Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

For if the world had been created by His absolute will—to which nothing new can happen, since He is not under time—then all creatable things would have been under that command in an instant, and thus there would have been Chaos at once, and the things that are created from the beginning of the world, and the prima materia first matter. For since nature has no movement in itself, indeed not even the existence of the whole to be produced uniformly into anything, it was necessary to be moved by the virtue of the divine will. But since this neither happened, nor is it worthy of God, it is necessary that between God, immovable through infinity, and the creature, immovable of itself through impotence and finiteness, a mediator consisting of both natures should intercede, by whose judgment the ages would be made in time and duration, and all things would be led from potentiality into act, according to the matter divinely adapted to each nature. To the divine nature, therefore, before any creature could receive distinct existence, it was necessary that one creature, which was the likeness of all things, should have been joined and united to the alone-absolutely-comprehensible God, through which the ages would be adapted, and all distinct things would be made. We can take a faint likeness of that union in any powerful person, when he communicates to the redeemer of the work the same knowledge of the building that...