We see various qualities within everything in this world. A plant that is very beautiful and has a pleasant smell tends to be ruled by Venus, and these plants tend to have great generative ability, and when gathered and ingested (if not toxic) at an appropriate time (that is, astrologically), they tend to aid the organs in man that are ruled by Venus, and have a magickal effect towards the things ruled by Venus.
All plants are similarly ruled by the 7 Classical Planets, and all Animals (and in fact, all things in this material world) are also ruled by the Planets. With this, they have power over them, and move as the Heavenly bodies move, and talismans made of those plants have power over the things under them.
But, these animals, these plants, these minerals, these all existed before man came into existence. Yet they were constantly brought into the world by these higher forces.
In Platonism, everything ultimately comes from The One. The One is not considered to be a spirit, or an intelligence, but rather it is the very Ground of Being. And from it came the Demiurge, who in Platonism, is considered to be entirely benevolent, unlike in Gnosticism (Plotinus himself was a Gnostic prior to becoming a Platonist, and makes arguments against them in his Enneads). The Demiurge is identified with Zeus.
Orpheus says this of Zeus the Demiurge, as quoted by Aristotle and Proclus:
“Zeus is the first. Zeus the thunderer, is the last.
Zeus is the head. Zeus is the middle, and by Zeus all things were fabricated.
Zeus is male, Immortal Zeus is female.
Zeus is the foundation of the earth and of the starry heaven.
Zeus is the breath of all things. Zeus is the rushing of indefatigable fire.
Zeus is the root of the sea: He is the Sun and Moon.
Zeus is the king; He is the author of universal life;
One Power, one Dæmon, the mighty prince of all things:
One kingly frame, in which this universe revolves,
Fire and water, earth and ether, night and day,
And Metis (Counsel) the primeval father, and all-delightful Eros (Love).
All these things are United in the vast body of Zeus.
Would you behold his head and his fair face,
It is the resplendent heaven, round which his golden locks
Of glittering stars are beautifully exalted in the air.
On each side are the two golden taurine horns,
The risings and settings, the tracks of the celestial gods;
His eyes the sun and the Opposing moon;
His unfallacious Mind the royal incorruptible Ether.” (I. P. Cory, Ancient Fragments, Orphic Fragments, 1832 ed)
The Demiurge gave life to all the Gods, who are similarly benevolent, as Socrates rejected the Anthromorphism of the Gods. And the Demiurge inwardly nourishes the entire cosmos as we see from Orpheus.
They in turn created the entire cosmos (that word itself means “that which is beautifully ordered”). And it is inappropriate that the older serves the younger. So, we cannot compel the Gods, they do not serve us, we cannot dominate them. And in fact, since the entire spiritual world predates the material world, we cannot destroy spirits. Some on here have tried, and since the mind is illusory, they believe they have succeeded. But when others call upon these spirits, we find they are safe and sound, and their effects are completed in this world.
So, we did not create The Gods, and so cannot force them to serve us, or compel them, but rather their own goodness overflows. And they leave their signature on all things in this world.
This concept of The One is seen by all sages in all cultures. The concept of the Demiurge is similarly near-unversal, as almost all cultures recognize a God who is higher than all the rest.
As to where the Angels of Judaism and Christianity come from, that can be a complicated question to answer. The God of Judaism was not always considered the Highest, as in the Demiurge, and was seen to be below El when the religion was still among the Canaanites. But regardless, the Angels are seen to be servants of the Almighty, the Demiurge, so I suppose it is reasonable to say that they are servants of the Demiurge. I am uncertain of they are directly so, or are in the Court of the God of Judaism as a God below the Demiurge. In any case, they appear to be highly benevolent, just as all the Gods.
Thank you.