The Great Chain of Being

Speaking of the importance of observing specific planetary times and hours for prayers, for instance, Tillyard writes, “One is tempted to call the medieval habit of life mathematical or to compare it with a gigantic game where everything is included and every act is conducted under the most complicated system of rules.”— Jason Louv, 2018. See: Analogia Entisthe Great Chain forms the fundamentals of occult thought that Dee, his teachers, and his contemporaries drew from. By speaking to angels, the Chain suggests, an individual might work to repair his sinful, sublunary nature, and begin to climb upward toward God via emulation of the angels, rather than degenerating toward the lower realms. This idea of repairing one’s own fallen nature, originally the concern of the odd solitary magus, would gain wider prominence with the growth of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry; indeed, it is the root idea of Western esotericism.— «John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World», 2018See conversely: Nihilism