The Universe

Darkness was first. Space without matter. Notice how language has made “matter” a problem. “It’s no matter” connotes ease and trust. Or perhaps language reflects the truth, that matter was created from of a problematic thought: “What if I am separate from God? Separate from the Space around me?” And so the density of matter came into being.

Science calls it The Big Bang—an explosion of dense matter. So perhaps the matter was already there as a thought, entirely distinct from the space around it. Any thought in God’s Kingdom, which is Space, would be dense. And the first thought? The most dense. But the thought itself was not an explosion. It was when the Mind that created the thought believed in its reality that there was an explosion. Maybe if the Mind had let go of the thought as readily as it came the density of matter may have disappeared. But the Mind believed the thought to be true and so what was false became a reality.

It’s as though consciousness awoke in an empty space, and scared of such emptiness sought to fill it for comfort’s sake—seeking an end to what is endless. At any moment, if the consciousness of matter could look upon itself, its momentum and motivation, it might bring the expansion of the universe to a stop. To see God’s splendor in matter, when once there was only space. It is said a change of perception of this kind is the closest to experiencing God’s Kingdom in the physical reality (i.e., Heaven on Earth). A happy end to a long, circuitous journey.

God’s law of extension seeks no end, for it is complete even as it extends. But the ego who follows the same law seeks an end, for it knows not completion. It feels incomplete. But when perception is changed in God’s love there is completion, and therefore an end. The propulsion of the ego’s consciousness, expressed as the ever expanding universe, finds what it was seeking. But only in recognizing what was already there.