Using Human Imagination to Understand the Miracle of Creation.

Using Human Imagination to Understand the Miracle of Creation.

Imagination is at the heart of human creative ability. Therefore imagination must be the key factor that has been imparted to us to enable us to be creative.

We can use our imagination to help us understand the Mind and the motivation of our Creator. This is one way that we can gain insight not only into the nature of our own creation, but into the purpose of it.

To start with, let us imagine the pre-universe (our universe not having been created yet) in which there is only One Thing – that is, Creative Intelligence and Intelligent Substance, one and the same thing. That which Ernest Holmes called The Thing Itself, meaning something which cannot be described by a name, is outside of time and space as we know it, since both time and space are aspects of our created universe. Therefore, there is timelessness; and there is no sense of dimension. There is only a Mind together with undifferentiated substance.

Why a Mind? We can infer a mind, because creation flows from thought. The very act of creating is a movement of thought. Thought provides the definition of form, and it is form which defines created things. Created things are only identifiable by their separation from one another, by their differentiation in shape, color (reflectivity), and other material behaviours. In the absence of created things, there is no differentiation – therefore no thing, which is identifiable.

Prior to creation, Mind is unconscious. Why? Because consciousness requires an object, it cannot exist prior to the existence of separated objects, or created things. There must be something to be conscious of. Even to be conscious of nothing must mean the identification of nothing as compared to – something. So in the absence of any created thing, mind remains unconscious.

Mind cannot be conscious of Itself, unless there is a reference, a point-of-view, from which to regard the self. Humans regard each other from a particular point-of-view; a reference point that we think of as somehow in our head, an imaginary point behind our eyeballs, from which we imagine ourselves looking out at our world, and down at the ‘rest’ of ourselves. Self-consciousness, for us, is the creation of that point-of-view.

The miracle of consciousness occurred when the Master Intelligence, the Universal Intelligence, developed that point-of-view. To do so, It had to separate itself, from a unitary consciousness, into a subsidiary consciousness, which then regarded Itself from an external viewpoint, just as we do. God Itself had no externality, nothing outside Itself, until the miracle of creation.

In the Bible, water, and sometimes air, is used as a metaphor for Spirit. The intent is to convey something fluid, something that penetrates all things, which dissolves the hardest things, which lies calmly upon Itself; there are varieties of useful parallels, as we can see.

In the first lines of Genesis, we are told, “The Spirit moved upon the face of the deep”, and “The waters were divided from the waters” by a “Firmament”.

This can be taken to mean that Spirit acted to divided Itself from Itself, and place the limitations of form upon Itself (the firmament), so that virtual copies of Itself would be created. This would enable the creation of:
1. Two or more points of view
2. Recognizable forms
3. The Physical world
4. Subsidiary intelligences linked forever to their origin

In this we can recognize most of the significant roots of our metaphysics.

We can also recognize in it the findings of our science; the ‘quantum energy’ of space lying at the core of everything, while superstrings provide the means for our physical universe to exist, while not separate in any way from the underlying cosmos.

Thus, at least in our imagination, we can picture the how and the why of fundamental creation. How – being the virtual separation of consciousness through creation of form, into which the fundamental intelligent substance of the Cosmos separates Itself. Why- in order to permit the Universe Itself to become conscious – having multiple points-of-view, and to therefore regard and presumably to appreciate Itself.

Our consciousness, looking out at our surroundings, our very experience as we move through life, is the Creator Itself, experiencing Itself through us.

Our purpose in life is to make that experience a positive one, a joyful one; by so conducting ourselves that we achieve not only personal happiness, but help provide it for others around us as well.

We are given the complete freedom to do this, because without it our viewpoint would be restricted and conditioned. It would not be truly independent, and would be suspect, just as we doubt the word of someone who is overly beholden to us, or who stands to gain from shading or coloring their communication with us. Freedom of thought is the Creator’s gift to us, is order that we be true and clear observers of life.