God, the Creator

God, also known as the Origin of the Universe, Perfection, the First, the Creator, the Truth, Pure Act, Pure Form, Yahweh (meaning "That I am"), the Father, the Son, the Logos (meaning "the Word" or "the Order"), the Wisdom, the Way, the Cornerstone, the Savior, the Redeemer, the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, the Spirit, the Trinity, El, Brahman, Shangdi, Hunab Ku, Amenominakanushi, Takamimusubi or even Kamimusubi, is the personal, perfect creator of the Universe, as in he, an object himself, created everything with form, every object, ex nihilo (out of nothing, or more accurately, out of pure potency). In this sense, he is the origin of concrete reality. Since a thing is only possible due to eventually being present in the Universe, and thus having form, his creation of the Universe is actually a cause to all abstractions. Since a thing is only impossible due to never being present in the Universe, and thus never having form, God is also the cause of all impossibilities, thus allowing us to say, categorically, that he is the Creator of Everything. Due to being perfect, all objectively good qualities apply to him, including knowledge (interchangeable with consciousness) and power (interchangeable with agency). Thus, God is not only personal, meaning conscious and active, but also the first person (latu sensu). As the perfectly knowing and powerful origin of the Universe, he is consequentially its creator. Being the origin of everything and knowing of everything, God has in himself the Truth. Having no origin besides himself, God is metaphysically simple, being composed only of actuality and no other property to be described separately from it. In this sense, all divine attributes are identical to actuality, the divine essence. Having in himself the Truth and being absolutely simple, God is, indeed, the Truth itself. During the progression of history, he made contact with a variety of other people and, through one of those, Moses, he communicated his divine name: Yahweh.

Since God is perfect and 'to love', as in to desire the good of another person, is an objectively good attribute, God is a perfect lover of all things. That said, 'to be loved' too is an objectively good attribute, and so God must be perfectly beloved. Since Creation is distinct from the Creator, we cannot, by ourselves, be perfect, and thus our love for him cannot make him perfectly beloved, necessitating thus that he be at least two persons, a primary lover and a secondary beloved. Since they are both God, the second person too loves the first and their love is thus mutual. Since all divine attributes are mutually identical, to perfectly love is to be perfectly loved. That said, on a purely causal level within the divine essence, a lover must have preceded a beloved, and so we can speak of the first person as a sort of Father, who communicates his divinity to the second person, who is thus a sort Son, just like how human parents communicate their humanity to their human children. The love shared between two persons is not identical to any of the persons involved, thus representing a third, separate concept. Since the love shared between the Father and the Son is perfect, and God only is perfect, that perfect love must be a third divine person. Since there is no love without there first being a lover and a beloved, the third divine person has its divinity hinging on the other two and thus proceeds from them. Given that he is, primarily, an ideal person, we may call him the Spirit, or the Holy Spirit, as to differentiate him from other, mere spirits.

This triad previously described is commonly known as the Trinity. The first person is the Father, also known as Amenominakanushi. The second person is the Son, also known as Takamimusubi, the Wisdom, the Way, the Cornerstone, the Savior, the Redeemer, the Christ, the Logos or Jesus of Nazareth. The third person is the Holy Spirit, also known as the Paraclete, Kamimusubi or just the Spirit.

Given that Creation is imperfect and cannot perfectly reciprocate God's perfect love on its own, and that to be perfectly loved is too to perfectly love, all creatures are naturally segregated from the experience of God's perfect love, known as the Beatific Vision, being thus doomed to go on perpetually without it. To save us from this fate, one of the divine persons inserted himself into Creation so that we may enter a sort of communion with him and, through that, come to be co-authors of his perfect reciprocation of the love of the other two divine persons for us. That said, to reciprocate the perfect love of that last person, another divine person must be immanent too, allowing for us to enter communion with it and, through such communion, be co-author of his love for the other person. Since the Father is the internal source of divinity, and since divinity used to be exclusively transcendent (prior to the creation of the Universe), then it must be the case that the Father is still fully transcendent, not existing within Creation. That said, since the Son was begotten on behalf of the Father to serve him, he is to be the one to become immanent and save creatures by reciprocating the love of the Father in our name. Since the Spirit procedes from the Son and is thus subject to him, he is to be the one to serve him by reciprocating his love for Creation.

In the beginning of time, God was the only object, existing within time through the Logos and the Spirit. As history progressed, God came to be known by many, receiving a variety of personal names, of which only Yahweh he himself decided on.