THE INFINITY OF GOD

1. Because God existed before the world, thus before there were spaces and times, He is infinite. 2. Because God is and exists in Himself, and all things in the world are and exist from Him, He is infinite. 3. Because God, after the making of the world, is in space apart from space and in time apart from time, He is infinite. 4. Because God is the All in all things of the world, and especially the All in all things of heaven and the Church, He is infinite. 5. The Infinity of God, in relationship to spaces, is termed Immensity; and in relationship to times, termed Eternity. 6. Although the Immensity of God is in relationship to spaces, and His Eternity is in relationship to times, still there is nothing of space in His Immensity, and nothing of time in His Eternity. 7. By the Immensity of God is meant His Divinity in respect of Being (Esse), and By His Eternity, His Divinity in respect of Existing (Existere); each in itself, or in Him. 8. Every created thing is finite; and the infinite is in finite things as in its receptacles. 9. Because angels and men are created and therefore finite, they cannot comprehend either the Infinity of God, or His Immensity and Eternity, such as these are in themselves. 10. Nevertheless those who are enlightened by God can see as through a lattice that God is Infinite. 11. Indeed there is an image of the Infinite stamped upon varieties and propagations in the world; upon varieties, in that there are never two things identical; and upon propagations, animate and inanimate, in that there is the multiplying of one seed to infinity, and its prolification to eternity; besides many other things.* 12. According to how far and in what way a man and angel acknowledges the Unity and Infinity of God, he becomes, if he lives well, a receptacle and image of God. 13. It is useless to think about what there was prior to the world, or what there is outside of it, for prior to the world time did not exist, and outside of it space does not exist. 14. By thinking about these things a man can become crazy if he is not partly withdrawn by God from the space and time idea, for this is inherent in each and all things of human thought, and it clings to each and all things of angelic thought. * Marginal Notes:

There are certain forms-the squaring of the circle, the hyperbola, series of numbers tending to infinity, the diversity of human faces, and of minds also; then too, the angelic heaven of light can be increased without limit, [and] the starry heaven, etc.