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Descartes, Rene - 'God' is not matter only spirit
Identifier
002947
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Rene Descartes – Key Philosophical Writings
But because I had already recognised very clearly in myself that the nature of the intelligence is distinct from that of the body, and observing that all composition gives evidence of dependency, and that dependency is manifestly an imperfection, I came to the conclusion that it could not be a perfection in God to be composed of these two natures, and that consequently He was not so composed