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Jantsch maintains that God abandons himself many times in a sequence of evolution in which he transforms himself. God is thus “not absolute, he evolves himself—he is evolution. Since we have called the self-organizing dynamics of a system its mind, we may now say that God is not the creator, but the mind of the universe.” The “‘God-structure’ is neither form nor quantity, but the non-unfolded, the totality of undifferentiated qualities. It is pure potential.”

This last point is especially striking since in the Aristotelian tradition adapted by Thomas Aquinas God is called “pure act.” The idea of God as “pure potential” indicates some feminist influence in tapering down mere Yang energy with some Yin energy. It holds up the Creative and Motherly dimension to Divinity in a special way.