“I can no longer believe the nice speculative contradictions of our divine theologians,” he wrote. “Indeed it is a long time since I have really believed these dogmas but every examination leaves less evidence and I have about given it up.”
John J Miller, The Polygamist King: A True Story of Murder, Lust, and Exotic Faith in America
An Historical Summary of Angelic Hierarchies from Part VII: The “Seven” Thrones in In Operibus Sigillo Dei Aemeth by David Richard Jones.
“In both St. Denis and in the Hermetica the philosophers and theologians of the Renaissance would find seemingly ancient authority for the correlation of their Neoplatonic speculations to Judeo-Christian angelology and metaphysics, speculations that would lead directly to the magical revival of the late Renaissance and the works of Ficino, Della Mirandola, Reuchlin, Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno and of course the angel magick of John Dee.” [via]