| VI. Choir | 3 July |
|---|---|
| Angel of valour | Irenaus |
Despite their often very mobile task, the Princes of High Power, in particular, are bearers of statics, assigned to the Creator-Father. They receive the flow of their power from the angel of life1 on the Head of God via the Choir of Thrones, namely from those that form the pillars on the Throne of God from creation and towards creation: Schemajim, Malachim and Ophajim. These three are the manifestation of God’s will towards creation and, at the same time, of the supreme divine contrariety, as we know it in the concepts of fire–water, ember–ice, light–darkness, or vastness–constriction, fullness–emptiness, becoming–decaying, etc. Through these Thrones flows the form-giving Let there be! of those concepts which at the same time form the foundation of material creation.
The 24 High Princes stand firm and secure before God’s Throne as stewards of all creation. In the Ring of Adoration, every memory of Lucifer has been erased, except for Aralim Enneth, who, as the weakest of the Thrones, bears the will of God over Lucifer in the opposition of God.
In the Ring of God’s Order and Omnipotence, which encompasses the whole of creation, the Dominions—with the exception of the angels of the apocalypse—are also separated from the powers of darkness and entrusted with divine tasks. The Choir of Powers has already taken up its battle position, however, even if this battle takes place not here, but in the Ring of Incarnation and Redemption. The Choir of Princes, however, is already in the midst of the enemy’s centres of attack, which become more and more concentrated the closer they get to the earth… for that is the target of demonic hatred: man!
Saint Barachiel is one of the 24 high princes. They stand like twelve double stars around Mary, the Queen. As stewards of creation, they are angels of Mary in an elevated degree, placing the whole of creation at Her Feet. They are distributed throughout creation, always in relation to the earth as the centre, in relation to man as the image of God. They have a threefold task: the administration of the individual areas of creation, the work of man, and the protection of inner-earthly beings. They go about their task two-by-two, and the one gives the angels of the other the colouring of his being.
Saint Barachiel
is the angel of the end times, the angel of bravery in the time of martyrs and confessors, the angel of the heroic spirit in the face of veiled demonic attacks, the angel of the harvest in the midst of the boom of the enemy powers. He will knock over the first candlestick with his foot… throw the first star out of its orbit.
Saint Barachiel is the special protector against all of Satan’s insidiousness, chess moves and brutality in the end times. He gives the angels of his companion, Saint Asmodel, the heroic spirit for their harvest task, so that they may pass it on to the last of the earth.
Prayer: Great Angel of Mary, Saint Barachiel, help us to be vigilant and magnanimous, strong and kind, clear and faithful, so that honour may be given to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
- Saint Reesch. ↩︎