Creation myths from all over the world have some interesting commonalities. The great void, the beginningless empty infinity of the cosmos, the great spirit that stirred and moved upon the face of the deep. In the very beginning of the Book of Genesis we read that,
“1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
I have had a vision that has imparted upon me insight in to the meaning of this passage. In the beginning, Elohim (plural Hebrew word, referring to God the Father) created the heaven and the earth. The great, infinite, eternal intelligence of Elohim recognized the difference between matter and space. Matter had as of yet no form, and was a great void, an endless potential of possibility but not yet having any shape. Darkness was upon the face of the universe, a kind of opacity, that came from the permeation of the void with formless matter. When God separated the heaven from the earth, He created space (heaven) and formed matter within that space (earth). The Spirit of God then moved across this great, vast space, and uttered the first word, which is YHVH, Jehovah, the Light of the World, Jesus Christ, the Logos. Refer to John 1: “In the beginning was the Word (logos), and the Word was with God and the word was God.” God began to fill this great void which he had separated in to space and time with another thing: light. Not just the mere physical light that we understand today, but the pure, spiritual light of understanding, of love, of the essence of all things. The universe, having been separated in to matter and space, was no longer opaque, and could be filled with light, so Elohim breathed life and light in to the universe with the Word, “Jehovah.” Let there be light.
This great initial infinity, this great “void,” was the infinity of the mind of God. God, with his great wisdom and intelligence, created delineations in His infinite mind. These, by the nature of infinity, would be purely topological constructs, since they would also contain an infinity of values themselves. They were created in the image and essence of God, an exact mirror of His being, but with information added by the delineation and separation of one thing from another. That first separation, that of the Father and Son, Elohim and Jehovah, was the initial creation. Infinity divided itself in twain, like a cell divides in a mother’s womb. These two infinities were purely conceptual at this point, only existing because of the infinite’s awareness and perception of itself. These two infinities shared a common plane, a common membrane, a common topological face, an infinity of shared values between this delineated infinity and that delineated infinity. That common membrane was what we call today the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit. The Father and the Son coalesced physical bodies within their infinities of space and time, but the Holy Spirit was an ever-immanent common face that permeated all, yet had no form itself, for it was the commonality of shared values between the Father and Son, the linking force of Creation. This triune Godhead is what is sometimes called the Trinity, and its doctrine is reflected across many different religions and cultures. We have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but there is also Brahma the creator, Siva the changer, and Vishnu the sustainer in Hinduism, as just one parallel example.
There are certain patterns in Genesis that reveal deeper meanings. Within the first creation story of Genesis is a certain pattern, corresponding to the 10 numbers and the 22 Hebrew letters, creating a network of 32 pathways. Incidentally, the number of nervous pathways branching from the human spine in pairs is 31, with a 32nd in the brain complex itself, comprised itself of 10 primary pathways. When it is said that mankind is made in the image of Elohim, many deep things are intended. That is why scripture is so rich with meaning.
The 10 numbers correspond to sayings of God, called Sefirot by Kabbalists. Each one of those sayings is a direct act of creation that God made by speaking a Word of Creation. In the beginning, God. This is the first Sefirot, God the Father, Himself a “word” or vibratory emanation of the infinite divine substance. Next, God said “let there be light,” that is, YHVH, Jehovah, the second sefirot. The son. Then God said, let there be a firmament. The third sefirot, the Holy Spirit, the common face of God and his Son, through which all their interactions, the interactions of the light of the son and the love of the father would play across the cosmos. The immanent divine in all creation. God said, let the waters be gathered, the fourth sefirot. This is the forming of initial shapes, as gases across the cosmos began to coalesce, and the Earth was made. God saw the dry land, that is to say, the matter of rocky, earthy planets, and saw that it was good. He said, let the Earth be vegetated, the fifth sefirot, the creation of Life. Note that this is across the great Cosmos, and is a process of the grouping of long carbon chains in to complex acids which then begin to self-replicate. This began before the Earth was fully formed. The seeds of life are present throughout the Universe.
Next, God said “Let there be lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night.” Here is where we see the beginning of the formation and creation of our own Solar System, that we have come to know and love. Life already existed, and the form of the Earth already existed within God’s mind. The patterns and frameworks were in place through the Cosmos, but now these luminaries were put in to place, these lights so that a particular incubator would be created. A garden. Eden, the Earth. And God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,” forming the seventh Sefirot, the beginning of Life as we recognize it on Earth, which is the life that began within the Oceans and Seas of our wonderful world. God said, “Let the Earth bring forth animals” and this was the eighth sefirot, where life begins upon the land itself. Next, God said, “let us make Man” which is the ninth sefirot.
In the form of God, that is the form of Elohim, He created them. God created the first Man out of the great infinity, as a holographic divine Child of the Cosmos, a reflection of God’s great love and light. And then God put in to place the last, sealing sefirot of the great Tree of Life when he said: “Be fruitful, and multiply!” This was the final great act of creation, through which we, mankind and life itself, would go forth and fill the cosmos with His love and light, with family and fellowship, with laughter and creativity.
This is the nature of the great creation of God as given to us in Genesis. This is the structure of the Tree of Life, with its roots in the infinitely small and its branches in the infinitely large. This is the structure of our own being, created by God our Heavenly Father at the foundation of the Cosmos. His vast intelligence, wisdom, and love blesses us immensely. We are his spirit children, come upon the Earth to learn and to grow, to bear fruit unto Him and unto eachother, for the shared sustenance of all beings in the Cosmos. I leave these words with you in the love and the light of God. In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Redeemer, our great Sustaining Master. Amen.