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  2. Hierarchy of angels - Wikipedia

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    Qazwini describes an angelic hierarchy in his Aja'ib al-makhluqat with Ruh on the head of all angels, surrounded by the four archangelic cherubim. Below them are the seven angels of the seven heavens. [8] Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1209) divided the angels into eight groups, which shows some resemblance to Christian angelology: [9]

  3. List of angels in theology - Wikipedia

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    My help is God, of God's flock, Angel of Sagittarius Agiel: Zazel Christianity, Judaism, Islam Archangel, Seraph: The Intelligence Angels of all kinds, Guardian Angel of Saturn Ananiel: Christianity Watcher Storm of God, Angel of water, guard of the gates of the South Wind [1] Anush: Mandaeism Uthra Teacher of John the Baptist, miracle worker ...

  4. Angels in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th century by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The theology of angels and tutelary spirits has undergone many changes since the 5th century. The belief is that guardian angels serve to protect whichever person God assigns them to. The Watchers were of this class of angels.

  5. Seraph - Wikipedia

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    The 12th-century scholar Maimonides placed the seraphim in the fifth of ten ranks of angels in his exposition of the Jewish angelic hierarchy. In Kabbalah , the seraphim are the higher angels of the World of Beriah ("Creation", first created realm, divine understanding), [ 25 ] whose understanding of their distance from the absolute divinity of ...

  6. Throne (angel) - Wikipedia

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    According to 1 Peter 3:21–22, Christ had gone to Heaven and "angels and authorities and powers" had been made subject to him. [2] Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his work De Coelesti Hierarchia includes the thrones as the third highest of nine levels of angels. [3] According to the Second Book of Enoch, thrones are seen by Enoch in the ...

  7. Archangel - Wikipedia

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    Guido Reni's Archangel Michael Trampling Lucifer, 1636. Archangels (/ ˌ ɑːr k ˈ eɪ n dʒ əl s /) are the second-lowest rank of angel in the Christian hierarchy of angels, put forward by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th or 6th century in his book De Coelesti Hierarchia (On the Celestial Hierarchy).

  8. Lists of angels - Wikipedia

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    The following are lists of angels: List of angels in theology , a list of angels in religion, theology, astrology and magic List of spirits appearing in grimoires , listing spirits whose titles show up in these grimoires for evocation ritual purposes

  9. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The chain of being hierarchy has God at the top, [7] above angels, which like him are entirely spirit, without material bodies, and hence unchangeable. [8] Beneath them are humans, consisting both of spirit and matter; they change and die, and are thus essentially impermanent. [9] Lower are animals and plants.