In the Beginning

Principles:

• You and I have been promised these lives from the beginning of time.
• That beginning was no accident.

Well, Human, you and I have been here since the beginning of time. It makes no difference whether time began with the cracking of the Cosmic Egg, Genesis 1:1, or the "Big Bang" (an expression coined in 1950 by the astronomer and mathematician, Fred Hoyle). This Great Adventure is the result of a perfect, pure intention rising out of an indescribable void and uttering its only commandment: “Be!”

“Be!” is a perfect, eternal thought encompassing a perfect, infinite body in a single point of light. In the glorious instant of Its becoming, that Holy Thought, that Incredible Speck, expanded its light into all of the dimensions of time and space and joyously cried out, “I am!” That passionate cry echoes yet from the farthest reaches of the universe. According to Big Bang theory, this Incredible Speck of Light, in the first instant of being inflated at an unimaginable rate... a trillion, trillion times in the tiniest fraction of the first second of all time. Our beautiful universe must be part of a great idea.

This expansion of Light produced what we can truly call “stardust.” Scientists exploring... seemingly accidental relationships in the Universe have found special fixed numbers called “constants” to describe these relationships. Now they find that if these numbers were off by the tiniest percentage, the Universe could never have given birth to stars, let alone us humans.

When we focus sharply and clearly for a long enough time on any thought or idea, we can create physical things. The invention of the incandescent light bulb by Thomas Edison typifies the result of exercising this power of focus. Look at what minds have created.

Questions that analyze Divine thought—Truth —cannot threaten it; it simply is. Questions threaten secular thought because it lacks the integrity of Truth. The Great Invocation opens with the expression, “From the point of light in the mind of God....” Though she wrote this years before Fred Hoyle coined his famous phrase, it speaks of how the Great Expansion began, and still goes on within The Source’s mind—sacred thought. If our minds move, store, and combine information, so must The Source’s mind, for we are made in The Source’s image, are we not? Does it not make sense that the mind of The Source encompasses its entire creation? Does it not make sense that The Source needs to know what goes on in its body—the physical universe?

Thought must connect all of the pieces of the universe. It must be able to move between them without any limitation of the physical universe, which is limited by space and time. As a result, some scientists have brazenly concluded that thought originates in the chemical processes of the brain. Their thesis makes the creative mind secondary to the created body. The quantum physics experiments mentioned above, coupled with some later thought experiments, suggest that a mental universe encompasses the physical universe. Money? Greed? The Source’s passion creates and sustains that wondrous Point of Light. Passion is a matter of soul, not the mind, or the body. Joyous laughter is not unique to humans. We learned it from The Source. The sound of the Great Expansion is certainly The Source’s joyous laughter. Fear is not of the Universe. The time has come for us to stop throwing ourselves all over time and space. The Source has already fed us the knowledge to know that the Point of Light in its Mind promises each of us the time and space we occupy here and now.

As we have God’s body, mind, and soul within us, so must we have God's spirit within us. The Source’s spirit expresses itself in perfect relationship with the whole universe. Ours would reflect God’s spirit back at The Source. Three more points will close this chapter: First, we are all equal.... We are all Mind, Body, Soul, and Spirit. Second, all human beings are different. Our bodies, temperaments, passions, and experiences are all different. Third, like God, we are also Light, Life, Love, and Laugher, which make us equal in God's eyes.

And now a simple question based on this awareness: “What did The Source put each one of us here to do?” And one more question out of the first: “What was The Source's purpose in creating our wonderfully diverse and creative species? My experience tells me that we find the answers when we open a dialog between ego and soul. So let us go and visit ego and soul and ask that question.