  The analogy between God and creatures must be distinguished from the analogical relation between substance and accident within the same creatural being: while other beings relate to substance as their subject, all creatures relate to God as to their end, their form (that is, as to the cause of their esse essentiae), and their efficient principle (that is, as to the cause of their esse actualis existentiae). Consequently, according to Henry, every real concept through which the being of something is conceived without any further qualification (simpliciter), always refers to God’s being or to creatures’ being, and never to something common to both.