Chapter 8: Eternity and Creation¶

[PLANNED] This chapter has not yet been written; what follows is a skeleton. Items may be added or removed, and the order may change.

The test abroad. The topic is a combination of concepts: eternal, self-existent, immutable, omniscient, creating by free will. No existing religion is named; only the philosophical structure of the combination is examined — and the theorem's independence from Buddhism turns from claim into demonstration.

• Route one: self-existence as the textbook instance of E3 with D2 — here the three conditions are written into the definition itself.
• Route two: permanence against agency — what never changes cannot act, and what acts changes.
• Route three: one cause and all things — the Kośa's refutation of Īśvara (fascicle 7): from a single cause, everything at once.
• Route four: omniscience against free will, with the Vibhāṣā's internal debate (fascicle 11) as precedent.
• Route five: creator and created under the identity-difference dilemma — the Chapter 3 skeleton in live use.
• Together: the combination gathers every feature the theorem targets; the difficulty is structural, not confessional.