35. Because there is such a oneness of love and wisdom and of wisdom and love in the Divine-Human One, the divine essence is one. In fact, the divine essence is divine love because that love is a property of divine wisdom, and it is divine wisdom because that wisdom is a property of divine love. Because of this oneness, the divine life is a unity as well: life is the divine essence.

The reason divine love and wisdom are one is that the union is reciprocal, and a reciprocal union makes complete unity. But there will be more to say about reciprocal union later [115-116].

53. Things created and finite can have ascribed to them being and expression, substance and form, and even life, indeed love and wisdom, but these attributes are all created and finite. They can have these attributes ascribed to them not because they possess anything Divine, but because they are in the Divine and have the Divine in them. For everything that has been created is in itself inanimate and lifeless, but is animated and given life by its having the Divine in it and its being in the Divine.