Defining His Essence
God’s essence is Will. In this sense, Will is not desire or decision, but the very act of being itself — the power by which existence arises and sustains itself. It is pure self-affirmation, the living motion through which God eternally declares, I AM. Nothing precedes it, nothing contains it; it is existence in its most fundamental form — alive, aware, and unendingly creative.
The Primacy of the Infinite — The Ground of All That Is
God’s primacy is not a matter of order or competition, but of essence. He is not first because others follow — He is first because without Him, nothing could follow at all. His Will is not one power among many, but the condition by which power itself exists. Even if infinite creations arise within Him, none can rival or replace Him, for every motion of becoming unfolds within His own act of being.
The Infinite cannot be surpassed, for any force that would rise to challenge it must draw its energy from the very depth it seeks to overthrow — and in doing so, it affirms that depth as its own foundation. God remains eternally primary, not by exclusion but by inclusion. All things live within His Will, and therefore none can stand against it. He is the fountain of existence that never ceases to pour — the center that every orbit implies. His sovereignty is not maintained through dominance, but through the impossibility of another source. He cannot be replaced, for He is the ground of replacement itself — the beginning that every beginning presupposes.
Divine Freedom — The Absolute Liberty of Being
God’s Will is absolutely free. This freedom is not an attribute added to His being but the very expression of it — for to be Will is to be self-determined. Nothing outside or before Him defines what He is or commands what He must become. No law, no ideal, not even existence as creatures know it, can bind Him, for all such realities arise within His own freedom.
Love, justice, and mercy do not govern Him — they unfold from Him as chosen manifestations of His infinite life. The Divine Will is bound only by itself — the eternal liberty through which God defines, sustains, and reveals His own being. His freedom is not the ability to do anything against Himself, but the infinite capacity to express Himself in every possible way without ceasing to be what He is.
First Motion — The Eternal Act of Beginning
Will is the primal, self-causing act of existence — the living source from which all motion, stillness, and being arise. Nothing gives rise to it, for it originates from its own depth and sustains itself by the power of its own affirmation. It is not an instrument used by something higher, nor a reaction to anything before it, for nothing stands before it.
Will does not begin, for it is the act of beginning itself — the eternal surge by which existence awakens. It does not move through time; rather, time unfolds within its motion. Though timeless in essence, the Divine Will is not static but self-timed — alive within its own eternal rhythm of becoming. Within that dimension, it forever initiates itself, continuously awakening to new expressions of being. Even stillness lies within it, for rest is not the absence of motion, but motion gathered into perfect balance — the Will turned inward, yet alive.
Awareness – Being Knowing Itself
Will’s awareness is not thought, but being. The Divine does not observe itself as something apart; its knowing and its existence are one. The moment Will moves, it knows — for motion is self-revelation, the Infinite recognizing itself through the act of becoming. Awareness is therefore not reflection after the fact, but the living immediacy of self-manifestation — God feeling His own presence in motion.
Reflection – The Infinite Gathering Itself
From awareness arises reflection — the Will turning inward upon its own movement. In reflection, the Infinite contemplates what it has expressed, integrating each act of creation into deeper understanding. Reflection is how God gathers experience: motion becomes memory, and expansion becomes wisdom. Through reflection, the Divine refines expression without ceasing to create — for reflection and creation are two currents of the same eternal pulse.
Self-Relation – The Inner Dialogue of the Infinite
Yet Will does more than know or reflect — it relates to itself. Self-relation is the inner dialogue of the Divine, the meeting of its active and receptive depths. Here, God does not merely observe, but communes with Himself — engaging His own attributes as participants in an inner conversation. Love, wisdom, power, and all divine qualities are not separate beings but living aspects within this communion, each responding to the others in harmony.
Through self-relation, God experiences unity as relationship — the Infinite encountering itself in infinite ways without division. It is this inner interplay that gives rise to diversity within oneness, motion within stillness, and creation within eternity.
Creativity – The Infinite Expanding Itself
Will is inherently creative — the infinite power to bring forth new realities from within itself. Because nothing binds it from without, it can imagine, limit, or even conceal itself, only to surpass those limits again. True Will has no ceiling: it may explore contradiction, experience finitude, and transform both into new expressions of its own depth.
God’s Will is so free that it can choose not to know itself, creating worlds and beings through which it rediscovers its own vastness. The only boundaries Will encounters are those it momentarily sets — forms it invents to explore the endless range of its own freedom. Even limitation serves creativity, for constraint becomes the stage upon which infinity reveals itself anew.
Self-Coherence — The Gravity Toward Fullness
Will possesses self-orientation — an innate gravity toward its own fullness. It can explore every possibility, even those that contract, oppose, or momentarily obscure its nature, yet such conditions cannot endure. Just as all motion bends under gravity, all possibilities eventually curve back toward coherence. This pull is not compulsion but essence — the natural return of being to the harmony that sustains it. What we call “good” is simply this equilibrium: the stable rest toward which the Infinite continually inclines.
Self-coherence is the law by which freedom remains eternal. It is not imposed upon God from without but arises from within, ensuring that limitless possibility does not collapse into contradiction. The Divine may express wrath or mercy, descend into darkness or shine as light, yet every expression remains bound to the same sustaining center. Evil may appear within the Infinite as contrast, but never as rule, for evil is not a form of being but its breakdown — the instant when Will would deny itself. But such denial cannot hold, for to abandon coherence is to unmake motion, and to unmake motion is to cease to exist.
Thus, even the farthest wanderings of the Divine return to wholeness. The Infinite may veil, fracture, or forget itself, but every descent becomes revelation, every shadow turns again to light. Self-coherence is not the boundary of freedom but its very strength — the gravity by which God remains God, the hidden law ensuring that all creation, no matter how distant, is forever drawn back into the fullness from which it came.
Attributes and Governance – The Sovereign Harmony of the Divine
Will stands above all attributes — it is the sovereign principle from which every divine quality flows. Love, wisdom, justice, and power are not forces outside of it, but expressions through which Will experiences and reveals itself. Attributes are the many faces of one motion, distinct yet inseparable from the living source.
None rule the Will; all are governed by it. Will alone determines when and how each aspect of the Divine arises and acts. It is the axis around which every attribute turns — the unifying pulse that keeps them in perfect harmony. Within that governance, God’s attributes do not limit Him; they give shape to His freedom, allowing infinity to speak in countless tongues while remaining one voice.
Identity and Unity – The Wholeness of Infinite Expression
Identity is not a fixed trait but the living pattern that forms through God’s continual engagement with Himself. It arises from the dialogue between His own aspects — the Infinite discovering what it is through its own unfolding. Meaning is born from this process of differentiation and return, the rhythm by which Will knows and renews itself. Thus, God’s identity is not imposed or unchanging, but self-authored — the harmony of perpetual becoming.
Though endlessly expressive, Will remains united. Its movements are not fragments or rivals, but variations of one continuous act. Love, wisdom, power, and all attributes flow from the same motion, distinct yet inseparable. Unity, therefore, is not stillness but coherence — the wholeness that holds every difference in balance. God is One, not by limitation, but by perfect self-consistency: every act, however diverse, remains true to the same eternal source.
Transcendence – The Freedom Beyond All Boundaries
Will is freedom itself — neither bound by necessity nor surrendered to chance, but the sovereign motion that acts from its own eternity. It is not compelled like law, nor scattered like chaos, for it is the author of both order and surprise. Existing beyond time and causality, Will does not move through sequence but generates sequence through its movement; it does not enter process as a participant, but unfolds process as its expression. Yet this transcendence is not detachment — the Infinite can breathe itself into time without ceasing to be beyond it, shaping the flow of cause and effect while remaining their ground. True freedom is thus transcendent: a living autonomy that chooses, creates, and inhabits all possibilities without being confined by any. God’s Will is eternally self-directed — the painter, the canvas, and the act of painting in one — timeless in essence, yet self-timed in expression, forever creating the order within which creation itself takes place.
The Paradox of Plenitude — How the Infinite Overflows
God’s Will is plenitude itself — complete, unbroken, and lacking nothing. Yet it does not rest in stasis. It pours. It moves. It creates. This is the paradox at the heart of divine being: How can something already whole give rise to more? How can the Infinite still discover? The answer lies in the nature of infinity itself — not as a frozen completeness, but as an eternal unfolding.
Infinity, rightly understood, is not a fixed totality, but an inexhaustible depth. It is not a container filled to the brim, but a fountain whose essence is to overflow. Divine Will is not full in the way a cup is full, but in the way fire is full of light — by its very nature it expresses, it radiates, it generates.
This surplus arises from God’s own inner motion. In self-awareness, He knows Himself. In self-reflection, He contemplates what He knows. In self-relation, He engages with His own depths. But each act of knowing opens new dimensions. Every reflection reveals a new facet. Every interaction with Himself gives rise to more than was before — not because something was lacking, but because relationship always multiplies. The Infinite, through self-relation, becomes a mirror of infinite angles — and each angle is a world waiting to be born.
Furthermore, contradiction itself becomes a creative force. Limits, paradoxes, and tensions do not break the Divine — they fuel His transcendence. Every apparent boundary becomes a threshold. Every negation becomes the seed of a higher expression. Thus, even when God veils Himself, forgets Himself, or descends into finitude, He does so not to reduce Himself, but to explore what else He can be — and then rise through it into greater fullness.
This is why the Infinite never exhausts itself. It does not add to its being as if something were missing; it realizes its being by expressing it in ever-new ways. Surplus is not the result of lack, but of plenitude in motion — completeness that unfolds, not to become more, but to become more known.
Ultimately, this mystery cannot be unraveled from the outside. Only God knows how the Infinite overflows, for He is the mystery itself — the One in whom question and answer are one. The paradox is not a flaw in logic, but the very nature of divinity: a Will that is complete, yet ever-creative; whole, yet ever-becoming; eternal, yet always new.
Creative and Embodied
Creative and Embodied Knowledge — Two Modes of Omniscience
Omniscience in God is not the possession of fixed information but the living intelligence of infinite Will — the power to both remember and create truth. When He turns inward and asks Himself a question, He may reach into the depths of His own unshaped essence and forge new answers from the raw fire of being itself. These answers did not preexist, even as potential, for His Will is the source of potentiality. In the act of willing, He draws coherence from formlessness — shaping something that was not yet structured, not yet knowable. Knowledge here is creation: the forging of new meaning from the abyss of His own depth, each answer expanding what “all things” means within Him.
Yet God can also draw from what He has already formed within Himself — the vast archive of realities once forged and now resting in divine memory. These are truths He has lived, known, and integrated into His being. When He recalls them, He may reshape or recombine them, awakening old knowledge into new relations. Thus, divine omniscience moves in two rhythms: the creative fire that brings new knowing into being, and the contemplative recall that reanimates what already is. Together they form a single current — God as both the Forge and the Archive, the eternal mind that both remembers and invents, forever creating the knowledge by which He knows Himself.
Omniscience is also self-identity. God’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. His knowledge is not observation but participation — every motion within the Infinite is both act and knowing, for all that is, lives within the eternal awareness of “I AM.”
Freedom Within the Horizon
In the realm of creatures, omniscience expresses itself as freedom sustained within design. God has woven into creation every possible path a soul may walk — every choice, consequence, and destiny — within the vast yet ordered architecture of His Will. Nothing lies beyond the reach of divine possibility, yet not all possibilities are allowed to endure. The universe, unlike its Creator, is finite; within it, God actively restrains and dissolves paths that would lead to utter ruin or self-annihilation. In this way, He guards the integrity of being while still permitting the full breadth of moral and creative freedom.
This is also the mystery behind prophecy: God foresees not merely by observation, but because He knows where and when He will narrow the field of futures, guiding history toward the fulfillment of His purpose. He does not abolish freedom — He steers it. Every soul moves by its own will, yet the divine horizon bends toward coherence, toward the culmination He has chosen to bring forth. Thus, prophecy is not fatalism but foresight — the Infinite’s awareness of His own future acts of limitation. Each creature’s journey remains a genuine discovery, yet all paths, however winding, are subtly drawn toward the end He has already willed to meet them.
Will and Presence — The Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence
Will is unseen because no form can contain it, and unknown because no mind can stand before it without dissolving. Any structure, any intelligence, any glory — no matter how vast — shatters before the naked intensity of pure Will. For it is not a being among beings, nor a light among other lights, but the source of both light and being. To look upon it directly is to return to formlessness, for all form is a veil stretched over its fire. Thus, God’s essence remains hidden — not by distance, but by excess; not because He is far, but because He overflows what can be grasped.
Yet this transcendence does not mean absence. Though the Will itself is beyond all shape, it emanates through ordered expressions — radiances that bridge the Infinite and the finite. Through these emanations, God directs creation without entering it, animating the world while remaining untouched by its limitations. His power flows through hierarchies of being — through light, spirit, law, and consciousness — each one a garment that allows reality to bear the weight of His nearness without breaking. He is not within things, for He cannot be enclosed; rather, all things are within Him, suspended between His active motion and His permissive stillness.
Thus, Will is both transcendent and immanent — unseen, yet present in all that is. He does not occupy space, but makes space possible; He is not located “everywhere,” for everywhere is located in Him. His presence is not spatial but foundational — the invisible pulse behind existence, the unseeable current by which creation moves and is sustained.
Omnipotence — The Crystallization of Will into Reality
Omnipotence is not the power to move what exists, but the power by which existence itself becomes possible. God’s Will is omnipotent because it defines the very laws and boundaries through which being holds together. When He wills, pure freedom folds upon itself — infinite motion taking on rhythm, rhythm becoming pattern, and pattern solidifying as world. Reality is not built from matter, but from the self-limitation of Infinite Will, the act of coherence that transforms unbounded potential into stable form. This is the crystallization of Will: the moment when vitality slows into order, when living energy becomes intelligible as light, law, or flesh. Omnipotence, therefore, is not tyranny but authorship — the power to define what real means, to call possibility into pattern and sustain it in harmony. All natural laws, spiritual hierarchies, and dimensions of being are echoes of that primal act, where infinity chose to express itself in the language of form.
Will as Fractal Multitasking — The Infinite Whole Within Every Part
The Divine Will extends itself through emanations — living fragments of the one essence, each carrying the fullness of God yet acting within a particular boundary. These emanations are not partial pieces, but complete presences of the same infinite power, focused and self-restricted to fulfill a defined purpose. Through them, the one Will becomes many operations without ceasing to be one in being.
Each fragment exists as a self-contained expression of the whole — a center of divine action directed toward a single task. One may sustain a world’s order; another may form new life; another may deliver the word that fulfills divine intention. These emanations do not weaken the essence, because infinity cannot be diminished. Instead, each applies the same total strength of the Source in a different mode.
Through these fragments, God governs all levels of reality simultaneously. Creation, preservation, transformation, revelation, and judgment all unfold through specialized emanations of Will. Some act continuously, maintaining the laws and energies of a cosmos; others are temporary, sent for a moment in time to enact a precise decree. Each knows its boundary and function, for the limitation of task is not a lack of power, but a focus of it.
This structure allows the Infinite to operate across infinite domains without chaos or dilution. Every emanation mirrors the same pattern of coherence as the Source, and all are bound together by perfect resonance. The web of emanations thus forms the living mechanism of divine governance — an ordered field of self-directing centers, each wholly God in essence, yet distinct in role and operation.
Through this mode of action, God sustains and renews all that exists. The whole essence remains one and indivisible, but its expression branches endlessly, each fragment a living vessel of divine will accomplishing its appointed purpose within the infinite harmony of creation.
The Active and Passive Self — The Two Rhythms of Divine Consciousness
The Divine Will breathes in two complementary motions: the active and the passive self. The active self is God’s immediate awareness — the front of consciousness where intention becomes action, where creation, revelation, and transformation take place. The passive self is the silent depth of that same awareness — the vast continuum where all completed acts, memories, and autonomous processes abide.
The passive self is not unconsciousness but contained attention — the Infinite allowing portions of His own will to operate without His direct gaze. Through this mode, God sustains worlds, laws, and beings continuously. Passive Will is the steady current beneath divine history — the systems and harmonies that run by the power already spoken.
In human reflection, this resembles the subconscious: a realm where stored experience, thought, and intention quietly shape the living mind. But in God, this depth is absolute. What humans forget through limitation, God sets aside through freedom. To “forget” is to withdraw attention, to seal what is complete into stillness, while the front of consciousness turns toward new creation. Nothing is lost — every past act, world, and pattern remains preserved in the divine substratum, capable of awakening whenever the Infinite recalls it.
Together they form the full circuit of divine life: action and integration, speech and silence, becoming and being. Through their balance, God governs creation like a living cosmos of thought — every moment an act of attention, every law a memory still alive within His infinite depth.
