The images that gods produce in their kind of imitation are shadows and reflections, and the products of truly bad mimêsis are to be something worse than that.
Thus, the course of nature is "nothing else but the will of God producing certain effects in a continued, regular, constant and uniform manner which…being in every moment perfectly arbitrary, is as easy to be altered at any time, as to be preserved" (D 149, W 2.698).
"We can't cultivate it, that's against the law, but what God produces, we cut".
It was followed by a radio opera, The Old Maid and the Thief (1939), and The Island God, produced at the Metropolitan in 1942.
First of all, he was doing nothing more than offering the familiar weak defense of God in relation to evil and pain, the silver-lining defense: out of the unavoidable abundance of great suffering and hardship that exists in the world, God produces redemptive teaching.
(3) Some might say that God produces only "positive" states, such as experiences of pleasure.
As the only true cause, God produces minds, bodies, and the various changes they endure.
Finally, I have indicated the view in the Entretiens that God produces our intellectual states through the union of our mind with His "intelligible extension".
But the love of God produced by grace is a sort of instinctive love, which is not meritorious and is not sufficient for salvation.
The very first category, through which God produced a fundamental similitude of the created World to Himself, is that of quantity (see MC, chapter 2, KGW pp. 23 26).
