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On such a principle, then, depend the heavens and the world of
nature. And it is a life such as the best which we enjoy, and enjoy
for but a short time (for it is ever in this state, which we cannot
be), since its actuality is also pleasure. (And for this reason are
waking, perception, and thinking most pleasant, and hopes and memories
are so on account of these.) And thinking in itself deals with that
which is best in itself, and that which is thinking in the fullest
sense with that which is best in the fullest sense. And thought thinks
on itself because it shares the nature of the object of thought; for
it becomes an object of thought in coming into contact with and
thinking its objects, so that thought and object of thought are the
same. For that which is capable of receiving the object of thought,
i.e. the essence, is thought. But it is active when it possesses
this object. Therefore the possession rather than the receptivity is
the divine element which thought seems to contain, and the act of
contemplation is what is most pleasant and best. If, then, God is
always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels
our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in
a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of
thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent
actuality is life most good and eternal. We say therefore that God
is a living being, eternal, most good, so that life and duration
continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God
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