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122 the world; and that the proceeding Divine is the Holy Spirit." It is the Lord from eternity from whom are all essences, substances and forms, and it is the Divine proceeding or the Holy Spirit by which they are created, sustained, animated and actuated.

This "Statement of Being," however, does not explain the existence of evil, sin, suffering and sorrow, or anything contrary to the Lord from whom all things proceed. The Doctor however assumes that it does, and proceeds to rule out such things.

Because evil cannot originate in the only good and true, which are in the Lord and from the Lord, therefore he concludes they are not; they are not negations, they are not