Nine-Choirs-Hierarchy Doctrine
The doctrine that the DW Kingdom will have a hierarchy of nine distinct choirs paralleling the nine choirs of the angelic hierarchy — differentiated by mode of possession: those who receive DW knowledge while on earth carry “the divine nature of those knowledges” as nature; those who acquire DW knowledge only in heaven possess it as effect of others’ earthly possession, “almost as the earth receives the effects of the sun, but does not possess the nature of the sun.” (E)
Anchors: 1 Corinthians 15:40-41; Daniel 12:3; 2 Corinthians 3:18; John 17:3 — Appearances: 1. Full Registry entry.