Monologium, on the Being of God12 Chapter XII. This expression of the supreme Being is the supreme Being.
Chapter XII. This expression of the supreme Being is the supreme Being.
But since, as our reasoning shows, it is equally certain that whatever the supreme Substance created, it created through nothing other than itself; and whatever it created, it created through its own most intimate expression, whether separately, by the utterance of separate words, or all at once, by the utterance of one word; what conclusion can be more evidently necessary, than that this expression of the supreme Being is no other than the supreme Being? Therefore, the consideration of this expression should not, in my opinion, be carelessly passed over. But before it can be discussed, I think some of the properties of this supreme Substance should be diligently and earnestly investigated.
Sed cum pariter ratione docente sit certum quia quidquid summa substantia fecit, non fecit per aliud quam per semetipsam; et quidquid fecit, per suam intimam locutionem fecit, sive singula singulis verbis, sive potius uno verbo simul omnia dicendo; quid magis necessarium videri potest, quam hanc summae essentiae locutionem non esse aliud quam summam essentiam? Non igitur negligenter praetereundam hujus locutionis considerationem puto: sed priusquam de illa possit tractari, diligenter ejusdem summae substantiae proprietates aliquas studiose investigandas existimo.