Beyond the Efficient Cause

The following text was written in 2005 as a short promotional introduction to the draft of The Sacred History of Being, which was written in 2003-4. That draft remained incomplete. The text which became the published version in 2015 is significantly different in detail, though the essential argument is the same. I have reworded a couple of sentences in this document, but the import of the text is essentially unchanged. 
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"Not many writers would consider writing a book such as The Sacred...