This is so that the cause can provide the existent with its...

This is so that the cause can provide the existent with its required need as opposed to those material or preparing causes, which only create an environment. It is not necessary for these causes to have the relative perfection of the effects; for example it is not required for the soil to have the perfections of the plant or the parents to have the perfections of the child. Hence the God that bestows creation must be absolutely perfect in essence. b.

The ‘cause that bestows existence’, brings its effect from non-existence to existence, it creates, by the intermediacy of…