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B. Creature
1. Because likenesses of God can be made, He created creatures.
2. Without being and nothingness creation is impossible.
3. Every creature is a mirror of God where likenesses and
unlikenesses of God appear.
4. All sensible creatures are subject to an intellectual purpose.
5. Sensibility is the essence of all sensual creation.
6. All physical creatures exist in subtle physical form before
having a body.
7. Because God can be loved and understood, powers of intellect
and will are produced in creatures.
8. No intellect is ever created without will.
9. Intellect and will are differently related in every creature.
10. Animal essence is totally subject to created form and matter
and all animal beings are subject to animal essence.
11. If species had not been created, no animal would reproduce
its own species.
12. All animal beings are creatures. |
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