The hierarchy of ethics is our level of being. In superior levels of being, we know how to respond ethically to more diverse and difficult circumstances.

On lower rungs or levels of being, we complicate and exacerbate our problems, sufferings, and situation.

We must cease being what we are to become what we are not, to ascend the vertical path of spiritual revolutionaries. This is how we attain hierarchy among the initiates, through conscious development of our essence.