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CONCERNING BEING AND ESSENCE 27 

other forms having more potency and more propinquity to 
matter. In these, too, is found order (ordo) and grade (meas- 
ure: gradus) all the way through to the first forms of elements 
which are in the greatest propinquity to matter. Accordingly, 
they do not have any operation except according to the 
exigency of active and passive qualities, and of the others by 
which matter is disposed to form.