Essays

Metaphysics

Being

The true, the good and the one are said first of God, and of creatures by participation. We come to know God from his effects, so the road runs from things to him.

The kind of answer it gives: said by analogy

  • In the register of Dante Alighieri · October 2026

    Brother Electron

    Midway through the night, a dark wood of copper. Einstein guides a pilgrim down through the gate, the flip-flop and the clock to a floor that is always a ceiling; Teilhard meets them at the bottom; Francis, Thomas and Maximus bring them up. Law in God, who is it; in the person, from within; in matter, from without and only by similitude. With Elijah’s chariot, Ezekiel’s wheels, and the altar of the world, and a track for Strudel whose code is a DAG.

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Reached from above

In The Benedict Year, a homeschool curriculum that walks this map, Being is Unit 7, weeks 19–21.

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