 Suárez maintains, in common with many others of his period, that God’s attributes can be known by us as they truly are only by means of a manifest vision of him, something made possible only through his supernatural aid. Even so, natural reason can offer a limited knowledge of God and can proceed, according to Suárez, in two different ways. It can deduce divine attributes from the knowledge of the effects of divine operation (a posteriori). Alternatively, it can proceed by deducing one attribute from another (a priori) (DM XXX.1. intro). Suárez applies both of these demonstrative methods to each of the divine attributes in turn.