Interestingly enough, this striking idea of God as the Self-Existent is to be found in the Hebrews and the teachings of Zoroaster. “Then Moses said to God, .. ‘But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?’ And God said to Moses, ‘I Am who I Am. … This is my name for all time; by this name I shall be invoked for all generations to come.’” (Exodus 3:13-15). “Thus spake Zarathustra – ‘Tell them, O Pure Ahuramazda, the name which is the greatest, best, fairest and which is the most efficacious for prayer. Thus answered Ahuramazda .. ‘Ahmi yad Ahmi Mazdo: I am that I AM” (Avesta, xvii, 4-6). (159)

The great discovery of divine self-existence, the “God equation” of Essence=Existence that has inspired hundreds of writings, is foundational for the Matrix. From it flows a dynamic vision of reality rooted in a living, ever-active and infinitely creative source and conserver of everything that was, is and will be. By working out all the implications of this “equation”, the Four arrived at all their other findings: the world is real and rational, the human person can think and know, every phenomenon has an explanation given that infinite Intelligence is the ground of all things.

Why is the Matrix important for science? Well, for modern science to work, for the very possibility of a scientific method that bears fruit in theory and experiment, we must make certain basic assumptions about the nature of the world. For instance, we can’t “do” science in the sense of seeking out underlying causes and laws if we didn’t believe that the world operates with causes and laws. Nor could we pursue our inquiries if we didn’t think our minds are capable of making deductions and reaching valid conclusions.