Course XXXII - Teaching 11: Genesis

The Genesis explained on the light of the Divine Wisdom, is quite useful to see the unique concept of the Great Initiates about the Universal Creation.
Here the first ten verses of the Genesis, first chapter, are explained.
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and God saw that it was good.
When the Bible establishes a beginning, a starting point in space and time, of course it establishes a pre-genetic existence of God. Human mind cannot know this previous existence because God is the Unknowable One, the Unconditioned One in his undifferentiated root: He Is Not.
Just after the cosmic differentiation established by the words, “In the beginning”, God is named Creator, because the Divine Manifestation appears when a difference is made (as if were) between what is knowable and what is seemingly knowable.
God made the whole Universe, which emanated from the bosom of God. Skies are the whole cosmic manifestation, the whole Wheel of Time, from the beginning to the end, with its planetary systems as a whole.
When the Genesis says “Earth”, it means especially the formation of our planetary system, because when one knows the historic formation of a planetary system, one will know the historic formation of all other systems.
The Mass-mother, primordial substance, spirit-matter and soul of the cosmos, is potential life.
When the Genesis says “without form”, establishes the potential aspect of the primordial substance; and the expression “and void” establishes that there is no void in the universe, because this void is matrix of potential life.
Darkness is the Spirit in Se, and the Root of the Spirit is deep darkness to a human mind. Saint Dionysius the Areopagite names the darkness Rays. The entire Universe is traced, but unknown.
“The face of the deep” means: this plane is already traced upon the Primordial Substance. As it were, the Universe is in God during its manifestation.
God’s Spirit is the Universal Spirit. God is already separate from His Universe; there is a difference between “they were” and “it moved”; while God is as darkness upon the face of the deep, His movement is that of retraction; but His movement is that of expansion when he moves upon the face of the waters. Now the Genesis names the deep Waters, because the primordial substance became Life by the energetic breath of God.
The Creator’s image is from the beginning to the end. God is different from His Universe, but lives in His Universe. God is darkness when human mind cannot penetrate; God is the purest Spirit in His magnificent manifestation; and God is Giver of life, of Life Itself, in preserving His Universe. God Is; to the extent to which He Is, He pervades the Universe of His thought, and His Thought is the light of the Universe.
The Divine Thought is the energy of the Universe. And when the Genesis says, “There was light”, it means: even the tiniest atom is illuminated by the Divine Light, and is known to God.
Here God is steadily confirmed as Self-Creator. God reflected on Himself; darkness emanated light, and God saw that the light was good; God (darkness) sees that the light (manifestation, His Work) was good. As soon as the Divine Mind devised the Universe, darkness fades away and God remains closed in His Divine Plan, in his radius of light reflected by Himself.
God is unity; both light and darkness is one and the same thing, but seemingly from the plane of Creation, light and darkness are Divine Duality.
God’s duality is the potential and active power of the Universe. The expansion of the Universe is one manvantara, one cosmic day; every time God emits His light from Himself, He is a true day of universal light.
After the Divine Manifestation or Divine Activity there is a period of potential rest. After emitting all His Light and sustaining the Universe during an entire cosmic day, God re-absorbs all His powers in Himself. Darkness is image of cosmic rest, and night marks this period of rest; it is pralaya after manvantara.
Continuous and repeated switches, and a continuous becoming, sustain the cosmic manifestation. The evening is destruction, death and dissolution; the morning is beginning, creation and expansion; a day is the light of God, the Divine Idea preserving eternally the Universe.
God (Universal Spirit) stirs the waters (the primordial substance) and the expansion (or life) is made this way in the midst of these waters.
The waters (life of the Universe) continuously reflect the divine desire and form millions of minds working on the Universe. Their movement gives rise to energy; and energy gives form to matter. “And let it divide the waters”, is energy; and “from the waters”, is matter.
Expansion is a hypothetical circle traced by God on the Universe to developing the Creation upon it. This hypothetical circle of the Universal Creation is reflected in Himself, and what is potential becomes continuously active: the expansion from above is the potential aspect in Creation, and the expansion from below is its active part. The closest point to God, or more simply, the subtlest, darkest and hardest vibration to perceive is the most potential part of the primordial substance –waters expanded from above; and the part that emanates this potential power is the active part, expanded waters from below. At a time, the active vibration is potential to another denser vibration and so on until the infinitesimal point.
The expression “and it was so” is extraordinarily affirmative, as if it marked an unavoidable mathematical law.
The Genesis does not differentiate the expansion, simply names the void space as a whole, “firmament” (the primordial substance as a whole, scattered in the Universe) and this firmament as a whole, “God”, “heaven”.
“Second day” is image of the primordial substance in its manifestation of life; planetary lives will coagulate in void space, in primordial substance, in heaven.
“The evening and the morning” are scales in Creation; Creation and destruction, preserving factors of the Universe.
The primordial substance grows thicker and thicker, and then planetary bodies appear. Rhythm, measure is the first law –Creational rhythm somewhere in the Universe.
When planetary bodies become different from the primordial substance, they appear in this substance as a different substance, but actually do not.
The Earth, dwelling place of human life, is the thicker satellite in the Planetary Wheel, established on the zenith of the wheel.
Just one element never can form a planetary satellite; waters gathered together, which God names Seas, are elements that sustain the terrestrial element, that is, water, air and fire.
The Genesis names the work done, “it was good”, after the fulfillment of the first Planetary Chain.