"[First of all] there is the abysmal nature of God, that is: that void that exists before God and is God himself (the freedom of God, God as freedom) is God as pure beginning, which implies precisely the nothingness of freedom. Before God, there is only God. But God, before God, exists. God's existence can only depend on God himself; we must necessarily admit this kind of divine doubling. God's existence is an act of his original freedom, it is an act of freedom that establishes itself. God's freedom posits God's existence, God's freedom, that is: divine abyssalness, the nothingness of freedom as beginning, posits God's existence, that is, the fruit of this freedom, which thus becomes a historical fact. The first historical fact ever is the existence of God, which is therefore undeducible – which is therefore initial."