The energy of god
Actus purus
Absolute perfection of God, in Christian theology
In scholasticphilosophy, Actus Purus (Latin for 'Pure Actuality' / 'Pure Act') is the absolute perfection of God.
Overview
Created beings have potentiality that is not actuality, imperfections as well as perfection. Only God is simultaneously all that he can be, infinitely real and infinitely perfect: 'I Am that I Am' (Exodus3:14). His attributes or his operations are really identical with his essence, and his essence necessitates his existence.[1] (Contrast this understanding with the Essence–Energies distinction in Eastern Christian, particularly Palamite, theology).
Charles Albert Dubray, as accepted by Charles George Herbermann, stated that in created beings,
the state of potentiality precedes that of actuality; before being realized, a perfection must be capable of realization. But, absolutely speaking, actuality precedes potentiality. For in order to change, a thing Aristotle biography plato!