Canons (Whitehead) n. 34

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34. CHAPTER II

THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHICH PROCEEDS FROM THE ONE GOD THROUGH HIS HUMAN IN ITS ESSENCE IS THE SAME GOD, BUT THAT APPARENTLY TO SUBJECTS, WHICH ARE IN SPACES, IT IS THE DIVINE PROCEEDING.

1. What God was before creation, such He is after it; thus such as He was from eternity, such He is to eternity. 2. Before creation God was not in extended space, so neither is He after creation, to eternity;

3. Consequently, God is in space without space, and in time without time. 4. Thus the Holy Spirit, which proceeds from the one God through His Human is the same God. 5. Concerning God, since He is everywhere the same, it cannot be said that He proceeds, except apparently, in respect to spaces, because these proceed, thus apparently to subjects which are in spaces. 6. And since these are in the created world, it follows that the Holy Spirit there is the Divine proceeding. 7. The Omnipresence of God fully proves that the Holy Spirit is the Divine proceeding from the one and indivisible God, and not a God as a Person by Himself.


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