by Doug Esse

God gods God’s godding God’s godness.

I think I mean that the verb “to god” is the foundational movement of the Creator to create. It’s a verb that connotes all of these things simultaneously: kenosis (self-emptying), will-pleasure, creative principle, pantheism, panentheism, panpsychism, panexperientialism–all for the sake of God experiencing Godself in infinite variety. I also am trying to say that there is a source, God, which gods (verb) things (which are God incarnated) thinging* (verb), God’s (the Source’s) own godness.**

In other words, God sources God’s own Becoming which is wholeness expressed in infinite variety, eternally fructifying Original Thought and reacting to the Original Desire (that all entities seek and become one). And all of this wholeness also is the nature of God–that is, it creates God.

In short, God creates things which return the favor.

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*thinging refers to how all and every particular event of God’s becoming–every thing–is God in God’s process of experiencing Godself through the eternal complexifying into greater wholenesses; something only possible in the realm of manifestation.

**godness, a term that contains all of these: wholeness, triune nature, illusion of separation, unity, and the process of concrescence (the many become one and are increased by one).

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