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Topic: Dale Pond
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"1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." If we were to take the above as having any kind of truth or accuracy as to the affairs or state of conditions prevalent BEFORE there was materialized earth (and all the other billions of billions of materialized planets and suns) then we have to admit God existed prior to all these billions and billions of materialized bodies. Therefore whatever this "God" is it is not something material. In today's vernacular the only thing non-material is "energy" and the highest form of energy we know or hypothesize about is "Mind" or "Consciousness". "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Keeping in mind whoever wrote the above was human and subject to limitations in the original language (whatever that was) and all the limitations inherent in translating into other languages, we are confronted with: What is this "Spirit" of God? The context seems to point to "Desire". As in God desired to experience materiality therefore He created it as evidenced in the subsequent phrases. Desire, we all know, is an attribute of Mind or Consciousness. There had to be a mind or consciousness within which this Desire could be idealized or thought. Deeper into the Russell concepts we see there is a "force" inherent in all forming matter, originating in idea of Mind as they are rendered into form/matter. Perhaps it is this inherent aggregative force (Love) that is the "Spirit of God"? I believe so. Then there is the phrase "face of the waters". "Face" I would liken unto our modern word "surface". Water has always been, metaphyscially speaking, the same as "Aether" or at other times "ether" but in this context I would use "Aether". Surface is a boundary between some thing and some thing else. In this case these two some things would have to be non-matter and matter as there was not anything else. Non-matter is non-polar. Matter is polar. The only thing we know to be totally non-polar is Undifferentiated Mind as in the still quiet meditative mind or consciouesness. All matter is an effect of polar differentiations swirling about various centers. In the following phrases we see the imposition of polarity onto this non-polar Mind. Matter comes into being through the natural actions/motions of polar conditions because matter is polar while Undifferentiated Mind is non-polar and hence still and quiet. Yet within that stillness and quietness are all "things" desired.... but the Mind of God. So non-polar Mind becomes polar Matter. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." As in a quiet meditative Mind there are no sensations of "other" or even "I Am". Only after materiality (i.e., polarity) does consciousness surface which is another way of saying or referring to the mis-concept of "separation". Matter, through the Law of Individualization, APPEARS to be separate from the Source from which it was derived. As we know, appearances are misperceptions and not actuality. Thinking this through in this way there does not appear to any discrepancy between Russell and original Biblical intent. God is Undifferentiated Mind while all that was created by desire of that Mind are the effects of Divine Thinking. Russell simply ADDS more detail to the original understandings. |
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