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Chapter 34 - Teaching About Creation
1. Jmmanuel preached powerfully, saying, "Behold, Creation stands above humanity, above god and above everything.
2. "It appears to be perfect by human comprehension, but this is not so.
3. "Since Creation is spirit and thus lives, even it must forever perfect itself.
4. "But since it is one within itself, it can perfect itself by way of its own creations, through the generation of new spirit forms that dwell within humans, give them life, and evolve towards perfection through their learning.
5. "The newly generated spirit is part of Creation itself; however, it is unknowing down to the smallest iota.
6. "When a new spirit is created, which is still unknowing in every way, it lives in a human body and begins to learn.
7. "Persons may consider the unknowing spirit as stupid and say that the individual is confused.
8. "But it is not, because it is only unknowing and devoid of knowledge and wisdom.
9. "Thus may this new spirit live a life within a human being in order to gather knowledge.
10. "Then, when this spirit enters the beyond, it is no longer as unknowing as it was at the time of its beginning.
11. "And it returns into the world and lives again as a human being but is no longer quite as unknowing as it was at its beginning.
12. "Again it learns and gathers further knowledge and new wisdom, and thereby increasingly escapes from ignorance.
13. "So, after many renewed lives, the time comes when people say that this spirit is normal and not confused.
14. "But this is neither the end of the spirit nor its fulfilment, because, having become knowing, the spirit now seeks the greatest wisdom.
15. "Thus, the human spirit perfects itself so extensively that it unfolds in a Creational manner and ultimately becomes one with Creation, as it was destined from the earliest beginning.
16. "Thus, Creation has brought forth a new spirit, allowing it to be perfected independently in the human body. The perfected spirit returns to Creation to become one with it, and in this manner Creation perfects itself within itself, for in it is the knowledge and wisdom to do so.
17. "Truly, I say to you, the time will never come when Creation ceases to create new spirit forms and to broaden itself,
18. "However, Creation also requires rest, a characteristic of all that lives, and when it slumbers it does not create.
19. "Just as human life has day and night and is divided into work and rest, so Creation also has its times of work and rest.
20. "Its period, however, is different from that of people, because its laws are the laws of the spirit,
21. "while human laws are the laws of material life.
22. "The material life is limited, but the life of the spirit lasts forever and knows no end.
23. "Creation, however, is subject to the laws of Primeval-Timelessness and Primeval-Creation, which is the Absolute Absolutum and the beginning and endlessness of everything. And it was created out of itself 12 .
24. "Its secret is that which is immeasurable and is based on the number seven, which is counted in 'times.'
25. "This is one of the secrets and laws the human mind will solve only when it reaches perfection.
26. "But let it be said that the laws of life are not hidden from the wise man, hence he can recognize and follow them.
27. "Thus the wise understand that the secret of Primeval-Creation lies in the number seven and in computations based thereon. Thus they will gather and retain the knowledge that Creation has a time for work or rest that is also based upon the number seven.
28. "Creation rested in a state of slumber for seven Great Times when nothing existed, not even the universe.
29. "Only Creation itself existed in slumber, and it brought forth no creature nor anything.
30. "However, it did awaken from its slumber through the seven cycles of seven Great Times and began to create creatures and everything.
31. "After having rested for seven cycles of seven Great Times, it is now creating living organisms and everything else, and it will do so for seven more cycles of seven Great Times, until it requires rest again and reposes anew in deep slumber for a further seven Great Times.
32. "When it will rest again and lie down in slumber, nothing will exist except for Creation itself.
33. "There will be neither creatures nor any other thing.
34. "Only Creation itself will exist during the seven cycles of the seven Great Times, because it will rest and slumber until it awakens again and brings forth new creatures and everything else.
12 Absolute Absolutum: Most basic Creational level or most basic Absolutum level, respectively, of which there are seven. From the highest Absolutum level down to the lowest the following sequence is valid: BEING Absolutum, Zohar Absolutum, Super Absolutum, Creative Absolutum, Central Absolutum, Ur – [= primal, original, prime] Absolutum, and Absolute Absolutum. Out of the Absolute Absolutum the first Creation form of the lowest kind was created--the material universe, the universal consciousness or universe in which We exist. This universe, universal consciousness, or Creation form, respectively, which is the first and lowest of all 1049 Creation forms, has created out of itself all Creational energies, i.e., all spirit energies and Spirit forms. It is therefore the creation of its own Ur-source. The Absolute Absolutum is the idea-related procreative power only, out of which the lowest Creation form that is our Universe has come forth [Talmud Of Jmmanuel].