What the traditional number of the Angels signifies.
This also is worthy, in my opinion, of intellectual attention, that the
tradition of the Oracles concerning the Angels affirms that they are
thousand thousands, and myriad myriads, accumulating and multiplying,
to themselves, the supreme limits of our numbers, and, through these,
shewing clearly, that the ranks of the Heavenly Beings cannot be
numbered by us. For many are the blessed hosts of the supermundane
minds, surpassing the weak and contracted measurement of our material
number, and being definitely known by their own supermundane and
heavenly intelligence and science alone, which is given to them in
profusion by the supremely Divine and Omniscient Framer of Wisdom, and
essentiating Cause and connecting Force, and encompassing Term of all
created things together.
