The Thrones

**Thrones** are the third of nine classes of angels, and are also the angels of knowledge. The Thrones or **Elders**, also known as the **Erelim** or **Ophanim**, are a class of celestial beings mentioned in *Colossians* and related to the throne of God.

## Description

Because they are living symbols of God's justice and authority, they are called Thrones and have as one of their symbols the throne. In contrast to their appearance, Ezekiel describes Thrones as eye covered wheels, rather than humanoids. The Thrones are creatures that function as the actual chariots of God driven by the Cherubim.

They are characterized by peace and submission; God rests upon them. Thrones are depicted residing in the area of the cosmos where material form begins to take shape. They chant glorias to God and remain forever in his presence. They mete out divine justice and maintain the cosmic harmony of all universal laws.

## Overview

According to the *New Testament*, these high celestial beings are among those Orders at the Christ's service. They are the carriers of the Throne of God, in this case the Merkabah, hence the name.

They are living symbols of God's justice and authority. They come the closest of all Angels to spiritual perfection and emanate the light of God with mirror-like goodness nearing the perfection and light of even the Seraphim. They, despite their greatness, are intensely humble, an attribute that allows them to dispense justice with perfect objectivity and without fear of pride or ambition.

Several Thrones sided with Lucifer during the war in Heaven, and were cast down to Hell to become archdemons.

## Known Thrones

* Astaroth
* Orobas
* Purson
* Forneus
* Raum
* Phenex
* Murmur
* Focalor
* Fruflas
* Verrine
* Gressil
* Soneillon

## Common Powers and Abilities

**Transcendent Angel Physiology:** The Thrones are angelic beings of godly power. The Throne's power is to be considered utterly fearsome as no angel could ever hope to overcome or even equal.

**Authority:** The Thrones have the power of authority; a power that grants them the right to rule, enforce orders, and establish laws within their dominion, even extending to the supernatural realm. This authority bestows upon them total control over their designated domain including supernatural elements, such as mystical forces, living entities, mythical creatures, and otherworldly dimensions that shape their environment.

**Nigh-Omnipotence:** The Thrones possess supreme-like-power but has a limitation/restriction/weakness that inhibits their potential to become an omnipotent being. The Throne's near-omnipotence can range from having ultimate or maxed power over a particular domain or having expert-level power, knowledge, and presence over numerous or all aspects.

**Nigh-Omniscience:** The Thrones know almost everything bar certain details, or is limited in some other way, such as being able to see one timeline or universe or have just small patches of information that are missing or blocked out. More simply, they may be in possession of such a vast reserve of knowledge that they can be regarded as "practically omniscient."

**Blessing Manipulation:** The Thrones can create/generate, remove and manipulate blessings, that involves blessing people, become stronger with blessings, manipulate blessings to different effects. They can even manifest blessings as energy or powers itself.

**Concord Manipulation:** The Thrones have the power to manipulate accord, cause concord/agreement/compatibility between others to organize individuals/groups or cause internal harmony.

**Empathy:** The Thrones can fully interpret the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through themselves and can use this knowledge to play against them. The Thrones may learn to read emotional imprints left into environment or objects. Usually over time, an Empath's power grows to the point that they can manipulate emotions in others, and possibly use them to empower themselves. The Thrones may learn to extend their power over/on vast numbers of sentient beings or reach extreme distances, even other levels of existence but this may be possible only if the Thrones have an emotional link to those the search is already in effect on.

**Enlightenment:** The Thrones have reached enlightenment, allowing them full comprehension of any situation. They are able to understand the meaning of everything by communicating with or understanding the mind of God, Universal Consciousness or similar source, profound spiritual understanding and/or a fundamentally changed consciousness whereby everything is perceived as a unity. This power is capable of awakening the Thrones, both spiritually and mentally.

**Humility Manipulation:** The Thrones have the power to manipulate the amount of humility within other people, animals and other creatures, whether increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise changing the humility in others.

**Serenity Manipulation:** The Thrones can sense and manipulate calmness, serenity and tranquility, whether mental, spiritual, physical, social, etc., of themselves, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.

**Sleeplessness:** The Thrones have no need to sleep, allowing them to continue living through their lives without suffering health decline from sleep deprivation.

**Submission:** The Thrones can cause any opponent to yield to them or admit defeat via various means, including fear, immense energy, mind control, will control, etc. Occasionally, the Thrones can even gain subordinates because their enemies submitted to them.

**Tranquil State:** The Thrones can remain calm in virtually any situation, allowing them to think with perfect clarity even when under extreme emotional or physical distress. The Thrones can endure mental stress and can be essentially highly resistant to emotion manipulation and torture.