❇️ When all effects depend on their cause.
🔰 And when the cause is relative, then all its relative causes are effects of the absolute cause.
- A cause is relative because it is a cause for the effect (that follows) and relative because it is an effect of a cause (that precedes).
Therefore, because everything is an effect (including the relative cause) which means it is limited, its limitations express forms within boundaries that create a certain form according to its limited boundaries, as it is limited as an effect that depends on the absolute cause (which never becomes an effect, unlike the relative cause that is also an effect).
And because form involves the boundaries that shape it, while the effect depends on its cause, which means it is limited by its cause. Thus, the absolute cause is not limited by its effects, so the absolute cause is formless because there are no boundaries to shape it.
❇️ He (the Absolute Cause) is the Unbounded, the Formless, the Unlike the Bounded (Effects & Relative Causes - which have form).
❇️ So it makes sense why God is Unlike and Formless compared to His creation, because the Cause is not limited by its effects, thus no limited form exists except His Effects, which have a limited size (form) shaped by the Limiting (Absolute Cause) which is not limited by His Effects.
- 〰 Because how could the absolute cause be limited by its effect, if the cause precedes the effect?
⭕️ So, the impossibility of the "Unbounded" being limited by the "bounded" emphasizes the absence of form in the "Unbounded."
📌 If it is an effect, then its existence depends on its cause, meaning the existence of the effect is limited by its cause, and its limitation affirms a certain size that shapes it in a certain way, so the effect has a form.
- 〰 Because the cause is not limited by its effect, there is no form or equivalence with its effect.
- 〰 The cause does not have similarity or equivalence with its effect.
