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Secondly, in Christian theology, the [[Son of God]] and [[Holy Spirit]] were not created but are said to have God the Father as their "source" or principle.

Secondly, in Christian theology, the [[Son of God]] and [[Holy Spirit]] were not created but are said to have God the Father as their "source" or principle.

An ''[[element]]'' or [[component]] or part is a kind of principle, which can always be a material cause; sometimes a final cause or end or an efficient cause or means; but never a formal cause (because the [[form]] into which a thing is caused to be must be a unity unless understood to be divisible, and if acting as such, the form is not the essential form of the thing, but the [[dividend]]s are able to be considered separately with their own set of other causes.

An ''[[element]]'' or [[component]] or part is a kind of principle, which can always be a material cause; sometimes a final cause or end or an efficient cause or means; but never a formal cause (because the [[form]] into which a thing is caused to be must be a unity unless understood to be divisible, and if acting as such, the form is not the essential form of the thing, but the [[dividend]]s are able to be considered separately with their own set of other causes).

So there is a kind of hierarchy of the ideas of principle, cause and element.

So there is a kind of hierarchy of the ideas of principle, cause and element.