| ### QUESTION 61 ### OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE ANGELS IN THE ORDER OF NATURAL BEING ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### After dealing with the nature of the angels, their knowledge and will, it now remains for us to treat of their creation, or, speaking in a general way, of their origin. Such consideration is threefold. In the first place we must see how they were brought into natural existence; secondly, how they were made perfect in grace or glory; and thirdly, how some of them became wicked. #### Under the first heading there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether the angel has a cause of his existence? #### (2) Whether he has existed from eternity? #### (3) Whether he was created before corporeal creatures? #### (4) Whether the angels were created in the empyrean heaven? ####  |