7.24.1 "Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else besides the greatness of God, that is the infinite. But where one sees something else, that is the small. Verily, the infinite is the same as the immortal; but the small is the same as the mortal."

"That infinite, Sir, on what is it established?"

"On its own greatness, unless, indeed, not on greatness at all.

Here on earth people call cows and horses, elephants and gold, slaves and wives, fields and abodes 'greatness.' I do not speak thus; I do not speak thus," said he; "for in that case one thing is established upon another.