When the intellect naturally apprehends all the logoi in beings and contemplates within them the infinite energies of God, it recognizes the differences of the divine energies it perceives to be multiple and—to speak truly—infinite. Then, as regards scientific inquiry into that which is really true, the intellect—for reasons one may readily appreciate—will find the power of any such inquiry ineffective and its method useless, for it provides the intellect with no means of understanding how God—who is truly none of the things that exist, and who, properly speaking, is all things, and at the same time beyond them—is present in the logos of each thing in itself, and in all the logoi together, according to which all things exist. If, therefore, consistent with true teaching, every divine energy indicates through itself the whole of God, indivisibly present in each particular thing, according to the logos through which that thing exists in its own way, St Maximos the Confessor Ambigua 22
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