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Descending the Hierarchy of Being

06-Aug-10

http://blumberger.net//lib/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php “And he saw in his dreams a ladder standing upon the earth, its top touching heaven, and angels of the Lord ascending and descending on it.” I recently spent a good deal of time with a group of Latin speakers, and had opportunity to observe one of the metaphors most dear to Latinists, the Platonic/Neoplatonic “hierarchy of […]