❤ Friday, April 03, 2009
So many people has been asking me questions like,
"What does Seraphina mean?""Aiyo, such a long name.."
"Why Seraphina?"
blah, blah, blah.
The meaning of the name Seraphina is Seraphim
The origin of the name Seraphina is Italian
Alternate spellings: Sarafina, Serafina, Saraphina
Notes: An angel of the highest order, often depicted as a child with wings.
Hubby & I chose
Seraphina and not Sarafina, Serafina or Saraphina because Seraphina is the closest spelling to
Seraphim.In the Old Testament (Book of Isaiah) the
"Seraphim" (plural of "seraph")
are six-winged angels who stand around God's throne, singing praise. They are described as very tall, with six wings and four heads, one for of the cardinal directions. In the Christian hierarchy of angels, seraphim represent the highest rank of angels, or angelic choir. They are said to be the caretakers of
God's throne.
Isaiah (6:1–3) records the prophet's vision of the Seraphim:
- "... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekhal (sanctuary). Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew."
Seraphim surround the divine throne
"The name Seraphim clearly indicates their ceaseless and eternal revolution about Divine Principles, their heat and keenness, the exuberance of their intense, perpetual, tireless activity, and their elevative and energetic assimilation of those below, kindling them and firing them to their own heat, and wholly purifying them by a burning and all-consuming flame; and by the unhidden, unquenchable, changeless, radiant and enlightening power, dispelling and destroying the shadows of darkness"
As they were developed in Christian theology, seraphim are beings of pure light and have direct communication with God.
They resonate with the fire symbolically attached to both purification and love. The etymology of "seraphim" itself comes from the word saraph. Saraph in all its forms is used to connote a burning, fiery state. Seraphim, as classically depicted, can be identified by their having six wings radiating from the angel's face at the center.
- "The name 'Seraphim' does not come from charity only, but from the excess of charity, expressed by the word ardor or fire. Hence Dionysius (Coel. Hier. vii) expounds the name 'Seraphim' according to the properties of fire, containing an excess of heat.
Now in fire we may consider three things.
- "Firstly the movement which is upwards and continuous. This signifies that they are borne inflexibly towards God.
- "Secondly the active force which is 'heat,' which is not found in fire simply, but exists with a certain sharpness, as being of most penetrating action, and reaching even to the smallest things, and as it were, with superabundant fervor; whereby is signified the action of these angels, exercised powerfully upon those who are subject to them, rousing them to a like fervor, and cleansing them wholly by their heat.
- "Thirdly we consider in fire the quality of clarity, or brightness; which signifies that these angels have in themselves an inextinguishable light, and that they also perfectly enlighten others."
Link.So chim yeah?
Mummy's little princess.
Also her little angel.
=)
Credits to Amelia.
Written with much love @
2:07 PM
Seraphim surround the divine throne
Mummy's little princess.
