things are brought from non-existence into existence, but that is not done indeed even by this power without a beginning. Still, there is a certain power subsisting without generation and without beginning, which is the principle of the principle of all things which exist. For, from the Father is the Son, through whom are all things and with whom the Holy Spirit is always inseparably associated. In fact, it is not possible for one not previously enlightened by the Spirit to arrive at a conception