God Is Zero

God is zero. God is the beginning, the zero in the universe’s first second. He is our ever-absent coefficient of cognition. He is the quest for meaning in the equality we use in mathematical equations. He is the nothingness in a universe where nothingness does not exist. He is the a priori knowledge within everything. He is the eternal reality indicated by all adjectives. He is both within and outside the cosmos—not a consciousness, but consciousness itself. His memory is infinite; everything happens through him. He has no thought, yet he is responsible for the formation of every thought we have. He is unaware of us, yet everywhere we look we receive word of him.

He did not emerge in Mesopotamia; he exists in time itself. He is not simple enough to be exploited by humans for their own purposes. He has his own laws and rules. He is both the beginning and the end of change. Everything comes into being through his transformation. The only thing we know is that he is the unit of our understanding of order amid a chaos. Everything has come together at once, yet he is not one; he is zero. Zero is sacred because it exists solely as the beginning.

The nonexistence of something does not mean it is not there; that something is part of nature, and it is within our power to bring it into existence. Just as we cannot imagine what we do not perceive, we try to liken to that which we perceive those things about which we have not found the slightest evidence. Since what we perceive is nature, we have no other reference system than nature for the things we seek. The human mind is too limited to comprehend infinity because the fundamental coefficient of our axiomatic thought is zero—and zero is our cognition, our god.