does not admit the inherence of numbers. These are the Names that impart the entities of affirmative, essential attributes: the Knowing, the Powerful, the One Who Wills, the Hearing, the Seeing, the Living, the Responsive, the Thankful, and the like.
There are Names that impart descriptions, from which, in their application, only relations and attributions are understood: the First, the Last, the Outward, the Inward, and the like. There are Names that impart acts: the Creator, the Provider, the Originator, the Form-Giver, and the like. The affair is confined to these.
All divine Names, however numerous they may be, must return to one of these categories or to more than one, while each Name’s indication of the essence remains established: this is inevitable. It is therefore a presence that contains all presences.
Whoever knows God knows everything. One who does not know one single thing—whatever named possible it may be—does not know God. The ruling of one of them is the ruling of all in indicating knowledge of God specifically insofar as He is God of the world. Then, when unveiling occurs for you through prescribed practice, you see that you have known Him only through Him. The very proof is therefore the very thing indicated by that proof, and the one indicating.
(Transcendence and the Power of Consideration)
This presence,
