Principle 1: nothing makes itself — nothing is its own cause
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First principle: nothing makes itself; nothing is its own cause.
Self-making would require being before being — contradiction.
What is becoming is not yet; what acts already is.
Latin
XI. Primo igitur certum est, nihil a se ipso fieri, & nihil esse sui ipsius causam. Nam si aliquid se ipsum fecisset, plane necesse foret, illud fuisse antequam esset, quod implicat contradictionem. Etenim quod fit nondum est; nam quod fit transit a non esse ad esse. Quod vero facit aliquid, jam est; cum agere praesupponat esse.