Gospel Koan 40.5

God's Image

Koan 40.5

All existence is created in God's image: 'expression' as every existence: 'condition of being' reflects the Principal that is God.

Summary Exposition

The central mechanism posits that to be created in God’s image is to be a constituted instance of the conference of difference. Every existent, by its nature as a relational entity that transforms through the conference of difference, reflects the Principal’s core nature as ‘that which creates’. A single, potent example is a chemical reaction: the reactants and products are distinct existences, but the reaction itself—the transformative conference of their differences—is the 'image' of the divine creative process happening on a local scale. The fundamental implication is that divinity is immanent; the signature of the Creator is found not in our form, but in the fundamental, relational process of becoming that defines all existence.

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