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Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

The Great Chain of Being

by Arthur O. Lovejoy

Lovejoy's classic history of the idea of a continuous, hierarchical universe from Plato through the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the eighteenth century. It founded the discipline of the history of ideas and explains the cosmology behind doctrines of correspondence.

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