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The graded order of celestial beings whose nearness to God is measured by vision and whose motion is directed toward the divine point.
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angelic hierarchy
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The quoted passage names the angelic hierarchy as seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels, all drawing and being drawn toward God.
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The quoted passage says Dionysius correctly distinguished the orders and Gregory later smiled at his own earlier mistake once he could see clearly.
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"Sparks that were more in number than the sum one reaches, doubling in succession each square of a chessboard, 1 -2 -64. I heard..."
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"...the three ranks of bliss that formed this triad within this hierarchy there. There are three kinds of divinities. First, the dominions and then..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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