Chapter 23
363 | Text and Translation Chapter 23 That this good is equally Father and Son and Holy Spirit; and this is the one necessity, which is every and all and alone good You are this good, O God the Father; it is your word, that is, your
Son. And in that word by means of which you express yourself there cannot be anything other than what you are or something greater or lesser than you. For your word is as true as you are truthful, and is, therefore, the very truth you are, not other than you. And you are so simple that there cannot be born of you anything other than what you are.
This is itselfthe love, one and common to you and your Son, that is, the Holy Spirit proceeding from you both. For this same love is not unequal to you or to your Son, since the extent to which you love yourself and him, and he you and himself, is as great as you and he are; nor is that which is not unequal to you and him other than you and him; nor can anything proceed from supreme simplicity other than what that from whom it proceeds is.
But what each is singly, this the Trinity is as a whole at once, Father and Son and Holy Spirit; for each one singly is not other than the supremely simply unity and supremely unified simplicity which can neither be multiplied nor pluralized.
Moreover, one thing is necessary. And this is that necessary one in which is every good; or rather, which is every and one and all and alone good.
| PROSLOGION
CAPITULUM XXIV
Coniectatio, quale et quantum sit hoc bonum Excita nunc, anima mea, et erige totum intellectum tuum, et cogita, quantum potes, quale et quantum sit illud bonum. Si enim singula bona delectabilia sunt, cogita intente quam delectabile sit illud bonum, quod continet iucunditatem omnium bonorum; et non qualem in rebus creatis sumus experti, sed tanto differentem, quanto differt creator a creatura.
Si enim bona est vita creata: quam bona est vita creatrix?
S1 iucunda est salus facta: quam iucunda est salus, quae facit omnem salutem?
Si amabilis est sapientia in cognitione rerum conditarum: quam amabilis est sapientia, quae omnia condidit ex nihilo?
Denique si multae et magnae delectationes sunt in rebus delectabilibus: qualis et quanta delectatio est in illo, qui fecit ipsa delectabilia?