As Avicenna said, God has being through His very essence, so it stands to reason that being must be His sole effect. Being is then received by everything that derives from Him, which, of course, means everything other than God Himself. For this reason Albert insists that, among the transcendentals, being is the most primary. Goodness, unity, and truth always come along with being; as we saw before, they are “extensionally identical.” But this is only because we can add more specific notions to that of being, like the fact that a certain being is “undivided,” which is all we mean when we say
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