| ### QUESTION 108 ### OF THE ANGELIC DEGREES OF HIERARCHIES AND ORDERS ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We next consider the degrees of the angels in their hierarchies and orders; for it was said above (Question 106, Article 3), that the superior angels enlighten the inferior angels; and not conversely. #### Under this head there are eight points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether all the angels belong to one hierarchy? #### (2) Whether in one hierarchy there is only one order? #### (3) Whether in one order there are many angels? #### (4) Whether the distinction of hierarchies and orders is natural? #### (5) Of the names and properties of each order. #### (6) Of the comparison of the orders to one another. #### (7) Whether the orders will outlast the Day of Judgment? #### (8) Whether men are taken up into the angelic orders? ####  |