Angel

Between gods and men stands a whole order of intermediate spirits, daemons who ferry prayers upward and answers down.

Beyond the prime mover there are further immaterial movers, one for each celestial sphere, pure intelligences without magnitude.

The Intellectual-Principle is itself a realm of pure intelligences: being and thought perfectly identical, contemplating the One.

Angels are God's first creatures, the 'heaven of heavens', intellectual beings who cleave to God and know all things in the Word.

Each angel is a distinct species: a subsisting form, incorporeal, knowing by infused ideas without discourse.

The nine angelic orders are nine circles of love and light, each revolving around the divine Point according to its measure of vision.

Incorporeal substance is a contradiction in terms; the angels of scripture are either real bodies or mere images God causes in the mind.

The angels are real, embodied, and capable of warfare, love, and rebellion: heroic agents whose fall dramatizes the liberty of every creature.

We have as clear an idea of immaterial spirits as of bodies, and reason itself suggests a gradation of species rising from us to God.

The universe is a continuum of monads rising without gaps toward God; angels are simply the spirits higher than us in perfection.

Pure intelligences lie beyond possible experience: we can think them without contradiction, but we cannot know that they exist.