I guese this piece kind of implies possibility of rebirth.
The mediaeval scala naturae as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress:[6] Ramon Llull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305
1 Reincarnation always existed in the west, but you had to go to Plato to read about it. And, Plato wrote very shrewdly, so you could always deny it and claim he was just writing metaphorically. But, in the dialogues Socrates clearly discusses it and describes its necessity for the proper functioning of justice.
2 This “great chain of being” reminds me of the “ladder of animals” shared earlier. As God (the One) is all being, it follows that his emanations (the beings of the physical cosmos) exist on a spectrum of higher or lower levels of being. We observe this both in the animal world (a lion is at a higher level of being than a mouse) and in the human world (where someone of the “lion” archetype is at a higher level of being than a “mouse”).
