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7. Since this supreme principle is absolutely simple and undetermined (or devoid of specific traits), human knowledge of it must be radically different from any other kind of knowledge.
Nevertheless, unlike the Principle, which is absolutely simple, this first caused intelligence is already a complex existence.
Given that God is absolutely simple, the reasons of things in God's mind must in the final analysis be identified with God.
If the One is absolutely simple, how can it be the cause of the being of anything much less the cause of everything?
Intellect could not suffice as a first principle of all because the complexity of thinking (thinker and object of thought and multiplicity of objects of thought) requires as an explanation something that is absolutely simple.
For according to the traditional philosophical conception of divine perfection, God's perfection demands that He is absolutely simple, without any composition of any sort of parts.[16] So, God and the divine mind are not related to one another as a man and his mind, namely as a substance to one of its several powers, but whatever powers God has He is.
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Importantly, these beings may be basic without being absolutely simple.
Therefore, the being by substance, that is to say, God, cannot be composite, but must be absolutely simple.
Such "reals," which are absolutely simple, can, nonetheless, enter into causal relationships with other "reals" (be they souls or not).
Since they are true substances, and hence can exist independently of any other thing, and since they are absolutely simple, they cannot interact with each other in any way (nonetheless they are created by God, who is one of them—here Spinoza seems rather more consistent than Leibniz).
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