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the “coming to be” of the effect, its being “made” or produced by the cause, is not merely passive. This dependence is an active receptivity on the part of the effect.
Any being can be only by actively receiving its identifying determination, which is to say by performing the act-of-existing in its proper way, by enacting or “living out” its constitutive nature.

"Dionysian hierarchy is none other than the communion of saints, which, as a communion of intelligences, is itself the fullness of being. The hierarchical structure of reality is the articulated manifestation of the divine love that constitutes all things."

"All things, in performing the proper activities which are their being, are participating in the making of the world, taking part in the constitutive divine ordering of the whole. But, as in the case of the being’s role in its own being produced, this neither adds to nor detracts from God’s immediate production of all things."