Quote #41

Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.

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  1. God and all attributes of God are eternal.
  2. Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the d…
  3. Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
  4. Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
  5. Nature abhors a vacuum.
  6. Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
  7. God, or substance, consisting of infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality, necessarily exists.
  8. The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

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