Principalities
Principalities (Latin: principatus), also translated as "Princedoms" and "Rulers", from the Greek archai is a choir of angels in the hierarchy of angels. It is the seventh choir.
According to Meteorologica Cosmica by Robert Fludd, this choir is ruled over by the Archangel Haniel.
Duties
Angels in this choir are responsible for guiding and protecting nations, or groups of peoples, and institutions such as the Christian Church. The Principalities preside over the bands of angels and charge them with fulfilling the divine ministry. There are some who administer and some who assist.
The Principalities are shown wearing a crown and carrying a sceptre. Their duty also is said to be to carry out the orders given to them by the upper sphere angels and bequeath blessings to the material world. Their task is to oversee groups of people. They are the educators and guardians of the realm of earth. Like beings related to the world of the germinal ideas, they are said to inspire living things to many disciplines such as art or science.
Textual basis
Principalities are mentioned in the Bible in Ephesians 3:9-10:
The fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.
Angels in the choir
There are nine Kabbalistic angels in the choir of principalities: