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On the other hand, "[a] sole example is not a supreme example. . . . We do not exalt God by giving [God] a unique category, like creative power, for [God's] very own. . . .The unsurpassable power of God should be the supreme form of 'power' in the general sense, exhibited elsewhere in inferior degrees or 'resemblances'" (195; dcf. 67). "[T]he supreme must not be the sole form of a category" (196). 

Thus we must say such things as, "God has the supreme form of creativity, creatures have lesser forms" (197). "[I]f supreme reality consists in supreme creativity . . . , then lesser realities must be lesser--but not zero--forms f orms of such creativity" (207). God's is not the sole creativity, but rather "the selfsurpassable, otherwise unsurpassable Creativity" (218). 

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