Maybe at this point it is worthwhile to recap.
Consciousness is a function of individualization, since it requires an object - something to be conscious of. This implies that in the Beginning, when nothing was yet created, there was only Oneness, and therefore the initial creation may have been by emanation, an unconscious process. Perhaps this is what the early church fathers were getting at.
One should realize that since time and space are functions of the created universe, to refer to 'The beginning' is just a convenient way of dealing with the matter from our time-rooted viewpoint.
Genesis speaks of 'the waters being separated from the waters'. Since water is a Biblical symbol for Spirit, this may be referring to the division, or individualization of Spirit, to create conscious entities, points of view from which the Creator could look consciously upon Itself. The 'firmament' thus mentioned in Genesis could refer to the forms thus created. The process goes something like this:
- Thoughts are things.
- Thoughts have form - so thought creates forms.
- Spirit responds to thought and puts substance into form.
- The result is a physical manifestation of the thought.
The Biblical term for a clearly expressed thought is "The Word"
So, initial creation took us, it appears, from Unconsciousness to individualized consciousness. This could be viewed as the beginning of the evolution of Mind, or simply the outward expression of Mind. Like the seed, God expresses what was in Mind to begin with. The oak is just the outward expression of that seed’s inner potential. So our individuality, which is expressed in form in the world, is the outward expression, or part of it, of God’s inner potentiality, which we take to be infinite. Our seed analogy breaks down here, since the seed’s potential is limited and finite, at least in quality. In Quantity, the oak may grow bigger, and may produce more seeds and more oaks, but the quality will always be recognizable.
Perhaps the quality of our Creative Originator also remains constant, like a trademark stamp on creation. Perhaps we look too hard at the differences between things,and don’t see the unity that is there. Perhaps the quality is found in the Law of Nature, and the Law of Mind, which governs all things equally without variance.
Unconscious creation is creation not from a specific vision or imagination, but from an urge. When we say that "God is Love" we are saying that this is the nature of the urge that led to the first creation. Many of us are creating from our unconscious every day. Most of the things we don't want in our life are creations from our unconscious. The result is seldom specified, but if the urge is there, it will create something that symbolizes that urge. If it is fear that drives us, then the outcome will be a fearful situation, but the specifics of it will be randomly generated. When is says in Genesis that "God saw that it was good," that tells us that ours is a world created from Love.
Anything in your life that does not look like Love has been created from the opposite of Love - Fear. Since ours is a universe of Perfect Law, created from Love, then our fear must be based on errors in our thinking.
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