If God formally contains the ratio of possible worlds or unrealized creative acts, this constitutes a genuine potentiality grounded wholly in the divine essence itself, not in any prior being.

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God formally contains(describing what God's essence includes): In philosophy, 'formally contain' means that something is actually present or exists within something else in a real, definite way—not just as an idea or possibility, but as an actual part of its nature.
Grounded in the divine essence(explaining the source of God's potentiality): Rooted in or coming directly from God's fundamental nature and being, rather than depending on anything external to God.
Potentiality(Used in the Aristotelian sense; Fârâbî argues the First Being has no potentiality.): The capacity of a being to possess a predicate or property it does not currently possess by its essence, requiring actualization by something external that already has that property.
Prior being(what the statement says does NOT ground God's potentiality): Something that existed before something else, or something more fundamental that other things depend on; in this context, anything outside of God that might be necessary for God to exist or act.

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