Darkness was upon the face of the waters before they were drawn from the eternal realm, but those waters were not of any 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 followedby open reality. The command, “Let there be light,” had openeda door upon all 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 with his seed, as though it
were an only-begotten son. And HaShem saw the light, that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness, which could not prevail.

On day one, the precedent for both firmament and 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 soon 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.

On day two, parameters of firmaments and expanses were established. Firmaments exist in many scales within creation, from the sub-atomic to the galactic; but they all 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, a firmament is as the axle between expanses, which areits wheels.

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, secondary expanses; and the invisible fields of force between positive and negative polarities provide firmament. In molecular combinations, electrons adopt logical positions within shared expanses as required by the melding of the elemental expanses, 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 of elemental gases, in which two hydrogen atoms combine with one oxygen atom to produce the liquid. The firmaments and expanses of the two elements are not lost in the compound. They retain their core atomic characteristics, which are as firmaments open to combination in the molecular realm, determining parameters of another expanse, whose molecular firmament probes surface tensions of neighboring expanses, open to combination.

Wheels 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 of valencies that are held together by dynamics of firmaments and expanses. Creation is like a hologram, but it is not; for its masses are founded on sound, not on light.

If it were possible to cross-section reality, we would discover data points beaming along the wires of firmaments; for firmaments are as tunneled expanses—they are expanses activated and elongated by vibration: stretched thin within an envelope of form to carry data between inner and outer spheres, the expanses they join as one formulation.

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 point of observation, and wheels turn 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 if a man thinks he knows anything at all, he knows yet nothing as he should. The just live by faith. We blink together.

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. “Living Waters” are of the eternal realm. Created on the second day, heaven is a gossamer expanse of the temporal realm that supports immortal life; and it also functions as firmament of the temporal realm’s material expanse, which supports the mortal life of earth. The eternal expanse feeds into heaven, which feeds into earth.

Heaven always existed in the mind of la, and it became reality when drawn from the Living Waters and given expression by God’s word. Distilled within the expanse of heaven, the holy waters are turned into wine that siphons down to earth in parables to slake thirst in those seeking the source of life, whetting their interest in stronger drink.

There’s a living la creation cannot contain, yet he’s aware of each of us in every instant of our lives, as unremarkable as we might seem by any logical estimation of our stature and heavenly relevance. We are children, the best of us; and we 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 breath; for the reward of everlasting life dwarfs other considerations. If any of us choose other paths, it’s because we’ve not learned the lessons for which we came to earth. Shame will build desire for renewed opportunity to rekindle the hope we have squandered away in foolishness.

Heaven is a created realm. It’s a temporal manifestation that has not always been clean in the sight of HaShem, and our mortality plays an important role in its cleansing; for all things shall be renewed as mankind overcomes by reaching perfection through unity with HaShem. At that moment, death and disorder will not be found, and our immortal angels will be clothed in clean garments designed to last forever.

Earth was created to accommodate mortality, providing a transformational medium for immortal angels who had become impaired. Worms of imperishable fire, they ventured to earth to overcome error within its cooler fires. Like heaven, earth was never a final destination. Both are way stations, clearinghouses. We’ve made the circuit many times, shedding the old in preparation for the new.

It is written, “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 in Revelation 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 cloud within 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. By creating the paradigm of time, the unqualified became qualified; the limitless, limited; and HaShem therefore sent out emissaries by twos; for all things in heaven and earth are paired. Firmaments empty into expanses; and expanses gather themselves, that they might be projected as firmaments.

HaShem is beyond the limits of any paradigm. With no ceiling, he chose to establish a floor, which is the bedrock Name hwhy. By means of the interplay between cause hy and
effect hw, HaShem became both the creator hy and the 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. 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 Sons of Man. All mortals reborn within God’s spirit recognize the divinity within life and serve that vision over any temporal advantage, learning what this means, “I will have mercy, not sacrifice.”