Fido Sustaining in Being by a Cause C

Anything whose essence is distinct from its existence must have a cause of its existence at any moment that it exists here and now. We're not talking about a temporally ordered series of causes here, as we'll see. To stick with the example of Fido, he must therefore have a cause which here and now imparts existence to his essence. So let's label this cause whatever it is, C for cause. Then what we said about Fido and about the other things of our experience applies no less to C2. Let's call this further cause B.