The previous chapter delineated Duméry's refusal to acknowledge the transcendent and absolute Being of analogical theology, and his substitution of the transcendent and absolute One of negative theology. This choice has far-reaching consequences for his theology of the attributes of God since it implies a special epistemological position; or, since epistemology is inseparable from ontology, his epistemological position culminates in the choice of the One as the ultimate ground of everything. Knowledge, for Duméry, is an imaginative and rational projection of the Act-Law searching for self-identity, which it must recover through externalization and expression.