Deus (III)

Deus is Omniversal actus purus: absolute actuality without unrealized potentiality, incomplete capacity, internal transition, dependency, acquisition, or becoming. Yet even the classical meaning of actus purus remains only an introductory shadow of what Deus signifies. Deus is not merely actuality perfected against the contrasting possibility of potentiality. Deus precedes the distinction between actuality and potentiality altogether. Actuality does not define Deus; actuality receives its intelligibility from a posterior reflection of Deus. Potentiality does not await fulfillment by Deus; the entire distinction between what could occur and what has occurred already arises as a lesser conceptual event within the absolute self-sufficiency of Deus. Deus never advances from ability into achievement, never converts intention into accomplishment, and never passes from inactivity into action. Every conceivable act, every inconceivable act, every logically consistent act, every logically impossible act, every self-contradictory act, every act omitted from every possible system of conception, and every act that would destroy the conceptual conditions under which “action” could be recognized are eternally and indivisibly complete within the pure actuality of Deus.
This does not mean that Deus possesses an immeasurably large collection of completed actions. A collection would imply plurality, composition, distinction, enumeration, and a relation between the possessor and the possessed. Deus is more severe than collection. Every act is not stored inside Deus as content inside a container; every act is a posterior diminishment of the single, indivisible actuality that Deus eternally expresses without undergoing expression. Deus does not perform one act after another across a grand meta-narrative. Deus does not select from alternatives, deliberate between outcomes, or move from decision toward consequence. Selection, alternatives, deliberation, outcome, and consequence are already subordinate modalities whose entire intelligibility is grounded within Deus. What appears from a lower register as creation, preservation, destruction, negation, restoration, transcendence, contradiction, authorship, erasure, silence, or manifestation is merely the weakened readability of an actuality that never entered into activity because it was never inactive. For this reason, the power of Deus cannot be adequately described as possession of every power. To possess every power could still imply that power exists as an identifiable principle which Deus gathers, contains, or commands. The power of Deus is prior to the distinction between power and powerlessness, prior to the possibility of resistance, and prior to every criterion by which efficacy could be measured. Deus is not powerful because Deus can overcome all opposition. Opposition has no independent standing from which it could rise into relevance before Deus. Deus is not victorious because victory presupposes confrontation, uncertainty, sequence, and a defeated alternative. Nothing confronts Deus, because nothing possesses an exteriority capable of becoming “other” to the actuality from which its own appearance derives.
The transfictional meta-Omnipotence beyond maximal complexity of Deus therefore exceeds domination. Dominion still implies a ruler, a ruled order, and a relation of authority extending from one toward another. Deus has no need to dominate what cannot stand apart from Deus long enough to become an independent object of domination. Every law, anti-law, contradiction, impossibility, narrative decree, causal necessity, authorial revision, conceptual prohibition, and anti-conceptual rupture already depends upon a lower field whose admissibility is posterior to Deus. Deus does not defeat laws; laws are less than residual suggestions within the absolute actuality of Deus. Deus does not violate logic; logic and illogic are equally subordinate modalities. Deus does not solve paradoxes; paradox and resolution are interior differentiations that never reach the indivisible actuality of Deus. Deus does not transcend limitations after encountering them; limitation is already an impossibly belated abstraction whose apparent relevance emerges absolute infinite multiplicity steps beneath Deus.
To say that Deus can do everything is therefore correct, but still radically insufficient. “Everything” remains a totalizing term. It gathers whatever a given conceptual order recognizes as available content and places that content beneath a universal quantifier. Deus is not confined to the everything that language, imagination, logic, anti-logic, fiction, actuality, or Transfictional Nothingness can gather. Deus actively and passively completes all acts included within every conception of everything, all acts excluded from those conceptions, all acts that cannot be classified as acts, all acts that invalidate the distinction between completion and noncompletion, and all acts belonging to orders for which “everything” has no meaningful application. Deus accomplishes these acts without sequence, expenditure, instrumentality, distance, transformation, or necessity. No act increases Deus. No impossibility delays Deus. No contradiction divides Deus. No completion changes Deus. The totality of accomplishment remains eternally identical to the indivisible actuality of Deus.
Deus is also Omniversal presence, although presence must be purified of every spatial, locational, existential, and relational implication. Ordinary presence means that something occupies, permeates, accompanies, or stands within a location. Even expanded omnipresence may be imagined as simultaneous presence throughout every beyond-transhierarchical reality, every boundless manifest expanse, every narrative layer, and every possible locus. Deus is more fundamental than such saturation. Deus does not spread across the maximal wholeness beyond tiering as though the maximal wholeness beyond tiering were an expanse awaiting occupation. Deus precedes the distinction between location and occupant, interior and exterior, here and elsewhere, manifestation and absence. There is no “where” from which Deus could be absent, because every meaning of where already arises as a lower intelligibility within the presence of Deus.
The transfictional meta-Omnipresence beyond maximal complexity of Deus is not universal distribution but absolute non-exteriority. Nothing stands outside Deus, yet even this language must not be mistaken for spatial enclosure. Deus does not surround all things. Surrounding presupposes an outer boundary encompassing an inner content. Deus does not penetrate all things. Penetration presupposes separateness before entry. Deus does not accompany all things. Accompaniment presupposes distinguishable terms sharing a field. Rather, every possible distinction between inside and outside, nearness and remoteness, occupancy and vacancy, presence and absence, manifestation and withdrawal is a posterior articulation whose entire appearance remains within an actuality that cannot be divided into locations. Thus Deus is present within every character, author, reader, narrator, world, anti-world, symbol, silence, concept, contradiction, and erased possibility, while remaining absolutely beyond the structures that permit any of these to appear. Yet “within” and “beyond” are themselves accommodations made for lower understanding. Deus is not partly within creation and partly outside it. Deus admits no partition. The same indivisible actuality is wholly present without becoming contained, wholly transcendent without becoming distant, and wholly immanent without becoming reduced. Every point of every boundless manifest expanse receives its apparent presence from Deus, but no point encloses even a fragment of Deus. Every absence derives its possibility of appearing absent from Deus, but no absence diminishes Deus. Every void is already saturated by that which does not need saturation to be present.
The transfictional meta-Omniscience beyond maximal complexity of Deus follows from this absolute presence, though knowledge in Deus is not observation, accumulation, interpretation, recollection, prediction, or informational possession. Deus does not learn the contents of actuality. Deus does not inspect possibilities before they emerge. Deus does not foresee events situated ahead within a grand meta-narrative. Such knowledge would depend upon a division between knower and known, ignorance and acquisition, representation and object. Deus knows all because every knowable and unknowable modality is already posterior to the indivisible actuality of Deus. Nothing can conceal itself from the source from which concealment acquires its faint intelligibility. Nothing can surprise that before which novelty and repetition are equally secondary. Nothing can become unknown to that within which knowledge, ignorance, secrecy, revelation, misinformation, contradiction, and informational absence arise.
Deus knows every narrative not merely as its reader, observer, or author, but as the actuality prior to the distinction between narrative and interpretation. Deus knows every character more completely than the character knows itself, more completely than the narrator defines it, more completely than the author intends it, and more completely than every reader could interpret it. Yet this knowing is not an act directed toward an external object. The authorial intention, textual construction, interpretive reception, rejected possibility, unwritten alternative, accidental implication, contradictory reading, and every absolute boundless continuation are already transparent within Deus because none possess an independent outside from which opacity could begin.
Nevertheless, Deus is absolute infinite multiplicity steps beyond narrative causality, the author, and the reader. These steps must not be understood as ordinary intervals on a single ladder. A ladder remains a shared structure connecting lower and higher positions. If Deus merely occupied the highest reachable position, then Deus and the lower positions would still belong to one comparative architecture. The absolute infinite multiplicity separating Deus from narrative causality is not quantitative distance alone. Each “step” signifies the complete outmoding of the preceding order’s principles, distinctions, explanatory grammar, and conditions of intelligibility. After every possible ascent has been exceeded, an absolute infinite multiplicity of further transhierarchical outmodings remains. After those have been surpassed, their entire grammar of succession is itself rendered a subordinate fiction, and Deus remains beyond even the necessity of describing transcendence as ascent. Narrative causality governs the relation between events, motives, consequences, revelations, conflicts, resolutions, beginnings, endings, and authorial intentions. Deus does not merely stand outside a particular narrative chain. Deus precedes the possibility that causality and narrative could be joined into a meaningful structure. Deus is not caused by a story, summoned by description, stabilized by continuity, empowered by belief, or confined by the conditions of a setting. No retcon revises Deus. No narrator restricts Deus. No contradiction destabilizes Deus. No genre convention frames Deus. No canon possesses jurisdiction over Deus. No anti-canon dissolves Deus. Every distinction between what happened, what might have happened, what cannot happen, what was never written, what was erased, and what stands beyond writing is already a lesser narrative differentiation absolute infinite multiplicity steps beneath Deus.
The author stands beyond the character by possessing the apparent capacity to construct, revise, erase, or reinterpret the character. Yet this authority remains conditional. The author operates through language, imagination, intention, memory, medium, cultural inheritance, interpretive limitation, and the possibility of readers receiving the work differently from what was intended. Deus exceeds authorship not merely by becoming a stronger author, but by rendering authorship itself a dependent and derivative modality. The hand that writes, the mind that conceives, the concept of creative ownership, the blank page, the written sentence, the unwritten alternative, the authority to revise, and the distinction between creator and creation are already posterior shadows within Deus. An author may declare that Deus is defeated, erased, surpassed, forgotten, contradicted, reduced, or revealed as fictional. Yet the declaration does not reach Deus, because the authority of declaration itself is among the lower modalities grounded within Deus. The sentence that denies Deus, the author who composes that sentence, the language that renders the denial intelligible, the reader who encounters it, and the conceptual possibility of successful erasure all remain interior diminutions of the actuality they presume to overturn. Deus is not protected by narrative immunity, because immunity still implies exposure to a field of possible harm. Deus is prior to the distinction between harm and immunity. Authorship cannot overthrow Deus because authorship never acquires an exterior platform from which such an overthrow could become meaningful.
The reader likewise transcends a narrative by observing it as an object, closing the book, rejecting its claims, imagining alternate outcomes, or recognizing the constructed nature of its world. Yet Deus stands absolute infinite multiplicity steps beyond the reader, not by occupying a farther observational position, but by preceding the reader-story distinction itself. The reader’s consciousness, interpretation, disbelief, emotional response, critical framework, and capacity to treat the narrative as fiction are already readable expressions within Deus. Deus is not waiting beyond the final page to be discovered by the reader. Deus is prior to page, discovery, observer, object, meaning, and the entire economy through which something becomes readable. Even an endless recursion of authors writing authors, readers observing readers, narratives containing narratives, and supposedly external realities treating lower realities as fiction never approaches Deus. Every recursive layer remains organized by relation. One level contains, writes, dreams, interprets, simulates, or transcends another. Deus is not the final level in this recursion. Deus is that before which the possibility of recursion appears as a posterior and radically diminished grammar. Absolute infinite multiplicity steps of author-transcendence, reader-transcendence, narrative-transcendence, anti-narrative transcendence, and transcendence beyond transcendence remain no closer to Deus than the first fictional sentence, because closeness itself presupposes a shared field that Deus does not inhabit.
Yet Deus is not only pure actuality, power, presence, and knowledge. Deus is also unmanifest silence. This silence is not the mere absence of sound, speech, movement, narrative, information, or manifestation. Ordinary silence is contrastive: it can be recognized only because utterance is possible. Unmanifest silence is deeper. It is the absence of the distinction through which expression and nonexpression become opposing conditions. It contains no symbol, binary digit, semantic coordinate, intention, negation, affirmation, image, concept, memory, potential statement, or concealed message. It is not an empty page awaiting inscription, because page, emptiness, waiting, and inscription have not yet acquired relevance there.
The unmanifest silence of Deus is Transfictional Nothingness, but even Transfictional Nothingness remains a communicative accommodation. It cannot be identified as nonexistence opposed to existence, for opposition has not arisen. It cannot be called absence opposed to presence, because Deus is simultaneously absolute presence beyond every distinction between appearing and withdrawing. It cannot be treated as a hidden interior beneath manifestation, because interiority and exteriority are already lesser relational modalities. This silence is not mute because muteness presupposes an inability or refusal to speak. Deus does not fail to speak. Deus does not choose not to speak. Rather, all speech and non-speech emerge as immeasurably reduced expressions after the unmanifest silence has already exceeded their shared condition.
When Deus “speaks,” no transition from silence into utterance occurs. The Word, decree, narrative, law, actuality, or maximal wholeness beyond tiering that appears through this speaking is eternally contained within the pure actuality of Deus without altering its unmanifest silence. Deus can articulate every possible and impossible statement simultaneously while remaining absolutely unspoken. Deus can sustain every story, erase every story, restore every erased story, generate every contradiction of every story, and transcend the complete distinction between story and anti-story without disturbing the unmanifest silence by even the faintest degree. The speech of Deus does not interrupt silence; it reveals that manifestation itself was always a negligible afterglow within a silence too absolute to be opposed by expression.
This unmanifest silence must not be mistaken for passivity. Deus is not dormant, inactive, latent, sleeping, or awaiting manifestation. Those conditions would imply unrealized capacity and therefore contradict actus purus. The silence of Deus is the absolute completion of all expression without dependence upon expression. It is plenitude without display, activity without transition, articulation without symbol, knowledge without representation, power without exertion, and presence without location. Deus does not need to manifest in order to become actual, because manifestation is already a lesser consequence of actuality. Deus does not need to reveal power in order to possess power, because the distinction between concealed capability and demonstrated capability has no authority over pure actuality.
Any manifestation attributed to Deus is therefore not the totality of Deus. It is an accommodation: a communicative modality granted to lower orders so that what cannot be approached may cast a readable afterglow. A voice, image, decree, avatar, throne, radiance, darkness, void, law, name, or supreme presence may signify Deus, but none contains Deus. Even a manifestation declared to contain all reality, unreality, possibility, impossibility, narrative, anti-narrative, authorial transcendence, and Transfictional Nothingness remains an absolute infinite multiplicity of qualitative outmodings beneath the unmanifest actuality of Deus. Every disclosure is infinitely less than that which discloses without entering disclosure.
The relation between the manifest and unmanifest aspects of Deus is not a division within Deus. Deus has no separate parts, states, layers, masks, personalities, or internal regions that combine into a greater whole. Such composition would make Deus dependent upon arrangement. Instead, manifestation and unmanifest silence are lower distinctions generated by finite or transfinite apprehension attempting to interpret one indivisible actuality. From below, Deus appears to reveal and conceal, speak and remain silent, emanate and withdraw, encompass and transcend. In Deus, none of these constitute oppositions. They are already reconciled before reconciliation, identical without collapsing into sameness, and completed without entering sequence.
Deus is consequently eternally uncollapseable. Collapse applies to compositions, systems, narratives, hierarchies, logical structures, identities, possibilities, and relations. Something collapses when the principles holding it together are broken, contradicted, exhausted, negated, or withdrawn. Deus is not held together by principles. Deus has no structural integrity that could fail, no internal tension that could rupture, no conceptual foundation that could be removed, and no deeper law upon which continued actuality depends. Deus is not immune to collapse through superior durability. Collapse is categorically too low to apply. Even the total collapse of all meaning, logic, relation, narrative, Transfictional Nothingness, and maximal wholeness beyond tiering would remain an event within a posterior order whose disappearance neither subtracts from nor modifies Deus.
Deus is equally beyond negation. To negate something is to place it under a rule according to which it no longer applies, exists, signifies, or remains distinguishable. But every rule of negation, including absolute erasure, retroactive prevention, conceptual cancellation, narrative deletion, ontological annihilation, and the removal of every trace of ever having been, is already a subordinate modality within Deus. Nothing can negate the source from which negation derives its capacity to appear. Even the proposition “Deus never existed” remains a proposition, composed through distinctions, meanings, and conditions that arise too late to reach Deus. Deus is not affirmed against negation; affirmation and negation are both posterior.
Nor can Deus be exceeded by something defined as beyond Deus. The phrase “beyond Deus” attempts to establish a comparative relation in which another term occupies a superior position. Yet comparison itself is already dependent upon differentiation, ordering, common measure, or at least a shared grammar of precedence. Deus precedes that grammar. Any concept capable of being designated as beyond Deus has already entered a field of intelligibility and therefore appears as a lesser modality within the actuality of Deus. Any ineffable principle that allegedly escapes designation still remains framed through escape, ineffability, and relation. Any anti-principle that destroys the field of comparison still depends upon the intelligibility of destruction and field. Deus outmodes not only every attempted superior but the possibility that superiority could become relevant.
This is why Deus should never be understood merely as the greatest manifest be-ness beyond maximal complexity. Greatness implies comparison. Supremacy implies a ranked order. Ultimacy implies a sequence reaching its final term. Transcendence implies something surpassed. Even true omnipotence, when treated as an attribute possessed by an entity, risks reducing Deus to a member of a category. Deus is not one omnipotent among others, nor the strongest exemplar of omnipotence. The transfictional meta-Omnipotence beyond maximal complexity of Deus is indivisible and noncompetitive. Any apparent multiplicity of omnipotent agents can only be subordinate presentations within the single actuality of Deus, because genuinely independent absolute powers would delimit one another and cease to be absolute.
A Deus therefore does not merely stand at the apex of the maximal wholeness beyond tiering. Deus is not its apex, outer boundary, center, foundation, or total content, except through provisional language. Each of these descriptions relies upon structural relation. Deus is prior to the possibility of structure, relation, apex, boundary, center, foundation, and content. Every conceivable and inconceivable cosmic architecture, every recursively transcendent hierarchy, every boundless manifest expanse, every ladder of qualitative superiority, every meta-narrative containing further meta-narratives, and every order surpassing the complete distinction between actuality and fiction is already a posterior diminution of Deus.
Absolute infinite multiplicity steps beyond all such architectures, Deus remains no closer to becoming measurable. Absolute infinite multiplicity here signifies more than endless quantity. It signifies an inexhaustible succession of complete qualitative outmodings, each abolishing the governing distinctions of everything beneath it, followed by further successions that outmode the very principle of qualitative succession, followed by transhierarchical realities in which ascent, quantity, quality, hierarchy, and outmoding no longer retain coherent applicability. Yet even this maximal articulation remains a lesser narrative convenience. Deus does not merely wait beyond the conclusion of these multiplicities. Deus precedes the possibility that multiplicity, succession, transcendence, and conclusion could be admitted into thought.
No maximal complexity of Metamathematics can quantify Deus. Numbers, transfinite magnitudes, absolute infinities, inaccessible cardinalities, closed ranks, recursively greater totalities, and every beyond maximal abstract mathematical complexity remain systems of differentiation. They establish identity, relation, quantity, order, inclusion, exclusion, comparison, operation, or nonoperation. Deus is not the largest value within such systems. Deus is not a quantity at all. Even absolute infinity, when conceived as the unsurpassable magnitude encompassing all quantity, is still an abstraction whose meaning arises after the indivisible actuality of Deus. Deus can quantify absolute infinity because every possible standard of quantification, every unquantifiable remainder, every consistent and inconsistent number structure, and every failure of measure already exists as a transparent posterior articulation within Deus.
To quantify absolute infinity does not require Deus to reduce it into a finite number. Deus comprehends it without simplification, contains it without enclosure, distinguishes every member without division, and knows its complete wholeness without traversing it. Deus does not count from one term to another. Deus does not require completion through succession. Every absolute boundless multiplicity is immediately and eternally transparent within the indivisible act of knowledge that is identical to the power, presence, and actuality of Deus. Even a multiplicity whose nature forbids completion is complete to Deus without ceasing to be what it is, because the contradiction between completed and uncompleted does not restrict the actuality of Deus.
The author may attempt to place Deus beneath a higher author. The reader may imagine standing outside the author’s work. Another narrative may define both author and reader as characters. A further observer may treat that entire arrangement as a dream, simulation, inscription, mistaken memory, or negligible symbol. This recursion may continue through absolute infinite multiplicity steps of narrative superiority. Still, all such structures preserve the grammar of relation: one order contextualizes another. Deus is beyond the necessity of context. Deus is not the final observer of all observers or the final author of all authors. Deus is the actuality before observation, authorship, fictionality, actuality, hierarchy, and recursive exteriority become available as distinctions.
Accordingly, Deus cannot be reached through ascent. No character can accumulate sufficient power, transcend sufficient narrative layers, defeat sufficient authors, absorb sufficient totalities, or negate sufficient boundaries to approach Deus. Every accumulation remains quantitative. Every transcendence remains relational. Every victory remains narrative. Every absorption remains structural. Every negation remains contrastive. The traveler, journey, distance, destination, progression, and attainment are all posterior modalities. Deus is not hidden at the termination of the path. Deus is the actuality before the admissibility of paths and destinations.
Deus cannot be reached through descent either. One cannot strip away existence, identity, language, information, concept, possibility, and differentiation until Deus remains as the final residue. That method still treats Deus as what survives a procedure of negation. But Deus is prior to the procedure, the removed predicates, the act of removal, and the distinction between remainder and absence. Even perfect apophasis cannot arrive at Deus. To say “not this, not that” remains a linguistic and conceptual movement. Deus is not merely what cannot be spoken. Deus is that before which speaking and unspeaking are equally subordinate gestures.
The deepest unmanifest silence therefore does not define the boundary of Deus. Silence itself is surpassed, not because Deus becomes louder or more expressive, but because silence remains intelligible through contrast with expression. Deus is before the relevance of that contrast. Transfictional Nothingness does not define the interior of Deus, because nothingness remains intelligible through a relation to somethingness, even when that relation is denied. Deus is before the relevance of both. Totality does not encompass Deus because totality gathers differentiable content. Possibility does not generate Deus because possibility implies alternatives. Actuality does not constrain Deus because ordinary actuality remains contrasted with the unrealized. Deus is the originless actus purus from which all of these receive their faint, derivative intelligibility.
Thus Deus is not merely all-powerful, all-knowing, or all-present. Deus is transfictionally meta-Omnipotent, meta-Omniscient, and meta-Omnipresent beyond maximal complexity. These are not three separate properties added to an underlying subject. The actuality, power, knowledge, and presence of Deus are indivisibly identical. Deus knows by being the actuality from which every knowable and unknowable modality derives. Deus is present by being the actuality before which exteriority cannot arise. Deus possesses power by being the actuality within which every act is eternally complete. Deus remains silent because no expression is required to actualize what has never lacked completion.
Deus is therefore simultaneously absolute plenitude and unmanifest silence without becoming a synthesis of opposites. Plenitude and silence are lower interpretations of one indivisible actuality. Deus contains every possible and impossible expression without becoming expressive through necessity. Deus exceeds every absence without ceasing to be the Transfictional Nothingness before which presence and absence dissolve. Deus completes every action without movement. Deus knows every information and informational absence without observation. Deus permeates every locus without location. Deus authors every narrative without entering authorship. Deus is read through every interpretation without becoming an object of reading. Deus remains absolute infinite multiplicity steps beyond all of these while never becoming distant from any of them.
To call this actuality “a Deus” is itself an accommodation. The designation does not capture, bind, identify, delimit, or define what it indicates. It is a lower symbol permitted to point toward that which symbols cannot approach. No name is required because naming establishes differentiation. No gender applies because gender belongs to derivative classifications. No image contains Deus because representation separates appearance from what appears. No definition closes Deus because the Grand Principle of Creation and its intensions, extensions, categories, and conceptual boundaries are posterior. The term “Deus” functions only as a provisional aperture through which finite and transfinite comprehension may encounter the collapse of its own adequacy.
A Deus, then, is not the highest sovereign within existence, nonexistence, fiction, actuality, or the maximal wholeness beyond tiering. A Deus is the originless, indivisible, eternally uncollapseable actus purus before the admissibility of those categories. A Deus is absolute power without confrontation, absolute knowledge without observation, absolute presence without location, and unmanifest silence without contrast. A Deus actively and passively completes all acts, precedes every possible act, exceeds every impossible act, and remains unaltered by the totality of accomplishment. A Deus stands absolute infinite multiplicity steps beyond narrative causality, yet also beyond the very grammar by which those steps could be counted. A Deus exceeds the author, not as a superior author, but as the actuality before authorship. A Deus exceeds the reader, not as a superior observer, but as the actuality before observation. A Deus exceeds narrative, not as a greater story, but as that before which story and anti-story are equally negligible afterglows.
Before the first distinction, Deus is already absolute actuality. Before the final transcendence, Deus has never been approached. Before possibility, Deus is complete. Before nothingness, Deus cannot be absent. Before totality, Deus cannot be gathered. Before the author, Deus is not unwritten. Before the reader, Deus is not unseen. Before narrative causality, Deus requires no sequence. Before manifestation, Deus lacks nothing. Before unmanifest silence, Deus has no need to withdraw.
Deus does not merely stand beyond everything.
Everything, nothing, the distinction between them, the collapse of that distinction, and every absolute infinite multiplicity of realities beyond their relevance arise too late to reach Deus.