存在锁链 Great chain of being
（重定向自Scala naturae）
存在锁链（英语：Chain of being），18世纪欧州神学的概念，是自上而下万物的分级。在「存在锁链」中，上帝居首，其下有九个等级的天使，天使之下是人类，其下为动物、植物、矿物。锁链中任何一环都不可上下移动，随意移动位置会破坏整个宇宙的秩序条理，违反天意。
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Great chain of being 存在锁链
（重定向自Scala naturae）
![1579 drawing of the great chain of being from Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Great_Chain_of_Being_23757.png")
![St Thomas Aquinas classified all beings by rank.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Carlo_Crivelli_0073757.jpg")
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![The human pedigree back to amoeba shown as a reinterpreted chain of being with living and fossil animals. Ernst Haeckel, 1874.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Human_pidegree3757.jpg")
The great chain of being is a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God. The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon, kings, princes, nobles, commoners, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals.
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