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    Human life cannot get close to the life that truly is (di... — Carmelics
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    Human life cannot get close to the life that truly is (divine being).

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    • 1.Closeness between two levels of being requires some proportion or resemblance between them.
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    • 2.There is no proportion and no resemblance between human finite existence and infinite divine being.
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    • 1.The Neoplatonic tradition (Plotinus, Enneads I.6) holds that the soul can achieve henosis—genuine union with the One—through contemplative ascent.
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    • 2.If actual union with the divine is possible, then 'closeness' to divine being is not merely possible but achievable in the strongest sense.
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    • 3.Cardano's claim that human life cannot approach divine being contradicts this well-attested mystical-metaphysical tradition of participatory ascent.
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    • 1.Aquinas (ST I, Q.12) argues that the intellect can know God through the lumen gloriae, achieving real cognitive participation in divine being.
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    • 2.Participation (methexis) in a higher being constitutes genuine ontological closeness even across an infinite qualitative difference.
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    • 3.The premise that 'no proportion exists' ignores the Thomistic analogia entis, which establishes a proportional likeness between finite and infinite being sufficient for real closeness.
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    At its deepest, the principle of unity and order coincides with God. God is infinite, necessary, wholly undivided, therefore individual. In keeping with the principles of theological Trinitarianism, God is described by Cardano in terms of power (potestas), mind (mens), and love (amor), and these attributes are not “three gods, as Plotinus thinks,” but original divine attributes. The natural world is a constant reminder that God’s “threefold and undivided life” flows into each single thing, down
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