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Where I think this representation* does help us is in resolving (perhaps) the puzzle over why the first is the highest and the last the lowest – the answer being, of course, that in a circular hierarchy, they aren't. This depends on the titles having their natural meanings, or something closely connected. (Compare (p.11) Zoroastrianism's hierarchy, which is similarly resolved:

		Wise Lord
	Holy Spirit***		Immortality
Good Mind				Wholeness
	Truth		Kingdom
		Right Mindedness

There are some possible points of contact...?)****

If the Angelic hierarchy means anything, it does not, I think, give a rank to each of the eight Archetypes or (Arch)angels named#; what it might do is to describe the Angelic Inner Circle transformation#* through various stages of refinement (or, possibly, the reverse Outer Circle rotation#**). In this sense it is a linear hierarchy: not of proximity to God (as is supposed), but of transition.

*[See last previous entry; presumably, the final diagram is referred to.]

**[[Redbook4:11][19870706:0030]{Zoroastrian Angels}[6^th July 1987]]

***[In the ms, Holy Spirit is connected to Wise Lord by a dashed line.]

****(Yes – especially with Virtues and Gifts.) <871123>

#cf.[[Redbook4:134][19871018:2352e]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (5)]}[18th October 1987],]134

#*i.e. integration: not the Transformation (at R~-I~) <891002>

#**[rotation] amended [from 'descent'] <19871019>.

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