There was a hierarchy of beings on a scale she had not imagined.

It becomes that of the hierarchy of beings next above the human stage.

No real or imagined hierarchy of beings on higher levels of consciousness are of importance unless you make them important.

Occult tradition says that what is called the dark side of Nature consists of great hierarchies of beings.

Instead of the ideal of science, a mathematical unity, experience shows us, Boutroux affirms, a hierarchy of beings, displaying variety and spontaneity--in short, freedom.

Esoteric Science supports universal tradition in affirming that the different planes of Nature are peopled by hierarchies of beings, each with characteristic properties and modes of functioning.

BLAVATSKY speaks of the term Monad as applicable to a whole hierarchy of beings on infinitely different scales.

Self-centeredness made Adam and Eve eat of it, thus failing to acknowledge and respect the world as it was created by God, with its hierarchy of beings and values.

All this stupendous process is taking place according to a definite Plan present in the Divine Consciousness and controlled and guided by various hierarchies of Beings at different stages of evolution.

The first category naturally includes human beings who, as animals gifted with the power of speech, are at the top of the hierarchy of beings that live under the moon, just one step below the angels.

As Aristotle offered the categories and the act of existence, and Aquinas the analogy of being, the rationalists also had their own system, the great chain of being, an interlocking hierarchy of beings from God to dust.