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    Supports→God exists as an actual existent, even though the quality of deity has not yet arrived

    Part of the world — the growing, infinite world with its nisus towards deity — does exist

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    For Alexander, God is the whole world possessing the quality of deity (Alexander 1920ii: 353). However, the “whole world” does not yet exist because Alexander’s universe is one of process; the universe is in progress towards becoming complete, and this is why Alexander claims the universe is in process towards deity. The whole world, which will possess the quality of deity, does not yet exist, but part of it does: “As an actual existent, God is the infinite world with its nisus towards deity” (A

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