- The Intelligences, ruling and guiding the several heavens, (receiving power from above and distributing it downward, taking their impression from God and stamping it like a seal upon the spheres below,) according to Dionysius the Areopagite are as follows:— The Seraphim, Primum Mobile. The Cherubim, The Fixed Stars. The Thrones, Saturn. The Dominions, Jupiter. The Virtues, Mars. The Powers, The Sun. The Principalities, Venus. The Archangels, Mercury. The Angels, The Moon. See note 1986 . ↩
- The principle which gives being to all created things. ↩
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