The Cause of the Cause

Active metaphysics

It seems that the Scholastics separated essence from existence, which I think leads to the belief that thought in the mind is separate from the actual thing in the world. And God to them was permanence, therefore God was essence, a thing-in-the-mind sort of God, since existence or life is impermanent, but God, like thought, is eternal. God was made the cause of all things, so essence became the cause, the thought, the word---eternal word became the cause.

I do not think that Being stands outside its causes, being and cause, existence and essence are never separate. Being is never “set free” from it's cause, not even with Godhood.

The Will or Spirit is the activation of life, not the cause. The cause has a cause itself, which explains its existence in the world. The cause or Will To Godhood needs to evolve the vehicle of life it inhabits all the way to Godhood, and this is the cause of the cause.

The cause, or Will To Godhood is not Godhood. The cause is “merely” the unfulfilled desire behind life, unfulfilled that is until it attains its goal of Godhood, which it reaches by activating the vehicle of material and supermaterial life to evolve to Godhood. This is why the cause cannot be Godhood.

The same cause, the same Will, the same Spirit we have activating us, activates all life toward Godhood, although not all make it at the same time, and none are separate from the cause or Will that activates them. 

This is a moving, fluid view of life, the cosmos, Godhood and religion, perhaps more like the pre-Socratics than later philosophers and theologians. But this metaphysics is also modern and futuristic in that it is a metaphysics in which material and supermaterial evolution play a vital and sacred part.