ABSTRACT

The words Dominations and Powers, here taken for a title, are not meant to be synonymous and the reduplication rhetorical. The celestial hierarchy from which I borrow these names was composed of orders of spirits, marshalled in a host, where each rank and even each individual has a special nature and office. 1 I therefore take Dominations to signify something distinct and more complicated than Powers; and the relation between them forms the subject of this book.