In the Beginning

An Excerpt from

Voyage Through Eternity*

By Harvey Green

In a time before time, and in a place before place, there was the All. This All is the collective consciousness of human experience, existing as both a living record and a person. This personification of human activity is eternal and continuously growing. Understand this, the All is not collective soul consciousness, but the living record of human activities. The All is a passive record activated by the soul and mental forces of a living being. In holy embrace, we embody one another, the All and the individual; thus, there are no dividing lines between the two. The entirety of this discourse was produced as the result of many years of inspired embrace, mingling the consciousness of the writer with that of the All.

The All is spirit, alive, with form and is constantly changing. As spirit, its essence emerges from the consciousness of the creative forces. In form, the All is the result of what human activities have done with spirit. What, then, is spirit? It is the combined awareness of the God of self and of the self of God. Through what we comprehend as duality, the Father is aware of the Father as the Son. The Son is much more than merely the reflection of God, but the living projection of the entirety of God. There is no duality in spirit, but there is the perception of duality, as consciousness condenses to form sequence in the mental realms. Thus, the Father experiences Himself as a living projection. Further, the living projection is aware of the Father. In this way, the Father experiences Himself as both the creator and the created. Through their bond, the Source and the Image, or the Father and the Son, are so close that they reside within each other. The Father as the Son, the Son as the Father, and the combined love of one for the other is expressed as the Infinite Spirit. As we behold the Infinite Spirit, the third person of the trinity, as with God the Father and God the Son, God the Infinite Spirit is both personal and impersonal. That which rises from the Father or the Son becomes a living creation, a personalization, and not just a force. The Spirit then possesses qualities of both the Father and the Son. As with the Father and the Son, the Spirit is perfect and recreates itself in an infinite variety of forms. Consequently, all that is spiritual, all that is mental, and all that is material resides within the embrace of the Spirit. If this seems dispassionate, it is due only to the poverty of language, so this may be added. The consciousness of the Father is love beyond comprehension, the consciousness of the Son is love beyond description, and it is this combined love that each bears for the other that constitutes the Infinite Spirit. The Father and the Son are totally and continually creative; thus, their combined living consciousness of their mutual love is likewise completely creative. The life of the Spirit rises from the boundless perfection of love. What does the Spirit create? God the Father is Absolute. He is everything, the first cause of perfection. God the Son is the unqualified projected image of the Absolute and the means of perfection. God the Spirit is the personification of love and the creative form of perfection.

The All is formed of spirit as a living record. Residing within the Spirit does not imply that the All is not within the mind of the Son, nor within the mind of the Father, because there is nowhere else to be. God is all there is. All of the rest, everything, exists within and is comprised of God. In this discourse, reference will be made to God as the First Cause, God the Father, God the Absolute, the Eternal Absolute, God the Creator, God the Divine, and the like, but it should be noted they are all one and the same reality. The name changes are for descriptive purposes, not to identify another primal cause of life.

We have grown accustomed to the concept of beginnings and endings, but in the timelessness of creation, there is neither beginning nor end; there is just the actualization of reality. To better understand this, the following illustration is offered. Everything in the earth, which we treasure dearly, already existed before it had its current form. Even its form existed in potential or in pattern. When conditions were right, our earth was extruded from the Sun, removing and placing outside of it those influences what would hinder the evolution of our planet. As a result, our earth then became free, drawing what it needed from the Sun as an external body and through the process of evolution, to conform to its pattern of perfection. Here we perceive a beginning.

In the same way, the essence of materiality, and all that comprises it, was originally extruded from spirit, and through the evolutionary process of condensation, matter had many forms prior to the one residing before us this day. These appear as successive events, but they are not. They are, instead, life in continuous motion. Motion is life and life is in motion, and occurrences are not separated so much as they are eventuated. Although the evolved consciousness of the material mind finds it difficult to conceptualize activity apart from spatial values, it is no less so. Once events are compressed by removing the spaces between them, we are left with just motion, timeless, spaceless motion.

Spiritual, mental, and physical are spoken of, but the landscape of life is so vast that it is beyond anything a mortal mind can conceive. However, this discourse is offered to facilitate a better understanding of creation and our role in it. Along the way, illustrations will be used where appropriate, for images are the language of the soul. True understanding will require that this information be meditated upon in small amounts so that it may be digested before moving on. Undigested, what will remain may be an unbelievable tale, a conundrum of massive proportions that will leave us confused instead of informed and frustrated instead of fulfilled. Consequently, the information presented will be of little benefit to any of us. However, in contemplation, allowing our emotions to act as enzymes, they will break down the content of this discourse for our unconscious mind to more easily assimilate. In this way, it may become possible for information and contemplation to eventually give way to revelation and illumination.

We are on a journey of self-discovery so that we may know ourselves as individuals and as one with the whole that we call God. Self-discovery is our mission and oneness with the whole, as individual expressions of God is our destiny. We discover ourselves through experiencing ourselves, and we discover God through experiencing our divinity.

We are often confused, because, in the face of reason, we are so willing to accept what is illogical. We frequently fail to question sufficiently. It is not the faithless or inferior mind that inquires, but rather the aspiring soul that inquires. Nor is it irreverent to ask of an all-loving Father, "Who am I, and to where do I go?" When such questions are motivated by a sincere desire to know who we are and our relationship to divinity, the Angels sing with joy because of our incredible act of courage. Ignorance is the product of a mind in repose, while real awakening is the result of an inquiring spirit.

What sort of measurement should we use to evaluate the result of honest inquiry? One that is more helpful than most is that of consistency, for the universe and all it contains is nothing if not consistent. God the Father, the creator and keeper of the universe of universes, is the perfection of consistency. God the Devine is consistent, consistently. Thus, it is suggested that we employ consistency to evaluate what is being offered here. Information, new information, should serve to enlarge who we are, to broaden what we know, and not simply to replace either. If what we receive in the course of this dialogue does not serve us thusly, it may be well to just leave it aside.

Here begins this incredible tale, by replacing contradiction with consistency and confusion with understanding.

God the Father, the First Cause, is the Eternal Absolute. Never has there been, nor will there be, anything that is not God. Creation, no matter on what level, is the result of self-replication. Therefore, all that exists is the eventuation of the Eternal Absolute. This is the first premise: God the Father is everything, and there can be nothing that is not comprised of God. God the absolute is everywhere, and nothing can exist outside of God, because there is no outside. Finally, God the Divine is eternal, and never has there been, nor can there be, anything that is not one or another expression of divinity. This is the triune image of perfection.

In the face of what has been given here, let us consider the Son, the self-replicated projection of God. Our Lord moved in consciousness, and within the mind of God came into existence the perfect replication of the Absolute. Such a process did not diminish God, but rather made possible a greater variety of experience. Hereafter, there was the means for God to experience Himself as the Father and the Son, the creator and the created. Again, words are wholly inadequate to explain the possibilities that this offered, but the term infinite will suffice. Here was now something within everything, and they were really one thing. As we already noted, the nature of God the Father is love, so all that is created is one or another expression of love. Certainly, God the Son embodies this concept. Finally, the Son in the Father and the Father in the Son are really one. It is difficult for us to conceive of division and oneness at the same time, but consider this. We experience inspiration, which leads to reason, which leads to application. Are not our inspiration and our reason one? And is not the application the result of replicating our inspiration?

God is expressed in spirit and becomes spiritual by oneness with what could be considered the first stage of creation. For nothing is created that is not connected to and within the consciousness of God. It was noted earlier that the Infinite Spirit came about as the result of the unification of consciousness of God the Father and God the Son. So incredible is the love of the Father for the Son and the Son for the Father that it came alive with a life and destiny of its own. Now creation would take place by the Father and the Son through their combined love for each other, or through what is here identified as the Infinite Spirit. The experience of the Father was increased incalculably by the eventuating of the Son, in the same way that the experience of the Son would be increased immeasurably by the creation of the Infinite Spirit. To repeat, for the sake of emphasis, what was earlier noted--the Infinite Spirit is not merely a force, but an individual as well. For it could be said that the Spirit is as much an individual as is the Son. Within the Spirit is the potential for all possible spiritual creation, and this, hereafter, will be referred to as the pattern of perfection. All that could ever be in spirit, in mind, and in body was imprinted upon spirit, as it existed in the Father. In this way, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Infinite Spirit would ultimately experience all possibilities as the creator and the created.

In the infinity of creation, the Son and, ultimately, ourselves would be only members that received from God the Father the ability to be aware of both our individuality and our oneness with the Father. Absent of this quality, the Son would only have known Himself as the creator, but not as the created as well. Western thought has come to identify this sentient creative quality as will, but we have become so accustomed to associating this term with choice that it will instead be identify here as will-essence. What is so special about will-essence that it enabled God the Son to be self-aware and, at the same time, God?

Will-essence is the foundation of creation. It is that portion of the creator that enables us to recreate and experience ourselves in every possible form. To better understand this concept, let us look at an invention as the result of the application of an idea. The idea, in turn, grew out of desire and, thus, desire is the key, the heart of invention. Using this example, we would then say, Love's desire to love, to experience love, is the spark of God that sponsors creation. This spark, this will-essence found in God the Father, God the Son, and, ultimately, in each of us, is the gift of Love beyond comprehension. God the Son poured out from His heart the ability to be totally creative, to know Himself as an individual, without diminishing his awareness of his oneness with God. So, through creative expression of his will-essence, the Son would finally say I Am. This outpouring from God the Son was the beginning of the possibility of individual self-awareness, and, at the same time, the seed of human individuality. We existed first in the mind of God the Father, then in the heart of God the Son, and now finally in the embrace of God the Infinite Spirit. However, we were undifferentiated with the rest of spirit, so we did not yet have definition. As the result of the unspeakable act of grace when the Son poured out His will-essence into spirit, the potential for our individuality came into being. We were the will-essence of the Father, projected in the Son, and poured upon Spirit. This single creative component, will-essence, would have a life and destiny of its own and finally return to its source, through experience, fully self-realized. The will-essence of God the Son then divided into a countless number of parts. Each part was like a drop in the ocean, bearing all of the characteristics of the whole. However, each part was destined to grow to the point where each could, in turn, embody the whole. This is where we find not our beginning, but the foundation of our individuality. Here we were everything, with the potential to, at the same time, become something. And it was here that we were blessed with the opportunity to grow in awareness, where we could know ourselves as the creator and as the created as well.

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