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I note that, in succeeding sentences, Whitehead says that "God is the aboriginal instance of this creativity [sc. the ultimate creativity of the universe]" and that "God is the eternal primordial character [sc. characterizing the creativity]" (PRc: 225 [344]).

It seems clear enough from Whitehead's use of "eternal" as well as "aboriginal" and "primordial" that, in his understanding, there never was when "God" was not, any more than there ever was when "creativity" was not, or when "creatures" and "temporal creatures" were not – to not—to take account of his claim in the very next sentence that the interconnections of all these concepts are matters of "meaning."

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