Lumen de Lumine

“This world, composed of such diverse and opposing parts, would never have come together into one form unless there were one who joined such diverse things. Once joined, the very diversity of their mutually discordant natures would separate and tear them apart, unless there were one who held together what he had bound. Nor would nature’s order advance so surely, or unfold movements so ordered in place, time, operation and qualities, unless there were one who, himself remaining unchanged, ordered these varieties of change. Whatever this is by which created things endure and are governed, I call God, using the name familiar to everyone.”