16. It therefore stands to reason that God is a person and in this way is God manifest--not manifest from himself, but manifest in himself. The one who is manifest in himself is the God who is the source of all.

32. It is because the Divine essence itself is love and wisdom that the universe and all its constituents, both animate and inanimate, depend for their continued existence on heat and light; for heat corresponds to love, and light corresponds to wisdom. So it is also that spiritual heat is love, and spiritual light is wisdom. But more on this subject, too, below.