The Literal Meaning of Genesis (continued)
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A substance, then, which moves only through time is more excellent than one that moves through time and space, but it is inferior to that which is immovable in both space and time. It follows, therefore, that just as a created spirit moves a body through time and space, although itself is moved through time only, so the Spirit who is Creator moves a created spirit through time, although He is Himself unmoved in both time and space. But a created spirit moves itself through time and moves a body through time and space. The Creator Spirit, however, moves Himself independently of time and space, moves a created spirit through time without space, and moves a body through time and space.
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God, eternal and unchangeable, can move His creatures through time and space. The soul, unmoved in space, none the less moves the body 1n space.
40. One might try, then, to understand how the eternal God, truly eternal and truly immortal and unchangeable, who is not moved in space or time, moves His creatures through time and space. But in my opinion he cannot succeed in understanding this unless he first understands how the soul, that is, a created spirit, being moved not through space but only through time, moves the body through time and space. For if he cannot yet grasp what takes place in himself, how much less will he comprehend what is above him!
41. The soul, affected by its habitual contact with the bodily senses, presumes that when it is moving the body through space it itself is also moving through space with the body. But if it could carefully discern what might be called the pivots of the members of its body and see how they are in the joints throughout the whole body, it would observe how the beginnings of motion are in these places. It will discover that the members that are moved through space are not moved unless the motion pro-