“All things find their good in their last end. The final cause is the cause of causes. A being is composed to act in a certain way as a substance to attain its last end. All things which are composed find their source in unity and as their end desire to return to that unity which is the fount of their being. This end can only be found in the ultimate unity which is God who himself is absolute unity. Since action follows being (operari sequitur esse), each thing attains its final unity according to its place in the order of being. This fact stretches from pure potential to be, which is called primary matter, to being itself, which has no potential. The whole universe of creatures manifests the potential to return from multiplicity to absolute unity in the highest degree. This absolute unity is perfect being with no potential to be something else. It is not composed and so is absolutely one. In fact, it is God. All things act to return to the God from which they came. In this, they also “desire” to be like him.”

alma departing out of the land of Zarahemla, as if to go into the land of Melek, when his earthly mission is over and he’s finally ready to reunite with the beautiful angel who first authored his conversion