2p45d.md (523B)
1 The idea of a particular thing actually existing 2 necessarily involves both the existence and the essence of the 3 said thing (II. viii.). Now particular things cannot be 4 conceived without God (I. xv.); but, inasmuch as (II. vi.) they 5 have God for their cause, in so far as he is regarded under the 6 attribute of which the things in question are modes, their ideas 7 must necessarily involve (I. Ax. iv.) the conception of the 8 attributes of those ideas–that is (I. vi.), the eternal and 9 infinite essence of God. Q.E.D. 10 11