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Consequently, we should not and cannot enter nihil, it is the 'Holy of Holies'; globally the arch-angels of the accumulation of capital watch us, guide us towards the green pastures of toil, of labor pain.
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The solemn music was unlike any tone I had ever heard before; now it seemed the peal of the trumpet of the Last Day, now a call to some festival of angels and arch-angels.
An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger
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Where the saints of the most high God are clothed upon with the righteousness of Christ, and the "spirits of the just made perfect" join with angels and arch-angels, in singing sweet songs of redeeming love.
Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna
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This is not only the inevitable working of the Law of Evolution, but is also a manifestation of the power and love of the great souls that have passed on to higher planes of existence, and who have become as angels and arch-angels.
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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The Absolute deliberately created high forms of life, arch-angels, and higher than these -- gods in fact -- and then caused them to "devolve" until the lowest state was reached.
A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897
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It may be used in the sense of 'less than absolutely certain'; and such doubtless is the condition of all human knowledge, in comparison with the comprehensive intuition of arch-angels: or it may mean 'less than certain according to _our_ standard of certainty,' that is, in comparison with the law of causation and its derivatives.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Besides the names of the four arch-angels -- Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Uriel -- engraved on a band of gold, those of Domina Nostra Maria, and of Dominus Noster Honorius, were seen on other objects.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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On which occasions, the Lieutenant, reüttering what had been said by Porgy, would suggest to the overseer, the propriety of his making an early call upon the arch-angels, Gabriel, Michael and Raphael, to see how they were getting on: -- a suggestion that usually sent Millhouse to the right-about.
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And now, O Lord, we desire, with angels and arch-angels, and all the company of heaven, evermore to praise thee, saying,
Blogotional 2009
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Ever read Twain's "Letters from Earth," where Lucifer writes letters describing 19th century America in order to prove to the arch-angels that God is an incompetent buffoon?
Planet Atheism 2008
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