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On the Ecclesiastical HierarchyCaput IV — I. Concerning things performed in the Muron, and concerning things perfected in it.

Section 8

On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy · Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Now if they cover their faces and their feet, and fly by their middle wings only, bear this reverently in mind, that the Order, so far exalted above the highest beings, is circumspect respecting the more lofty and deep of its conceptions, and raises itself, in due proportion, by its middle wings, to the vision of God, by placing its own proper life under the Divine yokes, and by these is reverently directed to the judgment of itself.

PdEH 4.8.1