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    It is not the case that Therefore the distinction between highest God and demiurge collapses into a single principle with hierarchically differentiated causal modes.

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    • 1.Qualitative differences between perfect and imperfect, eternal and temporal, require distinct metaphysical statuses, not mere causal modes.
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    • 2."Hierarchical modes" lacks clear meaning: without real distinction, the demiurge's ignorance and limitation become inexplicable properties of divinity.
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    • 3.Gnostic and Neoplatonic texts explicitly posit ontological distance; collapsing the distinction removes their philosophical and theological force.
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    • 1.Occam's Razor favors unified ontology: positing one principle with differentiated modes requires fewer fundamental entities than dualism.
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    • 2.Causal efficacy requires continuous connection; hierarchical modes within one source better explain how transcendent principle acts in material world.
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    • 3.Classical theology (Aquinas, Plotinus) already treats lower powers as expressions of one divine essence, not genuinely separate beings.
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