By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What I am is God's gift to me; what I become is my gift to God.
This is not to imply, however, that God is any more the sole source of what I am than its sole end. What I am is the gift of others as well as of God, even as what I become is my gift not only to God but also to others.
Still, God is the sole primal source of what I am, and of what anything else is, even as God is the sole final end both of myself and of everything else. And the difference between primal and nonprimal, like that between final and nonfinal, is not a merely quantitative difference in degree but a qualitative difference in principle -- in S.K.'s phrase, "an infinite qualitative difference."
2 August 2008
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