A New Light of Alchemy

6So too God, the maker of things, our lord and God, works within this world those things required for the world's necessities. In these he is contained within the world, whence we must believe God to be everywhere. Yet in his immeasurable wisdom he also stands outside the world's body. Through that wisdom he operates beyond it and imagines other things far higher than the world's body can conceive. These are contrary to, or outside, nature, secrets of God alone.

6.2The soul offers an example: outside the body it imagines many most profound things. In these it resembles God, working beyond its own world and outside nature. Yet even this is like a lit candle compared with noon light, since the soul imagines but accomplishes only in the mind, whereas God effects everything in the very moment he imagines it. Thus the soul imagines itself at Rome or elsewhere in the blink of an eye, but only in mind. God, who is almighty, does such things in actual being. God is therefore enclosed in the world only as soul is in body; he has his own separate and absolute power. Likewise the soul of any body has an absolute, separate power to do other things than the body can conceive. It therefore has the greatest power over the body if it wills; otherwise our philosophy would be vain. From this learn to know God, and you will understand how the Creator differs from created things. You yourself can conceive greater things, now that I have opened the door to you.