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seveneyeddeer replied to your photoset “The First Sphere, the Second Sphere, and the Third Sphere. The First…”

Aziraphale is a Principality. It says somewhere in the book something along the lines of he was a principality but people “made jokes about it these days”

Ya but in Genesis 3:24 it says “So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.” I always based my headcanons around the idea that Aziraphale got demoted to a Principality role, with that being among the subjects of aforementioned jokes. 

Neil Gaiman has also mentioned that Aziraphale has been around the Heavenly ranks before, so Aziraphale’s actual “true form” is probably up for anyone’s guess, since he’s apparently served in multiple different rankings (this fact gains less attention than it deserves because I fucking love the idea of Aziraphale always being That Guy who gets outsourced). My personal headcanon is that he started off as a cherub because It’s Funny and I like big angels, I cannot lie.