that I was getting closer to it. I did not know that evil is but the privation of the good,38 even to the extent that evil does not exist at all. How could I have seen this, for my vision was limited with my eyes, to material bodies; with my mind, to phantasms? I did not know that God is a Spirit, whose members are not extended in length and breadth, whose Being is not a mass; for a mass is less in its part than in its whole, and, if it be infinite, it is less in some part which is marked off by