Bajak asked:

How does God know things in detail before their creation even though he doesn't see them?

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God does not 'see' them in the sensory sense that we do. 'Things' are conceived in the 'mind' of God
and brought to be through their conformity to the Exemplar (Nous-Mind). The Exemplar is the locus
for all that God could possibly conceive, and as Exemplar it contains within it the 'ideas' (the Platonic
Forms) that God conceives ('sees'). Things are known in their 'detail' before their creation because
God is act/ potency/ conception all at once and formally so rather that simply predicated as attributes
and because the Exemplar possesses all that needs to be known about anything that could possibly
be conceived or brought to be.

In the Christian speculations this is the Logos, the Word, the Son who is the perfect 'blueprint',
'model', Exemplar for all else. God 'sees' all that exists and will exist and could possibly exist already
as existing in the Logos/ Son/ Exemplar. Things exist in the mind of God and are brought to be in the
Exemplar through a series of emanations (a going out) and already possess every detail that can be
known about them in themselves and outside themselves by others. But this is already known to God
who in these emanations, gives 'things' their reality in the sensory world, or the world of reality ad
extra God (outside God) because they already exist in the intelligible world (the world of Ideas) in
every detail of their own exemplar.

Fr. Seamus Mulholland OFM

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