So it is proved that the things known constitute knowledge itself, and knowledge the Essence itself-- that is to say, that the Knower, the knowledge and the things known are one single reality. And if one imagines anything outside of this, it necessitates coming back to the multiplicity of preexistences and to enchainment;3 and preexistences end by becoming innumerable. As the individualization and the specification of beings in the knowledge of God were the Essence of Unity itself, and as there was not any difference between them, there was but one veritable Unity, and all the things known were diffused and included in the reality of the one Essence-- that is to say, that, according to the mode of simplicity and of unity, they constitute the knowledge of God the Most High, and the Essence of the Reality. When God manifested His glory, these individualizations and these specifications of beings which had a virtual existence-- that is to say, which were a form of the Divine Knowledge-- found their existence substantiated in the external world; and this Real Existence resolved Itself into infinite forms. Such is the foundation of their argument (291:2)

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