 Our natural cognitive equipment suffices to bring about the feeling of absolute dependence. It requires only the idea that existing things have causes and the idea of all existing things taken together. From this we get the idea of God as the cause of all that is. But then we think, if God exists, then God is part of all that is, and the urge for a causal explanation recurs: where did God come from? Theists put a stop to this line of thought by declaring that God has necessary existence, and so God, unlike everything else, doesn’t need to be caused. But the very question has projected the mind beyond the whole of what exists, to the radical other side of being, and that other side is not only absolutely uninflenceable, it is not even thinkable. And so the feeling generated by this thought is the feeling of absolute dependence.