...when all this gradation could have been brought about from the outset without this... For the light did not do anything – it did not act. It simply did not join with the vessel, because the vessel was not complete, and the light waited until the gradation on which the repair of the vessel depended was brought about. If so, the light itself did not do anything in producing the gradation, it just waited until the gradation was brought about. If so, why did it enter initially?
…also has an essential function... For certainly the entry of the light into the vessels produces some effect in those vessels....and consequence. Everything that was done above has a conseqence in the governmental order of the worlds.