So sounds revert back to the air in which they were born, and by which they were maintained, and they are heard no more; no man knows what has become of them.

In that final absorption which, after a lapse of time, must necessarily come, God will be all in all, and nothing exist but him alone." "I contemplate him as the beginning and cause of all things; all things that are and those that have been, but now are not, were created from him, and by him, and in him.

I also view him as the end and intransgressible term of all things....

There is a fourfold conception of universal Nature--two views of divine Nature, as origin and end; two also of framed Nature, causes and effects.

There is nothing eternal but God." The return of the soul to the universal Intellect is designated by Erigena as Theosis, or Deification.