The number of each class of angels is equal to the number of all mankind from Adam to the Resurrection. The guardian angel of every man belongs to this last class. 16.) The Cherubim are an intellectual motion, the Seraphim are a fiery motion, the Thrones are a fixed motion, the Lords are a motion which governs the motions beneath it and controls the devils, the Powers are a motion which gives effect to God's will, the Rulers are a motion which rules spiritual measures and the sun, moon and stars, the Principalities are a motion which rules the elements, the Archangels are a swift operative motion which governs every living creature,Įxcept man, and the Angels are a motion which has spiritual knowledge of everything which is in heaven or on the earth. (Compare the 'thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers' of Col. The lower order contains Principalities, Archangels, and Angels. The middle order contains Lords, Powers, and Rulers. The upper order contains Cherubim, Seraphim, and Thrones, and these are bearers of God's throne. The angels are divided into nine classes and three orders. Water is cold and moist, air is hot and moist, fire is hot and dry, but it had no luminosity until the Fourth Day, when the luminaries were created. The earth was plunged in the midst of the waters, above the waters was air, and above the air was fire. heaven, earth, water, air, fire, the angels, and darkness. He created SEVEN substances (or natures) in silence, without voice, viz. 1222, the creation of the heavens and the earth has been planned from everlasting in the immutable mind of God. [NOTES.-According to Solomon, a Nestorian bishop of Perâth Mayshân, or Al-Ba srah, a city on the right bank of the Sha tt al-`Arab, about As the mother-bird maketh warm her young by the embrace of her closely covering wings, and the young birds acquire form through the warmth of the heat which from her, so through the operation of the Spirit of holiness, the Spirit, the Paraclete, the leaven of the breath of life was united to the waters when He hovered over them.

And on the First Day of the Week the Spirit of holiness, one of the Persons of the Trinity, hovered over the waters, and through the hovering thereof over the face of the waters, the waters were blessed so that they might become producers of offspring, and they became hot, and the whole nature of the waters glowed with heat, and the leaven of creation was united to them. In the beginning, on the First Day, which was the holy First Day of the Week, the chief and firstborn of all the days, God created the heavens,Īnd the earth, and the waters, and the air, and the fire, and the hosts which are invisible (that is to say, the Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Lords, Principalities, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim), and all the ranks and companies of Spiritual beings, and the Light, and the Night, and the Day-time, and the gentle winds and the strong winds ( i.e. Ephraim, commonly known as 'Ephraim Syrus,' or 'Ephraim the Syrian,' who died A.D. By the might of our Lord Jesus Christ we begin to write the 'Book of the Succession of the Generations,' that is to say, M E`ÂRATH G AZZÊ, which was composed by S AINT M ÂR A PHRÊM ( i.e. Sacred-Texts Christianity Index Previous Next The Book of the Cave of Treasures - The First Thousand Years

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