Night and Day

Darkness was upon the face of the waters before they were drawn from the eternal realm, but the waters were not of that darkness; for they were Living Waters, and in them all life is secured. To say that darkness was before their faces is to say that the door to the temporal had not yet opened. The life forms those waters would sustain had not been defined, and challenges had yet to be savored; and so, the spirit of HaShem hovered over the face of the Living Waters, drawing upon their light.

There is evening and there is morning: hidden potential is followed by open reality. The command, “Let there be light,” had opened the door to every potential; and the Light of HaShem  streamed forth as Life unto receptive temporal realms. The father’s projected word, the enunciated logos, the full measurement of his essence, the light of the godhead, its Living Pattern had filled all realms, as though it were an only-begotten son. And HaShem saw the light, that it was good; and HaShem divided the light from the darkness, which could not prevail. 

On Day One, the precedent for firmament and its expanse had been established, allowing the formation of discrete elements of creation. “Let there be” is tacit acknowledgment that yet other elements of creation had already been envisioned and would be called forth; and the interplay between the possible and the actual established a very dramatic expanse in the core firmament, which fused the poles of temporal realms, welding their destiny within the mind of HaShem. They would again be One.

On Day Two, the parameters of firmaments and expanses were established. Firmaments exist in many scales within creation, from the sub-atomic to the galactic; but all firmaments share the same principles. At all scales, wheels turn within wheels; and the firmament pertaining to each discrete wheel joins what it also holds as separate. In a sense, firmaments  are as the axle between expanses, which are as wheels.

Consider: around very atom nucleus there are expanses—orbitals— that capture and hold the electrons that differentiate one element from another. The atom’s nucleus is the parent expanse; its orbitals form the secondary expanse; and the invisible fields of force between the two comprise the firmament. In molecular combinations, furthermore, electrons adopt their logical positions within the widening expanses in answer to the reality of the parent expanse, establishing order where chaos would prevail.

Because they join what they hold as separate, firmaments establish interface between discrete
realms. For example, water is the molecular structure that allows two hydrogen atoms to combine with one oxygen atom, producing water. The firmaments distinct to each of the two elements are not lost in the compound. Retaining their core atomic characteristics, they combine as One in the molecular realm, establishing the parameters of yet another firmament, which creates an expanse that is open to combination with others, and to other others.

Wheels within wheels. We speak of atoms and molecules, but these terms are conventions used to study the continuum we call creation, which is comprised of valencies that are held together by firmaments and expanses. Creation is like a hologram, but it is not a hologram. Were it possible to cross-section reality without destroying it, we would discover data points distributed along firmaments; for firmaments are as tunneled expanses—they are elongated spheres that are data points between inner and outer spheres, the expanses they join as One.

A thing or a creature may seem solid and alive at one observation point in the continuum of creation but appear as fragmented and arguably dead at others. I say “arguably,” because each measurement gives way to the next, and all conclusions are based on available data at any given point of  observation. The just shall live by faith; for there is no other logical way to live. We arise each morning and proclaim that HaShem hwhy has made each day, determining to rejoice and be glad in it; for if a man thinks he knows anything at all, he knows yet nothing as he should. The just live by faith.

In the beginning, HaShem divided the waters that were above the firmament from the waters that were below the firmament; and it was so. And la called the firmament heaven. The Living Waters are of the eternal realm, while heaven is of the temporal realm; for it was created on the Second Day. Heaven always existed in the mind of la; but because it was given expression by God’s word, it became so. The holy waters of heaven are understandings that teach of the Living Waters of the eternal realm, which are hidden in the holy water of earth as parables that teach of HaShem’s majesty.

There is a living la creation cannot contain. It does not seem possible, but HaShem is aware of each of us in every instant of our lives, as unremarkable as they might seem by any logical analysis of our stature and worldly relevance. We are children, the best of us, and are as undisciplined infants at our worst, concerned primarily about what our instincts crave.

Creation is a divine contrivance designed to teach us how we must live, as breath follows upon each breath; for everlasting life is a reward that dwarfs any present consideration. If any of us would choose death, it’s because we’ve not learned the lesson for which we came to earth, and we are ashamed to think that we might need another chance.

We are to be of good cheer. Heaven is a created realm. It is a temporal manifestation that has not always been clean in the sight of HaShem; and mortality plays an important role in the restoration of all things; for all things shall be renewed as mankind overcomes, reaching perfection. In that moment, like a blink of an eye, death will not be found. All memory of error will be erased: though our sins had been as scarlet, our new, immortal souls will be white as snow. The tears will evaporate in joy as we awaken to life everlasting.

Earth was created to accommodate mortality, providing a transformational environment for immortal angels who became impaired through error. Our heavenly forms—our worms of imperishable fire—came to earth to overcome error in the cooler fires of earth. Like heaven, earth was never our final destination. Both are waystations,  clearinghouses. We’ve made the circuit many times, and an element of who we truly are is stationed wherever we are at all times.

Beyond the written promise, “Behold, I create all things new,” we know in our hearts that more is coming than we can foresee, even if our blind eyes are fixed on the abyss. That there is more awaiting us than heaven offers is understood in the scripture that tells of the voice coming from an expanse above the heavenly throne, calling to mind the parable of the transfiguration, in which the voice comes as from an expanse above the vision, admonishing the apostles by means of a firmament with the words, “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.”

There are wheels within wheels. With the command, “Let there be,” the essence of HaShem hwhy, which had known no beginning within eternity, put upon itself a beginning; and by creating the paradigm of time, the unqualified became qualified; the limitless, limited. HaShem sent them out by twos: all things in heaven and earth are paired, and the illusion of duality is produced by the distance between expanses and the firmaments by which they are joined. When creation is renewed, firmaments will be withdrawn and expanses will merge with expanses, allowing for the formation of firmaments of which we have yet to learn.

HaShem is beyond limits, any paradigm. With no ceiling, he chose to establish a floor: the bedrock Name hwhy. In the interplay between cause hy and effect hw, HaShem became the creator, thereby choosing to be magnified within time by becoming the magnet—the focal point—for all that time would come to enfold; and the word of HaShem was projected from the eternal into the temporal: to create and to rule and to save. God’s essence was slain in the eternal, that its rebirth in the temporal would give life to all creatures, whose fullest expression is measured within the lives of the Sons of Man. All mortals who are reborn within God’s holy spirit recognize divinity within all life and serve that vision over any temporal advantage. Learn what this means, “I will have mercy, not sacrifice.”