Understanding Creation from a Spiritual Perspective

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Today I want to offer some reflections from a Logopraxis perspective on the concept of creation and what the Word has to say about the activity of Divine Love and Wisdom in bringing creation into being. But before we explore the spiritual idea of creation, I want you to take a moment to think about what love and wisdom are, and where they reside. The reason for this is so that we can pull back from thinking about creation in material or natural terms and begin to think about it in a way that is consistent with spiritual laws and how these govern the regeneration of the human mind. It is divine revelation alone that offers a firm foundation for thinking coherently about the spiritual idea of creation. The truths of divine revelation are essential to warding off the tendency in us all to think, and draw conclusions about spiritual realities, from the appearances of our senses.

All natural theories about creation based on sensual appearances that place causal power in nature are simply false. This is because creation isn’t a natural process, it’s a spiritual process and where the Lord and spiritual realities aren’t acknowledged then all that’s left is human reasoning and speculation that sees end, cause and effect as purely natural forces existing on a single plane of operation.

Spiritual revelation teaches that what manifests on the natural plane are the effects of causes that exist in a different dimension altogether called the spiritual world. Now it is important to understand that the spiritual world is a vast world consisting of every human psychological state taken collectively and that we each experience that world directly as the thoughts and affections that make up our sense of existing as an individual self. This inner cosmos consisting of every state of human and angelic consciousness is constantly being reformed, rearranged, and reordered, in a word, recreated, into an ever more perfect human form. This is the Grand Human, the macro-cosmos of which every individual human form representatively points to as the micro-cosmos.  All participate in this great collective network of psychological states from which every thought and affection pours forth and is organised into a form that gives rise to, and maintains, your sense of self. Take a moment to think about that, because if this is not grasped as our starting point then it will be virtually impossible to grasp what divine revelation has to say about creation.

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Marian Fraser
Marian Fraser
8 months ago

I appreciated the lightheartedness of the presentation about creation reflections, and the fact that there isnt a separate material world. That the senses are the lowest level of creation. On a continum. The example of “look at the tree outside the window- the Lord is not flowing into the tree, because that would make the Lord finite”, leaves me wondering, arent we finite? Where is the tree being projected from? (so that Divine love and wisdom can be fully present.) Also, Gray said that death can be defined as a stopping of taking things in by the senses, but angels… Read more »

David Millar
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Reply to  Marian Fraser
8 months ago

Yes we are finite – but our bodies are on the same plane as the tree and arises in our perceptive faculties in the same manner as the tree – it is love and wisdom flowing in by an inward way that gives rise to it all – the infinite can only be in the finite in what is of Itself so is never really in what we are in ourselves this being nothing but evil and falsity. Angels do experience a sense based world but being spiritual it is perceived through spiritual senses which are ideas of a heavenly… Read more »

Sarah Walker
Reply to  Marian Fraser
8 months ago

Yes what comes to mind is this quote from Heaven and Hell 156 “Together with the state of the angels’ interiors which pertain to their love and wisdom, the states of various things outside them appearing before their eyes are changed. For the things outside them take on an appearance in accordance with the things within them.” and these two too 170. REPRESENTATIVES AND APPEARANCES IN HEAVEN The man who thinks from natural light alone is unable to comprehend that there is anything in heaven like what is in the world, the reason being that from natural light he had… Read more »

Annie Drake
Annie Drake
1 year ago

Great read. I feel truly blessed to have access to these types of writings.

Sarah Walker
Reply to  Annie Drake
1 year ago

Yes, they are a gift aren’t they.

Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
3 years ago

I thought I would add what I worked with from this offering of creation reflections…. The parts that I was drawn to … “The term creation in the Texts of Divine revelation describes the process by which human minds are regenerated and brought into form in which the Lord can dwell. Love and wisdom cannot dwell anywhere else other than in minds created in its own image and likeness. When the Word uses the term creation it is speaking about the transformation of human consciousness from a natural form of mind that is opposed to spiritual realities into spiritual or… Read more »