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of its essence, the original composition of things is always ordered.
Everything tends always by a certain spirit toward the best, and the same, end for itself.
Since all created things exist under time, movement, and place, they are necessarily governed by a spirit accommodated to their natures.
It is necessarily the most excellent thing, and most accommodated to the whole of nature, which all things naturally seek.
It is possible to obtain this very thing, whatever it is that constitutes the salvation and good of the universe. For it would be in vain if it were everywhere in potentiality but never to be in act.
Since nature does not have being from itself, much less well-being, or any perfection whatever, it is necessary that this salvation constantly associate itself with all things, so that it may lead them to seek whatever is sought in the place of salvation.
Since the word "salvation" primarily looks to man, it is necessary that all things in the created intellect be blessed through the most excellent Being, namely in man and in angel: and that the matter be most familiar to both natures, bringing salvation to all.
This thing, whatever it is, which brings salvation to the universe through its accommodation to natures, since it was first in the mind of God, and is last for us in work or attainment (God lacks no salvation), is secondarily the beginning and the end.