creature … with its movements in God, is revealed to her with such newness, it seems to the soul that it is God who moves and that the cause assumes the name of the effect it produces.’ Does not the book of Wisdom say: ‘Wisdom is more mobile than any motion’? And rightly so, for ‘it is the principle and root of all movement. “While remaining in herself”, the wise man goes on to say, “she renews all things” (Wisd 7:24, 27). Thus what he wishes to say in this passage is that Wisdom is more active than