@RyanMReeves Yup, nerdy it gets. That very fragment traces the ascent of creaturely intelligence toward God. Within the same metaphysical circuit, Summa theologiae I.34.3 supplies its descending counterpart: creatures are knowable in God because they are already expressed in the one Word.
Hah! A Classics education proves its point. Happy to note a typo in the notes to Raimon Panikkar's 'The Cosmotheandric Experience' referring to Aquinas' 'Summa Theologiae I', which should properly read, "...unicum Verbum eius est expressivum non solum patris..." #ClassicsTwitter
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207. Cf. D. Thomas: “Deus enim cognoscendo se, cognoscit omnem creaturam... Sed quia Deus uno actu et se et omnia intelligit, unicum Verbum eius est espressivum solum Patris, sed etiam creaturam.” Sum. theol. 1, g. 34, a. 3, c. (cf. also Ps. 39, 3 ff.).