Aristotle's Theory of a Prime Mover, Juxtaposed With the Unification Understanding of God

Tossa Cromwell
October 24, 2009

What I liked about Aristotle is his theory of a prime mover. If I remember correctly, Aristotle's reasoning is that everything that moves was moved by something else in order that it could move. Whatever moved the original object was in turn moved by another entity. Aristotle was trying to reason about what was the first entity to move other entities, and he reasoned that it was an entity that moved other entities by giving them a desire to move. So the prime mover for Aristotle did not move other things through pushing them to do move, but by simply being what it was. Through its nature, the prime mover inspired other entities to move and they in turn moved other entities.

Aristotle's reasoning, in this case, seems to be applicable to our understanding of God, although I may be wrong about this. In other words, God is an absolute being, and if we look at his Original Sung-Sang, the core is Heart. God does not move other entities directly. In other words, God does not make an angel, spirit or human on the earth do something. Instead, God is a God of immense feeling and love and angels, spirits and human beings on the earth are supposed to be naturally motivated to go in the direction that God's Heart is guiding them. In other words, through experiencing God's Heart, and His True Love, all spiritual beings should want to move in such a direction that allows them to continue to receive more and more of God's True Love. Because of the Fall, human beings are spiritually ignorant and dull and cannot perceive God's Heart. Therefore, human beings do not move in the direction that could allow them to experience God's True Love. Instead, human beings inherited fallen nature through the Fall and continue to live lives of fallen nature.

I'm not saying that Aristotle had all this in mind, but his reasoning led him to a logical conclusion, which I for one can juxtapose with my understanding of God and the cosmos without serious contradiction. Perhaps a counterargument could be made that God does move other entities through energy. It could be argued that Universal Prime Energy moves the universe to be the way it is, allows natural laws to be in place and the Earth's ecosystem to function as it should. I would counter by saying that Universal Prime Energy itself moves in order to satisfy God's Heart. I believe that God created angels to help in the creation because God in and of himself is unchanging and absolute, and in my opinion with the nature of a prime mover, and therefore needed other spiritual beings to help with the creation. Logically, angels would have moved and helped create the universe in a way that would be pleasing to God's Heart, since they would naturally want to satisfy His Heart and would naturally move in that way. I don't know how God created angels, but perhaps he breathed life into them as he did to human beings. Essentially, they would have been manifestations of God's thought.

The theory of the prime mover helps me understand how God's Heart can be the most subjective part of God's Original Sung-Sang. It also helps me understand how my relationship with God should be. God cannot move me in a particular way, but I should try to experience God's True Love and live in such a way that I could continue to receive more and more of His Love. In other words, God would be moving me, and I would be in His Dominion, not by force but by unity of heart and mind with God. In other words, God is a prime mover through his Heart and everything in the cosmos is supposed to be moved emotionally through experiencing God's True Love and should choose to move in such a way that it can experience more and more of His Love.