The Western World and the Son of God, III
Further, the generation of things by God must be the creation of finite things. So, what comes from God through the Trinity is contracted by plurality, finitude, and relation. So, all created things are logically opposed to the Christian Trinity. Created things are thus descrived with the opposing symbols, Many-Different-Relations. So, what is created is one universe, which consists of many different and related things.
Cusa says that the universe is formed by a continuum of genera, species, and individuals. (See Bk. II, Ch.1 of Cusa’s "On Learned Ignorance." The Son of God appears in the universe as an individual in the human species and animal genus. But, how does the Son of God become an individual in the human species?
Since all created things are divisible, they must have a beginning and end. Because of their divisibility, birth, and death, I concluded that many different and related irreducible, indivisible, and immortal things must exist before any divisible things exist. In Part IV of The First Scientific Proof of God (click), I called these indivisible things ‘spiritual atoms.’ In time, I concluded that these spiritual atoms are the irreducible monads identified by Gottfried Leibniz. (See Schrecker, Paul and Schrecker, Anne Martin (Translators, 1965), Leibniz: Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.)
The Son of God thus becomes an individual in the human species because the Son of God is an immortal spiritual atom
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