208. Degrees of this kind, in short, exist in every final element, thus in every effect; for every final element is formed of prior ones, and these by their prime ones. Moreover, every effect results from a cause, and the cause from an end, so that the end is everything in the cause, and the cause is everything in the effect, as we demonstrated above. Thus the end constitutes the inmost element, the cause the intermediate element, and the effect the final element. The same is the case with degrees of love and wisdom, with degrees of heat and light, and with the organic forms of the affections and thoughts in a person, as will be seen in subsequent discussions. We have dealt with the succession of these degrees in sequential order and in concurrent order also in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, no. 38 and elsewhere, where we showed that degrees of this kind exist in each and every expression of the Word.