just a quick note: to understand the hierarchies, we have to imagine "dimensions" of reality that are not construed in merely spatial extension. think about how the grammatical tenses encode dimensions to reality, like first person, second person, and third person. similarly, if we imagine the percept, we can see that this is the work of the Exusiai or Spirits of Form. they were preceded in the hierarchy by the Dynameis of Spirits of Movement, who were in turn preceded by the Kyriotetes of Spirits of Wisdom, and again by the Thrones or Spirits of Will. i am not just reciting a table that i memorized but paying attention to how a finished thought or mental picture condenses out of will, vision, and movement in the soul. in other words, the hierarchies are present in our experience and we only fail to recognize them because our perception is "flattened" onto the screen of external percepts. i hope this helps.
just a quick note: to understand the hierarchies, we have to imagine "dimensions" of reality that are not construed in merely spatial extension. think about how the grammatical tenses encode dimensions to reality, like first person, second person, and third person. similarly, if we imagine the percept, we can see that this is the work of the Exusiai or Spirits of Form. they were preceded in the hierarchy by the Dynameis of Spirits of Movement, who were in turn preceded by the Kyriotetes of Spirits of Wisdom, and again by the Thrones or Spirits of Will. i am not just reciting a table that i memorized but paying attention to how a finished thought or mental picture condenses out of will, vision, and movement in the soul. in other words, the hierarchies are present in our experience and we only fail to recognize them because our perception is "flattened" onto the screen of external percepts. i hope this helps.