Creation

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Creation - a personal viewpoint

by Magi

The main difficulty when considering creation is the limitations of the human mind. Why so? Simply that it cannot conceive or conceptualise what existed before the moment of creation. This is true no matter what view one takes, whether it be evolution, big bang theory, creationist, Intelligent Design or a bit of everything. From a spiritual perspective, it must be assumed that something was behind creation; the divine, god, or whatever name/label one chooses to use. If one does not consider this to be the case, then surely the only reason for being here is to procreate to ensure the survival of the species. If that is your path, then I wonder why you are reading this. Without some sort of creator, then the big bang, arguably, had to have been a pure accident. But what then caused the big bang? And what matter or energy existed before the big bang?

A few minutes contemplating this will leave your brain frazzled as the human mind cannot possibly conceive an answer. So how much harder it is to try and comprehend what sort of ‘intelligence’ or form the creator had. The answer to that is, perhaps, even harder to comprehend.

Rather than saying something existed, it is perhaps more accurate to say that 'no-thing' existed as before creation it would not have been aware of itself. Similar to a human being under anaesthetic or in a deep dreamless sleep.

So how did creation get kick-started?

The Qabbalistic Tree of Life gives us a clue. The following diagram shows the first three sephirah on the ToL:

You will see that the top three sephirah form a triangle and above that are three other, shall we say, energies; but let's not worry too much about those for now, except take a leap of faith and accept these are the creator before creation. Now, in order for the creator, or no-thing, to be even aware of itself, let alone know its nature, it would have to do what any good aspirant does. That is, to turn within to find itself. Remember though, that at this stage, it is not even aware it exists at this point.

The moment it becomes aware of itself, or finds itself within, the first two sephirah come into being: that is 1) itself and 2) the reflection of itself that it has found within. Simultaneously with this the third sephirah comes into being which is knowing the difference between itself and its reflection. To explain this another way, imagine you are standing in front of a blank wall. You see nothing and so are not aware of yourself. Then you look into a mirror for the first time and see your reflection and become aware of yourself. At this point you know you exist because you see a reflection. The third sephirah is then knowing that the reflection is simply a reflection. All three of these conditions have to have existed for creation to occur.