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That’s largely correct. The difficulty for physics (and for me) is including “space” into that admixture. What is “spirit?” And, at the same time, what is “space?” I contend that space (that is, continuous space) is absolute nothingness. I contend that it has another name: “spirit,” although “spirit” may be a word that is much more pregnant with meaning than the word “space.” But, how could they be different in reality?
God interacts with everything that we know to be physical. Father Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure and St. Claude de la Colombiere have written treatises that specifically state:
Treating of the Will of God St. Thomas, following St. Augustine, teaches that it is the cause of all that exists. (St. Thomas, Sum. p. 1, q. 19, a. 4; St. Augustine, De Gen.) The Psalmist tells us that “all that the Lord wills He does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all the deeps.”(Ps. 134:6) Again in the Book of the Apocalypse it is written: "Worthy art thou, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou hast created all things, and because of thy will they existed and were created. "(Apoc. 4:11) - Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence
What is God’s “Will?” Is it like ours, that is something that comes into His mind then is externalized by His hands, or His work? Or, is it something that He internalizes? Do we, and all that is physical, really exist separately from Him? If, in fact, we do, then how is it possible that “the Will of God which from nothingness drew out the universe with all its grandeur and all that lives in it, the earth with all that is on it and beneath it, all creatures visible and invisible, living and inanimate, reasonable and without reason, from the highest to the lowest.” - ibid
The moment that men make a thing separate from themselves, those things are set loose: we lose touch and control. They remain separate from us by a greater or lesser extent of space. But that is not so with God. He remains in absolute touch and control with every single one of his creatures. "Nothing happens in the universe without God willing and allowing it. This statement must be taken absolutely of everything with the exception of sin. ‘Nothing occurs by chance in the whole course of our lives’ is the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, ‘and God intervenes everywhere.’ - ibid
How is this possible if God is separated from all things (his creatures) by a greater or lesser extent of space (colloquial meaning)? How does God affect the physical without somehow being a part of the physical?
I contend that God is Infinite Space; that God completely fills all of that 99.9999999999+% gap that does not consist of dimensionless particles (and, dimensionless particles cannot displace Him). God supplies that which we sense as separate physicality. Some call Infinite Space, “Infinite Nothingness,” and that’s fine so long as they realize that it is not truly nothing (in the colloquial sense), but rather that it is Something - it fact it is more than just "something,: it is all there is. You see, God is Infinite, in the most profound sense of that word. St. Thomas knew this.
The infinite is divided first of all into the actual and the potential infinite. The actual infinite is (nominally) defined as that to which there is no limit in perfection.(Sum. cont. Gent., Bk. I, ch. 43; Bk. III, ch. 54; Com. on On the Heavens, Bk. I, les. 29.) God is infinite in this sense because no perfection whatsoever is lacking to Him. A series of numbers would be actually infinite if it contained all possible numbers and if, as a result, no new number could be added to the series. The universe would be infinite in its extension if it filled all possible space and if, as a result, it could not be increased in size. - General Science of Nature
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