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Everything’s got a “because” attached to it.
Indeed, all effects have causes.
So now, after everything we’ve established, there’s something ... weird ... about needing a “because” attached to everything.
It leaves the impression that it’s “worried” about Causality.
While all things have their Principle in the Essence of God, there are contingencies that are nonetheless important insofar as they, even in their temporal / horizontal mode, have implications on our vertical relation with God. And so such causes and effects, such reasoning, is still important and must still be considered.
There comes a level, though, at which I’m supposed to simply trust that they’re taken care of. I guess that’s what I am getting at. It isn’t some absolute boundary. It’s an iconographic one.
I only need to include certain details; adding more detracts from the Tradition.
all effects have causes.
I’m as yet unconvinced the Whole of Everything is comprised of “causes” and “effects”. I suspect a vast, underlying, implicate primordial “essence” or whatnot, entirely beyond our grasp.
The essence of God of course is beyond our grasp, and of course it without a cause, because He is not an effect.
But His creatures are effects, since they are contingent, and finite, and temporal rather than eternal.
Thus when discussing matters within time and nature, causation obviously applies.
Thus when discussing matters within time and nature, causation obviously applies.
What’s weird about humans, is this capacity to direct attention beyond Causality to this primordial essence, and being inspired thereby - informed of it, I guess - ourselves becoming patterned after something beyond cause and effect.
Since that’s always an option, while I can acknowledge everything in creation is subject to the Rules - I can perceive of significance beyond Causality, in how events relate to my relationship with this Essence.
And because that is an option, Causality is just one set among an infinite set of “significances”.
That probably sounds kind of weird, but it’s something I’ve been directing attention to for a while, and it’s not easy to describe.
You would enjoy Kant. Cause and effect are necessary a priori conditions that are supplied by the mind, which structure any possible experience of creation.
It is from the essence of God that we derive the very faculties that create our experience.
The essence is to produce experience where cause and effect make said experience sensible.
You would enjoy Kant.
I’m more of a Kan guy, than a Kant. More positive.
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