Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

NECESSARY TRUTHS

concerning God.

That He is the cause of all things, since nothing can be the cause of itself.

That He is by Himself incomprehensible, in that He is infinite.

Since He is infinite, it is necessary that He be entirely immovable.

Nothing can be added to Him, nor can anything be diminished.

It is impossible for anything new to happen to Him.

Although He is omnipotent, and powerful in every way, He never uses absolute power without governing all things by the apparent and customary course of events.

He has placed the most excellent end for all things: wherefore it is necessary that He be the beginning and the end. For nothing is more excellent than Him.

TRUTHS KNOWN TO ALL

concerning Nature.

Whatever is comprehensible by intellect or sense cannot in any way be created by itself, nor take a beginning, because it would have to exist before it existed.

That everything created is finite and comprehensible.

Those things which are finite, and especially material, do not have movement from themselves, but from elsewhere, by which they are carried according to their natures.

Everything created can be added to or diminished.

Whatever begins to exist is necessarily new and capable of change.

Although some things may seem to be done in a disorderly way in the course...