Each angel has his rank, degree, place, wonderful.
His glorious wings in pairs, two, three, and even, four;[398]
So that his beams are doubled, trebled, fourfold, more.
Just like the grades that mark the various human minds,
Do differences vast exist in angels’ kinds.155
Thus every man’s companion-angel’s like himself,
Or good, or bad, or high, or low, as china, delf.
When weak-eyed mortals cannot look upon the sun,
They have to seek for taper’s aid, ere they may run.
The Prophet hath declared: “Stars, my disciples are;