taxis (ταχις)

(Language: Greek)

Short Description: order, series

Long Description: order, series; any level of reality, constituted by seira in which the distinctive property of a particular god or henad is sucessively mirrored; the chain of being proceeds from simplicity to complexity and subsequently from complexity to simplicity; the hierarchy of taxeis establish the planes of being or world-orders ( diakosmoi).

Sources: The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, by Dr. Algis Uždavinys