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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: limitation is non-being; and God is being itself. This
unlimitedness makes God infinitely perfect. Moreover, God is
ONE, and ONLY, for the infinitely perfect can admit no peer. He
is SPIRITUAL, for were He composed of physical parts, some other
power would have to combine them into the total, and his aseity
would thus be contradicted. He is therefore both simple and
non-physical in nature. He is SIMPLE METAPHYSICALLY also, that
is to say, his nature and his existence cannot be distinct, as
they are in finite substances which share their formal natures
with one another, and are individual only in their material
aspect. Since God is one and only, his essentia and his esse
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