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Abstract
As an impassioned theist, modern philosopher George Berkeley constantly contemplates our fundamentally spiritual condition, as created souls who stand in relationship with the Divine Spirit. Berkeley's unique metaphysics, which effectively re-conceptualize and arguably collapse traditional boundaries separating ontology from epistemology, seemingly deny even the possibility of formulating an ontological argument for God's existence, while simultaneously making possible novel and refreshing ways of deploying both the cosmological argument and teleological considerations. Berkeley's novel variation upon the cosmological argument demonstrates the epistemic immediacy of our experience of God, as the necessary condition for sense perception. Berkeley's explication of an essentially "flat" ontology secures the second, metaphysical instance of immediacy, the metaphysical claim of an unmediated relationship between God's ideas and our own sense perceptions. Finally, Berkeley employs the language of teleology to establish the essential character of God the metaphorical Divine Artisan as something both benevolent and intensely personal.