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Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
A very witty way to put it! "Do angels ever cut themselves 
shaving?" Rem au tetigisti, again. (English: you big tease?) 
What sort of existence, what type or degree of reality, do 
we attribute to them? (By angel, of course, you mean any 
celestial-or 
infernal-being 
such as are listed in the 
Hierarchy, from Metatron and Ratziel to Lilith and Nahema.) 
We read of them, for the most part, as if they were 
persons-although 
of another order of being; as individual, 
almost, as ourselves. The principal difference is that they are 
not, as we are, microcosmic. The Angels of Jupiter contain all 
the Jupiter there is, within these limits, that their rank is not 
as high as their Archangel, nor as low as their Intelligence or 
their Spirit. But their Jupiter is pure Jupiter; no other planet 
enters into their composition. 
We see and hear them, usually (in my own experience) as 
the result of specific invocation. Less frequently we know 
them through the sense of touch as well; sometimes their 
presence is associated with a particular perfl me. (This, by the 
way, is very striking, since it has to overcome that of the 
incense.) I must very strongly insist, at this point, on the 
difference 
between 
"gods" 
and "angels." Gods are 
macrocosmic, 
as we microcosmic: 
an incarnated 
(materialised) God is just as much a person, an individual 
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