(14:2) If it could be conceived, it would
necessarily have to be conceived as existent; but this (by the first part
of this proof) is absurd. (3) Therefore, besides God no substance can be
granted or conceived. Q.E.D.
Corollary I.- (14:4) Clearly, therefore: 1. God is one, that is (by [D.vi] )
only one substance can be granted in the universe, and that substance is
absolutely infinite, as we have already indicated (in the note to [x] ).
Corollary II.- (14:5) It follows: 2. That extension and thought are either
attributes of God or (by [A.i] ) accidents (affectiones) of the attributes
of God.
PROP. [XV] Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing
can be, or be conceived.
Proof.- (15:1) Besides God, no substance is granted or can be conceived
(by [xiv] ), that is (by [D.iii] ) nothing which is in itself and is
conceived through itself. (2) But modes (by [D.v] ) can neither be,
nor be conceived without substance; wherefore they can only be in the
divine nature, and can only through it be conceived. (3) But substances
and modes form the sum total of existence (by [A.i] ), therefore, without
God nothing can be, or be conceived. Q.E.D.
Note.- (15:4) Some assert that God, like a man, consists of body and mind,
and is susceptible of passions. (5) How far such persons have strayed from
the truth is sufficiently evident from what has been said.
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