Within this system, everything that existed could be placed in order, from "lowest" to "highest," with Hell at the bottom and God at the top—below God, an angelic hierarchy marked by the orbits of the planets, mankind in an intermediate position, and worms the lowest of the animals.
Unutar tog sustava sve što je postojalo moglo se postaviti u red od "najnižeg" do "najvišeg" s paklom na dnu i Bogom na vrhu—ispod Boga nalazili su se hijerarhija anđela označena orbitama planeta, čovječanstvo u srednjem položaju, te crvi kao najniže životinje.