199. All perfections increase and ascend concomitantly with degrees and in accordance with them. We showed above in nos. 184-188 that degrees are of two kinds, degrees of breadth and degrees of height; and that degrees of breadth are like those in the progression of light to dark or of wisdom to ignorance, while degrees of height are like end, cause and effect, or like prior, subsequent and last elements. We say of these latter degrees that they ascend or descend, because they are degrees of height. Of the former, however, we say that they increase or decrease, because they are degrees of breadth. These two kinds of degrees are so different in character that they have nothing in common. Consequently they must be distinctly perceived and not in the least way be confused.