Gospel koan 40.1

Principal to existence

Koan 40.1

God is metaphysical of existence by virtue of observation as the Principal: 'unvaryingly foremost' expression, functioning as Creator.^[1]

Summary exposition

The central mechanism is the identification of the conference of difference as Creator—'that which creates'—for which God (in the ontological sense) is our closest divine construct. A single, potent example is the relationship between a fundamental law of physics and the universe it describes; the law itself is never observed, but rather is a formal abstraction—an abstracta—inferred from observations of the universe, serving as a construct through which we understand it. The fundamental implication is that God does not exist as an entity within reality, but is the unobserved, constant process—the conference of difference—that is principal to existence (not of it), inferred from the ubiquitous patterns of bearing-together and bearing-apart that characterize all observable reality.

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by John Mackay

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