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I contest and reject such advice in favor of using a perspective appropriate to the idea. My foundation for that is the immeasurable, which would include both too complex and too simple as well, while recognizing such descriptions as themselves poor and negative in character. The essence of the idea turns then on one's liberating imagination to dance with mystery.
I find it advisable in poetry, as in life, to begin with the probability that God is too complex to be perceived by our senses or understood by our minds. A God anything less than this inscrutable, as a corollary to Anselm's theorem might demonstrate, would not be God, with the result that God would not exist.
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AND it assuredly exists so truly, that it cannot be conceived not to exist. For, it is possible to conceive of a being which cannot be conceived not to exist; and this is greater than one which can be conceived not to exist. Hence, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, can be conceived not to exist, it is not that, than which nothing greater can be conceived. But this is an irreconcilable contradiction. There is, then, so truly a being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist, that it cannot even be conceived not to exist; and this being you are, O Lord, our God.
from Anselm's Proslogion
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