Other people experience life differently or so I suppose. It is hard to imagine but how else to explain other people's reactions to the reality we jointly experience?
Other people, I say, may not feel the same sense of rightness in the elegant 3-level hierarchy. Every time I read about advances in the electric power system I feel transported into a realm of heightened clarity around the conceptualization of transmission, distribution, and service lines. Could anything be clearer? Could anything be more fully encompassing? Could anything be more reflective of perfection?
We are talking about the core principle organizing the idea: Long distances, short distances, local connection. A ranking from far to near, from strategic to operational, from collective to personal, from national to local to household. This principle may be applied to nearly any activity or concept
We are not talking about grubby actual conductors carrying actual electric power and providing temporary roosts for actual birds. No. There is an actual reality which exists within, beyond, and abstracted out of the physical which consists of more perfect Forms -- by which both Plato and I mean those ideas arrived at after considerable thinking in contrast to those which spring directly from observing the world.
As Albert Camus wrote, "What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others." ["The Fall" translated by Justin O'Brien; Knopf 1961, page 84.]
Luke of Prague seems to have been similarly enamoured of points expressed in threes and of hierarchies of ideas. This is a key reason I think highly of Luke even though his Czech prose is reputed to be nearly impenetrable. Of course the number of people familiar with Luke of Prague even so little as I am must quite small. Even fewer would be likely to think of Luke as an exemplar.
There are many examples of threes ("bad things come in threes" for example) and many of hierarchical organization (businesses run for profit being the first to my mind). Too often each exists isolated from the other and this reduces the power. The world would be a better place if rank-ordered triples were more prevalent an organizing principle.
By "better" I mean in the key sense of "more closely conforming to the way I see the universe".