The last three orders alone have regular dealings with mortals: Principalities, Archangels, Angels.Among these are the only angels who are given names, the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel (though Uriel's name is doubtful).
That's not to mention two Academy Awards, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, a soundtrack that's garnered more than a million album sales and seven million Spotify streams, official YouTube video views in the hundreds of millions, and a DVD that became Amazon's best-selling children's film of all time based on advance orders alone.
But though he sits, increasingly isolated, in the ruins of his Ramallah headquarters, with Israeli tanks vetting visitors in the parking lot, foreign orders alone are insufficient reason for Arabs to abandon him, even among leaders like Mr. Mubarak, who have privately found him as infuriating as the Americans do.
When it came out, though, Physical Graffiti marked Zeppelin's zenith, their transition from an enormous group that their fans knew about to an enormous group that everyone knew about – it was the first album ever to go platinum on advance orders alone.
I can't think of a single viewer, adult or kid, who will see this film and feel better or wiser for that scene, and I can't help wishing that Liebesman had played to his strengths, stripped down the talk to military orders alone, cut all backstories as if cancelling all leave, and allowed his characters to express themselves in action, as they themselves would prefer.
And, of course, the bigger issue is that equal pay legislation and executive orders alone won't get the U.S. to equality.
At one point last week the book hit No 1 on Amazon's bestseller list, based on pre-orders alone.
On Amazon, the novel is currently second in the bestsellers' list based on pre-orders alone, with three days to go until its release.
The Casual Vacancy has featured on the Amazon.co.uk bestseller list since the announcement of publication "on the strength of pre-orders alone", according to a spokesman.
It goes without saying that Lagercrantz's book is, in one sense, entirely critic-proof: the pre-orders alone are, he tells me, enough to make the mind boggle.
Their debut single topped the iTunes charts in 39 countries on pre-orders alone, while their self-titled debut album was only prevented from entering the UK charts at No 1 by all-conquering internet overlord Ed Sheeran.
