"God thus includes the world; he is, in fact, the totality of world parts, which are indifferently causes and effects. Now AR is equally far from either of these doctrines; thanks to its two-aspect view of God, it is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism. AR means that God is, in one aspect of himself, the integral totality of all ordinary causes and effects, but that in another aspect, his essence , he is conceivable in abstraction from any one or any group of particular, contingent beings ."
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