We know, then, with certainty, that even those qualities that we do discern in His acts – they are only things that have been innovated for us and our needs, according to our level, not of His level at all. And in generality, the qualities that He innovated for His acts, they are the sources of all that is done with His creations at all times. They are an set order of conduct toward the perfection of all creations, all matters on their level, one higher than the other, until even the highest among them is included in these qualities.
However, we can only discern this hierarchy through His acts alone. That is, when we marshal all that is activated by the Blessed One with His creations, and define everything as it truly is, and appraise all of these acts one against another, we find in them this arrangement whereby one act may be termed more honorable than another, and, therefore, it is called higher than the other. And we ascribe attributes to the Blessed One according to the acts that come from Him, and in accordance with the order of the acts, we ascribe order and value to the attributes.
And we find sages who understand the mechanisms of [divine] conduct, who decreed that certain qualities, and, consequently, the acts issuing from them, are connected with each other in many ways and many aspects. For although each quality is certainly an entity unto itself, the Blessed One wanted and made the generality of qualities to connect with each other, so that the perfection of one factor would require the assistance of the other, to the degree and extent necessary.
And there is deep wisdom regarding this connection, to know the connection of all matters of conduct, through the links of the chain that enter into one another.