God’s “power is indeed not accidental,” since he cannot “exist without power.” God’s power must be “substantial,” for “it is either part of his essence or the very thing that is his whole essence.” Yet it cannot be “part of his essence,” Anselm qualifies, since God’s essence is not “divided into parts.” Power must be “the very thing that is his whole essence.” And if it is his whole essence, then it is “always and everywhere, so whatever is God is everywhere and always.”23
