III.

This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; - but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself - a Schema. Since this Power is the expression of a determinate Being - the Schema of the Divine Life - it is itself determined; but only in the way in which an absolute Power may be determined, - by laws, and indeed by determinate laws. If this or that is to become actual, the Power must operate in this way or that, subject to that determination.