Scala Naturae - ‘Ladder of Being' , “The great chain of being “
The great chain of being
- God
- Seraphs
- Archangels
- Angels
- Man
- Animal
- Vegetal
- Mineral
according to adronis 0. God
- Creator gods - can have their own particular realm and to manifest life into it and experience it all through their creations. Can generate worlds, stars, galaxies. Given all powers and manifestations of God.
- Seraphim - insight and foresight. Emissaries representing God. Deliver the Word of God. Gods divine messengers. Surrounding God. Guardian angels of souls
- Archangels - combination of all elements, architects and administrators of the entire universe. Great Wisdom. There is nothing that they don’t know. Grand Responsibility. That the flow of the universe is kept together in harmony
- Angels - the “angles” of life - concentration of life and force - servants of life and light. Serve as the children of god
- Humans - to learn the nature of love. To be boundless through the nature of love itself. Putting love into service.
“Alchemy used the great chain as the basis for its cosmology. Since all beings were linked into a chain, so that there was a fundamental unity of all matter, the transformation from one place in the chain to the next might, according to alchemical reasoning, be possible. In turn, the unit of the matter enabled alchemy to make another key assumption, the philosopher's stone, which somehow gathered and concentrated the universal spirit found in all matter along the chain, and which ex hypothesi might enable the alchemical transformation of one substance to another, such as the base metal lead to the noble metal gold”