The Letters of Nerses the Gracious

and join it together wisely. These things are requested by this small person dedicated to these matters, who asks with humility and attentiveness that you offer a hearing to these brief words, which are not to be touched once and vanish into the air, but rather to be recorded in writing according to the custom of the ancient wise ones.

     Rational nature is divided into two: into the incorporeal and the corporeal. The ranks of the incorporeal, encountering a blessed state of immortality and freedom from infirmity, received the station of glory and honor from the time they were created; for those called Petut'iwnk Principalities, and Terut'iwnk Dominions, and Ishkhanut'iwnk Powers, and their fellow orders, did not rise from humility by changing themselves, nor will they change from what they were given until eternity; rather, they hold eternally and everlastingly