Nature is not the root and origin (the ultimate ground) of human, God and freedom. If nature serves as the medium through which our existence and free will come to be, it cannot not be the ultimate origin of all, given that the medium and origin are one and the same.
What existed with God before nature is unanswerable. We know God, Nature and Self, but, being last in line, we are unable to know what existed previously to the first. What we know is that God created nature and human by acts of free will, and it is this freedom that provides us with our direct inviolable connection to the divine mind.
We know God as creator, and we know nature as the means by which God creates free beings. (That is we know we are free beings in contrast to the fixed laws of nature.) But we cannot know how God Itself became free...
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