# Ousia-Energeia

In Palamism of the orthodox church, there is a distinction between
god's ousia-energeia, i.e. essence-energies. God's ousia is totally
transcendental and incomprehensible since it's not a part of this
world. However, god is the only source of truth, good, beauty and
you can experience divinity with all those things in this world.
That means, you can experience god's energeia in this world.

When I was daydreaming, I realized that I can apply this concept
to myself.

Think of Stirner's definition of ego as "creative nothing". You
can't know the essence of yourself. What is your "ousia"? I don't
know about myself either.
Then think of pragmatic maxim. By that maxim, you are equal to all
the consequences of your existence in this world. So I could call
this your "energeia".

You can experience only my energeia from my posts. Well, those are
my energeia themselves too. About my ousia, I don't know that
either. That's a creative nothing.

If we apply this to things, ousia becomes like "thing-in-itself"
by Kant. Or I could interpret them as the Platonic ideas, i.e. the
direct objectifications of will by Schopenhauer. And will itself
is incomprehensible.