THEORY OF CREATION

 SUMMARY

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Below we present an overview of the Theory of Creation in the form of concise thoughts. For the full explanation, please see the detailed items under the headings The Involution and The Evolution in the table of contends on the left.


Creation is Knowable
The knowledge of the creation, i.e. how the cosmos, the universe came about, is known. It is not unknowable, as the religious traditions state.

 

Creation from Absolute
The creation (i.e. the universe, the cosmos, and all that followed) manifest from the Absolute; the Divine; the infinite, indivisible, formless Omnipresent Reality. The Absolute always was, always is, and always will be.

 

Involution and Evolution
The universe (i.e. the cosmos) is a result of two movements -- involution and evolution. The process by which the Many is created from out of the Absolute is called the Involution. Once that process ends, the process of Evolution begins. In essence the evolution begins with the manifestation of the universe.

-The involution is the process by which the Absolute manifest the creation, the universe. It is the process by which the Many emerged from the One as a universe of divided, ignorant forms. The involution is that which occurred that enabled the creation, the universe, the cosmos to manifest from out of the Original Principle, the Divine, God, the Absolute. Involution is the process of self-limitation, of densification, by which the Absolute, Brahman veils itself by stages until it assumes the appearance in the cosmos, the universe we know of. It wishes to create the universe to objectify itself and its spiritual properties in infinite possibilities, for the purpose of Delight of discovery which it will achieve thereafter when humans discover their True Nature and the hidden spirit in all things.

-The evolution is the movement forward by which the created universe evolves from its initial state of divided, ignorant forms, emerges as Life and Mind, and in that process rediscovers its Source. The evolution occurs after the involution. It is the development and progressive movement of all in the cosmos, including humans, to attain its fulfillment, including rediscovery in delight of the spiritual aspect, that Consciousness-Force, that was the source of the creation. The evolution is the progressive development from the first inconscience in matter into life (movement, sensation, etc. and living physical beings), to mind (in conscious being, animals, including the human, the self-conscious thinking animal), to spiritualized mind, culminating in Supermind, i.e. Truth Consciousness (as supramental individuals, leading to a supramental, i.e. a divine life on earth).

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In the involution there is spirit at first, ending in spirit involved in inconscient matter. In the evolution matter rises in substance and consciousness culminating in all planes saturated with spirit, which is invisible to us when we look out from lower status.

Process of Creation
Before the created universe, the manifestation, the Absolute through a process of self-conception, conceived of a universe for the purpose of the discover of delight of being by those forms that would be created. To begin that process The Absolute extended to three aspects; Existence (which we will refer to as "Being," which can also be interpreted as pure spirit), Consciousness-Force, and Delight.

Birth of the Universe
The universe actually begins at the end of the involution, at the point that the energy at rest that emerged from the Conscious Force begins to move, which then coagulates into matter.

 

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V		 Involution
(all that led up to creation)		 Evolution
 (the creation, universe forward)		 ^

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Spirit
(Conscious Force)		 Spirit
(Conscious Force)
Plane of Mind Mind
Plane of Life
(i.e. Energy at rest)		 Vital
(Animated Life)
(from moving Energy)
[Universe begins here]
Matter		 Matter
 [Universe begins here]
(from moving Energy)


Purpose of Involution & Evolution is Delight of Being
In this process of Involution that creates this original Energy that formulated into forms of the universe, the Spirit consciousness of Existence/Being is absorbed and lost purposefully, so that the individual forms who would appear in creation, i.e. we humans, can experience the joy of discovery through our higher consciousness of the spirit hidden in the forms (including in matter, in life, in mind) that are actually embedded (i.e. involved) within each of these aspects of creation. Thus the Absolute (the Divine) enabled creation so that the conscious being in creation would have the joy of discovery of the spirit in matter and life. In essence, He wanted to extend his Delight of Being into the Delight of Becoming in the universe. He also purposely created divided, unconscious, ignorant forms through the instrument of Truth Consciousness in order to create the greatest possibility and multiplicity of those forms, which would have the greatest variation for expressing the Delight of Being. When we move form our unconsciousness to our higher consciousness we experience the delight of Being, the very reason that the Creator enabled a manifest universe in the first place.
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The Process of Creation for the Divine, the Individual, and Acts are the Same
-The process by which an individual or a collective creates in life is the same process that enabled a universe to emerge from a Spiritual source.
-When we create and accomplish in life, we essentially have a vision of, an aspiration of that which we want to accomplish, we organize its details, and carry it out through skills and positive attitudes that enables it to manifest as a living reality.
-Likewise, the Divine had a Vision of creating a universe to extend its Delight into forms, which it manifest by extending its original Spiritual status into a conscious Force, out of which emerged an essential Energy, which became/s becoming all forms in the universe, including us, via the dividing action of Truth Consciousness (Supermind). Thus the Divine too enabled the universe through a process of vision/conception to organization to manifestation.
-The individual act is a microcosm of the universe.
-The process of a successful act that manifests as accomplishment is the same process as the process of the creation, whether for the individual or the universe.
-Acts are accomplished perfectly through knowledge, aspiration, conception, will, organization, and skilled execution. This is a complete act that yields infinite results, mirroring the infinite results that took form as our universe originating from a Divine source. When we perfect an act by following the process of creation, we are mirroring the process of creation of the universe from a Divine source. In all instances, the ultimate purpose of the result is Delight of Being.
-There is ultimately only one process in the unmanifest, as well as in our manifest universe -- the Process of Creation.
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