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Pseudo-Dionysius · John Parker (1897)
THE Celestial Hierarchy — of the nine orders of angels in their three triads: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones; Dominions, Virtues, Powers; Principalities, Archangels, Angels — and how the Divine Light descends through them. Translated by the Rev. John Parker, 1897. CAPUT I. To my Fellow Presbyter Timothy. Dionysius the Presbyter. That every divine illumination, whilst going forth lovingly to the objects of its forethought under various forms, remains simplex. Nor is this all. It also unifies the things illuminated. Section I. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of Lights.” Further also, every procession of illuminating light, proceeding from the Father, whilst visiting us as a gift of goodness, restores us again gradually as an unifying power, and turns us to the oneness of our conducting Father, and to a deifying simplicity. For all things …
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