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“The nine orders of Angelic Being mattered because the divisions echoed the Trinity and because they corresponded to the nine-fold partition of the heavens.”

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“From the Empyrean in descending order the spheres were those of the ‘first mover’, the fixed stars, saturn, jupiter, mars, sun, venus, mercury and moon. The Nine Hierarchies of Angelic Being each regulated one of these spheres.”

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“Although this order was familiar to the Elizabethans, they thought nothing of ‘playing fast and loose’ with it and before long the Archangels had been ‘promoted’ to the place of the Seraphim.”

With quite ‘devastating’ results for the world at large…

Source: Stuart France