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CREATION OR EMANATION OF THE SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL UNIVERSES
The potential and unmanifest , becoming the
actual and manifest in a scheme of being in which the spiritual and
mental precede the astral and physical.
"What creation is to God , that is thought to man.' " Creation is in
fact the thinking out of a thought ." - ALICE GARDNER, John the Scot
, pp . 128 , 38.
"The Deity began (the Creation ) by forming an imperceptible point ;
this was Its own Thought ; then It turned Itself to construct with
its own Thought a mysterious and holy Form ; finally , It covered
this (ideal) Form with a rich and shining (visible ) garment ; that
is , the entire universe , of which the name necessarily enters into
the Name of Elohim." - Zohar, I. fol. 1 and 2.
"The Zohar also says : 'All that which is found (or exists ) upon
the Earth, has its spiritual counterpart also to be found on High,
and there does not exist the smallest thing in this world , which is
not itself attached to something on High, and is not found in
dependence upon it.' The basic element . . . is the idea of a
perfect invisible universe above, which is the real and true
paradigm , or ideal model of the visible universe below. The idea of
the Upper ideal but real and true, and the lower apparently real,
but in truth changeable and untrue, goes through the entire
Apocalypse of St. John , is in St. Paul, and in the Epistle to the
Hebrews ." - ISAAC MYER, Qabbalah, pp . 108 , 109.
"All things that are on earth , O Tat, are not the Truth, they are
copies only of the True. . . . For all that alters is untrue; it
does not stay in what it is. . .. All that is subject unto genesis
and change is verily not true" ("Of Truth "). - G. R. S. MEAD, T. G.
Hermes, Vol. III. pp. 18, 21.
"It is at the command of Him who always covers this world, the
Knower, the Time of time, who assumes qualities and all knowledge,
it is at His command that this work (creation) unfolds itself, which
is called Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether." - Svetas Upanishad,
6, 2.
"Thou (Ra) art the lord of heaven, thou art the lord of earth; thou
art the creator of those who dwell in the heights, and of those who
dwell in the depths. Thou art the God One who came into being in the
beginning of time. Thou didst create the earth, thou didst fashion
man, thou didst make the watery abyss of the sky." - BUDGE, Book of
the Dead, p. 13.
The "watery abyss" is the ocean of Truth-Reality becoming manifest
upon the highest planes.
"We find the following in Suidas, as Tuscan teaching, gathered from
the Tuscan history-book : 'The Demiurg ordained twelve thousand
years of life for the world, and placed each thousand under the
dominion of a sign of the Zodiac. Creation continued during six
thousand, and the duration will be six thousand. In the first,
heaven and earth, in the second the firmament, in the third sea and
waters, then the two great lights, the souls of beasts, and lastly
man was created.'" - A. JEREMIAS, Old Test., etc., Vol. I. p. 168.
"Modern evolutionists would argue that creation has never had a
beginning; it is an eternal process. Our universe has had a
beginning, no doubt; but then there must have been other universes
before it; this mysterious something that now shows itself as life
and mind must always have been at work in some form or other. It did
not lie asleep for a million million ages, and then suddenly begin
to evolve a universe. It has always been active; it is its nature to
be active, it could not help it. It never began, and it will never
end. Solar systems are born, grow old, and die; and then the process
starts all over again. And we are obliged to admit this to be true,
whether we believe in God or not. It is inconceivable that from all
eternity God did nothing until one fine morning he suddenly decided
to create a universe and to bring humanity into being. He must have
been doing something; to be eternally living is to be eternally
active." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., God's Gift of Life.
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