Night and Day
To say that darkness was before their faces is to say that the door to the temporal had not yet opened. The temporal life forms those waters would sustain had not been defined, and challenges had yet to be identified and savored. Brooding on these things, the spirit of HaShem hovered over the face of the Living Waters, drawing upon their essence.
There is evening and there is morning: hidden potential is followed by open reality. As the light within HaShem absorbed the dew of life rising from the face of the waters, he was refreshed. He 38 would soon send those waters forward, into receptive temporal realms. The command, “Let there be light,” would open a doorway to all potential.
The father’s projected word—the logos, which enunciated the full measurement of his essence, the light of the godhead—his structured thought, carried the living pattern of The Name beyond the skirts of time, filling temporal realms with seed.
As HaShem watched his expressions on the face of the waters, he beheld only goodness; and so, he divided the light from the darkness, which would not prevail.
On day one, the precedents for both firmament and expanse had been established, preparing the way for the formation of the discrete elements of creation. The words, “Let there be” were tacit acknowledgment that elements of creation had already been envisioned and would soon be called forth.
The interplay between the possible and the actual established a most dramatic expanse in the core firmament, which fused together the poles of nascent temporal realms, welding their destiny within the mind of HaShem; and on day two, the parameters of all firmaments and expanses were established.
Firmaments exist at many scales within creation, from sub-atomic to the galactic. All scales share the same principles: in every dimension, wheels turn within wheels; and the firmament that pertains to discrete wheels joins what it also holds as separate. In a sense, firmaments are as axles that bridge their expanses, the living wheels of Ezekiel’s vision.
Consider: around the nucleus of every atom 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 are secondary expanses; and the invisible force fields between positive and negative polarities cloak the atom’s firmament.
In molecular combination, electrons of each element fill appropriate positions within the orbitals of their elemental counterparts. The compound is established by a chain reaction in which the atomic combination fuels the molecular combination, which gives birth to the new compound. Molecular expanses reflect the principles observed in their elemental expanses.
Because they join what they hold as separate, firmaments establish interface between discrete realms. For example, water is the molecular structure of elemental gases, in which two hydrogen atoms combine with one oxygen atom to produce the liquid.
The
firmaments and expanses of elements are not lost in the compound. The
gases retain their atomic characteristics, even as they adopt new
profiles, which will reflect the criteria under which principal
firmaments will remain open to further combinations. Their elemental combination creates a binding firmament that determines the parameters of the molecular expanse; and the molecular firmament, also open to combination, probes surface tensions of neighboring expanses, exploring possibilities.
Wheels turn within wheels. I write of atoms and molecules, but these terms are only conventions used to study the continuum we call creation, which is comprised not of materials, but of valencies that are held together by the dynamics of firmaments and their expanses. Creation is like a hologram, but it is not a hologram; for its masses are rooted in sound, not light.
Creation is a word, a logical statement. It is the body of divine thought. If it were possible to cross-section reality, we would discover data points beaming along the wires of its firmaments; for firmaments are as tunneling expanses—they are expanses elongated and activated by vibration.
Sound rippling out from within the thin envelope of form carries data between the inner and outer spheres of the expanses they join as one formulation.
A thing or a creature may seem solid and alive at one observation point in the continuum but appear to be fragmented and, arguably, dead at others. I say “arguably,” because each measurement gives way to the next, and all temporal conclusions are based on available data at any given point of observation, none of which can quantify the effect of wheels turning within wheels.
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 the day, resolving to rejoice and be glad in it, whatever it might bring; for this is our rest, and the day’s intricacies cannot be memorialized in any mausoleum of knowledge. 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
myhla called the firmament heaven.
“Living Waters” are of the eternal realm, not of realms isolated above
or below. Created on the second day, heaven is the expanse within the temporal realm that is home to immortal life; and it functions as firmament of the immortal realm’s material expanse, which supports the mortal life of earth. The eternal realm emanates temporal heaven, which feeds into earth.
Heaven always existed in the mind of God. Drawn from the Living Waters of eternity, it became a temporal reality when it was given expression by God’s word.
Within the duality of the temporal realm, the past and the future became distilled as the present; and the eternal waters of Ein Soph were turned to wine, which siphoned down to earth as parables to slake the thirst of those to come, whittling their interest in stronger drink.
There’s a living myhla creation cannot contain, and yet the infinite one is aware of each of us at every instant of our finite lives, as unremarkable as they might seem. We are children, the best of us; and at our worst, we indulge infancy by surrendering to things we crave but dare not mention.
Creation is a divine contrivance that is designed to teach us how to live, as breath follows upon breath. We act or we do not. We learn or we don’t. The cost of error is tabulated according to our understandings, and the grace of a merciful la wars against bitterness, making our necks supple again and softening our hearts.
Like earth, heaven is a created realm. It’s a temporal manifestation that has not always been clean in the sight of HaShem. Man is a little lower than the angels in form, but not in function; for our mortality plays an important role in the cleansing of temporal realms. All things shall be renewed when the Sons of Man overcome through unity with HaShem, at which time it will be said, “Behold! I create all things new.”
When the spiral that had begun when iniquity was discovered regains its congruence with the circle of divine perfection, creature and creator will be reunited as one. In that moment, death and disorder will not be found, and the immortal angels, who shouted for joy at the creation of man, will put on the celestial garments prepared for them as they labored on earth for the harvest called the Kingdom of Names.
Earth xra cradles mortality. It is the context hmda into which immortal star seed a is deposited d, that it might soak m in the light h of the father a, who is responsible r for mankind’s redemption x.
The children became impaired when iniquity was found in them. As creator, HaShem might simply have destroyed them, raising up others in their stead. He had done so, but not after the manner of men. In righteousness, the father chose mercy over sacrifice; for his children had stumbled through no fault of their own.
He would groom their lives after the pattern of the vine. Preserving the root, he would prepare for each cycle of growth by preserving cutting's from tender foliage, in case root or seed should fail. The lifeline from first planting to final harvest would be unbroken.
To this the angels had agreed; for they would be revitalized in the intervals between seasons by the cleansing fire of heaven. They would not have been comfortable living everlasting lives in souls maimed by imperfection.
Again and again, therefore, they had ventured to earth to overcome error within its cooler fires. Like heaven, earth was never a final destination. Both are way stations, clearinghouses in which they would complete many circuits, exchanging the old for the new.
That HaShem creates all things new is true not only of great cycles, but also within the fleeting moments of each day. Instinctively, we know by each beat of our hearts that more is coming than what we can foresee.
That there is more awaiting than heaven offers is implied in the book of Revelation, in which a voice comes from an expanse above the heavenly throne, which has harmonics with the transfiguration parable, in which the voice comes as from above a cloud. Admonishing the collective expanse of the on-looking apostles by a firmament of sound, the voice assured them of Y’shua’s anointing by saying, “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.
In creating the paradigm of time, the unqualified became qualified; the limitless, limited. HaShem is seen as the charioteer within the chariot, and he sends forth his emissaries by twos; for all things in heaven and earth are paired.
HaShem is beyond the limits of any paradigm. Firmaments empty into expanses; and expanses gather themselves, that they might be projected as firmaments. With no ceiling, HaShem chose to establish a floor: the bedrock Name hwhy.
By the interplay between cause hy and effect hw, HaShem became both creator hy and deliverer hw. He chose to be magnified within time by becoming the magnet—the focal point—for all that time would come to enfold. To that end, HaShem’s word was projected from the eternal into the temporal: to create, to uphold, to save, to redeem, and to rule by consent.
HaShem laid down his essence in the eternal, that he might shed it abroad in the temporal, sharing his life with all creatures. His fullest expression is measured within the Sons of Man. Mortals reborn within God’s spirit, they recognize divinity within all life and serve that vision over any temporal advantage, having learned the meaning of the admonition, “I will have mercy, not sacrifice.”
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