UNIVERSE, FORM AND MIND

All things we can sense and experience, this world that we typically call "real", is the unfoldment of the original energy-stuff of the universe. Everything we are, and everything we can see is the substance of the original 'Big Bang' that was the starting point of the universe.

With telescopes and space probes, we know the universe is expanding outward. Working backward from the outward motion, it is estimated that the material universe began around twenty billion years ago, and was originally smaller than a basketball in size.

This is the story of the creation of what we call FORM, which is to say, of things that can be measured, with beginnings and endings, with the four dimensions of length, width, height, and time, or duration.

Most people believe that Form is only half the story. Behind form is Intelligence, or Mind, which is the organizing principle, making form out of the formless, order out of chaos.

Forms are the stepping stone from unconscious Mind to Consciousness. Mind can only know things as FORM, and mind creates form as It comes to know things. Therefore as God expands Its knowledge of Itself, more forms are created, and energy must flow into the forms that are created. Hence God knows itself as US, and as the entire created universe. As It does so, we are created, and the universe is created.

As Mind evolves, thought evolves, and we observe that the world evolves to keep pace. Creation and Evolution are but two sides of the same coin. Creation does not occur from outside, as we commonly think of it, but as an unfoldment from within.