Course XXXI - Teaching 7: The Divinity Manifested
The Divine Manifestation is the Absolute Principle of the Universe. Usually it is named God, or HES.
God is His own essence and existence, and He alone knows Himself. “Ego sum qui sum” (“I am who I am”).
God is the unique and absolute root of the entire universal Creation.
If God is infinite, unknowable, immobile, non-caused how can He give rise to what is finite, relative, knowable and multiple, and causality? One may say God, even in His Universe, never stops being what He is, and that the entire Creation is an illusion; but if Creation is illusion, also illusion is something different from the principle giving it rise.
If God is an immense totality, indissoluble in essence and power in His Universe, then all is God. So, as the result of it, God Himself should be somewhat static, unchanging, and the becoming would be inexplicable.
If God had emanated or created something from Himself, similar to Him, but that even never could to be again Himself for the entire Eternity, even never He would be able to become the unique and absolute principle because always would there exist something outside Him, similar to Him, but that is not Himself.
This is an explanation: The Manifestation, or God, is of the same essence and existence of the Eternal One, but that seemingly is not Himself.
The Eternal Being offers Himself in such a way that seemingly is other Being and apparently a double; but this is just apparent. While this appearance of duality or differentiation lasts, God in His essence and existence, and his Universe, is totally pervaded by His essence and existence, but He is not essence and existence per se. To explain this theory one should apply the absolute principle of the Universe with its universal Creation –the law of Analogical Contrariety.
What is this law of Analogical Contrariety?
Always, the active side of a bigger part is the potential side of the smaller part. Whenever a value moves from its centre, it is acquiring a positive value in the place or magnetic field where is settled, and it loses the said value in relation to the central point from which it moves.
By the law of Analogical Contrariety, the Eternal One, His Self-Manifestation, and while such a movement lasts, seems to be finite and conditioned, but as soon a this movements ceases, He is always what never stopped being; like a man closed in a room does not know what occurs outside.
The Absolute Unity of the Spirit is entirely present in any form of existence, but not in those forms of existences after the latter stopped being such, since these forms returned to the Cosmic Reservoir.
Infinity is just seemingly finite in the Universe, by the law of Analogical Contrariety; like a ball that, after being thrown to the space, collides with an obstacle and gets back, that is, its trajectory is in a opposite direction.
So, the following concepts are confirmed:
God is Absolute Principle and exists in the entire created Universe.
Creation is not Him, but is totally pervaded by Him, and is not Him, but by the law of Analogical Contrariety.