These belong in the sphere of determinate and transitory being and do not hold of the natura naturans: God is exalted above all modality, above will and understanding, as above motion and rest.
We must not assert of the natura naturata (the world as the sum of all modes), as of the natura naturans, that its essence involves existence (I.
This doctrine does not essentially differ from Spinoza's natura naturans and natura naturata.
God, if thought of as real and active, involves an antithesis, which may be formulated as God and World, or natura naturans and natura naturata, or in some other way.
And when Joseph represented to him that he was preferring the younger he answered him with admirable decision, "I know it well, my son, I know it, but Ephraim shall increase in a way quite other than Manasseh.
If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
And the Natura naturans is active in the Natura naturata at all points: the creative power is immanent in creation.
Spinoza accepts the mechanical view as being inevitable and even desirable, but subjects it to a spiritual interpretation--he regards it as the way in which the Natura naturans works.
Natura naturans is equivalent to "Nature as a creative power," or "The creative power immanent in Nature.
Natura naturata is thus not a resultant or outcome ofnatura naturans with Bruno; they are one and the same thing under different aspects, and both are one with God, the living force in things.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natura naturans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
