My Name is Existence, To Be, "I Am

My Name is Existence, To Be, "I Am."

God, the "Personification" of Existence.

Elucidation of the Experience of God

Existence is an existential noun and name given to the act of being. It could be seen impersonally, as the simple fact of existing; or it could be seen, metaphysically, and analogically "personified," as God's essence, the Existing, the Existence. (Please see Note at the end of this essay.)

To call God the Existence is not new but something as old as the Old Testament, where God identified himself to Moses telling him: I Am Who I Am, in the Hebrew tradition, Yahveh (Exodus 3.14). To say "I am Who I am" means I am a "person," the Being, I am the Existence itself.

In the Christian tradition this name is translated simply God or Lord; however, this name has been vulgarized and almost has lost its etymological meaning in the life of Christians; the concept of God as the Being, or the Existence, is almost non existent.

Clearer understanding. On October 22, 2004, I had a clearer vision of God as the Existence, the noun; and in November 29, 2004, I had a clearer vision of God as the act of existing by itself. These ideas weren't new for me except their clarity, since I have been saying before that God is Existence, the Being.

When God is seen as the Existence per se, by itself, or when the Existence is seen as God, then it is clear, rather evident, that God, the Existence, is very close to us and that we are very close to him; then it is easy to see God in everything that exists, or better, that the being of everything that exists is being of God. My being, as well as all being, proceeds from God; he is the only One who exists by himself, and this is his essence, and what distinguishes him from any other being.

Any existence is per se existence of God. Why? Because the Being of God is the total Existence, infinite and transcendent-imminent, and, as such, he is everything that is. If there would be existences which wouldn't be God's existence, then they would be "gods." God does not and can not give his Being to anybody, thus the existence of all created universe must be God's self existence. Hence we may see his Being in everything that exists, and that the act of being, anywhere, anyhow, is always God.

So, everything that exists, the whole creation, is somehow "divine;" it is nothing else than the transcendent Existence seen as immanent, "covered" by different forms. It seems like the Existence has "incarnated" itself and constantly "incarnates" in creation. The Existence is always in action, "taking" sometimes physical forms, sometimes spiritual personalities. (All these are metaphorical words since there are no proper words to express the presence and action of God.)

This explains also the action of God in everything that happens in the universe, in our lives, and even in the "after life." He is so close to us at any moment! He is in action in us, now, and in the whole universe.

The act of being is always, per se, good. Perhaps it is sad to say, but the act of being itself of a pain, or death, or of an immoral action, is always per se good because it is God's existence. In my essay about Evil, I explained In which sense we may say that evil is good.

Abstract and real. These concepts might be seen as too abstract because they are metaphysical concepts, but they are very real at the same time. Nothing is more real than being, than to exist, or existence. It is not the air or the space which is God, but the transcendent and metaphysical act of Being or Existing.