Pervading

Paraphrased: God enfolds creation, for in God all things are God. Yet God also unfolds creation in its diversity, for God is in various things like truth in an image.
(p. 137)

... strive to seek God with the most diligent vision, for God who is everywhere is impossible not to find if God is sought in the right way... God is rightly sought to the end that, in keeping with God's name, praise of God may reach the limits of the power of our earthly nature.
(p. 223)

From the infinity of your mercy, I see, O Lord, that you are infinity embracing all things. There is nothing that exists outside you, but all things in you are not other than you. You teach me, Lord, how otherness, which is not in you, does not exist in itself, nor can it exist. Nor does otherness, which does not exist in you, make one creature other than another, although one creature is not another...

Paraphrased: But you speak in me, O Lord, and tell me that otherness has no positive principle, and thus it does not exist. Otherness is derived from not-being. That the sky is not the earth is because the sky is not infinity itself, which embraces all being. God's infinity gives being to all things. Because the sky participates in this infinity, it has being. But because it participates in infinity in a contracted manner, it takes on its own unique characteristics which differentiate it from "others." It is the lack of absolute infinity that produces creatures of all sorts.
(p. 261)

Posse Itself {i.e. God in His Unbounded Potentiality} manifests itself in all things just as the posse {i.e. the potential} of Aristotle's mind manifests itself in his books, not that they disclose it perfectly, even though one book may do so more perfectly than another, and the books were produced for no other purpose than for his mind to reveal itself... The mind to be sure, is like an intellectual book, which sees in itself ... the intention of the author {i.e. God}.
(p. 301)

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