943. To think of anything at all . . .

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To think of anything at all is to think of God. For to think of anything that is not God or necessarily implied by God is to think of it as either potential or actual, and thus as something that God alone has made possible—both in principle ( = the primordial nature of God) and in fact (= the consequent nature of God) (MVG: 305 f.).

Concrescence as the process of becoming concrete is bound to occur, for it is the referent directly or indirectly of any significant expression, and is presupposed by any and every kind of reality or truth. But just what concrescence takes place is not thus necessary but contingent. Even divine concrescence is contingent, except in the sense in which concrescence as such necessarily implies a divine as well as a nondivine level of concrescence. Concrescence as such, in other words, is a two-level process that is always and necessarily both divine and nondivine, although just what becomes concrete is always and necessarily contingent (cf. "The Philosophy of Creative Synthesis": 951).

n.d.; rev. 23 September 2004