Let us therefore reconcile these two extremes and say that God is omnipresent and eternal, without being limited by space or time. Now, there is no substance without accidents. The most formidable theological antinomy is the doctrine of the trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence. The Holy Spirit is the love of God for the Word, and of the Word for God, the love which God bears himself. St. Anselm sees in the Trinity and the notion of God insurmountable difficulties and contradictions, which the human mind cannot reconcile.
All theological phrases are analogies, figures of speech, and mere approximations.
Our author draws the elements of his argument from St. Augustine and Platonism. He sets out from the idea of a perfect being, from which he infers the existence of such a being. We have in ourselves, he says, the idea of an absolutely perfect being. Now, perfection implies existence. Hence God exists.