CREATION (see WORLDS as well)

DD  0l  CREATION (HP 151)

Manifestation of Absolute Beingness in Itself as the uni­verses, from the highest heavens to the worlds of existence, in accordance with Its Divine Plan.

CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES (HP 149)

The Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness is the primal Cause. It is the Cause of Creation. From within the Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness all subordinate causes spring. Causes then give rise to archetypal Ideas. Archangels work through the Ideas and apply Total Wisdom to each form. Every Idea holds within it the whole Circle of Possibility and Probabi­lities of the form to be manifested. Principles govern the expression of causes in time, place and space.

WILL-PLEASURE (HP 163)

Absolute Beingness expressing Itself in Itself as Creation. The Will-pleasure, in Greek "euareskia", carries a sense of pleasure derived from bountiful giving, as practised by a warmly generous and wealthy source. God's pleasure in creativeness.

DD  0l DIVINE LAWS (FT 188)

The basic structure of Creation, governing all worlds and universes, and corresponding to our higher nature. Epitomi­zing Reason and Love manifested, it is our recognition of, and alignment with₁ these Laws --e.g., of Cause and Effect, of Harmony, of Order, of Growth of Love-- which leads to our balanced and enhanced spiritual development.

DIVINE MEDITATION (FT 188)

Intricately linked to Will-pleasure of Absolute Beingness to express Itself within Itself. Divine Meditation, for lack of a better term, is believed to be the state prior to the Will-pleasure where Absolute Beingness contemplates expression. Within Divine Meditation Creation is conceived.

DIVINE PLAN (FT 188)

The blueprint of Creation, perfect and complete, accounting for everything and for all occurrences. Attuning our thoughts and actions to the most wise Divine Plan of Abso­lute Beingness is the purpose of our existence.

 

FORMS (HP 154)

Anything, in order to exist, is created according to an ever­lasting Divine Form. There are billions of forms reflected in the worlds of existence. Each form possesses a unique Circle of Possibility, established in Total Wisdom, that de­marcates its expression in the worlds of separation. The Archangels work through the forms to create and sustain the phenomena of life.

EP      26     The Love of God is universal, ceaseless, impersonal and unconditional. It is the Love of God, expressed as Grace, which lies at the core of Creation.

EP      26     In our struggle to comprehend the Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness we learn that the genesis of Creation takes place in a Divine Meditation where God contemplates the Divine Plan that becomes Creation. The Will-pleasure of God is a gem-like prism through which the Great Light shines giving us the colours of the Archangelic Orders. According to the Will-pleasure, Omnipotence, Omniscience and Love of Absolute Beingness, this Divine Plan unfolds, is unfolding and will always unfold in the Eternal Now.

EP      27     The universes, as the texture of God pour forth in Space (a Nature of God). The Logos, Holy Spirit and the Holy Archangels build and maintain these universes. In our system we acknowledge seven heavens in which higher aspects of human consciousness can study and live in Self-awareness.  There may well be more. We call the less tangible heavens the causal planes as they give definition and order to the more material universes. The Causes, Principles, Laws and Ideas of Creation exist here in their archetypal state cared for by the highest orders of the Archangels.

EP           27     The causal planes give rise to the noetic state. Here we have discernible forms in juxtaposition to one another, as yet unexpressed, in perfect harmony and order. More advanced human beings can begin to perceive structure in the noetic state. Following the noetic state, stepping down the vibrations­of Mind, we begin to experience the worlds of separation as the noetical world takes shape. In the noetical world we have, for the first time, realized forms in a space-place-time environment (although quite different from the conditions we are accustomed to in the gross material world). The noetical world is the world of thought and is typified by seven planes, each plane further divided into seven sub-planes.

Next, at a lower state of vibration, we have the emotional or so-called psychical world. This universe is also divided into seven planes and seven sub-planes. We all experience these planes each night in our dream state, or self-consci­ously in exosomatosis. As in the noetical planes, the colours in the psychical world cover a much broader spectrum than on the gross material plane, and experience of time and distance become more elastic.

ET      21     As far as Creation is concerned, which is the expression of Absolute Beingness as a product of Divine Will-pleasure, it contains all the characteristics of Absolute Beingness, such as the Christ Logos --The Universal Super Self-consciousness-- and the Holy Spirit --the Universal Superconsciousness--.

ET      26     Within the framework of expression is included the creation of the universes, with the supersubstance Mind, and this creation arose from Absolute Beingness as a result of Its Divine Will-pleasure.

ET      28     The universes themselves, together with substance, supersubstance, matter and supermatter of which the universes are constructed, are an expression of the Reality of the One Creator. Of course the worlds of space-place-time and whatever exists in the noetical, psychic and gross material universes, are set in motion within most wisely defined cycles and are governed by immutable Laws, in order to demonstrate the phenomenon of life, as the Divine Will expresses it.

The universes are the common creation of the Christ Logos and the Holy Spirit. However, before they were created, before there was any other form of expression, all things whatsoever were within the Divine Self-sufficiency in a static and unmanifested state.

There is also within Divine Self-sufficiency Divine Will­pleasure, the result of which is Creation. All things that ever were or shall be, are.

ET      28                We shall see Divine Total Wisdom of Absolute Beingness, of the Logos and of the Holy Spirit, complete and absolute in all the universes, in a single cell, in a sun or in a galaxy. We are an image and likeness of Absolute Beingness - in quality, alike; in quantity, certainly not.

ET      70     Mind, which is movement, oscillation and vibration within Absolute Beingness, yet unexpressed, also came out of the One Expressed God and is Divine Supersubstance, from which all things are created. Be aware! Mind is only of God, it is not God. However, the gross material world and all the universes are constructed of Mind, at different frequencies of vibration.

ET      71     Within infinity and space we have,  on the one hand, Absolute Beingness, in the fullness of Its Self-sufficiency and Multiplicity, as Builder, Parent, Creator, and on the other hand, Mind, the universes and Creation as space-place-time expressions of Divine Wisdom, Divine Power and Divine Love.

We must bear this carefully in mind, so that we do not worship nature, but the Creator.

ET      74     We must believe that God-Absolute Beingness has no need of the worlds and universes. God is Absolute, Self-sufficient and complete and expresses Itself into substance and supersubstance in order to build Causal universes, according to Its most Divine Will-pleasure.

ET      75     Within these universes the Logos and the Holy Spirit will become the Caretakers of Its Divine Will, creating the worlds, which we as Spirits, the Archangels, the angels and all other manifestations receive as perfect. Also bestowed on us is the authority to use the Mind in all its states, in order to play out our own cherishable roles within Creation.

 

ET 77 CHAPTER SEVEN "CREATION"

ET      77     Nothing is created, everything is.

ET      78     God as a state of Beingness is Life, while in the state of existence It is the expression of life. Something that exists originates from somewhere and the phenomenon of life in the worlds of existence begins with the expression of the Will­pleasure of Absolute Beingness.

ET      78     We have, then, the world of Absolute Beingness, in which everything that ever was, is, or will be already is, as a Divine Meditation. All types of expression exist and, according to the type of expression concerned, they each take their turn so to speak, so that a succession of states is created. Thus we have the advent of time and place, in spite of there being no conditions of time or place within Absolute Beingness. Let us take ourselves as an example.

We are first of all a Holy Monad, which has not yet expressed itself in the worlds of form. We are Life beyond time and place, but we have as yet no existence before our emanation. Existence begins from the instant a ray of the Holy Monad passes through the Human Idea. From that instant we exist as a Self-aware Soul.

Something similar happens with all other forms. The worlds of existence include the noetical, psychic and gross mate­rial worlds. In the case of forms other than that of huma­nity, their creation is an expression of a Being, such as an Archangel. Thus all the other forms of living things, of planets, of all other things, indeed every other created thing, are projections --as elementals-- of the hosts of angels and Archangels, who are always ready to be of service in this way.

ET      82     The basic purpose of Creation is to serve the Holy Monad and not our temporary self, which is no more than a shadow.

Furthermore, humanity having mastered the material world has all the necessary equipment to enter into "the joy of our Lord" (Neh.8:10). We can now express ourselves in the space-place-time worlds of gross material, psychic and noetical matter, as a small Logos. This can not occur until the Holy Monadic projection has learnt its lesson in the space-place-time worlds.  "He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much", says the Most Holy Logos (Luke 16:10).

ET      97     (The Macrocosm)

The supersubstance of Mind is without form. The Divine Causes are in motion, and it is these Causes, within Mind, which will be expressed as Ideas --and still later as forms--. Up until this juncture we have  the causal and the noetic states.

Henceforth, dimensions begin. Then we have the giving of Ideas to forms, which constructs the noetic state. We thus have, at this point, Ideas and Mind as form, as an expression within the Infinite,  which is part of the Divine Will-pleasure. Forms, then, are noetic, beyond the conditions of place and time.

Next, the lower vibrations of Mind as supersubstance begin and Mind as substance comes into existence. This is the noe­tical world. There follow yet lower vibrations of Mind, which give us the psychic world, followed by the gross material world.