  We show that intermediate scales in supersymmetric grand unified theories may
exist naturally. Their origin is traced to the violation of the survival
principle: in supersymmetry internal symmetries often forbid cubic couplings in
the superpotential. This leads to a plethora of light supermultiplets whose
masses are generated only by higher dimensional operators and thus suppressed
by the cut-off scale. These new states often carry exotic quantum numbers and
may be, in some cases, accessible to experiments in the near future.
