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  1 Pre|          form of a meditation, the Being of God, basing his argument
  2 Pre|        regarding meditation on the Being of God, and on some other
  3 1  |              CHAPTER I.~There is a being which is best, and greatest,
  4 1  |         can appear so for the time being.~It is easy, then, for one
  5 1  |         are good through that same being through which all goods
  6 1  |         goods exist, whatever that being is. But who can doubt this
  7 1  |            who can doubt this very being, through which all goods
  8 1  |           are good through another being than that which they themselves
  9 1  |           themselves are, and this being alone is good through itself.
 10 1  |            is, therefore, some one being which is supremely good,
 11 2  |        been proved that there is a being that is supremely good,
 12 2  |          are good through a single being, which is good through itself;
 13 2  |    supremely good, there must be a being that is greatest and best,
 14 3  |          true, either there is one being, or there are more than
 15 3  |            be referred to some one being, through which they exist,
 16 3  |           beings exist through one being, then all things do not
 17 3  |            rather through that one being through which these exist.~
 18 3  |            exist through this very being, which is one, than through
 19 3  |    anything should exist through a being on which it confers existence.
 20 3  |       which all things exist, that being, through which all exist,
 21 3  |         are exist through this one being, doubtless this one being
 22 3  |          being, doubtless this one being exists through itself. Whatever
 23 3  |           There is, then, some one being which alone exists in the
 24 4  |           be more than one supreme being. But it is manifest that
 25 4  |           be more than one supreme being. There is, therefore, a
 26 4  |          which is the supreme good being, the supreme great being,
 27 4  |           being, the supreme great being, being or subsisting as
 28 4  |           the supreme great being, being or subsisting as supreme,
 29 6  |        before it. Seeing that this Being, then, does not exist before
 30 6  |         Nature was preceded by any being, through which it derived
 31 6  |       matter, and was not aided in being brought into existence by
 32 6  |          of essence, and to be and being, that is, existing or subsisting.
 33 6  |         subsisting. So the supreme Being, and to be in the highest
 34 6  |            the highest degree, and being in the highest degree, bear
 35 7  |         reason, namely, that there being another creative agent,
 36 7  |         itself, or from some third being -- but this last, at any
 37 7  |           but through this supreme Being. Hence, that which has no
 38 7  |          Nature itself, any lesser being can derive existence, the
 39 7  |         except through the supreme Being, the supreme good is subjected
 40 7  |     corruption through the supreme Being itself. Hence, the supreme
 41 7  |         itself. Hence, the supreme Being, which is itself the supreme
 42 7  |         exists through the supreme Being, nor can anything else exist
 43 7  |            else exist through this Being, except by its creation,
 44 7  |          been, except that supreme Being and the beings created by
 45 8  |     affords some assistance to the being of what it effects. This
 46 8  |  ascertained regarding the supreme Being, is nothing.~What, then,
 47 8  |     enquires regarding the supreme Being, or regarding what never
 48 8  |         nothing were some existent being, from which something could
 49 8  |           exception of the supreme Being all things have been created
 50 8  |          have been created by that Being from nothing, that is, not
 51 8  |        statement that the creative Being created all things from
 52 8  |          understand that when this Being created them, it created
 53 9  |      although it is clear that the being that were created were nothing
 54 11 |         former expression, without being taken or aided from any
 55 12 |          expression of the supreme Being is the supreme Being. ~BUT
 56 12 |       supreme Being is the supreme Being. ~BUT since, as our reasoning
 57 12 |          expression of the supreme Being is no other than the supreme
 58 12 |          no other than the supreme Being? Therefore, the consideration
 59 13 |        created through the supreme Being, so all live through it. ~
 60 13 |   sustenance afforded by that very Being through whose creative act
 61 13 |      beings exist through some one being, hence that being alone
 62 13 |         some one being, hence that being alone exists through itself,
 63 13 |        live, live through some one being; hence that being alone
 64 13 |         some one being; hence that being alone lives through itself,
 65 13 |      through the creative, present Being, so nothing lives except
 66 14 |                  CHAPTER XIV.~This Being is in all things, and throughout
 67 14 |           follows that, where this Being is not, nothing is. It is,
 68 14 |         absurd that as any created being can in no wise exceed the
 69 14 |            creative and cherishing Being cannot, in anyway, exceed
 70 14 |     created; it is clear that this Being itself, is what supports
 71 14 |            we find it is this same Being which is in all and through
 72 15 |   concerning the substance of this Being. ~NOT without reason I am
 73 15 |             does not describe that Being which is altogether greater
 74 15 |          means should this supreme Being be said to be any of those
 75 15 |           is inferior.~Hence, this Being must be living, wise, powerful,
 76 16 |              CHAPTER XVI.~For this Being it is the same to be just
 77 16 |           how great, but what this Being is. ~BUT perhaps, when this
 78 16 |             BUT perhaps, when this Being is called just, or great,
 79 16 |          conceive of a just man as being justness, but as possessing
 80 16 |           properly conceived of as being justness, but not as possessing
 81 16 |         same to say of the supreme Being, that it is just and that
 82 16 |          It is, therefore, supreme Being, supreme Justness, supreme
 83 16 |        nothing else than supremely being, supremely living, etc.~ ~
 84 17 |          what man is.~That supreme Being, however, is by no means
 85 17 |          truly said of the supreme Being is accepted in terms of
 86 18 |            good perishes. But this Being is itself the true and simple,
 87 18 |         good. Therefore, that very Being, which is certainly the
 88 19 |           or will exist after this Being. ~BUT here we are again
 89 19 |         existed before the supreme Being, nor will anything exist
 90 19 |         when nothing existed, that Being did not exist, and when
 91 19 |          nothing shall exist, that Being will not exist. How is it,
 92 19 |        come to nothing? -- if that Being did not yet exist, when
 93 19 |      already existed; and the same Being shall no longer exist, when
 94 19 |       established that the supreme Being succeeds nothing [Nothing
 95 19 |    actually to precede the supreme Being in existence. The fallacy
 96 19 |           exist before the supreme Being, and that nothing will not
 97 19 |          after it to nothing, that Being which through itself brought
 98 19 |         existed before the supreme Being, carries two meanings. For,
 99 19 |           that, before the supreme Being, there was a time when nothing
100 19 |           that, before the supreme Being, not anything existed. Just
101 19 |        nothing existed before that Being must be received in the
102 19 |       there was any time when that Being did not exist, and nothing
103 19 |       understood that, before that Being, there was not anything.
104 19 |      nothing will exist after that Being.~If, then, this interpretation
105 19 |            will follow the supreme Being, and the conclusion is reached,
106 20 |         Nature exists.~The supreme Being, then, exists either everywhere
107 20 |            all without it; if this Being itself exists nowhere or
108 20 |           is also false, that that Being exists nowhere and never.~
109 21 |         simultaneous? But, if this Being exists, as a whole, separately
110 21 |           than itself. The supreme Being, then, will be divided into
111 21 |       attributable to the creative Being, either its age or its eternity.
112 21 |          be future. Therefore that Being never was, nor will be.
113 22 |           ending it. Hence, to any being, to whose spatial extent
114 22 |           nor is it prevented from being present, as a whole and
115 22 |          requires that the supreme Being, as a whole, be lacking
116 22 |           or time prevents it from being simultaneously in every
117 22 |           therefore prevented from being present at the same time,
118 22 |           For, by no means is that Being compelled or forbidden by
119 22 |           any place or time -- the Being which, in no wise, includes
120 22 |        time. For, when the supreme Being is said to exist in space
121 22 |            the case of the supreme Being, the first sense only is
122 22 |       place or time, then, is this Being properly said to exist,
123 22 |          us; as to how the highest Being of all exists, everywhere
124 24 |      unlike itself?~Hence, if this Being is said to exist always;
125 24 |           the nature of no created being, from the very fact that
126 25 |       external to the essence of a being, which may yet be conceived
127 25 |       produce changes in a mutable being.] ~BUT does not this Being,
128 25 |         being.] ~BUT does not this Being, which has been shown to
129 25 |       effect of theirs regarded as being true accidents, so those
130 26 |             CHAPTER XXVI.~How this Being is said to be substance:
131 26 |           immutable purity of this Being is inaccessible to admixture
132 26 |            is called substance for being, and so transcends, as it
133 26 |            difference between that Being, which is through itself
134 26 |          which creates every other being from nothing, and a being,
135 26 |          being from nothing, and a being, which is made whatever
136 27 |        more than one substance, as being a man is common to individual
137 27 |            be maintained that this Being is spirit and not body.
138 28 |          sustained through another being, is it consistent with their
139 29 |          beings; for every created being was created through that
140 31 |           but the reality of their being, while created beings are
141 31 |       picture -- so the reality of being is conceived of as in the
142 31 |      rather be, that every created being exists in so much the greater
143 31 |       nearer to the most excellent Being, so certainly that nature
144 32 |     Essence? Or, would the supreme Being itself, perhaps, which is
145 32 |          Word still be the eternal Being, but not the Word, if nothing
146 32 |          ever created through that Being? For, to what has not been,
147 32 |            if there were never any being but the supreme Spirit,
148 32 |  connection with no other existing being, or with other existing
149 34 |           creative and the created being be expressed by one Word,
150 34 |           in him is the true first being, and the first reality of
151 36 |       exist by virtue of their own being; while in our knowledge
152 36 |         our knowledge is not their being, but their likeness.~We
153 36 |    anywhere by virtue of their own being, than by virtue of their
154 36 |       degree in which the creative being exists more truly than the
155 36 |     likeness is removed from their being?~ ~
156 37 |          relation as more than one being. ~BUT since it has already
157 39 |      Creator from Creator, supreme Being from supreme Being. And,
158 39 |         supreme Being from supreme Being. And, to dispose of this
159 39 |             it is one and the same being which derives existence
160 39 |    existence from one and the same being, and on such terms, that
161 39 |        existence, except from that being.~Since it is evident, then,
162 40 |        complete existence from the being of that Spirit himself alone,
163 43 |        Spirit-Son one and the same being, that the Father and the
164 44 |      existence and the fact of its being from his wisdom, yet when
165 44 |          possessing an essence and being an essence, just as the
166 45 |           since the Father has his being from none other than himself,
167 45 | appropriate to say that he has the being of another than himself;
168 45 |       while, since the Son has his being from the Father, and has
169 45 |          has an essence, except by being an essence; as the Son is
170 48 |          the human memory, without being the memory itself; but he
171 53 |          are, which is the supreme Being. But, since there cannot
172 53 |           be more than one supreme Being, what inference can be more
173 53 |            of both are one supreme Being? Therefore, this love is
174 55 |           this love, then, has its being equally from Father and
175 55 |            no respect, to some one being --of this no existing nature
176 57 |         one uncreated and creative being. And it may be called the
177 57 |          separately is the supreme Being, as are Father and Son,
178 57 |          than one, but one supreme Being, which alone was created
179 57 |         one uncreated and creative being.~None, therefore, makes
180 57 |            the supremely immutable Being does not breathe after our
181 57 |            yet the truth that this Being sends forth this, its love,
182 57 |           than by saying that this Being breathes its love.~But,
183 57 |            the Word of the supreme Being is its Son, so its love
184 57 |         fact there is community of being between Father and Son,
185 57 |           Son, although it has its being from them.~ ~
186 59 |          way the perfectly supreme Being that, nevertheless, all
187 59 |          exist only as one supreme Being, but he same truth is no
188 59 |          the memory of the supreme Being exists, as a whole, in its
189 60 |            inherent in the supreme Being. ~BUT, while this discussion
190 60 |           so perfectly the supreme Being and the supreme Wisdom that
191 60 |            inherent in the supreme Being.~ ~
192 61 |           Son and a Spirit of some being? and why is not the Son
193 61 |      Father and the Spirit of some being? and why is not this Spirit
194 61 |          Spirit the Father of some being, and the Son of some being?
195 61 |         being, and the Son of some being? For it was understood,
196 61 |           Son or the Spirit of any being; since he is not intelligence,
197 61 |           his Spirit, but whatever being he has he is only begotten
198 61 |     conclusion that in the supreme Being there is only one Father,
199 62 |           there not in the supreme Being as many words as there are
200 62 |         itself.~But in the supreme Being, Father and Son and their
201 63 |       there apparently are in that Being, not only many fathers and
202 63 | intelligence are attributes of his being, so his knowing and conceiving
203 63 |           a knowing and conceiving being, and yet the three at once
204 63 |         knowing and one conceiving being: so, each taken separately
205 63 |           once, but one expressive being.~Hence, this fact may also
206 63 |     therein expressed except their being? If, then, that Being is
207 63 |        their being? If, then, that Being is one and only one, then
208 63 |           cannot be in the supreme Being another Word than that already
209 63 |         neither of itself nor of a being proceeding from it, is it
210 63 |      existence imitate itself or a being proceeding from itself.
211 63 |          impossible where only one being is concerned, but require
212 63 |       Spirit, exist in the supreme Being. And, although there are
213 64 |        connection with the supreme Being, have been declared on cogent
214 65 |           namely, that the supreme Being is so above and beyond every
215 65 |          of words is alien to that Being, whatever I have inferred
216 65 |       truth concerning the supreme Being been discovered, if what
217 65 |     discovered is so alien to that Being? What is to be inferred?~
218 65 |         peculiar nature of its own being, but somehow described through
219 65 |    sufficient to reveal to me that Being, through which all things
220 65 |           of expressing to me that Being which, through its unique
221 66 |            approach to the supreme Being. ~SINCE it is clear, then,
222 66 |        excellent must that created being be by nature. Hence, this
223 66 |          be by nature. Hence, this being, through its greater likeness,
224 66 |          knowledge of the creative Being is attained, the more nearly
225 66 |            is made approaches that Being. For that every being, in
226 66 |         that Being. For that every being, in so far as it exists,
227 66 |        exists, is like the supreme Being, reasons already considered
228 66 |          the investigation of this Being, so it is not the less this
229 66 |         the discovery of this same Being. For it has already been
230 66 |           to the knowledge of that Being; and the more carelessly
231 66 |          the contemplation of that Being?~ ~
232 67 |           mirror and image of that Being. ~THEREFORE, the mind may
233 67 |          is the true image of that being which, through its memory
234 67 |            truly the image of that Being by its power of remembering,
235 67 |    conceiving of, and loving, that Being. For, the greater and the
236 67 |     greater and the more like that Being it is, the more truly it
237 68 |            that it might love this Being. ~IT seems to follow, then,
238 68 |         enough that every rational being exists for this purpose,
239 68 |          it might love the supreme Being above all other goods, as
240 68 |           all other goods, as this Being is itself the supreme good;
241 68 |          because of it; since that Being is good through itself,
242 68 |       through it.~But the rational being cannot love this Being,
243 68 |    rational being cannot love this Being, unless it has devoted itself
244 69 |          it might love the supreme Being. It must, therefore, have
245 69 |            that it might love that Being eternally; or for this,
246 69 |          it might love the supreme Being eternally. But this it cannot
247 69 |   voluntarily gave to a non-loving being that it might ever love,
248 69 |        taken away, from the loving being, so that necessarily it
249 70 |                  CHAPTER LXX.~This Being gives itself in return to
250 70 |    powerful makes no return to the being that loves him perseveringly,
251 70 |       might be able to be a loving being. For, if he makes no return
252 70 |            was nothing, a rational being, that it might be a loving
253 70 |       supreme Goodness make to the being that loves and desires it,
254 70 |             nor console the loving being, nor satisfy the soul that
255 70 |          that desires this supreme Being.~Or, if it wishes to be
256 71 |            soul that despises this being will be eternally miserable. ~
257 71 |          scorns loving the supreme Being, it suffers eternal misery;
258 71 |            the soul despising that Being shall suffer eternal punishment;
259 72 |          the soul that scorns this Being eternally miserable. Whether,
260 72 |             But since every living being is either never, or at some
261 73 |            discussion. But that no being is unjustly deprived by
262 74 |         CHAPTER LXXIV.~The supreme Being is to be hoped for. ~BUT
263 74 |         purpose, if it despairs of being able to reach what it aims
264 75 |            We must believe in this Being, that is, by believing we
265 75 |        soul to believe the supreme Being and those things without
266 75 |          things without which that Being cannot be loved, that, by
267 75 |            strive for" the supreme Being, we say, "believe in" the
268 75 |            believe in" the supreme Being.~For, if one says that he
269 75 |            strives for the supreme Being, and that he believes those
270 75 |        proper to striving for that Being, or he who does not strive
271 75 |           does not strive for that Being, through what he believes,
272 76 |          separately is the supreme Being, and at once Father and
273 76 |           one and the same supreme Being, in which alone every man
274 76 |            able to strive for that Being, except he believe in it;
275 78 |       CHAPTER LXXVIII.~The supreme Being may in some sort be called
276 78 |           as if I should call this Being a Trinity because of its
277 78 |  substances. Hence, in the supreme Being, just as there are not more
278 78 |        plural sense to the supreme Being, in order to indicate what
279 78 |           plurality in the supreme Being, because the word person
280 78 |          manifest that the supreme Being, which is subject to no