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On the contrary, Hilary says

matter is in potentiality

The existence of truth in general is self-evident but the existence of a First Truth is not self-evident to us

For humanity naturally desires happiness,

in order that thereby even the simple who are unable by themselves to grasp intellectual things may be able to understand it.

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But we cannot know of God’s what he is, but only what he is not;

God is its subject-matter?

To the whole of things requiring investigation belongs the tying of the apprehension of the Chariot to a year, a month, and a day, and also to a place.

Hence the heavens were called galgallim because of their being round - I mean, because of their being spherical.

I mean the divine pur-pose.

Theseare all corporeal preoccupations, and a deficient person always seeks outsuch activities.

whatever it does is baseless and istainted by deceit and fraud, and this is (like) the doings of women, for thewiles and stratagems of women are known.

Holy Spirit

At nighthumans are freer, for bodily occupations [24r.] and sensual impedimentsare suspended

confirming impossibilities is not the task of the intellect.

Thus it is known that faculties are named accord-ing to difference(s) in effect, but are, in reality, one thing.

For if (their) bases were the animal and natural (souls),humans would not be differentiated from other animals.

The instrument of the spirit is the body, (while) the splendor[raunaq]of the body rests in the spirit.

assuredness of existence

The Necessary Existent must be one entity

The subject matter of natural science [as we have seen] was body, [but] not by way of its being an existent, nor by way of its being substance,

for [in fact] there is a proof for it.

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

in what manner Jesus, who is above all existence, has stooped down to an existing state in which all the realities of human nature coalesce

like people who, carving a statue out of marble, remove all the impediments that hinder the clear perception of the latent image and by this mere removal display the hidden statue itself in its hidden beauty.

All equality, whether intelligent or intelligible, rational or perceptible,whether essential, natural, or willed, is transcendentally contained beforehand as something unified in him and as a super-abundant power which originates everything equal.

If knowledge unites knower and known, while ignorance is always the cause of change and of the inconsistency of the ignorant, then, as scripture tells us, nothing shall separate the one who believes in truth from the ground of true faith and it is there that he will come into the possession of enduring, unchanging identity

or transcending all wisdom and all understanding.

it returns us and calls us back to itself after we have strayed,

However, so far as these last topics are concerned, let that suffice which I shall more fittingly say elsewhere.

Existence in itself is more revered than the existence of Life itself and Wisdom itself and Likeness to divinity itself

The name “Wisdom” reaches out to everything which has to do with understanding, reason, and sense perception, and surpasses them all.

but it actually contains everything beforehand within itself — and this in an non-complex and boundless manner

unity,