| IV. Choir | 9 May |
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| Corner Pillar “Holy God” |
In the heavenly hierarchy within the nine choirs of angels there is a group called the Corner Pillars. To this group belongs the angel of this day, Saint Chajoth, which means: Holy God. The heavenly hierarchy is distinguished with a rich symbolism, a pictorial language, with regard to creation—for the sake of better comprehensibility—just as the Word of God in the Holy Gospels often speaks to us in pictures and parables.
The corner pillars bear the symbol of God’s House in creation. They are truly corner pillars, formally at the four corners of creation, which we imagine as the extension of the four directions of Heaven: north, south, east and west. There, three angels stand three times, each as a pillar above the other. They stand within the second ring, the middle of the three rings, which are each made up of three choirs of angels. They thus stand on the third ring, which encloses the earth, the Ring of the Work of Redemption, and carry the uppermost ring, the Ring of Worship, in which the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones unceasingly praise and extol the majesty of the Triune God.
This second ring is called the Ring of God’s Order and Omnipotence and it encompasses the whole of creation from the Throne of God down to the small earth, where, in the Ring of Redemption, the Angels, Archangels and Virtues protect and guard the human race on its way to God.
In this second Ring of God’s Order and Omnipotence, the Dominions, Powers and Principalities carry the love, the will and the order of God out into creation in all the holiness, wisdom, omnipotence and justice of God.
Each choir is divided into three parts, and in each such third part the four strongest angels stand on each other as corner pillars, the earth as foundation at their feet, above their heads the roof of creation: the Heaven of all heavens above all of the clouds.
Saint Chajoth is the uppermost angel of such a corner pillar, namely the first one, which goes downwards from the Essence of the Triune God, Holy God, via the Angel of the Vow of Purity over Saint Makariel, the High Priestly Power of the Holy Church to the Angel, Mary, who is at the same time the Angel of the Corpus Christi Mysticum and carries all four corner pillars on his shoulders.
This concept of God as Holy God is at the same time the ground of the first Ring of Worship. So, Saint Chajoth, although belonging to the Dominions of High Power, nevertheless projects into the Ring of Worship as the crown of the corner pillars. We can imagine him as symbolically bearing God-in-His-Sanctity through the power of the Most Holy Eucharist and the Immaculate.
Prayer: Lord and God, Thou hast set up four mighty corner pillars of angels for us as the House of God in creation. Let us be at home in this House and praise Thee, the All-Holy God, with all the angels! Amen.