For Augustine, the confession that Christ is the Wisdom of God is not merely a statement about the Saviour but a claim about the very structure of creation itself. Drawing upon a constellation of biblical texts (1 Cor. 1:24, Col. 2:3, and Wis. 8:1), Augustine makes Sapientia Dei, identified with the eternal Word, a key organising theme within his doctrine of creation. Sapientia is not an abstract metaphysical principle but names the mystery of creation's concrete participation in overarching levels of order. Creatures are not merely caused by God but arrayed in Wisdom, ordered according to modus, numerus, and pondus (Wis. 11:20), and thereby oriented, in their very depths, toward intelligibility, goodness, and beauty. This participatory structure reframes the relationship between matter and mind and productively blurs the received boundaries between nature and culture, animal and human, with implications that reach further than Augustine himself realised. The paper examines the cosmological vision of De Genesi ad litteram, showing how the rationes aeternae, the causales rationes, and the triad of measure, number, and weight articulate creation as a luminous manifestation of Sapientia Dei. It then critically reflects upon Augustine's account of the boundary between humanity and other animals, proposing a more graduated understanding of animal intelligence as a better fit to Augustinian ontology. If all creatures participate in Wisdom's lucidity, then the evolving forms of perception, memory, learning, and communication found across animal species are distinctive modes of participation in the same transcendental order that constitutes human rationality — a participatory continuum honouring both evolutionary continuity and the genuine qualitative distinction of the imago Dei. The paper concludes by indicating the contemporary implications of this framework for science-and-religion dialogue, animal ethics, and a non-anthropocentric account of creation's value.