The Analogical Divisibility of Being Into Potency and Act Is the Foundation of the Derivation of All Finite Being From God

The analogy of proper proportionality as distinct from any analogy of strict proportion does not require proper reciprocal determined relation to exist between the things analogically likened to one another. In Thomas's later works when he speaks of proportion between creature and God he is very clear that this term means merely any relation of one thing to another but that it must expressly negate real order of God to the creature. Creation itself is not even an accident with respect to God as actus perus who is so perfect that creating or not creating designates no change in God but only in the creature. It is upon the analogical formality of being as a likeness of diverse proportions of act a non-univical object