
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 sees it, and...
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 consists in Power; for the divine Being stands in Power. But the holy...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XIV (21)
None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him.
Chapter 5: Of the Corporeal Substance, Being and Propriety of an Angel. Question. (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, l...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (66)
All Qualities and Powers are in an Angel, as they are in the whole Deity.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
On Divine Names, Caput IV (22)
The Evil, then, is not even in Angels. But by punishing sinners are they evil? By this rule, then, the punishers of transgressors are evil, and those ...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (119)
So that the holy Angels cannot sufficiently enough rejoice themselves, nor sufficiently enough converse, walk, and most lovingly sport therein, nor su...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (142)
Now for such an End has God created the Angels, and they do so too: for their Spirit, which in the Center or Heart goes forth from their Light in the...
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 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 ...
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 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. (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,...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (137)
So that when the seven Qualities in an Angel, in the Center of the Heart, generate the Light and the Spirit or Understanding, that then that same Spir...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (13)
God created Angels out of himself, for this reason, that they might be harder and drier, incorporated or compacted together than the Ideas, Figures,...
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 ...
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 to this World.
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