“In the beginning, That Which Is is all there was, and there was nothing else.
Now All That Is knew It was all there was — but this was not enough, for It could only know Its utter magnificence conceptually, not experientially. Yet the experience of Itself is that for which It longed, for It wanted to know what It felt like to be so magnificent. Still, this was impossible, because the very term ‘magnificent’ is a relative term. All That Is could not know what It felt like to be magnificent unless that which is not showed up. In the absence of that which is not, that which IS, is not.
This energy — this pure, unseen, unheard, unobserved, and therefore unknown-by-anyone-else energy — chose to experience Itself as the utter magnificence It was. In order to do this, It realized It would have to use a reference point within.
It reasoned, quite correctly, that any portion of Itself would necessarily have to be less than the whole and that if It thus simply divided Itself into portions, each portion, being less than the whole, could look back on the rest of Itself and see magnificence.
And so All That Is divided Itself — becoming, in one glorious moment, that which is this, and that which is that. For the first time, this and that existed, quite apart from each other. And still, both existed simultaneously. As did all that was neither.
Thus, three elements suddenly existed: that which is here. That which is there. And that which is neither here nor there — but which must exist for here and there to exist.
It is the nothing which holds the everything. It is the non-space which holds the space. It is the all which holds the parts.
Can you understand this? Are you following this?
… (Yes, I think I am, actually.)
I’m going to go further. Now this nothing which holds the everything is what some people call God. Yet that is not accurate, either, for it suggests there is something God is not — namely, everything that is not ‘nothing.’
But I am All Things — seen and unseen — so this description of Me as the Great Unseen — the No-thing, or the Space Between, an essentially Eastern mystical definition of God, is no more accurate than the essentially Western practical description of God as all that is seen. Those who believe that God is All That Is and All That Is Not, are those whose understanding is correct.
Now in creating that which is ‘here’ and that which is ‘there.’ God made it possible for God to Know Itself. In the moment of this great explosion from within, God created relativity — the greatest gift God ever gave to Itse
lf. Thus, relationship is the greatest gift God ever gave to you, a point to be discussed in detail later.
From the No-Thing thus sprang the Everything — a spiritual event entirely consistent, incidentally, with what your scientists call The Big Bang theory.”
Conversations With God – an uncommon dialogue – book 1, Neale Donald Walsch, pgs. 22-24.
