The Holy Angels The nine orders of the
angels are divided into three
hierarchies, each of which is divided into three
orders: the highest, the intermediate, the lower:
The first hierarch, the
highest and closest to the Most Holy
Trinity, consists of the SERAPHIM,
CHERUBIM, and THRONES.
Th middle hierarchy also
consists of three orders of holy angels:
the DOMINIONS, the VIRTUES, and the
POWERS.
In the lowest hierarchy
there are also three orders: the
PRINCIPALITIES, the ARCHANGELS, and the
ANGELS.
In
honor of St. Dionysius the Aeropagite
who wrote down what his teacher the Holy Apostle
Paul told him of what he learned during his
vision of the third heaven (2Cor 12:2). http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/angels.html
God and the Angels Lambert Dolphin -lambert@ldolphin.org Most of
modern science pays little heed to anything that
exists in the spiritual realm. In the first
place, the scientific method limits scientific
investigation to the physical world. The
prevailing secular scientific world view today is
that of naturalism, or scientism. These views are
radically different in comparison to a Biblical
world-view. The physical world is only half of
the creation, and the invisible half of creation
is the more permanent and substantial than the
physical world. In many ways the material world
is a world of shadows. Ultimately,
all energy and power and life come into the
physical world from the unseen spiritual
world as the source, even though we do not know
how to formulate scientific laws to describe the
interactions between these two realms.
God
created great numbers of spirits, some now
fallen, and known now as demons. Guardian angels
watching over the lives of God's people are
mentioned in the opening verses of the letter to
the Hebrews, in the Psalms and in the Gospels. In the
hierarchy of the angels as revealed to us in
Scripture, the greatest and mightiest are known
as the "cherubim," among whom are the
"Four Living Creatures." Great and
mighty angels will take charge in the
unfolding of God's terrible judgments on the
earth that are to come upon us at the end of the
present age as described in the last book of the
Bible. As mentioned earlier, angels seem to have
control over the forces of nature and human
events in their roles as instruments of God. This
does not cause man to be a mere puppet, tossed,
and buffeted about by the unseen activity of
these mighty beings. However, the Bible
emphasizes that we cannot understand what is
happening in the world or in history without
understanding the activity of God and of the
angels. http://208.55.129.251/gangels.html
Angel Ring The finest collection of
Angels on the Web Angel Ring brings together sites with a
common interest : ~ Angels
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These sites offer the very best in angelic art,
music, information, stories and discussions. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1652/
Most of
modern science pays little heed to anything that
exists in the spiritual realm. In the first
place, the scientific method limits scientific
investigation to the physical world. The
prevailing secular scientific world view today is
that of naturalism, or scientism. These views are
radically different in comparison to a Biblical
world-view. The physical world is only half of
the creation, and the invisible half of creation
is the more permanent and substantial than the
physical world. In many ways the material world
is a world of shadows. Ultimately,
all energy and power and life come into the
physical world from the unseen spiritual
world as the source, even though we do not know
how to formulate scientific laws to describe the
interactions between these two realms. 
in the
unfolding of God's terrible judgments on the
earth that are to come upon us at the end of the
present age as described in the last book of the
Bible. As mentioned earlier, angels seem to have
control over the forces of nature and human
events in their roles as instruments of God. This
does not cause man to be a mere puppet, tossed,
and buffeted about by the unseen activity of
these mighty beings. However, the Bible
emphasizes that we cannot understand what is
happening in the world or in history without
understanding the activity of God and of the
angels.