72. This is the basic thought about God. For without that, those things which will be said about the creation of the universe by God-Man, of His Providence, Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience can certainly be understood, but not so as to be retained, since the merely natural man, while he understands these things, still falls back into his life's love which is that of his will. This love dissipates these [truths] and immerses his thought in space in which is his light (lumen), and he calls this rational, not knowing that, to the extent he denies these things, he is irrational. That this is so can be confirmed by the idea of this truth, that God is Man. Read with attention, I entreat you, the things written above (n. 11-13), and what follows after, and you will understand that it is so. But let down your thought into the natural light (lumen) which derives from space, and will you not see these things as paradoxes, and if you lower it much, will you not reject them? This is why it is said that the Divine fills all spaces of the universe, and why it is not said that God-Man fills them. For if this were said, the merely natural light (lumen) would not assent. But it does support [the idea] that the Divine fills all space because it agrees with the formula of speech of theologians, that God is Omnipresent, and hears and knows all things. (More on this subject may be seen above n. 7-10.)