Being Without Existence

“...If metaphysics is the summit of philosophy, it is necessary to look for the root outside of metaphysics.” (Gilson)

Generally, both religion and philosophy have been a philosophy of being without existence, or being is considered beyond at least material existence. This has been a great error. This has defined God as a non-object, or even as “Nothing” in relation to material life. Philosophers and theologians have seemed to “animate concepts,” as John Caputo put it, with “absolute idealism.”

Godhood is a supreme object with essence, existence and being, and not Being without existence as we know it. Godhood is not beyond the material, Godhood is supermaterial, which is not the same as nonmaterial spirit. Godhood is in the world as we are in the world, but Godhood is at the zenith of evolution in the world. The Being of Godhood has existence in the cosmos, or will have when evolved to as all other objects have existence.

If metaphysics kills the material world then science should be the science of being, seeking to discover the substance of the supermaterial. Until then, until science knows it has to be thus, by deepening its search to religious subjects, I can agree to an idealistic materialism, or theological materialism which seems contradictory but is not.

Existence does not have supremacy over essence, as St Thomas suggests, even if St Thomas does not expel essence from his considerations. Essence always exists within existence as the material Spirit-Will, activating existence from the inside, and shaped by evolution from outside to evolve. Kierkegaard seems to have expelled essence from existence, which was equally wrong. They did not define essence as supermaterial within material existence.

Heidegger said Being “rises up into unconcealment,” but being is never concealed, although at this stage in our evolution it may be concealed from us.  Being is always the existence of the material or supermaterial object which has essence or Spirit-Will within itself. In all life, all the way to Godhood, being is not merely the definition of the object, being is the existing object, from the material to the supermaterial.