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The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, Caput VI (4)
The fact that he bends neither knee, nor has upon his head the Divinely-transmitted Oracles, but stands by the Priest, who pronounces the invocation, signifies, that the monastic Rank is not for leading others, but stands by itself, in a monastic and holy state, following the sacerdotal Ranks, and readily conducted by them, as a follower, to the Divine science of sacred things, according to its capacity.
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Chapter IV: The Greeks Drew Many of Their Philosophical Tenets From the Egyptian and Indian Gymnosophists. (4)
Next in order advances the sacred Scribe, with wings on his head, and in his hand a book and rule, in which were writing ink and the reed, with which...