The Unity of Manifoldness

All things must be conceived as centres united together in a single centre. Intelligible entities indeed, though they form a manifold, nevertheless form an unity. On the other hand, yet by virtue of their infinite nature, they also form a manifold. They are the multitude in unity, and unity in multitude. All subsist together. The part receives within itself the first action as if it were that of only a part, but nevertheless it is the whole that acts. It is as if a man in himself, on descending into a certain man, became this man without however ceasing being the man in himself. In order to clear up this point, the following illustration has been much used.