714. To keep all the individual components in their proper arrangement and connection there need to be universal categories that allow those components to come into being and within which they find continued existence. It is also necessary that the individual components bear some resemblance to their universal category. Otherwise the whole would perish and so would all its parts.

This interrelationship has allowed all things in the universe to be preserved in their integrity from the first day of creation until now and to remain so into the future.

As we know, everything in the universe has a relationship to goodness and truth. The reason why this is the case is that everything was created by God out of the divine goodness of love by means of the divine truth of wisdom. Take anything whatever - an animal, a bush, a rock: these three universal qualities are in some way inscribed on it.