{The Circle of Qualities}[20th October 1987]

[Redbook4:148][19871020:2058h]{The Circle of Qualities}[20th October 1987]

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If the interpretations or qualities of the finer levels seem unhelpful, it must be remembered that they deal in Qualities of which we are likely to have no direct experience.

I very much doubt whether colours (or even light) represent exactly what is to be known at the level called 'lights': it is simply an analogy or symbol, but one sufficiently appropriate to find echoes at many levels of the Mind.

It is possible that the level called 'Wheels' has something to do with mathematics, {or} dimensionality or directionality.

In the next two levels – Names and Degrees* – the names of the Qualities have some meaning but it is extremely difficult to pin the meaning down or apply it to the matter in hand.

It is only at the next level – Inner** Principles – that the Qualities become clearly comprehensible, at least on first sight; and so they are in the remaining four: Gifts, Virtues, Vices, and Outer** Principles – probably more so the less 'fine' they become.

*= Ranks (so as not to confuse Degrees with Wheels) (Degrees sounds better than Ranks but I can't find another label at present. <871123>

This side of things is now completely changed – see S&C [original full paper version]. <930506>

**[​Subsequently reversed.]

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