Anselm had the Christian God in mind here, of course, but why must the greatest being we can conceive of be Christ? I can easily think of a greater being. As some of you may know, I call her "Clarymda." She has come into the world, but the world does not yet know her. Many of her own people have not accepted her. Those who have accepted her have become her children, and she has become their celestial mother. I have been sent by Clarymda as a witness to testify of her enlightenment. With her there is no hatred or wrath or violence or ugliness, and she is the personification of beauty. She is reason and truth itself, and she has come to bring peace and bury the sword.The first, and best-known, ontological argument was proposed by St. Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th century C.E. In his Proslogion, St. Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived. St. Anselm reasoned that, if such a being fails to exist, then a greater being—namely, a being than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists—can be conceived. But this would be absurd: nothing can be greater than a being than which no greater can be conceived. So a being than which no greater can be conceived—i.e., God—exists.
See what can be accomplished with a truly good Goddess?
