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quality of substance occur in Him.
Rather, He resembles no existent and no existent resembles Him. Nothing is like Him and He is not
like
anything. Measure does not bind Him and boundaries do not contain Him. Directions do not surround
Him and neither the earth nor the Heavens are on different sides of Him.
Truly, He is controlling the Throne in the manner in which He said and in the sense in which He
willed -
in a state of transcendence that is removed from parallel and touch, residence, fixity of location,
stability, envelopment, and movement.
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The Throne does not support Him, but the Throne and those who carry it are supported by the
Subtleness of His Power and are constrained by His Firmness. He is above the Throne and Heavens and
above everything to the limits of the earth with an aboveness which does not bring Him nearer to the
Throne and the Heavens, just as it does not make Him further from the earth.
Rather, He resembles no existent and no existent resembles Him. Nothing is like Him and He is not
like
anything. Measure does not bind Him and boundaries do not contain Him. Directions do not surround
Him and neither the earth nor the Heavens are on different sides of Him.
Truly, He is controlling the Throne in the manner in which He said and in the sense in which He
willed -
in a state of transcendence that is removed from parallel and touch, residence, fixity of location,
stability, envelopment, and movement.
Page 3 of 56
The Throne does not support Him, but the Throne and those who carry it are supported by the
Subtleness of His Power and are constrained by His Firmness. He is above the Throne and Heavens and
above everything to the limits of the earth with an aboveness which does not bring Him nearer to the
Throne and the Heavens, just as it does not make Him further from the earth.