Everything we know appears within existence.
Matter exists.
Energy exists.
Life exists.
Consciousness exists.
Natural order exists.
Cause and effect operate within existence.
But one question stands behind them all:
Why is
there existence at all?
If everything we encounter depends upon
something else, then the deepest question is no longer merely how the
universe works, but:
What ultimately accounts for the existence of
the entire framework in which causes, laws, matter, consciousness, Creation,
and life themselves are possible?
DSPES identifies this ultimate foundation as:
The central proposition is simple:
Whatever belongs to existence cannot
ultimately explain why existence itself exists unless there is an ultimate
foundation that does not derive its existence from something prior.
Human beings have given many names to the
ultimate reality behind existence.
Some speak of God.
Others speak of Creation, the Absolute,
Universal Consciousness, the First Cause, the Ground of Being, cosmic
intelligence, primordial energy, or ultimate reality.
But names alone do not settle the question.
A word may identify an idea without proving
that the idea has been correctly defined.
DSPES therefore begins elsewhere.
It asks:
What must be true for anything whatsoever to
exist?
If a proposed ultimate reality is itself
evolving, dependent, changing, developing, receiving information, acquiring
knowledge, passing through stages, or belonging to a greater framework, then
DSPES asks an unavoidable question:
What
explains that framework?
And if another reality explains it, we must
ask again:
What explains that reality?
The question cannot be resolved merely by
extending the chain indefinitely.
DSPES therefore distinguishes between:
things that exist dependently
and
that upon which dependent existence ultimately
rests.
The latter is what this article calls:
THE
ETERNAL SOURCE.
Not merely the oldest being.
Not merely the greatest intelligence.
Not merely the universe.
Not merely Creation.
Not merely consciousness.
Not merely energy.
Not merely a cosmic law.
But:
The Ultimate Cause and Origin of Existence.
