At the beginning of the Gospel of John, the bible says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
As a communications engineer, this speaks volumes to me. The WORD means information, meaning, intelligence and structure, such as flows from the process of thought. This means that God is pure thought energy, or conciousness. God not only IS consciousness, but ALL consciousness resides with God.
In other words, pure thought provides the structure and the impetus to form and fill the universe, and the thought energy acts within the substance of the Creator to cause energy to flow and fill the structures of creation.
"The word was with God" means that these thoughts flowed within the body of God as the Creator.
"The word was God" means that God's own self-awareness flows from this consciousness, from these thoughts, as well. Our Universe is nothing less than what God thinks It is!
When Moses asked "who are you", the answer was "I am that am". In other words, "I am that which is..." When all things are encompassed within one's being, one cannot relate to who or to what. One just is - everything.
This feeling of cosmic ONEness or complete lack of separateness is our key, our sign that we have touched our own awareness of the Creator in us. For we are of God. We can be nothing other.
Our human ego has been designed to give us a sense of separateness or individuality, to enable us to operate independently, and exercise that freedom of will which is the gift of our creation.
Realize that this separate identity is our personal illusion. Your separate self is like the fake storefronts in the old western movies, a facade, a temporary thought construction. Aside from that facade, we are made in the image and likeness of our creator - that is, with the full creative ability to form and manipulate our so-called 'reality'.
Why? Why us? Why this illusion of separateness in a world that appears solid, but which we know (thanks to Einstein) is fashioned from the energy of pure light. Why would the Creator have done such a thing?
I think the answer lies in the nature of Unity versus diversity, of togetherness versus separateness. Unity cannot be divided against itself. So long as God remained ONE, there would have been only one sequence of thoughts, one point of view, one line of experience, fulfillment, and creativity. By contrast, there are billions of us, all facing separate challenges from separate points of view. We bring richness and depth to the experience of God as we struggle to fulfill our purpose.
Only our apart-ness enables us to have different experiences from one another; to develop different creative ideas and patterns of thinking. Only the forming this illusion of separate consciousness could the richness of diversity be combined in Unity once again!
This notion of a diversified creator who is, at once, all things, does challenge our usual concept of the infallible God. From our limited point of view, for God to be always right, never wrong, would mean that God would have to have only ONE point of view - the right one. Of course we think we know which one that is!
I believe that notion puts human limits on God. I believe God to have a billion or more points of view. And yes, they are always right, because right just isn't what we thought it was. God is not limited to one thing. God is the sum total of all possibilities.
Right thinking, right action, for each of us, is what we find when we have sought and found ONE-ness with our inner reality, our true self, the Creator at the heart of each of us. For each one of us that rightness, that truth, is different - having its own unique form and expression. When we look at the world from the perspective of that inner Truth, we will judge it righteously, rather than by appearances (John 7:24).
The miracle of this creation is that by allowing our uniqueness to blossom and express itself fully, we are adding our share within that glorious unity that is God.
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