[36] We only lose God, the uncreated Good, by an unlawful attachment to created good; if we are free from this attachment, we tend to Him without effort.
[37] The subsequent condemnation, in 1687, of this doctrine, as taught by Molino, could not, of course, be foreseen by Blessed Albertus writing in the thirteenth century.
[38] John xiv. 6.
[39] And this she does because creatures no longer occupy her, except for God's sake.
[40] This is so because, according to true philosophy, the essence of a thing is distinct from its existence.
[41] Every actual cause is more intimately present to its accomplished work than the work itself, which it necessarily precedes.
[42] John i. 3, 4.
[43] We cannot always experience Divine things, and at first we can only compare them to the things which we experience here below.
[44] We deny that there is in God anything which is a mere potentiality, or an imperfection. We deny in Him also the process of reasoning which is the special work of the faculty of reason, because this implies the absence of the vision of truth. We deny "being as it is found in creatures," because in creatures it is necessarily limited, and subject to accident.
[45] "Nom. Div.," i.