God, therefore, is the one most simple essence of the entire universe...
(p. 120)
... the essence of all essences is each essence in such a way that it is all essences together and none of them individually...
(p. 108)
God is not something...
God is beyond nothing and beyond something... God cannot be called "this" rather than "that"...
(p. 211)
For God is not the root of contradiction, but God is the simplicity itself prior to every root...
(p. 212)
... God's simplicity precedes both all that can be named and all that cannot...
(p. 213)
... neither God nor God's name is to be found in the realm of all creatures and ... God flees from every concept rather than being asserted as something. For that which does not have the condition of a creature is not to be found in the realm of creatures. In the realm of composite things the non-composite is not found... And even though ... composite things are what they are only through the non-composite, yet because it is not composite, it is unknown in the realm of composite things.
(p. 213)
... the affirmative names we attribute to God apply to God in an infinitely diminished way. ...affirmative names apply according to God's infinite power in relation to creatures.
(p. 122)
Therefore, may God, who is hidden from the eyes of all the wise of the world, be blessed forever.
(p. 213)
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