Hierarchy of universal religion

People often asked Mahamati Prannath : If each thing is divine then how can one speak of a hierarchy? Yes, he says, all comes from the Divine " EK THE BHYE ANEK ; hence the Divine is everything, but not the totality of the Divine. One cannot call an electric bulb the entire Power-House, yet every electric bulb's illumination is related to the Power-House. In the same way, we cannot take a piece of stone and say : 'this is the title Divine', yet everything in the universe has a perfect relation with the Divine. Yogurt and curd are transformed milk; none the less they cannot be called milk. Every being is as perfectly the Divine as he can be, that is why no one wants to shift his consciousness radically to a different platform.
In this hierarchy there is a place for everybody; and for each individual in the place he is, his individual truth is absolute. That is to say, each element which is truly in its place has a total and perfect relation with the Divine. And yet, as whole, there is a hierarchy which too is quite absolute. There cannot be any purpose of the individual apart from the purpose of the whole, nor any purpose of the individual. This what we see in our body as a whole and its dependence on its parts. All the beings in the universe form a vast complex linked by the dual purposes, though they may not necessarily be aware of it.
The relationship of the whole and the parts is of mutual joy. Joy is not created by the individual alone. Experience of joy is through loving and through being loved. From each individual the Whole seeks to obtain a particular joy and thus fulfils His love for joy. Just as love is the connecting link between the lover and the beloved, similarly joy is the connecting link between the Essence and the attribute, between the Creator and the creation.

The idea of the hierarchy and grades of consciousness in various planes has been developed at a great length in the Hindu literature of occultism. Although there are thinkers who cut short the botheration of all descriptions of hierarchies in the spiritual world, by professing that everything is divine and it is no use dwelling one the details of the other worlds which have the same king of dreamy phenomenal existence as the earth. Mahamati Prannath, a great saint of medieval India, has however made many clarifications in this regard on the basis of his own spiritual experiences.
According to him, the perfect hierarchy is a total hierarchy, and it is not concerned with time and space. But when we want to realize how the Infinite Reality is able to act simultaneously in millions upon millions of galactic universes, we find that the play of material energy takes place in a subtle manner for the souls. But there is a transcendental imperishable Reality greater than the material energy by which alone the appearance of countless cosmic trees is possible.
No doubt a very infinitesimal part of the Transcendental Reality has extended forth in the form of the universe, the remaining expansive radiation part of the Transcendental Reality is manifested in the spiritual zone and can be called the internal energy of opulence. Those liberated souls who live in the internal energy of the spiritual zone enjoy their blissful eternal existence and are free from al kinds of limitations experienced in the material worlds by the conditioned souls.