Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

whose identity is from the divinity, a unity distinct from the creature. For God cannot be distinguished by any distinction, although He is most especially one. But that is especially to be noted: that since God has hidden all the treasures of His wisdom and knowledge in this subject, and has constituted the law of the universe according to that relation of the spirit, which we must first attribute to the divinity, according to the terms transcending the whole of nature, it is necessary that all things be referred to the principle of the second place for their periods of being. For in that spirit, just as there was the power of divinity, so there was also of animality, or of the spirits of the universe, which were in act like all things consisting in potentiality: thirdly, the spirit of His incarnation, or of being afflicted for sins, or the contrary: fourthly, however, of His final incorporation with individuals through the essence of the Eucharist, the spirit of which Satan could not bear in heaven, and therefore he fell.

THAT THE PROPERTY OF THE WHOLE NATURE

has no other origin,

than from the power of that spirit.

Since it is established that nature is impacted by matter, as are the elements and the heavens, and can in no way be moved by itself without a mobile impeller, it is most certain that these two spirits of the superior and inferior elements, namely of coelitas heavenliness and elementitas elementality (so I am forced to express it), are not from the natures...