Read in-depth answer here. Also, why was the great chain of being created?
Alchemy used the great chain as the basis for its cosmology. Since all beings were linked into a chain, so that there was a fundamental unity of all matter, transformation from one place in the chain to the next might, according to alchemical reasoning, be possible.
Secondly, what was the chain of being in Elizabethan times? Chain of being is a theory or Elizabethan era in which the Elizabethans had belief. They believed that everything had its place in the chain of being, from god down to minerals. God and angels, both existing in spirit form sit at the top of the chain. Spirit is permanent and unchanging.
Similarly one may ask, what is the order of the Great Chain of Being?
The Great Chain of Being includes everything from God and the angels at the top, to humans, to animals, to plants, to rocks and minerals at the bottom. It moves from beings of pure spirit at the top of the Chain to things made entirely of matter at the bottom.
What happens when the great chain of being is broken?
Least Amount of Spirit/ Lowest on the Divine Order- Servants In Macbeth, Shakespeare showed the consequences for disrupting the balanced order of 'The Great Chain Of Being' when he inflicted paranoia and death to Macbeth as punishment for killing the king.
