Athanasian Creed (Harley) n. 120

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120. The reason why men cannot understand how the Creator of the universe can be in a Human is because they form their ideas of the universe from the conception of space. Such an idea does not pertain to God unless there be the idea of the Divine Proceeding. Neither should the idea of the Divine Proceeding in the spiritual world be understood from space, but only in the natural world. The idea of the Divine, from Whom the universe was created, cannot be understood otherwise than as a Divine Man in first principles, who is Life Itself, and whose Divine Love appears as a Sun above the heavens, whence all things are.


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