it could run parallel as well. interspersed, interlaced, may be continuously interacting but not a ‘part of’, akin to the biblical notion in Psalm 104 of enacting all things.

ie – if ‘everything’ was Hilbert’s Grand Hotel, the Alpha and Omega and all the odd numbers rooms would be God and all of the inbetween even number rooms would be everything else. One way doors from the Odd to the Even rooms, but not from the even to the odd rooms except with permission.