AngelicArtistry's GoToHeaven Jophiel's Game Question 56

The Archangels

While the archangels are said to constitute a separate choir or order of angels within the celestial hierarchy, there are also declared in tradition a group of archangels who stand above not only their own choir, but higher than nearly all of the angelic orders regardless of their place in the heavenly host.

These most august of angels are members of several choirs at once, being honored as the heads of the angelic bodies while fulfilling the leading offices in heaven; they are also most appropriately termed "princes of the seven heavens," and according to the Third Book of Enoch, each is attended by 496,000 myriads of ministering angels (a myriad in archaic terminology denotes either a vast number of perhaps ten thousand).

Islam recognizes only four archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Israfel and Azrael), and other customs say twelve, but the most common number for these mighty angels is ____________.

This number is supported by occult lore and appears in many sources, such as Revelation (8:2), the First and Third Books of Enoch, and the Book of Tobit (12:15); in the latter writing, the archangel Raphael declares his membership as "one of the _____ holy angels who present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One."

Far more uncertain are the actual members of this group of princes, although almost every possible list has two or three names in common: the famous and beloved angels Michael and Gabriel, along with Raphael.

How many holy angels present the prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the glory of the Holy One?

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How many archangels are said to "stand before God"?

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