But it will not appear absurd if we employ another similitude to make the matter clearer. Our eyes frequently cannot look upon the nature of the light itself— that is, upon the substance of the sun; but when we behold his splendour or his rays pouring in, perhaps, through windows or some small openings to admit the light, we can reflect how great is the supply and source of the light of the body. So, in like manner. the works of Divine Providence and the plan of this whole world are a sort of rays, as it were, of the nature of God, in comparison with His real substance and being. As, therefore, our understanding is unable of itself to behold God Himself as He is, it knows the Father of the world from the beauty of His works and the comeliness of His creatures.(Book I, Part 6)

The divine is immanent in the physical universe. We are each of God's substance.

We encounter God - or can do so - in our encounter with neighbor and adversary.

In the beauty of bodies: human, heavenly, and more we have sense of of God's nature.

Photograph by Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn of the Milky Way over Ontario.