DEUT139 You must therefore apply yourself, until you come to know the truth of your Creator from the evidence of His works, not from the essence of His glory. For from the perspective of His works, He is closer than close, but in any representation of the essence of His glory or comparison with it, He is infinitely remote. From that standpoint, our minds cannot fathom Him, as we have stated. When you reach the point [where] you remove Him from your conjecture and sensations, as if He is not to be found, but in the signs of His works you find Him as though He were inseparable from you, you will then have reached the highest degree of knowledge of Him, which the prophet exhorts us to attain, saying: “Understand it today and reflect on it in your heart, Hashem is the God in the heavens above and on the earth below, there is no other” (Devarim 4:39).