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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 have been moved by God. For, to such an extent has the superessential harmony of all things provided for the religious order and the regulated conduct of each of the rational and intellectual beings, that each rank of the Hierarchies, has been placed in sacred order, and we observe every Hierarchy distributed into first, and middle, and last Powers. But to speak accurately, He distinguished each Division itself, by the same Divine harmonies; wherefore the theologians say that the most Divine Seraphim cry one to another, indicating distinctly, as I think by this, that the first impart their knowledge of divine things to the second.
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVIII (6)
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. Then in the dances...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All. (14)
For on one original first Principle, which acts according to the [Father's] will, the first and the second and the third depend. Then at the highest e...
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. (81)
Whereby all angels obtain the will of the throne-angel, and are all obedient to him; for they all work in his power which is in them all.
Chapter 23: Of the Deep above the Earth. (85)
In such a work also the holy angels exercise themselves; and in the Ternary of God there is a very meek, pleasant, and sweet being, where the spirit...
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)
So the holy angels move, walk or converse in all the three kingdoms, one among another, whereby they conceive or receive their conceptions, one from t...