The main topic of the second treatise is the existence of God, and it discusses the theory of divinity, especially the theory of divine attributes.
Those in which the ruler is given divine attributes bring religious symbolism into architecture.
Eastern mystics distinguish between the essence of God and divine attributes, which they regard as energies that penetrate the universe.
Contrary to the attributes predicated of created beings, the divine attributes are strictly negative; they state what God is not.
For another, there is no reason to suppose that the self-existent entity it points to has any other divine attributes, like omniscience or benevolence.
This teaching thus provides a mythic account of how plurality (of divine attributes) originated from unity and how true humanity is also divine.
To be clear, by promoting reason and a moral sense, moral philosophy was teaching students to develop their divine attributes for controlling baser instincts.
We engaged in lengthy discourses (120 pages in all) ranging from human will to divine will to divine attributes to church history to Greek exegesis, etc.
This section of Henry's Summa deals with the action of the (divine) will, the divine will in relation to the divine intellect, divine beatitude, passion in relation to the divine being, the differences between the divine attributes, and the order of the divine attributes.
These represent the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are themselves linked with the 22 different pathways that connect the 10 different divine attributes of the Kabbalah, the mystical interpretation of the Bible.
The second man in the command structure bears the nom de guerre Al-Xaqq, meaning the Truth, a term with divine attributes, as it is one of Allah's ninety-nine names.
