17. Creating

The first creative process of The First Source and Center marked the creation of both matter and spirit. Matter, per se, created, out of energy, by The First Source and Center himself was also eternal, even as spirit. Creation by The First Source and Center is the transformation and changing of the energy, created and emanated out of Him, into such a mode that would provide the origin of the beginnings for the development of creation in space and time. The matter directly created by The First Source and Center was nothing else but His own dwelling abode; the model of all the matter of creation according to which are fashioned the other lower material segments of creation. And this model of material creation is the very same Paradise I have mentioned before. It is Paradise that is the accumulation of all the energy of creation, for it is in Paradise that The First Source and Center keeps all His energy. And the moment The First Source and Center created Paradise, the material model of the whole creation, He also created equal to himself the eternal and infinite spirit, The Second Source and Center. But He did not cease His creative action by this for the two of them created the third personality equal to them, The Third Source and Center. Thus now the creative potential of The First Source and Center has been made actual, i.e., it has become manifested in reality, it has become really implemented.

The First Source and Center, had He stayed alone, His potential would have never been implemented in action. In that case, creation would have never had its beginning and manifestation as the reflection of the love and goodness of The First Source and Center for all the creatures created within it. In that case, there would have existed only The First Source and Center exclusively with His own potential and unused opportunities.

However, it has never been possible for The First Source and Center to remain alone since His creative potential, omnipotent potential, produces such an enormous pressure of love within himself that it is necessary to equalize this pressure by emanating it out into space by creating the creation with all its life. However, as long as there is only The First Source and Center, no cosmic space has yet been emanated out of Him, and so far there are no parts of the creation in space. And the very first creative act by The First Source and Center that I have already mentioned before cannot produce anything less than the one who is equally eternal and infinite as He himself. And as the two eternal and infinite beings create together, the fruit produced by them cannot be less than eternal and infinite.

Therefore The Third Source and Center is also their co-ordinate, even as co-ordinate are The First Source and Center and The Second Source and Center. They both created The Third Source and Center who is equally eternal and infinite, even as are the two of them. With the creation of The Third Source and Center, the operation of eternity and infinity acquires a mutual relationship of the persons of eternity and infinity.

The First Source and Center, by creating the first absolute spiritual personality, The Second Source and Center, becomes the Original Father to this absolute personality created by Him. And the latter becomes the Eternal Son, originated from the Original Father. The Fatherhood of God begins this way.

The First Source and Center by this creative act has limited His personality, for He has created one more, and co-ordinate to himself, personality – the Eternal Son. He not only has just created him but he has created him being influenced by an enormous love energy pressure within himself. He could not equalize the pressure in any other way but by directing it to a creative act.

The First Source and Center has reproduced himself as an absolute personality with all His own qualities in the absolute personality of the Eternal Son, because The First Source and Center is also the Source of the Absolute Personality. Therefore He cannot create anyone less than the absolute spiritual personality – the Eternal Son. The First Source and Center cannot experience eternal Fatherhood without the creation of the Eternal Son.

The First Source and Center is the Universal Father to the whole creation. And He is the Thought. The Second Source and Center is the Universal Mother. And He is the Word.

They both, by creating The Third Source and Center, who is their co-ordinate, create the Source of Action who is also known as the Infinite Spirit. The Third Source and Center is the Action. He is the Conjoint Actor. He is that minimum third segment required to experience the brotherhood. The Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit both of them being created, also experience a mutual brotherhood. Meanwhile the Eternal Son, in addition, undergoes the motherhood experience for he has created The Third Source and Center together with the Universal Father.