The problem, of course, is to explain how God can be both Being esseand something that is ens. This is unintelligible to the discursive intellect. Either Being is other than beings or it is not. If Being is other than beings, then Being cannot itself be. That would imply that God, who must be Being itself to be absolute, cannot be. If, on the other hand, Being just is beings taken collectively, then God could only be a being among beings and not the absolute reality. To the discursive intellect the notion of self-subsistent Being is contradictory. For the idea here is that Being itself is a b...