The living Light, the Word, proceeding from the Father, is not separated from Him nor from his Love, the Holy Spirit. ↩

Its rays are centred in the nine choirs of Angels, ruling the nine heavens, here called subsistences, according to the definition of Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica , I Quaest. XXIX 2:⁠—

“What exists by itself, and not in anything else, is called subsistence.”

“What exists by itself, and not in anything else, is called subsistence.”