“At its highest, this wisdom arrives at an understanding of how the human maker may act analogously to the Divine Creator, echoing the “art” of God’s creating the phenomenal world from noumenal levels of reality in as much as he, the craftsman, makes from some already existing substance what does not yet exist in nature. He thus is said to “imitate nature in her manner of operation”, in the words of St. Thomas that Coomaraswamy so frequently quotes.”