208. In a word, there are such degrees in every ultimate, thus in every effect. For every ultimate consists of things prior, and these of their primes. And every effect consists from cause, and this from end. And end is the all of cause, and cause is the all of effect, as was shown above; and end makes the inmost, cause the middle, and effect the outmost. The same is the case with degrees of love and wisdom, of heat and light, also of the organic forms of affections and thoughts in man, as will be seen in what follows. The series of these degrees in successive and simultaneous order has been treated of in THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM CONCERNING THE SACRED SCRIPTURE (n. 38 and elsewhere), it is shown there that there are like degrees in all things of the Word in general and in particular.