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The One is a son of God—of the whole complex of God including, for example, the Trinity—and it supplanted the latter, in the long mythological lineage of sons supplanting fathers. Like any child raised by a father, the One is its father transformed.
The Christian God was supplanted by the One: the god of science, atheists, agnostics, and, now, even the religious. (— The One holds sway over those who have beliefs in God.)
If God is dead, as Nietzsche declared, we’re trying to work through His corpse, and surface like maggots. It’s as though God died and was supplanted by, and lives on as, a corpse (the One) — as though the son of God is His own death. As though the corpse is “spread out against the sky.”[1] And yet, faced with this, all things gather around. But, unlike at a funeral, things are in disarray, people sitting and standing, facing every which way. The open casket is not in front: it’s everywhere. — Even in death, the corpse gathers all to it.
[1] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” p. 9, lines 2-3. See §2.108.