Beginning with God, whom he terms the "One-All" (Un'omnia), he establishes Unity, Essence, Life, Intelligence, Soul, Nature, Quality, Form and Body as the succeeding categories which constitute the incorporeal and corporeal universe.
As a leading proponent puts it, "What is of the essence of integrative unity is neither localized nor replaceable: namely the anti-entropic mutual interaction of all the cells and tissues of the body, mediated in mammals by circulating oxygenated blood" (Shewmon 2001, 473).
Were God to know immediately the plurality of creatable objects (essences), His simplicity and unity (divine knowledge is not really distinct from divine essence) would be irremediably compromised.
The essence of Judaism is unity and brotherly love, expressed in the sayings, "That which you hate, do not do to your friend," and "Love your neighbor as yourself".
When in the healers' opinion the similarities and resemblances between two diseases became dense enough, they could cross the verge of mere kinship, friendship, or neighborhood and achieve unity of essence.
The essence of form is its unity, and its unity depends essentially on the fact that the matter that comes to compose it loses its previous identity.
To call Real Being "one" is to speak of the unity of the Essence.
We have already seen, in our discussion of Aristotle, that the relation between the essence as some kind of unity and the properties that seem to constitute it is not clear.
But the wise, enlightened person knows God's unity, and his essence that is completely devoid of material boundaries..
