Despite its total dependence on the self-necessary being...

Despite its total dependence on the self-necessary being, the first being created by the self-necessary being has no need to other levels of being and therefore in relation to other levels of being enjoys independence, freedom from need and absoluteness. Other levels of being depend for their existence on self-necessary being and on the first creatures as well, since through it the grace of being extends hierarchically to other levels.

Thus, the highest being is the completely actual independent absolute self-necessary being and the lowest is the being that has nothing other than potentiality of being – Which is actually yet to be created-. In his Mabda’wa Ma’aad, Mulla, Sadra says: ‘And beings do not differ in their essence except in intensity and weakness, perfection and…