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Is it conceivable the universe was self-caused rather than brought about by a transcendental creator?

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022

I am loth to reproach myself, now the cruel creature has escaped me; For what would that do, but add to my torment? since evils self-caused, and avoidable, admit not of palliation or comfort.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Richardson, Samuel

This, as I say, was the notion that haunted me, the link my imagination forged between Sir Eustace Carr's presence in that dark Venetian church, and his self-caused death some years later.

From Trivia by Smith, Logan Pearsall

I take as self-evident the enormous difficulty of self-caused, self-existent matter.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry

Surely the Highest Himself must have more pain than any one else for the self-caused misery of men.

From The Gospel of the Hereafter by Smyth, J. Paterson (John Paterson)