§ III.

I shall demonstrate that if the "simply Maximum" The "simply Maximum" refers to an absolute, unsurpassable greatness that lacks nothing did not exist, nothing could exist. Since everything that is not the Maximum is finite and has a beginning, it must necessarily come from something else; for if it came from itself, it would have existed before it existed. Therefore, to avoid an infinite regress A logical fallacy where one cause requires a previous cause forever without end, we must grant a simply necessary maximum, without which nothing can exist. Furthermore, since no "being" can be understood without "to be," and the Maximum does not admit any opposition, it is necessary that the minimum coincides with the maximum. Thus, "absolute being" is nothing other than "Maximum being"; just as the greatest Truth is the Maximum in an absolute sense. It is therefore most true that the simply Maximum either is, or is not; or it both is and is not; or it neither is nor is not. For in the infinity of the divine essence, all these states can be considered without any opposition. From this, it is clear why Saint Dionysius Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a Christian theologian known for "negative theology," which describes God by what He is not repeatedly called God "Being and Non-Being"; and the Zohar The foundational work of Jewish Kabbalah explains this with the following very subtle words:

Why God is called Being and Non-Being by St. Dionysius.

original: "כבר אמרתי לך כי המוציא יש מאין אינו חסר ובי היש הוא באין בענין אין והאין הוא ביש בענין יש ללמד שהאין הוא היש והיש הוא האין"

I have already told you that to the producer of Being from non-being, nothing is lost, and that Being is in non-being as a thing of non-being, and non-being is in being as a thing of being, so that you may learn that non-being is Being, and Being is non-being. original: "Iam dixi tibi, quòd producenti Ens de non ente nihil decedit..." It is therefore clear from what has been said that the simply Maximum necessarily exists—indeed, it is absolute necessity itself—and this is Absolute Unity. This Unity will therefore be the simply maximum, which we hinted at above, and which Saint Dionysius learnedly demonstrates in his book On Divine Names.

§ IV.

There was never any nation that did not worship God and believe Him to be the simply Maximum. The Sissenii Likely referring to the Essenes, an ancient Jewish sect greatly adored Unity; Pythagoras asserted a single trinity. To understand this, it must be known that that which precedes all "otherness" In this philosophical context, "otherness" (alteritas) refers to the state of being different, which allows for change and division is eternal. For otherness is the same as mutability; but everything that naturally precedes mutability is immutable, and consequently eternal.

Unity is by nature prior to otherness.

Unity is therefore prior to otherness by its very nature, and since it naturally precedes it, it is eternal. Furthermore, all inequality arises from the "equal" and the "exceeding," from which inequality emerges, being posterior to equality by nature; which I show as follows. All inequality is resolved into equality, for the equal stands between the "greater" and the "lesser"; if, therefore, you take away that which is greater, you will have the equal; likewise if you take away the les-