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The '''ground of all [[Existence|being]]''' or foundation of [[reality]] is '''[[God]]''', the uncreated, unbounded, self-contained, self-consistent, eternally self-existing Source of all existence, without beginning or ending, the Creator who through his Word ([[Logos]]) made and sustains in existence all created things in [[heaven]] and [[earth]],<ref>Genesis 1:1; Wisdom 11:24-25; Isaiah 42:5; 43:10; 44:24; 45:5-7,18-19; John 1:1-3; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 4:11.</ref> both the supernatural order or realm with its particular laws and operation and the subsumed<ref>"subsume": That which is subsumed is classed as a specific or an individual or particular in the general; the inferior class of the (lesser) natural realm included in and subject to the general superior (greater) spiritual realm within the whole of reality. Adapted from ''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary; including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary'', 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606 | subsume. p. 1335b.</ref> natural order or realm of [[spacetime]] with its particular laws and operation, included in the one reality of Being (see [[Ontology]]).
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The '''ground of all [[Existence|being]]''' or foundation of [[reality]] is '''[[God]]''', the uncreated, unbounded, self-contained, self-consistent, eternally self-existing Source of all existence, without beginning or ending, the Creator who through his Word ([[Logos]]) made and sustains in existence all created things in [[heaven]] and [[earth]],<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%201:1&version=KJV Genesis 1:1]; Wisdom 11:24-25; Isaiah 42:5; 43:10; 44:24; 45:5-7,18-19; John 1:1-3; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 4:11.</ref> both the supernatural order or realm with its particular laws and operation and the subsumed<ref>"subsume": That which is subsumed is classed as a specific or an individual or particular in the general; the inferior class of the (lesser) natural realm included in and subject to the general superior (greater) spiritual realm within the whole of reality. Adapted from ''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary; including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary'', 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-21606 | subsume. p. 1335b.</ref> natural order or realm of [[spacetime]] with its particular laws and operation, included in the one reality of Being (see [[Ontology]]).
    
In the [[philosophy|philosophical]] language of the archaic period in Greece (8th-6th century B.C.) '''''arche''''' (or ''archai'') designates the source, origin or root of things that exist. ''Arche'' (Greek, ''ἀρχή'') is a Greek word with primary senses of ''"beginning", "origin"'' or ''"source of action"''. (''εξ’ ἀρχής'' [''ex arches''] : from the beginning, οr ''εξ’ ἀρχής λόγος'' [''ex arches logos'']: the original argument), and later ''"first principle or element"'', first so used by [[Anaximander]] (Simplicius in ''Physics'' 150.23<ref>see [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100365760 Simplicius, On Aristotle's "On the Heavens 1.10–12" ]</ref>), ''"principles of knowledge"'' (''ἀρχαί'') (Aristotle ''Metaphysics'' 995b8). By extension it may mean  ''"first place, power", "method of government", "empire, realm", "authorities"'' (in plural:''ἀρχαί''), ''"command"''.<ref>Lidell and Scott Lexicon | [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D318%3Aentry%3Da%29rxh%2F ἀρχή]</ref> The first principle or element corresponds to the ''"ultimate underlying substance"'' and ''"ultimate undemonstrable principle"''.<ref>Peters Lexicon:1967:23</ref>  In ancient [[Greek Philosophy]], [[Aristotle]] foregrounded the meaning of ''arche'' as the element or principle of a thing, which although undemonstrable and intangible in itself, provides the ''necessary'' conditions of the possibility of that thing.<ref>Sandywell, Barry, [http://www.books.google.com/books?id=k561uXI-uPgC&printsec ''Presocratic philosophy''. Vol 3, 1966, Routledge, New York, pp. 142-144]</ref>
 
In the [[philosophy|philosophical]] language of the archaic period in Greece (8th-6th century B.C.) '''''arche''''' (or ''archai'') designates the source, origin or root of things that exist. ''Arche'' (Greek, ''ἀρχή'') is a Greek word with primary senses of ''"beginning", "origin"'' or ''"source of action"''. (''εξ’ ἀρχής'' [''ex arches''] : from the beginning, οr ''εξ’ ἀρχής λόγος'' [''ex arches logos'']: the original argument), and later ''"first principle or element"'', first so used by [[Anaximander]] (Simplicius in ''Physics'' 150.23<ref>see [http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100365760 Simplicius, On Aristotle's "On the Heavens 1.10–12" ]</ref>), ''"principles of knowledge"'' (''ἀρχαί'') (Aristotle ''Metaphysics'' 995b8). By extension it may mean  ''"first place, power", "method of government", "empire, realm", "authorities"'' (in plural:''ἀρχαί''), ''"command"''.<ref>Lidell and Scott Lexicon | [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D318%3Aentry%3Da%29rxh%2F ἀρχή]</ref> The first principle or element corresponds to the ''"ultimate underlying substance"'' and ''"ultimate undemonstrable principle"''.<ref>Peters Lexicon:1967:23</ref>  In ancient [[Greek Philosophy]], [[Aristotle]] foregrounded the meaning of ''arche'' as the element or principle of a thing, which although undemonstrable and intangible in itself, provides the ''necessary'' conditions of the possibility of that thing.<ref>Sandywell, Barry, [http://www.books.google.com/books?id=k561uXI-uPgC&printsec ''Presocratic philosophy''. Vol 3, 1966, Routledge, New York, pp. 142-144]</ref>
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