God as All

May this work be a channel for the grace of God to us. This work is an exposition of an idea in progress. If this work is incomprehensible to the eye, please forgive me. For I would attempt the incomprehensible. Let us begin with an examination of the single term “existence”. Existence is similar to Reality, they simply carry different connotations. The depth of that difference will not be explained here. I argue that our conception of existence is effect-centric and observer-centric. What does this mean?

What this means is that our view of existence is based only on what we can observe, this is true even for theists. We make ourselves the judge of existence when only Existence is the judge of Himself. We are composed of existences and nothings, various nothings which causes us to lack various existences and thus we become distinguishable essences. However, Reality proper is composed only of Himself, that is Existence, and so there is nothing lacking in Him. In our eyes, some things do not exist, but they certainly exist within the fullness of Reality which we call God.

I present a new view of existence, which is not based upon our non-existences, but is instead based upon Existence Himself. However, we may begin with the classic view of existence. The most primitive view of existence is that it is based on what we observe. The actual observed is the only thing which exists. Then, we have actual existence, which states that the observables are the only existences. Finally, it is the new view of existence, that existence is undefinable and is simply that which is, that which is real, that which exists, and that which is indistinguishable from any other things. In other words, Existence is the highest limit of anything below it, there is nothing above or outside of Existence, as there is no roof or borders. Reality is All, and thus there is simply One.

This view of Existence is difficult to comprehend, if possible to comprehend at all. Yet it is the key to understand the idea of God at all. While comprehension of God is not necessary in this life, I am called to dive deeper into the mystery of Himself. We know that there is a clear distinction between a horse and a unicorn. Apart from the clear lack of horns for the horse, the horse exists in the world and the unicorn does not. There are images and illustrations of what a unicorn may look like, but there is certainly no unicorn in the world. Yet in my room right now, or in my house, there is no horse even. So in this particular area of spacetime, there is a lack of horse.

If I think and say that there is a horse in my house, someone in my house or anyone can just take a look and prove me wrong. In short, linguistic possibility does not entail actual certainty. So I am not saying that if I think and say that there is a horse in my house then there truly is a horse simply because I think and say so. Instead I am saying that the horse does exist in my house right now, but we have an absence of ability to perceive that horse. In fact, I am also saying that everything exists within everything. What is happening is that the world and the observers are all in composition with something other than existence, that is non-existence.

How do we go about and prove this idea? There are 2 possible answers, either we can’t prove this idea, or we can. If I cannot prove this idea, then it is fine, because I accept this idea out of Faith in the first place. Yet I am drawn to prove this idea and demonstrate its supreme reasonability, that this idea is the most reasonable above all ideas. First of all, we must prove that above all things, God, and not just the name “God”, but His Essence, that is Existence, Exists, and is more certain than all other things.

We perceive and experience various things, but none are God. How do we go about and prove that Existence, God, is supreme above them, that there is such a thing as Existence? Without any presuppositions, we have to begin from the very beginning, that there are such things as experiences and thus those experiences exist. While in conventional philosophy, experience is restricted to sensations, I am once again a rebel and move the label experience one step higher, to include the realm of mental existence, thus all mental perceptions and events are also experiences, or in a more suitable term, any form of awareness is experience.

We then know that there is change, constant, within this reality of experiences, even in the mind. With change there is a beginning and an end. One of you told me that a philosopher, David Hume, claimed that things can happen for no reason. I disagree and I can argue against that. My argument is simple, things happen precisely because of one reason, because nothing prevents them from happening. There are no limitations to an event, and thus the event occurs. So if an event does not occur, we can say that there is a limitation to that event. In other words, whenever something happens, there is something else which allows that thing to happen and not any other thing.

This allowance and disallowance, or limitation and lack of limitation, has to be distinct from the very thing that it limits. This entity shall be called the Law for now. Change is precisely the removal of some limits and the imposition of other limits which allows for true change to happen. Now let us say there is a world with only 2 states, A and B. A limits B and B limits A. So when A is there, B cannot be there, and when B is there, A cannot be there. A changes into B and B changes into A. This happens forever without beginning or end.

When A changes into B, and B changes into A, it is simply at the time of A, B is limited, and at the time of B, A is limited. Now what removes and imposes the different limits on A and B? The answer is not either, but both. Both are the Law at the same time. Both has the power to impose and remove limits on each other. The entire system is the Law. Yet, the totality of the Law, A and B, are distinguishable from the individual constituents of the Law, which is A and B. The Law is then AB, not just A or B, but precisely AB, which then becomes C.

Consider this, it is the entire system which has no beginning or end, yet the individual states of the system has a beginning and an end. In the total reality of the system, both A and B exist, always. Yet if we only look at certain times, A and B sometimes exist and sometimes they don’t, depending on the time. In a sense, C, or AB, is above individual A and B. The Law is then precisely that, the Law is simply the unity of all things, which has truly no beginning or end. The Law is above the individual components, and are the unity of all the individual components. This is true regardless of whether there is an infinite regress or not. Either case reinforces the fact that there is the Law, and thus there is God. I can write more, but this is sufficient for now. May this work bring greater glory to God.