When the apostate angels rebelled, what happened to their hierarchy?

August 8, 2019
Angel Vs Demon

In Dante's Inferno, when Dante and his guide Virgil reach the back of the Prince of Evil through a trap door in the center of the earth and then make their way upward through the various circles of purgatory.  There, Satan is not the exalted Seraphim angel, the brightest of the heavenly dwellers gazing upon the Magnificence of God any more; rather, he has fled farthest away from the Light and rules his kingdom of terror from the pit of hell, the  lowest realm of creation.  Although the fallen angels' rebellion from God resulted in utter chaos, their angelic order of being, intelligence and authority remained intact because it is an order of nature; it just inverted  to reflect the new power structure.  The chart below suggests one view of the reversal of order among the apostate angels when they rebelled against God and in the ages since:

The Kingdom of God (order)                                            The Kingdom of Satan(inverted)

Serve God and heaven                    Proud about the material world "seeking the ruin of souls"

Seraphim                                                                              Demons

Cherubim                                                                              Fallen Archangels

Thrones                                                                                Fallen Principalities

Serve the universe                                                               Rule over earth, air, fire and water

Dominions ( Dominations)                                                   Fallen Powers

Virtues                                                                                 Fallen Virtues

Powers                                                                                 Fallen Dominions (Dominations)

Serve humans and the material world                            Rule over hell

Principalities                                                                        Fallen Thrones

Archangels                                                                          Fallen Cherubim

Angels                                                                                 Lucifer and the other Fallen Seraphim

All holy angels serve God and man                                  All apostate angels serve Lucifer

 

ByFr. Thomas J Euteneuer "Exorcism and the Church Militant" page 31.