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Some scholars suggest that Islamic angels can be grouped into fourteen categories, with some of the higher orders being considered archangels. Qazwini describes an angelic hierarchy in his Aja'ib al-makhluqat with Ruh on the head of all angels, surrounded by the four archangelic cherubim. Below them are the seven angels of the seven heavens. [8]
In Matthew 18:10 Jesus warns not to despise children because "their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." Luke 20:34–36 affirms that, like the angels, "those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die."
In the middle ages, a hierarchy of angels (as well as a hierarchy of demons) was devised based on various interpretations of the Bible. These hierarchies and the names and descriptions of creatures therein are not part of the church's official teaching, even if some saints and popes (such as Thomas Aquinas and John Paul II) endorsed them.
Archangel, Guardian angel One of heaven's guardian angel who followed the gatekeeper Kalka'il: Islam: Fifth heaven Kepharel Judaism Archangel Kerubiel: Cherubiel Judaism Cherub Kiraman Katibin: Islam (type) Recorders of human thoughts, acts and feelings Kokabiel: Kabaiel, Kakabel, Kochab, Kochbiel, Kokbiel, Kokhabiel Christianity, Judaism: Watcher
Empyrean – Highest heaven in ancient cosmologies; Hierarchy of angels – Belief that angels are ordered according to rank; Katabasis – Journey into the underworld in literature; Isra and Mi'raj – Night journey undertaken by Muhammad in Islamic tradition; Naraka – Hell realm in Jainism
The 12th-century scholar Maimonides placed the seraphim in the fifth of ten ranks of angels in his exposition of the Jewish angelic hierarchy. In Kabbalah , the seraphim are the higher angels of the World of Beriah ("Creation", first created realm, divine understanding), [ 25 ] whose understanding of their distance from the absolute divinity of ...
Celestial hierarchy can refer to: Celestial bureaucracy, in Chinese mythology; De Coelesti Hierarchia ("On the Celestial Hierarchy"), a 5th century work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; Hierarchy of angels, systems of classifying and ranking angels Angels in Judaism; Angels in Christianity; Angels in Islam
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