8. Christ is the supreme objective realization of the beautiful.
The beautiful lies in variety reduced to unity by order and proportion. Christ is the infinite and finite, the two beings most distant, brought together into the unity of his divine personality by order and proportion, as it is evident to every mind that has grasped the nature of the hypostatic moment.
He is, therefore, the supreme, universal realization of the beautiful.
9. Christ is the supreme and universal king and ruler of the universe.
For he is the medium of the creation, preservation, and action of the cosmos; he is its secondary end and exemplar; he is the type and light of intelligence, the law of morality and of the beautiful.
The cosmos, therefore, is subject and dependent upon him for so many reasons, and consequently he is the supreme ruler of it.
10. He is the centre of all the other moments and persons of the cosmos; all things gathering around him as their chief, their exemplar, their mediator.
"I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End." (Apoc. i. 8.)