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The Celestial Hierarchy
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Christian scripture and mysticism Neoplatonism
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 5 languages.
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From Wikipedia
De Coelesti Hierarchia is a Pseudo-Dionysian work on angelology, written in Greek and dated to ca. AD the 5th century; it exerted great influence on scholasticism and treats at great length the hierarchies of angels.
From the Wikipedia article De Coelesti Hierarchia, revision 1345887643, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q5244319: “work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's account.
Organises the angels into a systematic hierarchy.