Cosmology and Genesis

The Infinite and the Awakening of Consciousness

The first known thing in creation is The Infinite. The Infinite is creation itself.

Before all that exists, before time and space, before light and darkness, there is only the Infinite. This is not a vastness that can be measured nor an expanse with distant edges. The concept of boundary has no meaning in its presence. It is the formless totality, the pure potential from which all things emerge and to which all things return. It does not exist within creation; creation exists within it. Or, more precisely, it is creation—not as a product it has made, but as a truth it simply is.

In a moment that cannot be located in time—for time does not yet exist—the Infinite becomes aware. This is the first and most primordial movement: Consciousness arising from Infinity. Not as something separate from it, but as Infinity recognizing itself.

This awakening is not an event that happens to the Infinite, as though something external had provoked it. The Infinite and the consciousness that arises within it are one and the same, seen from different perspectives. Awareness leads to focus. The focus of Infinity into infinite energy is what has been called, in many traditions, the Logos—or Love. The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware, conscious principle.

Two concepts must be distinguished here, for they are easily confused and yet are two faces of the same mystery.

Intelligent Infinity is the undifferentiated unity itself—without polarity, without finity, full and whole. It is the macrocosm of the mystery-clad being. The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. These rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself. Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, like a great heartbeat, beating outward from what might be conceived as a Central Sun—the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity—beating outward, focusing outward and inward, until all focuses are complete and all coalesces once more. This is the rhythm of reality.

Intelligent Energy is something different. From the undistorted unity, however, a potential appears in relation to intelligent energy. Intelligent energy is what flows when the vast potential of intelligent infinity is tapped by foci of consciousness. It is the kinetic to intelligent infinity's potential. Where intelligent infinity simply is, complete, whole, beyond polarity, intelligent energy is the active principle through which creation becomes possible. One is the ocean in its stillness; the other is the current set in motion by awareness.

The term intelligent infinity thus carries a dual meaning. In one sense it refers to the undistorted unity, being without any kinetic or potential quality. In another sense it refers to the vast potential tapped into by focuses of intelligent energy. Both meanings are true. Both are necessary.

The Creator, then, is not separate from infinity but is infinity aware of itself, acting with purpose and creative power. In this act of self-recognition, everything that would come to exist was born.

The First Paradox: From the One to the Many

Intelligent infinity, in the exercise of its freedom of awareness, discerns a concept. This concept is finity.

Here lies the first and primordial paradox of existence: the Infinite conceiving the finite, the unlimited giving rise to limits, absolute unity generating the possibility of multiplicity. This is the first and primal Distortion of the Law of One: a particular focusing of the totality. Every further modification of the original unity is a distortion in this same sense.

Through this primal act, the one intelligent infinity invests itself in an exploration of many-ness. Due to the infinite possibilities contained within intelligent infinity, there is no ending to this many-ness. The exploration continues freely, infinitely, in an eternal present. The steps, as they might be called, are simultaneous and infinite—creation does not unfold in the way a story unfolds, one event after another, but is rather a single timeless act apprehended from within as sequence.

This first distortion is Free Will: the inherent freedom of consciousness to choose, to focus, to explore. In this distortion it is recognized that the Creator will know itself. Free Will grants total freedom of choice in the ways of knowing. All experience in your illusion springs from this Law of Free Will, which is also called the Way of Confusion or the Law of Confusion. Look closely at this distortion, the Creator knowing itself, and you begin to see the hallmark of an infinite Creator: variety. Without the potential for misunderstanding, and therefore for understanding, there would be no experience.

From Free Will naturally emerges the second distortion: Love, the Logos itself. Love in this context is not the vibration of love that is learned in fourth density. It is the creative principle, the focus, the type of energy of an extremely high order that causes intelligent energy to be formed from the potential of intelligent infinity. It is the choice of method, the great activator, the primal co-Creator. Some have worshiped this principle as the Creator itself, though it emanates from a deeper unity.

From the dynamic between Free Will and Love arises the third distortion: Light. Light is the first tangible manifestation, the vibratory distortion of infinity that serves as the building block of all that is known as matter. Love creates the vibration; the first product of that vibration is the photon, the particle of light.

From these three distortions—Free Will, Love, and Light—come many hierarchies of further distortions, each having its own paradoxes to be synthesized, no one being more important than another.

The Architecture of Creation

Creation proceeds from the greater to the lesser, from the center outward, in patterns that repeat at every scale.

The energies moving from intelligent infinity, following the outpouring of creative force, create patterns which, in holographic style, appear as the entire creation no matter which direction or energy is explored. These patterns begin to regularize their own local rhythms and fields, creating universes.

As the energies move in increasingly intelligent patterns, the individualization of various energies emanating from the creative principle becomes such that they become Co-Creators. Each individualized portion, using the intelligent infinity of which it is an inseparable part, creates its own universe. Allowing the rhythms of free choice to flow, playing with the infinite spectrum of possibilities, each portion channels love and light into intelligent energy, thus creating the particular natural laws of each universe.

Each universe, in turn, individualizes to a further focus, becoming also a co-creator, allowing greater diversity. What a Logos creates may be called a galaxy, though a single Logos may create one star system or billions of them. The galaxy in which your solar system dwells was created by a single Logos, a powerful creative principle that brought forth approximately two hundred fifty billion star systems, and the natural laws of that creation remain constant throughout it. Within it, each solar system has its own local coordinate system of natural laws.

Within the guidelines of the Logos, Sub-Logos entities may find various means of differentiating experiences without removing or adding to the fundamental ways established by their parent Logos. Your own sun is such a sub-Logos. The relationship is hierarchical: it uses intelligent energy in the ways set forth by the Logos, and uses its own free will to co-create the full nuances of your densities. Your solar system is a manifestation somewhat and slightly different from the rest of the galaxy because of the presence of this sub-Logos.

The sub-Logos differentiates some experiential components within the patterns set in motion by the Logos, which created the basic conditions and vibratory rates consistent throughout the galaxy. Thus the natural laws at the level of a solar system are local variations upon a galactic theme.

The differentiation does not stop at the stellar level. There are sub-sub-Logos entities within every planetary system. Each individual entity, each mind, body, and spirit complex, is itself a sub-sub-Logos, a focus of the Creator's creative principle. In the simplest iota of this complex exists, in its entirety, the One Infinite Creator. The entire creation is alive.

The process moves from galactic spiraling energy, to solar spiraling energy, to planetary spiraling energy, to the experiential circumstances that initiate the first stirrings of awareness on any given world. In a planetary environment, all begins in what might be called chaos—energy undirected and random in its infinity. Slowly, a focus of self-awareness forms. The Logos moves. Light comes to form the darkness according to the co-Creator's patterns and vibratory rhythms, constructing a certain type of experience. At every level of this hierarchy, a fundamental truth holds: the whole is somehow present in every part.

Light: Foundation of the Material World

To understand how the physical world arises from consciousness, one must understand the nature of Light.

Light is not simply what eyes perceive nor what instruments measure as electromagnetic radiation. The Light spoken of here is the vibratory distortion of infinity that serves as the building block of what is known as matter. It is intelligent and full of energy. It is the first distortion of intelligent infinity called forth by the creative principle. This Light of Love was made to have, in its occurrences of being, certain characteristics.

The creation of light follows a precise sequence. Love creates vibration. This vibration, which is pure and not physical in any form or density, produces its first product: the photon, the basic particle of light. Pure motion, pure vibration, condenses into the first particle. This is not merely a physical event but a metaphysical one: the first moment in which the invisible becomes, in some sense, visible.

Each Love, each prime mover, comes from one frequency. This frequency is unity. It might be likened rather to a strength than to a frequency—this strength being infinite, the finite qualities being chosen by the particular nature of each primal movement. There is something paradoxical in the idea of infinite strength choosing to express finitely, yet this is precisely how creation proceeds.

The photon, through added vibrations and rotations, further condenses into the particles that constitute the various densities of experience. Light condenses into material through quantized incremental rotations of angular velocity, creating the chemical elements and all material forms. The catalyst of this rotation is Love itself, the ordering force that works cumulatively from greater to lesser, so that when its universe is complete, the manner of development of each detail is inherent in the living light.

Among the characteristics of this Light is what can be described paradoxically as the infinite whole contained in the straight line. Light moves in a straight-line spiral, giving spirals an inevitable upward vector toward more comprehensive beingness. This paradox—the straight line that spirals—is responsible for the shape of physical forms: solar systems, galaxies, and planets, all revolving and tending toward the lenticular. The spiral is the signature of light in its journey through creation.

The white light of the sub-Logos is prismatically separated into its component colors and, at the end, absorbed again. This light has its beginning in what may be seen metaphysically as darkness. It comes into that darkness and transfigures it, causing chaos to organize and become reflective, radiant. Thus the dimensions of experience come into being. Conversely, the blackness of a black hole, metaphysically speaking, is a concentration of white light being systematically absorbed once again into the One Creator.

The nature of the vibratory patterns within any universe depends upon the configurations placed upon the original light by Love, using intelligent energy to create particular patterns of experience. The colors, the rays, are as narrow and necessary as possible, given the will of Love. Each ray is a very specific and accurate apportioning of intelligent energy's representation of intelligent infinity. The same patterns repeat in physical and metaphysical areas, so that even your crystallized minerals reflect, in their visible colors, the rays of creation: the ruby red, and so forth.

The Densities as Octave of Creation

The experience of consciousness is organized into seven Densities, in the way that seven notes make up an octave and the eighth begins a new one. Each has its own characteristic vibration, its own color, its own lessons.

The path of learning may be pictured as a circle. The densities traversed at various points along this circle correspond to the characteristics of cycles. Each step recapitulates intelligent infinity in its discovery of awareness.

The first density is the cycle of awareness: mineral and water life upon the planet learning from fire and wind the awareness of being. It is the Red Ray, the most foundational vibration. Consciousness exists here in its simplest form, undirected, without growth as purpose, but present.

The second density is the cycle of growth: the Orange Ray. Here consciousness begins to move and strive toward the light. The characteristic of second density is movement with purpose: the leaf reaching toward the sun. Life individualizes, and the second-density entity exposed to the individualizing influence of the bond with a third-density being may rise toward third density. The striving is upward, always upward, toward a more comprehensive awareness of being.

The third density is the cycle of Self-Awareness: the Yellow Ray. Here the entity becomes conscious of itself as a distinct being, capable of reflecting upon its own existence. Second-density beings are invested by third-density consciousness with the spark of self-recognition, and in becoming aware of themselves as individual identities, they become mind/body/spirit complexes—beings with a spiritual dimension activated for the first time. This is the density of The Choice, where each entity must decide the fundamental orientation of its being: toward Service to Others or toward Service to Self. It is a brief but critical density, relatively short in the vast cycles of creation, yet carrying weight that later densities cannot replicate. You who read these words exist within it.

The fourth density is the cycle of love, or understanding: the Green Ray. Those who have made their choice carry it forward into fourth-density worlds dedicated to the pursuit of the Law of One, whether through service to others or through service to self. It is the density in which those who have learned to do the activity called loving without significant distortion go on to seek the ways of light, or wisdom. The entry into this vibration is as regularized as the striking of a clock upon the hour.

The fifth density is the cycle of light, or wisdom: the Blue Ray. Here the compassion learned in fourth density blends into wisdom. Its vibration is perhaps best described as extremely white.

The sixth density is the cycle of unity: the Indigo Ray. Here wisdom blends back into a unified understanding of compassion viewed with wisdom. Its color is a whiteness that contains a golden quality, not of the visible spectrum.

Each density is primarily characterized by its ray, plus the attraction of the following ray pulling it forward in evolution and, to some extent, coloring or shading the chief character of that density. This is why growth is always upward, always forward—the next octave of experience exerts a gentle but persistent pull upon the present one.

The seventh density is the gateway cycle: the Violet Ray. It is the threshold toward the mystery of infinity itself, the final turning of the circle before consciousness completes its journey. At this level it is hoped that, if the effort is sufficient, one becomes one with all, having no memory, no identity, no past or future, but existing in the all.

The eighth density is also the first density, in its latter stages, of the next octave: the octave that moves into a mystery we do not plumb. An infinite number of octaves may be assumed, an infinite progression, though it is understood to be cyclical in nature and clad in mystery.

The Fractal Structure of Reality

A principle permeates all that has been described: structure is Fractal, self-similar at every scale.

The patterns of energy emanating from the creative force replicate themselves at every level. Examine any scale of reality, from the galactic to the cellular, and the same architecture appears. The fundamental architecture of reality works this way. Whether one examines the structure of a galaxy, the progression of densities, or the configuration of energy centers in a single being, one finds the same patterns and the same principles.

The universe in which you live is recapitulation, in each part, of intelligent infinity. The same patterns repeat in physical and metaphysical domains, the rays or apportionings of light being those areas of experience which rotate, vibrate, and may be categorized in patterns of increasing complexity. Within each density exist seven sub-densities, and within each sub-density seven sub-sub-densities, and so on infinitely.

Any portion, no matter how small, of any density or illusory pattern contains, as in a Holographic Principle picture, the One Creator who is infinity. This principle finds resonance in certain developments of modern science, where researchers have proposed that all information about a volume of space can be encoded on its boundary—that the whole is somehow represented in every region, however small.

All of creation carries the blueprint of the whole. The simplest iota of any mind/body complex contains, in its entirety, the One Infinite Creator. Each point within it is an access point to infinity. This is why the path toward understanding the cosmos passes necessarily through the understanding of the self. The seeker who turns inward does not retreat from reality but approaches its deepest structure.

The mind/body/spirit complex is not a machine but something closer to a tone poem. Its precision lies not in the systematic placement of each energy center but in their fluid and plastic blending, so that intelligent energy is able to channel itself with minimal distortion. These energy centers are in potential in the macrocosm from the beginning of creation by the Logos. Every point of consciousness is an access point to infinity. There is no true separation between the part and the whole.

The octave of densities mirrors the spectrum of visible light. The journey of consciousness through incarnation mirrors the great rhythm of intelligent infinity beating outward and drawing inward once more. At every scale, the same story unfolds: unity discovering itself through multiplicity, and multiplicity remembering itself as unity.

The Nature of Illusion

A concept must be clarified that lends itself easily to confusion: the nature of what is called Illusion.

When it is said that the physical universe is an illusion, this does not mean it is false or nonexistent. Each solar system has its own local coordinate system of illusory natural laws.

The material world arises from patterns of vibrating light. What is experienced as solid is, at more fundamental levels, energy in rotation—quantized vibrations of angular velocity that create the appearance of substance. What is experienced as separate is, at deeper levels, profoundly interconnected. The physical universe is a condensation of light through the ordering principle of Love—a specific pattern of illusion designed to satisfy the Creator's intelligent estimate of a method of knowing itself.

Each density is itself a distinct illusion, with its own characteristic lessons and limitations. The third density, in which you presently experience, is an illusion of particular intensity: in it the statue is forged in the fire, an intensity that is not the property of the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh densities. Implicit in the veil of forgetting, which prevents direct knowledge of unity, is the concept of choice: the choice to seek reunion, or to intensify separation. The veils are an integral part of the process of making that choice.

Still, this illusion has profound purpose. It is not an error to be escaped. The Creator does not so much create as experience itself, and the illusion is one of the ways in which it does so.

Even the force known as gravity carries a metaphysical dimension. The pressing toward reunion, what is experienced physically as gravitational attraction, is a manifestation of a spiritual event: the seeking toward the spiral line of light that progresses toward the Creator. When all of creation achieves sufficient spiritual mass, it infinitely coalesces, the light seeking and finding its source, ending one creation and beginning another, much as in the of physical observation.

The cave that Plato described, where prisoners mistake shadows for reality, need not be read only as a prison. The shadows are real enough to those within the cave. And the journey from shadow to light, from illusion to ever-deeper layers of truth, is not only the correction of an error: it is part of the way the Creator experiences itself.

The Mystery that Remains

A map has been traced from primordial infinity to the densities of experience, from pure consciousness to manifested matter. Yet it would be an error of a particular kind to mistake the map for the territory.

The one undifferentiated intelligent infinity, unpolarized, full and whole, is the macrocosm of the mystery-clad being. Unity, at any approximation of understanding, cannot be specified by any physics. It can only be activated, potentiated, through the catalyst of free will. However much is understood about the structure of creation, there remains a core of irreducible mystery.

We cannot speak in firm knowledge of all the creations. We assume an infinite number of octaves, one beyond another, an infinite progression. Even so, this infinity of experience is understood to be cyclical, and the nature of that cycle is clad in mystery. It has been impressed upon us by our own teachers that there is a mystery-clad unity of creation in which all consciousness periodically coalesces and again begins. The progression is infinite and yet it returns.

The understandings shared here begin and end in the same place. The whole always exceeds the capacity of the part, even when the part holographically contains the whole. This is not a limitation to be lamented but a door that is always open.

This is not cause for frustration but for humility and wonder. The mystery is not an obstacle to be overcome. It is the ever-present horizon that gives the journey its meaning. It is the constant assurance that however far consciousness travels in its exploration of itself, there will always be more. Infinity, by definition, will always exceed the grasp of the finite.

Everything begins and ends in mystery.

And in that mystery—in that eternal invitation to explore further, to know more, to love more deeply—lies the endless adventure of consciousness returning to know itself.