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Myssfitz
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SPEC: The nine who exist here and beyond

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The path between worlds
Lies in the power of belief
The nine who exist here and beyond
With them in hand the way revealed

What about this?

Monarchy of the Good and Familiar Spirits
The following angelic spirits can be cited for all human ministrations: Seraphim Uriel, Cherubim Raphael, Thronus Oriphiel, Dominatio Zachariel, Potestas Gabriel, Virtus Barbiel, Principatus Requel, Archangelus Anael, Angelus Phaleg.

These are the Princes of the nine Choir of Angels. They have among them many spirits 1,000 times 1,000 without end. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

These angelic spirits appear very willingly to human beings to help and serve them in all things.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/moses7/m7112.htm

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:26 am

dmax
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What an interesting document! Thanks.

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:28 am

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INFO: the Nine Choirs of Angels

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The Heavenly Hierarchy
There are nine Celestial Orders or Choirs, appearing in three distinct Triads:-

The First Triad
Clustered around the central core of purity.
1. Seraphim,
2. Cherubim,
3. Thrones

The Second Triad
An ultimate unification with "God the Source". All Orders within this Triad strive to balance or reconcile such opposites as good and bad, matter and spirit and higher and lower, thus risking corruption in doing so.
4. Dominations,
5. Virtues,
6. Powers

The Third Triad
Most exposed and vulnerable to any corrosion of flesh. Angels from these Orders are most well known to us simply because they are most like us.
7. Principalities,
8. Archangels,
9. Angels

Seraphim
The First Choir of angels is generally accepted to be the highest order of God’s Angelic Servants. When they appear to humans in their angelic form it is as six-winged and four-headed beings. Archangel Michael was known as a Seraph. It is believed that there were four major Princes who ruled over the Seraphim. Their chief is said to be either Metatron or Satan, while others are given as Kemuel, Nathanael and Gabriel.

Cherubim
The Second Choir of angels is the first angels to be encountered in the Bible. Ezekiel witnessed at close hand four Cherubim, each with four faces and four wings. These multiple-bodied, fabulous, winged beasts stand guard over holy places. How such magnificent and awesome beings shrunk to the size of tubby little winged babies remains a mystery.

Thrones
The Third Choir of angels is referred to as the great wheels or the many eyed ones. Again, Ezekiel (1:13-19) gives a detailed description, "...and their appearance was like burning coals of fire..." The ruling Prince of this order is commonly thought to be Raphael.

Dominions
The Fourth Choir of angels is described as Dominations, Lords, Kuriotetes and regulate angels duties. Ruling Lords are said to be Zadkiel, Hashmal, Yahriel and Muriel.

Virtues
The Fifth Choir of angels bestow blessing from on high, usually in the form of miracles and are most often associated with heroes and those who struggle for good. It was recorded in the Book of Adam and Eve that two Virtues acted like midwives at the birth of Cain. Known as the Brilliant or Shining Ones, their ruling princes are said to be Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Bariel, Tarshish and, before the great rebellion, Satanel.

Powers
The Sixth Choir of angels is supposedly the first angels created by God, appearing to act as a border guard, patrolling the Heavenly Pathways on the lookout for devilish infiltration. Camael is supposedly the chief of this order, but is decidedly contradictory as wavering on the path between good and evil. He is said to be one of the seven favored angels who stand in the presence of God, wrestled with Jacob, later appeared to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. On the darker side, Camael is identified as a Duke of Hell and in the occult, known as the ruler of the evil planet of war, Mars. Druids have Camael as their God of war.

Principalities
The Seventh Choir of angels were seen as an order which was in charge of nations and great cities on Earth. One contender for chief of the Princedoms is Nisrock, considered to be the chief chef to the Demon Princes of Hell. Another, more likely, candidate is Anael, who is named one of the seven angels of creation. He is also governor of the second heaven and is held to control all the kingdoms and leaders on earth. Another prince is Hamiel who was said to have transported Enoch to Heaven although he is more well known as the Chaldean deity Ishtar. The great Prince of Strength, Cervill, is claimed to have aided David in his bid to slay Goliath.

Archangel
The Eighth Choir of angels are known as messengers which carry Divine Decrees and considered the most important intercessionaries between God and humans. It is this Choir who command the legions of Heaven in their battle with the Sons of Darkness. Most famous are the Magnificent Seven - the seven angels who stand before God in Revelations. Four which appear regularly are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel with the other three candidates usually chosen from Metatron, Remiel, Sariel, Anael, Raguel and Raziel.

Angels
The Ninth Choir of angels is the closest to humankind and known as a messenger or courier. One of the sub-classes of ministering angels is that of Guardian angels. Being closest to humankind, Angels have little resistance to corruption.

Information taken from Angels: An Endangered Species by Malcolm Godwin. This is an excellent source of information, providing a look at Angels through various religions and beliefs. Part One, The Treasure of Angelic Love, examines the Four Wings - Heavenly Hierarchy, Hell’s Angels, Heaven’s Above and The Heresy. Part Two, An Endangered Species, packs seven chapters with Eye Witness, Ancient and Modern Encounters, Archaic Memories, The Shining Ones, Heavenly Hypotheses and Last Judgement. It’s a definite must for Celestial enthusiasts.

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:39 am

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I think someone received a 'fairy card' from Dale representing the chorus of Angels... Not very sure, though, but maybe this is the right direction?

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:11 pm

Myssfitz
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Shelina wrote:

I think someone received a 'fairy card' from Dale representing the chorus of Angels... Not very sure, though, but maybe this is the right direction?

Thanks for the point in what is probably part of the right direction Very Happy

. Now to figure out the rest. It was a fairy card from a certain card group. I did some more searching on

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cemgate2002 Post subject: Dale Mail Item Inventory

The Sage Oracle Card from THE FAERIES' ORACLE by Brian Froud

Card Group - The Sidhe - Also known as the "Old Ones"
They create, nurture, and build the worlds and their inhabitants. Yet they are also available to us individually as guardians, teachers, and comforters.

[Sidhe (pronounced 'shee') literally means "people of the (fairy) hills]

It seems the Fairies may be Fallen Angels or The Sidhe. See the excerpts from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
by Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde
[1887]

The Fairies as Fallen Angels.

THE islanders, like all the Irish, believe that the fairies are the fallen angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. And some fell into the sea, and some on the dry land, and some fell deep down into hell, and the devil gives to these knowledge and power, and sends them on earth where they work much evil. But the fairies of the earth and the sea are mostly gentle and beautiful creatures, who will do no harm if they are let alone, and allowed to dance on the fairy raths in the moonlight to their own sweet music, undisturbed by the presence of mortals. As a rule, the people look on fire as the great preservative against witchcraft, for the devil has no power except in the dark. So they put a live coal under the churn, and they wave a lighted wisp of straw above the cow's head if the beast seems sickly. But as to the pigs, they take no trouble, for they say the devil has no longer any power over them now. When they light a candle they cross themselves, because the evil spirits are then clearing out of the house in fear of the light. Fire and Holy Water they hold to be sacred, and are powerful; and the best safeguard against all things evil, and the surest test in case of suspected witchcraft.

and

The Sidhe Race

THE Sidhe dwell in the Sifra, or fairy palace of gold and crystal, in the heart of the hill, and they have been given youth, beauty, joy, and the power over music, yet they are often sad; for they remember that they were once angels in heaven though now cast down to earth, and though they have power over all the mysteries of Nature, yet they must die without hope of regaining heaven, while mortals are certain of immortality. Therefore this one sorrow darkens their life, a mournful envy of humanity; because, while man is created immortal, the beautiful fairy race is doomed to annihilation.
One day a great fairy chief asked Columb-Kille if there were any hope left to the Sidhe that one day they would regain heaven and be restored to their ancient place amongst the angels. But the saint answered that hope there was none; their doom was fixed, and at the judgment-day they would pass through death into annihilation; for so had it been decreed by the justice of God.
On hearing this the fairy chief fell into a profound melancholy, and he and all his court sailed away from Ireland, and went back to their native country of Armenia, there to await the coming of the terrible judgment-day, which is fated to bring the fairy race certain death on earth, without any hope of regaining heaven.
The West of Ireland is peculiarly sacred to ancient superstitions of the Sidhe race. There is a poetry in the scenery that touches the heart of the people; they love the beautiful glens, the mountains rising like towers from the sea, the islands sanctified by the memory of a saint, and the green hills where Finvarra holds his court. Every lake and mountain has its legend of the spirit-land, some holy traditions of a saint, or some historic memory of a national hero who flourished in the old great days when Ireland had native chiefs and native swords to guard her; and amongst the Western Irish, especially, the old superstitions of their forefathers are reverenced with a solemn faith and fervour that is almost a religion. Finvarra the king is still believed to rule over all the fairies of the west, and Onagh is the fairy queen. Her golden hair sweeps the ground, and she is robed in silver gossamer all glittering as if with diamonds, but they are dew-drops that sparkle over it.
The queen is more beautiful than any woman of earth, yet Finvarra loves the mortal women best, and wiles them down to his fairy palace by the subtle charm of the fairy music, for no one who has heard it can resist its power, and they are fated to belong to the fairies ever after. Their friends mourn for them as dead with much lamentation, but in reality they are leading a joyous life down in the heart of the bill, in the fairy palace with the silver columns and the crystal walls.
Yet sometimes they are not drawn down beneath the earth, but remain as usual in the daily life, though the fairy spell is still on them; and the young men who have once heard the fairy harp become possessed by the spirit of music which haunts them to their death, and gives them strange power over the souls of men. This was the case with Carolan, the celebrated bard. He acquired all the magic melody of his notes by sleeping out on a fairy rath at night, when the fairy music came to him in his dreams; and on awaking he played the airs from memory. This it was that he had power to madden men to mirth, or to set them weeping as if for the dead, and no one ever before or since played the enchanting fairy music like Carolan, the sweet musician of Ireland.
There was another man also who heard the fairy music when sleeping on a rath, and ever after he was haunted by the melody day and night, till he grew mad and had no pleasure in life, for he longed to be with the fairies again that he might hear them sing. So one day, driven to despair by the madness of longing, he threw himself from the cliff into the mountain lake near the fairy rath, and so died and was seen no more.
In the Western Islands they believe that the magic of fairy-music is so strong that whoever hears it cannot choose but follow the sound, and the young girls are drawn away by the enchantment, and dance all night with Finvarra the king, though in the morning they are found fast asleep in bed, yet with a memory of all they had heard and seen; and some say that, while with the fairies, the young women learn strange secrets of love potions, by which they can work spells and dangerous charms over those whose love they desire, or upon any one who has offended and spoken ill of them.
It is a beautiful idea that the Irish airs, so plaintive, mournful, and tear-compelling, are but the remembered echoes of that spirit music which had power to draw souls away to the fairy mansions, and hold them captive by the sweet magic of the melody.

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:20 pm
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Stevoid
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Go, Myssfitz!

Google must be proud of you...have you even been offline once over easter?? Laughing

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:29 pm

Barbarellany
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The angels picture was not a card, but actually a picture found in the endangered angles book showing the 9 levels of angels. Not to take away from the new info, just clarifying.

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:55 pm

Myssfitz
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Stevoid wrote:

Google must be proud of you...have you even been offline once over easter?? Laughing

Yep, but just for a minute Shocked

Being a stay at home mom and an insomniac with DSL sure helps (but my husband and kids might give you another answer Wink

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Barbarellany

The angels picture was not a card, but actually a picture found in the endangered angles book showing the 9 levels of angels. Not to take away from the new info, just clarifying.

I didn't know what picture to go from, so I just used the Oracle card. Can you please tell me what picture you are talking about and where I can find it? I would also like to give proper credit to the original finder. Thanxs Smile

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:08 pm

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INFO: More meanings of the number Nine

http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/magus/ma146.htm

Bottom of the page lists the Scale of the Number Nine

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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:15 pm

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