God’s self-parting is the condition that starts history itself.

Evidence

God must distance himself from God in order for everything to begin, in order for this process to proceed: that which we would or could call the history of Being, the history of Spirit, the history of God, the history of time and of the future. God proceeds, he moves forward by parting himself from God, even though it is to return or rejoin himself. Such is the pace with which he progresses. The pace of God which says and could only say there will be no God. God leaves and separates himself from God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 160

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s own Hegelian plasticity thread on how God’s farewell powers the dialectic; also echoes kenosis-as-Entäußerung paid off across earlier chapters.
• DEEPTHINKING: The self-differentiation of God as the very engine of history—an idea dense enough to sit with, tying plasticity directly to temporality and the negation of the negation.