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Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 62: How a man may wit when his ghostly work is beneath him or without him and when it is even with him or within him, and when it is above him and under his God (3)
All angels and all souls, although they be confirmed and adorned with grace and with virtues, for the which they be above thee in cleanness, nevertheless, yet they be but even with thee in nature.
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (61)
Difference, the Angels are created, one as well as another, all out of the Divine Salitter of the heavenly Nature; only this is the Difference betwixt...
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 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (10)
Here thou must know that the Angels are not all of one Quality, neither are they equal or alike to one another in Power and Might: Indeed every Angel...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (62)
Hence it is come to pass, that the Angels are of various and manifold Qualities, and have several Colours and Beauties, and yet all out of or from...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (84)
Angels move, walk, or converse in all the three Kingdoms, one among another, whereby they conceive, or receive their Conceptions, one from the other; ...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (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...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (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...
On the Mysteries
II, Chapter V (1)
Angels alone dissolve the bond of generation. Dæmons draw souls down into nature; but heroes lead them to a providential attention to sensible works. ...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (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 Qualit...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (46)
The Devils and the Angels, in the Time of their Corporization, continued therein; and the Soul of Man, in the Time of the creating of the Body, [is] b...
Chapter 14: How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful Angel in Heaven, is become the most horrible Devil. The House of the murderous Den. (124)
Therefore bethink and consider yourselves, you that are proud, covetous, thievish, extorting Usurers, calumniating, blasphemous, envious, and whorish ...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (74)
Seeing then that they stood in Heaven in the Time of their Creation, therefore their Quality was also manifold; and all should have been and...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (33)
Every Angel is created in the seventh qualifying or fountain Spirit, which is NATURE, out of which his Body is compacted or incorporated together,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto IV (2)
These are the questions which upon thy wish Are thrusting equally; and therefore first Will I treat that which hath the most of gall. He of the...
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...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXIX (3)
The rest remained, and they began this art Which thou discernest, with so great delight That never from their circling do they cease. The occasion of ...
Chapter 2: An Introduction, shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine, and the Natural, Being. And further of the two Qualities. (10)
Yet both of these, the good and the evil Angels, were made out of the Qualities of Nature, from whence all Things existed, only they differ in their q...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (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...
Chapter 12: Of the Nativity and Proceeding forth or Descent of the Holy Angels, as also of their Government, Order, and Heavenly joyous Life. (90)
By this high Humility of the Angels, the Spirit admonishes the Children of this World, that they should view and examine themselves, whether they...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (65)
Behold, O Child of Man! All the Angels were created in the first Principle, and by the outflowing Spirit were formed, and made a Body in a true...
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