Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.6N

Summary of text [comment] page 44

[OK.  Try again.  The previous blog covered the words in italics.]

God bends Nothingness in order to create.  The very structure of Nothingness means that God can proceed in only one fashion: arranging; unifying little by little, under the attraction of His influence; groping with the interplay of great numbers, a multitude of elements, immense, effectively infinite in number, simple and hardly conscious; eventually yielding more complex forms, arriving at forms capable of reflection.

[With “unification”, “ecology” and “more complex forms” out of the way, what other terms or phrases can we look at?

To me, it appears that “arranging, unifying, attracting, influencing and groping” puts “a multitude of elements” into context.

Again, we face the question about permutations.

Arranging, … groping3(blank2(multitude of elements1))   or

Arranging, … groping3(multitude of elements2(blank1))

Once again, I can reach into my bag of tricks and consider how the other term, “environment” would fit in.  Of course, it would describe “actuality”, leading to:

Arranging, … groping3(environment2(multitude of elements1))

What is striking about the nested forms – so far – is that the actualities of ecology2 and environment2 are spontaneous orders.

Is there more?]