—for it is a question about something that lies beyond human knowledge, and no one is able to answer it.
Likewise, if someone were to ask, “How does our Lord descend to the lowest heaven?” he should be told, “How is He in Himself?” Should he reply, “I do not know His modality,” he is then informed, “Nor do we know the modality of His descent, for knowing how an attribute is necessarily presupposes knowing how the One described by that attribute is; it is secondary to and dependent upon the latter. So why demand that I explain how He hears, sees, speaks, descends, or rises over the Throne when you yourself do not know how His Essence is?
Now, once you acknowledge that He truly possesses an objectively real Essence, existent in fact, inherently qualified by attributes of perfection to which nothing is comparable, then His hearing, His sight, and His speech