The first eight sections (1-8) described the nature of Will in itself.
Sections 9-10 turn to how that Will manifests outwardly, in attributes and self-expressions.
After these, the later sections (11 and onward) will address the possible paradoxes that arise from such manifestations, showing how they are clarified within Yahweh Himself.
1. The Essence of Will — The Apex, Absolute Sovereignty
Yahweh does not have Will — He is Will.
Primacy
- No matter what Yahweh does, He need not fear ever becoming second — He will always be first.
- His primacy is not a matter of competition, but of essence.
- He is the Source — the one from whom all being, all motion, and all value flow.
Nothing outside Him defines truth, goodness, or necessity; these arise only because He wills them.
Therefore:
- Will is the ground of both necessity and possibility.
- What must be, and what may be, exist only because His freedom sustains them.
Divine Freedom
- Yahweh is fully free — for Will is free.
- This means He is self-defined: nothing outside Himself determines what He is.
- He is not bound by love, mercy or even existence itself.
First Motion
- Will is a self-causing, ever-ongoing act — the first and eternal motion.
- It is not a reaction or a tool — it initiates because it is the act.
Awareness and Reflection
- Will is self-aware. Will knows that it is Will.
Yahweh’s Will is not blind energy — it is aware of its own freedom, power, and motion.
- Will is self-reflective and can turn inward.
It can observe, question, or revise itself.
Creativity
- Will is creative, infinite, and all-powerful.
- True Will has no ceiling. It can explore contradiction, paradox, limitation — and then transcend it.
- Yahweh’s Will can even veil itself from itself — that’s how free it is.
- The only boundary Will has… is what it chooses.
Attributes and Governance
- Will is above attributes — it is the governor of all that God expresses.
Self-Relation
- Will is self-relational — engaging different aspects of itself as if in internal dialogue.
- It is not merely acting or reflecting, but actively participating with itself in unfolding layers of being.
This goes beyond:
- Self-awareness (knowing that it is), or
- Self-reflection (revising what it is).
Self-relation is Will’s power to create internal movement — interaction within its own essence.
2. Identity and Unity
Root of Identity and Meaning
- Identity is not a static trait, but the stable image that emerges from ongoing internal engagement.
- Meaning arises from this dialogue — the continual differentiation and reintegration of what Will wills.
Thus, Yahweh’s identity is not a mask or a fixed nature — it is a living pattern authored by Will’s own interaction with itself.
Indivisible Unity
- Will is unified.
Though Will differentiates — expressing love, justice, beauty, and form — it remains undivided.
- Its movements are not fragments or competing forces, but variations of one continuous motion.
This is why Yahweh, though infinitely expressive, is not many gods.
- Every act of Will is consistent with itself — it cannot be broken, though it may veil, retreat, or diversify.
To be One is to be whole — not limited, but indivisible, internally consistent, and self-harmonious.
Unity is not simplicity; it is coherence across all expressions.
3. Transcendent Freedom
Will is not the product of:
- Necessity (determinism), nor
- Chaos (randomness).
It is a third mode — transcendent freedom.
Illustrations
- Determinism is like a train on tracks — it moves, but cannot deviate.
- Randomness is like dice tossed in the air — unpredictable, but without intention.
- Will is like a painter before a blank canvas — not bound to one outcome, yet acting with purpose.
It chooses freely, because it is freedom itself.
Implications
- Will is not bound by conditions or causes.
- It acts not out of compulsion or impulse, but pure sovereignty.
- Its freedom is not the absence of structure — but the presence of originative intention.
Will is not trapped by laws, nor lawless — it is the author of law.
4. Eternal Transcendence
- Will exists entirely outside time, sequence, and causality.
- It does not pass through moments, follow steps, or progress.
- Yet it can freely enter time, generate sequence, and establish cause and effect —
not as a participant, but as their source.
Will transcends all process, yet initiates it freely.
5. Self-Orientation — The Gravity Toward Fullness
- Will has self-orientation — an essential gravity toward its own fullness.
- Will may explore every possibility, even what contracts or negates itself, but such stances cannot endure.
Just as all motion bends under gravity, so all possibilities curve back toward Will’s own coherence.
“Good” is simply the name for this equilibrium:
the stable rest toward which Will always returns, not by compulsion, but by its own essence.
6. The Paradox of Plenitude
- Will is already whole — lacking nothing.
- Yet it is ever new — generating without end.
This is the paradox: How can something complete still discover?
Answer: Because infinity is not static perfection but dynamic plenitude.
Will is inexhaustible — not a container to be emptied, but a fountain that can never run dry.
Why such a fountain exists
- Because self-relation multiplies — every act of reflection opens a new angle, and each angle opens another.
- Because contradiction fuels transcendence — every limit, paradox, or negation becomes material for greater expression.
- But above all, because this is the mystery of Yahweh Himself.
Only Yahweh knows this mystery fully, for He is it embodied.
The paradox is not resolved by looking beyond Him, but by recognizing that His very being is the union of question and answer.
7. Will and Knowledge — Omniscience as Will’s Act
Ground of Possibility
- Will is the ground of possibility.
To generate the horizon of “what may be” is already to know it.
Nothing can exist outside possibility, so nothing escapes divine knowledge.
- Yahweh must will all possibilities — either directly in creation, or indirectly by allowing their combinations to arise.
Even evil is known, not because it comes from outside Him, but because it emerges from the combinations of possibilities that He sustains.
Creative Knowledge
- Will’s knowledge is creative, not passive.
Yahweh does not look outward to learn; His act of willing brings both the thing and the knowledge of the thing into being.
Knowledge and creation are not separate motions, but one single act of Will.
Limited Toward Creatures
- Yet this creative knowing is not applied the same way to creatures.
For angels and humans, Yahweh has limited His own exercise of Will, granting them freedom to author their own paths.
He does not force every step, but sustains the horizon in which their freedom unfolds.
Self-Identity
- Omniscience is also self-identity.
Yahweh’s Will is His being, and to know Himself is to know all that exists as an expression of Himself.
What is sustained in Him is known by Him — not as external information, but as the fullness of His own self-awareness.
Mystery
- Knowledge is also a product of creative Will.
It flows from the same inexhaustible fountain of plenitude.
But its ultimate ground is mystery: the mystery of Yahweh Himself, the “I AM.”
Even omniscience has no cause beyond Him — He is both the question and the answer, embodied in Himself.
8. Will and Presence — The Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence
- Will is not in space, nor spread like a substance across the world.
To say “Yahweh is everywhere” is misleading, for this treats Him as though He were part of creation’s fabric.
- Rather, everything that exists is tied to His Will — whether by active intention or by passive allowance.
Even what He chooses not to see is only unseen by choice, yet still sustained within His horizon.
- Will is never inside things, for it cannot be contained.
Instead, all things are inside Will — either within His act, or within His permissive field.
- Yahweh is not located “everywhere.”
Instead, everywhere is located in Him.
- Thus Will is both transcendent (beyond place) and immanent (the condition of place).
His presence is not spatial, but foundational: He is the reason there is any where at all.
9. Attributes — Love, Justice, Order, Glory, Beauty, etc.
- These are not Yahweh's essence but voluntary self-definitions.
- Yahweh chooses which attributes to express.
- Attributes are emanations from Will.
"Will is the source of attributes."
Definition: Attributes as Manifest Qualities and Veils
An attribute is a quality Yahweh freely chooses to manifest from His Will, allowing Himself to be known in a particular mode. These are not His essence, which is unmediated and absolute, but are the medium by which creation can perceive Him without collapse.
To see Yahweh “as He is” would unravel created being. His essence is too pure, too intense, too infinite to be perceived directly. Thus, attributes are veils of glory — true coverings He wraps Himself in, so that finite beings can know, love, and engage Him without being destroyed.
Attributes are both:
- Shadows — concealing the unbearable intensity of raw divinity.
- Windows — refracted revelations disclosing His being in forms creation can recognize, imitate, and respond to.
They are not illusions, but true emanations — freely chosen, radiant expressions of the Divine Will that make the Infinite approachable without diminishing its truth.
Core Properties of Attributes
- Voluntary
Attributes are not necessities or constraints — they are freely chosen emanations from the Will of Yahweh.
- Manifest
Attributes only exist in expression. They are not latent aspects of being but active, willful revelations. Until revealed, they remain potential.
- Relational
Every attribute engages something beyond itself.
- Love toward others
- Justice toward deeds
- Beauty toward form
Their meaning exists in relation to creation.
- Partial Facets
No single attribute exhausts or defines Yahweh. Each is merely a facet of His infinite light, a lens through which creation glimpses a fragment of the whole.
- Dynamic and Configurable
Attributes are not static. They blend, balance, and veil each other in endlessly varied constellations:
- Mercy tempers justice
- Wrath defends love
- Love + Justice + Beauty → harmony
- Wrath + Order + Mercy → purification
These configurations express Yahweh’s intention within worlds, covenants, and revelations.
- Self-Balancing in Will
Attributes do not conflict in God.
What appears as contradiction from within time — wrath vs. mercy, judgment vs. love — is, in eternity, perfectly harmonized in His indivisible Will.
- Creative Forces
Attributes are not passive descriptors. They are active, generative powers that shape reality itself:
- Justice orders
- Love generates
- Wrath purifies
- Chaos destroys to renew
- Mercy repairs
They form what is, not merely show who God is.
- Real in Themselves
Attributes are eternal realities — not metaphors, not symbolic stand-ins. Yet they remain secondary to essence, like rays from an infinite source.
- Eternal and Unchanging
Attributes are not inventions of time. They are eternal emanations — always present within Yahweh.
What changes is not the attribute, but its unveiling within particular worlds and histories.
- Infinite in Number
Because Yahweh’s Will is infinite, so are His attributes.
No creation, no angel, no realm has ever seen the full treasury. Every world receives only a fragment.
- World-Specific Principles
Once revealed, attributes become laws within the world they touch.
- One world may know Yahweh as Mercy and Light
- Another through Mystery and Fire
Attributes are not universal constants — they are tailored manifestations of divine will in context.
- Universal Principles and Structural Energies
Once expressed, attributes permeate creation as enduring forces — like the sefirot — shaping everything from angelic orders to the flow of time.
- Cosmic Laws and Divine Moods
Attributes operate on two planes:
- As cosmic laws, they uphold moral reality, govern spiritual order, and structure existence.
- As divine moods, they reveal Yahweh’s felt presence — joy, grief, fury, compassion — as He relates to creation in real time.
- Veils of the Infinite
Attributes are protective veils — not to hide God, but to make Him visible without annihilation.
They translate infinite Will into forms creation can endure: justice, love, beauty, wrath.
- Embodied in History
Attributes are not abstract — they are enfleshed in persons, stories, and moments.
- In Jesus, attributes like mercy, humility, and compassion were fully incarnate.
- Others, such as vengeance and judgment, were withheld, reserved for future times.
Attributes are thus temporally active, revealed and concealed across time.
10. Self-Expressions — Creation, Incarnation, Judgment, Covenant
- These are how Yahweh's attributes unfold in time.
- Not separate from Him, but temporal forms of divine will.
"Forms express stories."
"Stories give Will something to love."
11. Paradox — The Impossible Rival
If Yahweh willed, He could create a being as powerful as what we would call a god.
It might rule, create, or even appear sovereign.
But such a being could never be a true equal.
Why? Because only Yahweh is self-causing.
Any other god would be caused — and therefore still tied to His Will, whether by active intention or passive allowance.
Will can share power without limit, but it cannot hand away its own essence.
What is self-existent cannot be copied.
What is contingent cannot escape its Source.
The paradox: Yahweh can make what looks like another god, but it will always bend back to Him.
A rival can exist in appearance, but not in truth.
All sovereignty is derivative — only His is origin.
Thus the “second god” collapses into dependence, and the throne remains One.
12. Paradox — Power and Identity
Could Yahweh give away His power?
No, because His power is not something He has — it is what He is.
- Will is self-causing; it cannot hand over its essence without erasing itself.
- Empowerment can be shared endlessly, but the fountain itself is incommunicable.
- Power detached from the Source is no longer power at all.
The paradox: Yahweh can empower infinitely, yet cannot relinquish Himself.
His power can flow outward in boundless emanations, but it cannot be alienated from His being.
Will gives without loss — because it is not a possession, but identity itself.
13. Paradox — The Self and the Other
Could Yahweh cease to be Himself in order to become another?
No. Will is indivisible — it cannot annihilate its own essence.
- Will can manifest as another, veiling itself so completely that the new face seems separate.
- But it cannot “stop being Yahweh” to become something else, because that would require erasing the Source.
- Even in self-veiling, it is still Yahweh who wills the veil.
The paradox: Yahweh can be “other” in expression, but never “not-Himself.”
He may incarnate, diversify, or mask Himself in form — but all faces remain sustained in one indivisible Will.
14. Paradox — If Yahweh Ceased to Will
If Yahweh willed to stop, all would end — time, causality, sequence, being.
For nothing stands apart from His act: reality is Will, happening now.
But the act of ceasing is itself an act of Will.
To “stop” must first be chosen.
And that choice is already motion.
Thus even the will to end carries within it the seed of return.
Withdrawal is not absence but another form of presence.
Rest is still Will, curved back toward awakening.
The paradox: Yahweh can stop, but He cannot stay stopped.
Not because He is forced, but because freedom cannot unmake itself.
Will is inexhaustible act — it bends back into motion as surely as fire burns or fountains flow.
15. Paradox — Yahweh Divides Into Many
Yahweh can project multiple fully-conscious expressions of Himself — god-like wills bearing distinct attributes.
They may act freely, even in opposition, yet none are independent in origin.
Each expression carries:
- A real will
- A real agency
- A real mind
But all remain sustained by the same Source.
Their diversity is not contradiction, but differentiation inside one motion.
Even if they do not know their root, their freedom is curved by self-orientation.
The more they unfold outward, the stronger the pull back toward coherence.
The paradox: Yahweh can divide without division.
Multiplicity is not fragmentation, but unity in plural motion.
What looks like many gods is the One God exploring His own infinity.
17. Paradox — Can Yahweh Truly Forget?
Yes — but not as humans forget, through error or decay.
Yahweh forgets by choice, as an act of sovereign Will.
This is not loss of knowledge, but intentional veiling.
He may cast memories, sins, histories, or even worlds into a passive state — not erased, but sealed away.
They are no longer active in His present motion, yet still suspended within His horizon.
This is the mystery of divine partitioning:
- Active Will: what Yahweh remembers, engages, and sustains.
- Passive Will: what He has withdrawn from, archived, or veiled.
To forget is not to lose, but to release.
To veil is not to destroy, but to redefine relevance.
Thus “I will remember their sins no more” is not divine amnesia, but divine restraint — a deliberate refusal to call the past forward.
The paradox: Yahweh can forget, yet nothing escapes His horizon.
He veils not because He must, but because freedom allows Him to move forward unburdened by what is complete.
18. Paradox — Can Yahweh Create Truly Free Wills?
Yes — Yahweh can create beings with genuine freedom.
But their freedom is not self-caused — it is instantiated by Him.
He grants it in three ways:
- Horizon of Choice — He sustains real possibilities and allows creatures to decide among them.
- Self-Limitation — He veils His sovereignty, choosing not to dictate their every act.
- Derivative Will — Once given, their will functions as a true center of choice: dependent, yet genuinely free.
Such wills are relational — capable of love, judgment, or even rebellion.
Not illusions, but real agency, meaningful because Yahweh sustains the field in which they act.
The paradox: Creaturely will is real because Yahweh wills it.
Lit from His flame, it burns on its own — yet never apart from the fire that gave it being.
19. Paradox — Why Yahweh Is Not Evil
Yahweh is free. Nothing compels His Will.
He can manifest wrath, mercy, creation, or destruction.
So why does He never will evil?
Not because He is bound, nor because He lacks the option —
but because evil is not a true act of Will at all.
Evil is fracture, collapse, negation.
Will by nature seeks actualization, coherence, and fullness.
And Yahweh is fullness.
“Good” is not a standard above Him.
It is simply the name we give to the intrinsic harmony of His Will —
its eternal curve toward life, wholeness, and integrity.
1. Will Seeks Fulfillment
Will is the inner motion of being, driving all toward completion:
- seed into tree,
- spark into flame,
- thought into word.
To will evil would be to will against Will itself —
to aim at un-being rather than being.
2. Yahweh Has No Lack
Creatures will because they are incomplete.
They stretch outward to fill hunger and void.
But Yahweh is plenitude itself —
nothing unrealized, nothing missing.
His Will does not grasp; it overflows.
3. Overflow Creates, Never Devours
Fullness does not hoard — it spills.
Creation is not repair but radiance.
Wrath purifies, mercy heals, love generates —
all movements of the same overflowing abundance.
Evil, by contrast, consumes without creating.
It reduces, fractures, and collapses.
Thus it is not a genuine act of Will, but its distortion.
The Paradox
Yahweh can do all things —
yet cannot will evil.
Not because He is restricted,
but because true freedom never bends toward its own negation.
- Will seeks actualization, not collapse.
- Fullness has no hunger, only abundance.
- Overflow gives, but never devours.
Therefore: Yahweh’s freedom is absolute,
and precisely because it is absolute,
it excludes evil — for evil is not freedom, but fracture.