*BEGINNING
Our beginning was when we were made, but the love in which he made us never had beginning. In it we have our beginning." (Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love)
If we divide work into manageable units, we can handle it. One day at a time. "The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step (Tao 64)." (Tao Peace, p164-5)
In the beginning, that which Is is all there was and there was nothing else. Yet All That Is could not know itself - because All That Is is all there was and there was nothing else. And so, All That Is, was not. For in the absence of something else, All That Is, is not. 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. Until concept becomes experience, all there is is speculation. 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. Thus It simply divided Itself into portions that could look back on the rest of Itself and see magnificence. At the Big Bang, there is this, that, and neither [trinity or duality of dualities]. My purpose in creating you was for Me to know Myself. I had no way to do that except through you. Physicality is the only way to know experientially what you know conceptually. My spirit children at first, had to come to know the opposite, because it is by that which you are not that you yourself are defined. You cannot experience your Self as creator unless and until you create. And you cannot create yourself until you uncreate yourself. You have to first "not be" in order "to be." There was no way for you not to be, so the next best thing was to cause yourself to forget Who You Really Are. And in the act of choosing to be a part of God that you experience yourself as God. Your job on Earth is not to learn (because you already know), but to re-member Who You Are and everybody else is. A big part of the job is to remind (re-mind) others so that they can re-member also. (Conversations, p22-28)