DLW 222, 224 - Discrete & Continuous Degrees are In All Created Things

DLW 222

Degrees of both kinds Exist
in the greatest and least of all created things.

DLW 224

The reason there is not
the least element of love and wisdom,
not the least element of affection and thought,
and not the least element of any idea in the thought
which does not have in it degrees of both kinds
arises from the fact
that love and wisdom are substance and form,
and so likewise affection and thought.
And because there is no form
which does not have it in these degrees,
as we said above,
it follows that the same degrees exist in them.
For to separate
love and wisdom or affection and thought
from substance possessing form
is to reduce them to nothing,
because they do not exist apart from
the subjects of which they are predicated.
Rather they are states of these subjects
perceived by a person in their variation,
states which render them discernible.