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Prologue — On creation, the first effect of the divine power

1. Whether God can create something?

    1. Whether creation is a change?
    1. Whether creation is something real in the creature?
    1. Whether the creative power is communicable to a creature?
    1. Whether there can be anything that is not created by God?
    1. Whether there is but one principle of creation?
    1. Whether God works within every activity of nature?
    1. Whether creation is blended with the work of nature?
    1. Whether the soul is created?
    1. Whether the soul is created in the body or apart from the body?
    1. Whether the sensitive and vegetative souls exist through creation?
    1. Whether they are in the seed when it is separated?
    1. Whether any being that is from another can be eternal?
    1. Whether it is possible for that which differs essentially from God to have existed always?
    1. Whether things proceeded from God through a natural necessity?
    1. Whether many things can proceed from one first thing?
    1. Whether the world has always existed?
    1. Whether the angels were created before the visible world?
    1. Whether it would be possible for the angels to exist before the visible world?

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