Photo courtesy of Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThere have been many<\/em> beginnings; even the bible says so. The very first book of the bible, The Book of Genesis<\/em>, starts with the word \u201cB\u2019reshit<\/strong>\u201d. But \u201cB\u2019reshit\u201d does not<\/em> mean \u201cIn the<\/strong> beginning\u201d as it\u2019s normally translated but rather \u201cIn a<\/strong> beginning.\u201d Each beginning involves the creation of Time<\/em>, and rolls out a brand new game of evolution-on-its-quest-for-divinity. But before there was any<\/strong> beginning, there IS Source.<\/p>\nSo let\u2019s look at the beginning that most of us are aware of. Obviously, the time span is actually the same, no matter the lens, but the units of measurement are different. So science says the beginning was 13.7 billion years ago. Hinduism says that it was much earlier and the Judeo-Christian scriptures say that it was much more recent.<\/p>\n
If you have a fever, it really doesn\u2019t matter whether you measure your temperature in Fahrenheit or Centigrade. If you\u2019re busted by the highway patrol for speeding, it really doesn\u2019t matter whether your speedometer reads Kilometers-per-hour or Miles-per-hour. So let\u2019s ignore the irrelevant differences and focus on a generic<\/em> unit.<\/p>\nBefore anything WAS, Source always IS.\u00a0 But it\u2019s lonely being Source, so She needed something other than Her Self to love.\u00a0 Source decided to get creative, to paradoxically birth \u201cOther-than-the-Self\u201d in a game of Hide-and-Go-Seek with Herself.<\/p>\n
Therefore on \u201cDay One\u201d\u2019 She laughed into life a great explosion of possibility.\u00a0 Science calls this \u201cThe Big Bang\u201d; the Hebrew scriptures call it, \u201cRuah Yahweh\u201d (the Breath of God): a swirling mass of atoms-becoming-gasses that coalesced into galaxies that spawned stars and planets which danced like whirling dervishes. And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the First Day.<\/p>\n
Then She took spores of biological matter that She had harvested from previous universes and scattered them generously among the galaxies, seeking hospitable environments. One such environment was a green-blue planet called Gaia, that opened its womb and received the sacred seed, saying \u201cFiat voluntas tua<\/em>.\u201d And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Second Day.<\/p>\nAnd Gaia gave birth again and again and again and again, just as Jesus advocated,\u00a0 \u201cYou shall be womblike (rahamim) even as the birthing principle of the universe (Abwon) is womblike<\/em>.\u201d Then Source fertilized and weeded and genetically upgraded these new biological forms creating a riotous array of colors and shapes, of skills and niches.\u00a0 It was the beginning of the entrepreneurial impulse. And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Third Day.<\/p>\nAll of these life forms needed Source in order to survive, but Source wanted beings that didn\u2019t just need<\/em> Her but that loved<\/em> Her. So She engineered the mammals who could dream and emote and play with their young. Empathy had been introduced into the equation. And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Fourth Day.<\/p>\nThen Source, like all females, decided She wanted someone who could talk to Her<\/em> during this lovemaking.\u00a0 So She upgraded Earth-life to a brand of mammal that could speak and think abstractly about existential issues.\u00a0 Now the dance had become very exciting. And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Fifth Day.<\/p>\nSource was ready now to really<\/em> go for it.\u00a0 She conferred the penultimate gift, the discovery of Soul, which could lead to Self-realization, Buddhahood or Christ consciousness. And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Sixth Day.<\/p>\nAnd on the Seventh Day She rested.\u00a0 She said, \u201cNow you\u2019re on your own; see if you can finish the course.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be waiting and watching.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked on the evolution of consciousness; you must now work on conscious evolution.\u00a0 But you need to know that I\u2019ve conducted this experiment many times.\u00a0 Once I insert Freewill into the equation, all bets are off.\u00a0 Sometimes it works and I get Angels to interact with; sometimes it fails and I have to deal with Demons.\u00a0 Angels or Demons \u2013 those are your choices.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t screw up! \u00a0<\/em>And God saw that it was good; and there was Evening and there was Morning the Seventh Day.<\/p>\nBefore there was any beginning, there IS only Source; after all the endings are done, there IS only Source.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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