Raylet vs Thearchy - What's the difference?

raylet

Raylet has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

(thearchies)

A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.

* 1643 , Subject of Supremacie , 42:

There ends Monarchy as a Thearchie , or divine dynastie.

* 1643 , Maximes Unfolded , 8:

Thearchie , or Gods Government in Families, a Nation, and all Nations.

* 1863 , G.J. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators , I 254:

[The Jew's] belief in that direct thearchy , to which he was bound by the ties of gratitude.

A system or ordering of deities.

* 1852 , P.J. Bailey, Festus , 11:

From rank to rank in Thearchy divine, We angel raylets gladden in thy sight.

1876 , W.E. Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism , 245:

:: Pan was one of the younger gods in the Hellenic thearchy .

* 1899 Dec. 1, ''Literary Guide, 178 1:

When Jesus entered upon his ministry, the Olympian thearchy ...was already tottering to its fall.