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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nature and Attributes of God
		But the self-existing cannot be conceived as limiting itself, in the sense of curtailing its perfection of being, without ceasing to be self-existing.
		Whatever it is, it is necessarily; its own essence is the sole reason or explanation of its existence, so that its manner of existence must be as unchangeable as its essence, and to suggest the possibility of an increase or diminution of perfection would be to suggest the absurdity of a changeable essence.
		Changeableness implies the capacity for increase or diminution of perfection, that is, it implies finiteness and imperfection.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06612a.htm (5901 words)

	Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		He answered the challenge of accounting for the emergence of a seemingly inferior and flawed cosmos from the perfect mind of the divinity by declaring outright that all objective existence is but the external self-expression of an inherently contemplative deity known as the One (to hen), or the Good (ta kalon).
		This diminution of the divine essence in temporality is but a necessary moment of the complete expression of the One.
		By elevating the experience of the individual soul to the status of an actualization of a divine Form, Plotinus succeeded, also, in preserving, if not the autonomy, at least the dignity and ontological necessity of personality.
	www.iep.utm.edu /n/neoplato.htm (6884 words)

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