Theosophical Articles on Hierarchies
Man, Nature and the Universe are composite entities with each part having its own pinnacle or highest point. This pinnacle signifies its own particular stage of evolutionary development. Below these pinnacles are innumerable grades of hierarchical development, but also these pinnacles are themselves part of Hierarchies greater in evolutionary development. Hierarchies extend everywhere and are fundamental to the structure of Evolution.
Time, Space and Consciousness by E. A. Holmes