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Here is a good source for those interested:
- The Unity and Trinity of God
- The Existence of God
- The Natural Knowability of the Existence of God
- God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty, by the natural light of reason from created things. (De fide.)
- The Existence of God can be proved by means of causality. (Sent. fidei proxima.) The Supernatural Knowability of the Existence of God
- God's existence is not merely an object of natural rational knowledge, but also an object of supernatural faith. (De fide.)
The Nature of God
The Knowledge of the Nature of God - Our natural knowledge of God in this world is not as immediate, intuitive cognition, but a mediate, abstractive knowledge, because it is attained through the knowledge of creatures. (Sent. certa.)
- Our knowledge of God here below is not proper (cognitio propia) but analogical (cognitio analoga or analogica). (Sent. certa.)
- God's Nature is incomprehensible to men. (De fide.)
- The blessed in Heaven posses an immediate intuitive knowledge of the Divine Essence. (De fide.)
- The Immediate Vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural. (De fide.)
- The soul, for the Immediate Vision of God, requires the light of glory. (De fide. D 475.)
- God's Essence is also incomprehensible to the blessed in Heaven. (De fide.)