Would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem per se, this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem’s sake — Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)
The work is always more important than the author. It is not the artist or the mathematician who lifts us to know the world differently — it is their work that takes them, and the rest of us to this higher plane.
Likewise, it is not God, but His qualia and the matter which endures because of it, with which we consciously ritual to raise our souls to the divine. God is not as important as His work — unless, of course, He is the work and we are the authors. And then we are back at the beginning, where the work is more important than the author.