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Landscapes of Mysticism Mountain, Ocean, Desert Annual Conference 2026 March 17-19, 2026Los Angeles, California Mystical authors often speak of the divine within the spaces of the natural environme…
![is not from itself exist in any other way than from Eternal Being? But since the Maximum is far distant from any envy, it cannot impart di- minished being as such. Therefore, a created thing, which is a deriv- ative being, does not have everything which it is (e.g., [not] its cor- ruptibility, divisibility, imperfection, difference, plurality, and the like) from the eternal, indivisible, most perfect, undifferentiated, and one Maximum—nor from any positive cause.
An infinite line is infinite straightness, which is the cause of all linear being. Now, with respect to being a line, a curved line is from the infinite line; but with respect to being curved, it is not from the infinite line. Rather, the curvature follows upon finitude, since a line is curved because it is not the maximum line. For if it were the max- imum line, it would not be curved, as was shown previously.14 Sim- ilarly with things: since they cannot be the Maximum, it happens that they are diminished, other differentiate](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:la3onpkr2vtcw7zequ55jvft/bafkreihl4ewhysgx3akdiyvogicohbkaamandbrzvfkmtw4227nez6rpf4)
