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 brother, husband, wife, son, daughter, and friends. They are all the unfolded potency in the love that exists in the Creator. Now since the First Cause is eternal, infinite, and omnipotent, its essentials must also be eternal, infinite, and omnipotent; and consequently the human elements in the First Cause are eternal, infinite, and omnipotent. Since the human elements constitute Person in the First Cause, they must necessarily constitute an eternal, infinite, and omnipotent person. There is therefore no logical escape from the conclusion that the First Cause is the eternal, infinite, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient Person, the Creator, and all that can be conceived under the name God. Since the human is in the Creator, and in Him it is eternal, infinite, and omnipotent, He is the Divine Human, God-Man, Very Person, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent, and the Self-existing.

The difficulty encountered in conceiving God as a person arises from bringing God down to an imperfect and finite conception of person rather than expanding and exalting the conception of person to the Infinite. It is neither an outrage upon reason nor is it difficult to think of the Creator having in Him all the elements of our human nature perfect and infinite, whereby is constituted the Divine Humanity in which is