That is, that power had to be legitimized. Such mystification involved massive and complex programs of propaganda and ritual. The Elizabethan World Picture presents the myth by which power in England during the Renaissance was legitimized. Such law is absolute and monolithic. It is Truth .
Human law is based on natural law.
Thus human law is based on natural law, which is based on general Law, which is ordered by God's divine reason. To challenge any established law was to challenge God's ordained order. It was, in short, to challenge God. The other descriptions of order that Tillyard cites are always hierarchic. The conception of order as hierarchic privileges the social and political status quo.