Concerning God's existence, Locke's proof is a cosmological-type argument. From the certainty of our own existence of God immediately follows. A person knows intuitively that he is "something that actually exists." Next a person knows with intuitive certainty that "a bare nothing can no more produce any real being than it can be equal to two right angles." It is, therefore, an evident demonstration that from eternity there has been something. And since all the powers of all beings must be traced to this eternal Being, it follows that it is the most powerful, as well as the most knowing, that is, God. Locke here assumes, without question, the validity of the casual principle even beyond the range of possible experience.
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