1. Many people do not believe in God because they cannot conceive of how such a being could have come into existence.
2. Everything that exists has a creator, they reason, and so if a God existed that God must have had a creator.
3. This creator of God, in order to exist, must itself have been created. That creator, in turn, must also have been created, and so on. Therefore, reasons the normie, there cannot be a Prime Cause.
4. Reference to the First Tenet solves this dilemma.
5. The Elementalist knows that God is consciousness and that consciousness is the prima materia and therefore that God is the prima materia.
6. Therefore, the existence of God precedes the existence of the Great Fractal, and as such precedes the existence of the material world.
7. Therefore, God does not need to have been created. Being outside of manifestation, God existed one instant before the Great Fractal did.
8. In fact, God dreamed up the Great Fractal for entertainment. Some of the entertainment value in manifesting into the Great Fractal follows from the illusion of time, which otherwise does not occur to consciousness, the latter being eternal.
9. Belief in one-dimensional time limits one to belief in one-dimensional cause and effect.
10. Everything within the Great Fractal has a cause, and the ultimate cause in this great chain of causation is God. But because God exists prior to the Great Fractal, God also exists prior to creation and therefore to time.
11. Here one has to make reference to the Fourth Tenet. In its natural state, consciousness exists in perfect bliss, only coming to experience the Great Fractal when it willingly chooses to forget that bliss.
12. Therefore, nothing created God, because God is more fundamental than creation itself. In fact, God created everything else by choosing to forget Godself.
13. Each one of us is a fragment of the divine that has temporarily forgotten its true nature.
14. Knowing that God is the more fundamental than time and space is not a question of being taught or persuaded that this is the case. It’s a question of remembering that this is the case.
15. The Elementalist gently laughs when the argument is made that nothing divine can exist because it would violate the laws of causation. Then the Elementalist explains the First Tenet.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
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