 Let us turn now to absolute perfection. Every perfection, says Suárez, is either created or uncreated. If a perfect entity is uncreated, that entity must be God. If, however, something is created, it owes its existence to God. Created perfection is the effect of a cause able to bring about such an effect . According to a causal principle held in common by Suárez and many of his peers, this cause must be more noble and more excellent than its effect (if only in the sense that it possesses perfection in itself and not as caused by something else). From this, Suárez deduces that it belongs to the essence of God to posses in some way the perfections of all created beings in a mode that is more noble than the way in which these perfections exist in created beings. This, then, constitutes his a posteriori proof for God’s absolute perfection (DM XXX 1.4).