Course XXII - Teaching 5: Eight Planetary Words

“HE MADE THE WORLDS.”
God made the Universe and maintains it in order to recognise in Himself His potential and active Divinity; so, when a man sees how his ideas are achieved, he recognizes their worth.
“ALL CREATED THINGS ARE IN HIM.”
From the Divine viewpoint, quantitative values of an atom are exactly equivalent to quantitative values of the Sun. The Divine is both on bigness and smallness in the same measure. If God had manifested just in a grain of sand, this grain would contain the whole Creation. Things created by that that is changing and impermanent, increase and decrease continuously; but the Spirit that is behind them, is the number One, the whole Divinity.
“HE IS BOTH BREATH AND LIFE; HE MADE THE WORLDS.”
God establishes His Creation and sustains it continuously in the material creation of things in order to recognize His Divinity. Consciousness, idea or Divine recognition, and phenomenon-will or effective creation form pairs of opposites, both breath and life of the Creation. Accordingly, planetary chains instead of being produced by an accidental cogitation of God, they are the result of a conscious reflection of God.
“BUT, WHAT ARE THE WORLDS?”
Is there diversity between the idea of God and its materialization? Absolutely no; Divinity one in Itself, in an indissoluble way, consciousness and will, idea and phenomenon, Creator and Creation. “THEY ARE HIM.”
Deism places God over His Creation; pantheism closes God in every form. But He is neither over nor in the Universe created by Him. He is always Him.
“HE IS ONE –CENTER OF ALL THINGS.”
Unity is always integral. All parts, as starting-points, are the centre. God is everywhere and nowhere. If two similar comparable points were established, the Divine Unity would not exist.
“HE IS TWO –BOTH MATTER AND SPARK.”
The Unity becomes dual from the human viewpoint –indispensable duality to man in order to attain the Unity. Spark-mind and matter are the same substance, but are two entirely different things to Humanity. “HE IS THREE: PRIMARY POWER, REFLECTION OF BIGNESS IN SMALLNESS, LINKED BY HIS PERPETUAL MANIFESTED DIVINITY.”
This describes three basic qualities of the Universe. The Primary Power is Creational Mind; reflection of bigness in smallness is material life, inert weight compared with subtle lightness. The link of union, called Manifested Divinity, is Foat’s energy, continuous movement, Holy Spirit transmuting continuously every element by Its vibration and maintaining them united one another.