ABSTRACT
The Angel has no proper place, but for this reason it is the necessary figure of the instant that brings to a standstill the arrow of time, that interrupts the continuum. However, the Angel of Temperance also symbolises the new that emerges out of that conjunction: that the meeting of difference is a ternary relation. A sexual or carnal ethics would require that both angel and body be found together. An ontology of creative movement is the foundation of an angelic subjectivity: angels are mediation and enact mediation. Subtle subjects are also engaged in the mercurial activities that Angels share with Hermes-Mercury and Hermes-Trismegistus. Thus, subtle subjectivity as a form of 'everyday' mysticism fuses the Apollonian and Dionysian. Central to the practice of everyday mysticism is the love relation, which has been explicated herein as a modality of perception and 'response-ability' that is simultaneously aesthetic and ethical.
