This article was originally published on Mojakore.com as a food-for-thought article. The question dates back possibly to Hermes in Ancient Egypt! (Not the same Hermes from Greek Mythology) This answer is intended to illustrate a spiritual paradigm.

Why Does “God”, also known as “The All”, Create Universes?

Here is one possible answer to the question: Why does The All create universes?

The question, like so many questions about God, is actually circular. The minute you’ve asked the question, you’ve already answered it.

God, or The All, is by definition, the Highest Existence in the Universe. Now that we know that “The Universe” has limits ( it grew faster than the speed of light after the Big Bang, for example ), we update our “definition” of God / “The All” to include “everything that has existence, at whatever level”.

Further, by “definition”, we don’t mean to limit our idea of “God” / “The All”, but rather we mean to better indicate what we’re thinking, knowing that our knowledge is too limited to adequately describe “God” / “The All”.

When we ask “Why” does God create universes, we mean what is the cause, in the idea of cause-and-effect, where the effect is God’s activity in creating The Universe / Universes?

The idea of cause-and-effect is itself “below” the idea of “Being”. Cause-and-Effect is a required part of Existence for the question “Why” to be at all applicable.

When we ask the question “Why”, we mean the question in the context of a Universe that is ruled by Cause-and-Effect, where the Universe is the “Domain” of “God” / “The All” because that is what we mean when we say “God” or “The All”.

What we have so far is, the question “Why” means “Cause-and-Effect”, in a Universe where everything Exists at some level or another, and where whatever unites all Existence, including all Order that actually Exists, we pull together to form our “definition” of “God” / “The All”.

If whatever we’re thinking of “by All Existence” or “All Order” was wrong when we used these ideas to ascribe to “God” or “The All”, the new “right” idea is what we meant in the first place. We were just limited by our intellect.

So then, when we ask “Why”, we mean “Cause-and-Effect”, and wherever we mean “Cause-and-Effect”, we mean some part of “Order”, so we define “God” or “The All” as being either the answer to Why the Cause-and-Effect Universe is created, or the answer to the question:

“Why Whatever Causes the Cause-and- Effect Universe to exists is itself brought into Existence?”

But in a Cause-And-Effect Universe, whatever Causes the Cause, is itself a Cause of the Effect. If “If A then B”, and “If B then C”, then “If A then C”.

So then, by virtue of our definition of “God” / “The All”, and by virtue of the relationship between “Why” and “Cause-and-Effect”, “God” / “The All” must be the answer to the question “Why does our Cause-and-Effect Universe exist if it exists at all?”

The remaining question is “Why can’t our Cause-and-Effect Universe simply Not Exist?” The answer to this question is that, if there were an answer, A, to the question, then we would have, “If A, then there is no Cause-And- Effect”. In other words, “If A, then If-then is undefined”. So again, the existence of the question “Why” presupposes
that “If-then” is defined, and therefore we pre-suppose that the Cause-and-Effect Universe exists.

So then, when we ask ‘Why does God / “The All” create universes, we presuppose the existence of Cause-And-Effect and therefore the answer is that the relationship between “Why”, “God” / “The All”, and universes make it necessarily so.

The question is circular!