Manifestation is a Screenless Projection
Christians seem to think that creation is apart from God. I think their mental image of creation could be likened to a movie theater where the projector is behind the audience and the screen is in front. The projector is like God who "speaks" the universe into existence and it takes effect "over there" on the screen.
As far as the audience is concerned, there is nothing in the great divide between the projector and the screen: the projector is directing the action, and it magically takes place where we see it. Of course, the audience certainly knows that there is something in the twain. I won't mention their sticking their hands into it to make shadows on the screen.
The manifestation of God is not coming into existence some place else, like over there on the screen, "here" as opposed to "where He is." Manifesting is a self-enclosed ACTION, a screen-less projection from formlessness to form. The apparent IS the unapparent.
Rabbi David A. Cooper had a wonderful exercise where one imagined being at the throne of God and watching His light project through a screen of images onto a stage where the images take three dimensional form. It was interesting that the forms projected back through the screen their images to God.
The concept of distance here is useful in delineating the relationships between Projector and Projected, intention and independence, cultivation and generation. But the concept of distance is also misleading. It suggests separation between cause and effect.
I ask you to consider the image of a movie theater again; see the whole thing as a unit--projector, light transit and screen all together as one entity. That is easy enough. Now move the screen over to the projector so close that there is no distance in the light transit, and no screen. The projector erupts into the images directly. There you go, mate. Reality.
As far as the audience is concerned, there is nothing in the great divide between the projector and the screen: the projector is directing the action, and it magically takes place where we see it. Of course, the audience certainly knows that there is something in the twain. I won't mention their sticking their hands into it to make shadows on the screen.
The manifestation of God is not coming into existence some place else, like over there on the screen, "here" as opposed to "where He is." Manifesting is a self-enclosed ACTION, a screen-less projection from formlessness to form. The apparent IS the unapparent.
Rabbi David A. Cooper had a wonderful exercise where one imagined being at the throne of God and watching His light project through a screen of images onto a stage where the images take three dimensional form. It was interesting that the forms projected back through the screen their images to God.
The concept of distance here is useful in delineating the relationships between Projector and Projected, intention and independence, cultivation and generation. But the concept of distance is also misleading. It suggests separation between cause and effect.
I ask you to consider the image of a movie theater again; see the whole thing as a unit--projector, light transit and screen all together as one entity. That is easy enough. Now move the screen over to the projector so close that there is no distance in the light transit, and no screen. The projector erupts into the images directly. There you go, mate. Reality.
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