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would have
been reasonable. And if a person should use the term substance and not mean thereby a resident
substance, he would be mistaken as far as the use of the term is concerned, not as far as the
meaning
for which he had used it.

(v) Free From Bodily Form

The fifth principle: The knowledge that He - the High - is not a body composed of different
substances,
since the body is that which is composed of substances. When His being a substance limited by place
is
refuted, His being a body is also refuted, because every body is limited by place and is composed of
substances. But it is impossible for the substance to be free from division, composition, motion,
rest,
form, and quantity, all of which are characteristics of originated phenomena. And if it were
possible to
believe that the Maker of the world is a body, it would also be possible to believe in the divinity
of the