All of creation had its origin in the attributes (thought and will) of God. Creation was once a part of God. When God created, there existed no other thing besides God. God could not take external spirit or matter and fashion it into creation, because nothing else existed. The nothing that God created from remains nothing. Upon this foundation of nothing God uses his donated thought and will to form the universe. God’s act of creation (from himself) removes the quality of absolute being from that which is created. That which is created has no eternal right to exist, and its core existence is nothing rather than absolute. Every created thing necessarily comes from God pristine and without flaw, even to this day. As it enters the realm of creation it must take on part of the burden of original sin.
God also sustains creation. There is a chain of operation in creation with principalities, thrones and dominions delegated by Christ to operate it. If Christ hands over some operation of the universe to nature, Christ must first make and sustain nature. There is no entity of operation above God, and where God sustains, God is present in some manner. Catholic terminology for this is ‘Divine omnipresence’. Christ’s detached attributes sustain creation under his direct or delegated will.