An Historical Summary of Angelic Hierarchies from Part VII: The “Seven” Thrones in In Operibus Sigillo Dei Aemeth by David Richard Jones.

“It is curious that Dee, in his Mystical Heptarchy, makes a note of a Scotus, whether Erigena or Duns we do not seem to be certain. Erigena was a Neoplatonist before his time, so to speak. And it was probably well known that he held controversial positions regarding theology and philosophy. There is, unfortunately, no complete translation of his work into English.” [via]

 


Johannes Scotus Eriugena

 

Consider also:

  1. Oscillations
  2. “Dee would certainly have known of the famous first translation into Latin by the Neoplatonist and suspected heretic, Johannes Scotus Erigena/Eriugena, (c. 815-877), but it seems unlikely that he was aware of Eriugena’s rather controversial commentaries. These commentaries were not rediscovered until 1681 along with the condemned De division nature.”
  3. “It does seem that Eriugena contributed to the conflation of St. Denis the first bishop of Paris with St. Denis the Areopagite and supposed author of the Celestial Hierarchies, etc. Erigena was at the time working in Paris at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald.”
  4. “Thrones and the divine order appear again in Dante’s unfinished Convivio or Banquet, a work reflecting his interest in ancient philosophy and modeled on the symposia of the ancient Greeks. Here we find a particular reflection of what we find in Dee and in the Spirit Actions of Liber Secundus.”
  5. “These days, which abide in the interior light, may be taken for the angelic spirits, and the months, for their orders and dignities. For every single spirit, in that he shines, is a ‘day,’ but as they are distinguished by certain set dignities, so that there are some that are Thrones, some Dominions, some Principalities, and some Powers, according to this distribution of ranks, they are entitled ‘months.’ Moralia I:I:iv — Pope St. Gregory I”