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Medieval Midrash reiterates and further develops earlier teaching
about angels, as corresponding to internal entities that later, Freud and Carl Jung would call Archetypes: Maimonides, for example, talks about them at length in his Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Yisodei HaTorah (i.e.; Laws of
the Foundations of the Torah). While he meticulously classifies angelic rankings (there are ten), in his
rationalistic system Maimonides equates them with the Aristotelian "intelligences" that mediate between the spheres, (and
today, we see the connection between archetypal mentalities like
the Anima and "intuition," or the Self and "feelings" as used by the Myers/Briggs Personality Tests). As
such they are conscious and govern the spheres in their motion, but in his Aristotelian context Maimonides is saying they
are forms of natural causation rather than supernatural beings. He also expands his definition to include natural phenomenon
and even human psychology, (i.e.; he refers to the libidinous impulse as the "angel of lust" or what Freud identified
as the Libido, i.e.; Satan).
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