THE MIRACLE
How beautifully made you are - a man! Your earthly body is so universal and perfect that it is unlikely that soon there will be a genius who will thoroughly and in detail describe its inexplicably subtle and incredibly magical structure! It's your HOME! A house where you feel comfortable and cozy! A house that was born and grew out of almost nothing, out of a great NOTHING - out of two liquids fused together by the most beautiful cosmic force, whose name is LOVE!
How can words describe what happens between two people in the process of love? This is shock, this is ecstasy, this is the pinnacle of bliss!
But the most amazing thing is that getting this incomparable pleasure, the lovers, by the will of God, build a house for the third virtual being, who is still living in heaven, but is already firmly attached to them by invisible energy threads!
The mystery of LOVE smoothly turns into the mystery of CREATION!
A MIRACLE happens! The miracle of the conception of a new, unknown life!
And this MIRACLE happens, as it were, by itself. IT does not require any physical, mental, or spiritual expenses from the creators. On the contrary, IT is bestowing! IT, by the will of heaven, grants lovers and, unspeakably beautiful, pleasure, and ... the future beloved child!
The child, who is not yet, but the process of his formation has already begun, has already started working a mysterious, biological program, hidden in the depths of the male and female seed. The Angels, who are responsible for its correct and timely development, have already got down to business, and the spirit that is destined to be born in this body and live in it exactly as long as it is planned has already been prepared by the same magical program incomprehensible to the human mind!
And this program is really unique! It contains all the stages of development of a given body, from an embryo to an old man! From one barely noticeable egg to a super-genius and super-complex human organism!
And all the development of the body takes place at its command and under its constant control. It is universal, multi-faceted and ubiquitous. It is diffused throughout the body and manifests itself everywhere, including atoms, cells, organs, and various internal systems. And the power inherent in it is boundless! It knows EVERYTHING about the future body! Well, absolutely EVERYTHING! Including little things like gender, height, skin color, lash length, and hair smell.
But the most interesting thing is that this program is SELF-REPRODUCING! The adult, mature organism itself begins to take copies of itself and stores them in the same small, barely noticeable eggs. That is, the MOTHER PROGRAM creates a CHILD PROGRAM within itself!
A child who will later produce a new body, thus continuing the circle of life.
But the same thing happens in the animal world. Since God created the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth after their kind, nothing has changed. The same seed-programs that HE planted in them still work today, producing billions of new lives each year according to their kind.
And in the plant world, everything develops according to the program. Every tree bears its own fruit, in which its seed is according to its kind on the earth. And each grass sows its seed after its kind and after its likeness.
And no one knows how many such seed programs there are on Earth. They are liquid and solid, large and small, round and flat. There are billions of them. But each of them is a MIRACLE, a unique, brilliant MIRACLE of the CREATOR! A MIRACLE made unknown how and working unknown how, but the result is accurate, real and permanent.
Well, now that we have examined the biological miracle programs in such detail, let us turn our attention to our solar system and, in general, to the universe.
According to an extract from the ancient Hebrew book "Zohar", the Blessed Holy One created at the BEGINNING a certain higher and mysterious POINT. Until this point, there is nothing available to knowledge, and therefore it is called the BEGINNING.
- And THE MYSTERIOUS ONE hit the void and made that POINT shine. Then this BEGINNING spread and created a palace for Its greatness and glory. And in that palace HE sowed the HOLY SEED that was to bear fruit for the good of the world. In this way, through the BEGINNING, the MYSTERIOUS UNKNOWN created this palace. The palace itself is called ELOHIM-GOD, and this teaching is contained in the words, " FROM THE BEGINNING was created ELOHIM."
Now let's try to translate the above into modern language. Someone MYSTERY UNKNOWN, may His Name be blessed, being in His virtual world, decided to create a kind of natural-material world and created a super-genius, self-propagating system in the form of the Point. And this point contained the entire plan for the development of the future universe. Just as in the human ovum complete information about the future body is compiled, and in the walnut there is hidden a scheme of a tree that does not yet exist, so in the initial POINT THE MYSTERIOUS UNKNOWN, in microscopic dimensions, laid the foundations of the UNIVERSE. Rather, not the foundations, but the universe itself, with all its galaxies, star systems, planets and black holes. And this POINT - THE UNIVERSE, having spread, created or, most likely, received from the MYSTERIOUS a new Divine Essence - Elohim, with the Holy Seed inside, which was to bear fruit for the GOOD of the world.
Well, now, tell me, what does the above process remind you of?
Its similarity with the creation of the first man, as well as with the birth of each of us, is clearly striking.
Judge for yourself.
Here is what the Bible says about the creation of Adam:
- And the Lord God created man from the dust of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
The body of Adam and the Starting Point of the universe are similar. Both, in essence, are PROGRAMS! And the breath of life - the SPIRIT of GOD - is a part of God - Elohim, implanted by the MYSTERIOUS UNKNOWN in the widespread, expanded, grown Point - the universe.
But the origin of the universe is even more similar to the birth of any human being on earth. First, the Seed-Program forms the body, and then the Angels of heaven populate it with a pre-determined SPIRIT. Just as in a widespread, grown - up Point-Program, the Divine Spirit is introduced from the Mysterious Unknown.
And this amazing similarity suggests that all the creations of the Lord are produced according to the same scheme. At the beginning, a PROGRAM was made, which after a certain time was spiritualized by the SPIRIT of LIFE, and turned into a living being, be it a blade of grass, a tree, an insect, an animal, a person, or ... THE UNIVERSE!
-But it's incredible! You say.
"The universe can't be alive!" Here is the Earth, here is the Sun, the Moon, the stars - they are material, but, in any case, not alive. Where did this crazy idea come from?! Of course, there is no limit to human imagination. But this is too much! A living universe! This is absurdity!...
But wait to be indignant. Let's discuss this hypothesis together. Let's assume that our entire solar system is just a small atom of some living cell of a huge universal organism. And what? It is similar in structure to an atom, where the Sun is the nucleus of the atom, and the planets are its electrons.
Then it turns out that we are not the inhabitants of the planet Earth, but some aborigines from the ELECTRON called – The Earth, living inside the ATOM called – The Solar System. And there are only a whole galaxy of such ATOMS in one CELL of the universe. So, it is impossible for us - "microbes" - to see the whole universe in any way. And what shape it is, none of us can know.
But here is what Emanuel Swedenborg writes about this in his book "Heaven and Hell".
- Heaven in its entirety does reflect a single individual, and is in fact the divine spiritual person in its greatest form and image, heaven is therefore differentiated into members and parts like a person, and these are given similar names.
Angels know what member one community or another is in and say that this community is in the member or province of the head, that one in the member or province of the chest, that one in the member or province of the genitals, and so on. [65].
Heaven, according to Swedenborg, is nothing but the universe, spiritualized by the Divine principle. And by societies we mean the Angelic collectives that live within these HEAVENS.
Space, or airless space, as we call it, is not emptiness. It is filled with angelic societies, the number of which is impossible to count, just as it is impossible to count the number of planets and stars in the universe.
And, to make it easier for you to understand, let's turn to the same living cell. It includes a huge number of atoms (star systems), but there is no void between them. As we know, the intracellular space is filled with protoplasm with all sorts of vital inclusions for the cell. So in the cosmic "cell", which includes millions of star systems, there is no emptiness. The cosmos is full of life, only the cosmic "protoplasm" is Angelic societies.
But each angelic society, if you look at it from the outside, as E. Swedenborg writes, looks like one person. And the group of angelic societies that make up a single organ of the GRAND Man also has a human form.
And the result, according to this book, is an incredibly magical picture of the structure of the universe.
The whole of it is one huge, DIVINE person, the Grand Man, containing all the star systems that we see in the night sky, with all the people who live on them, as well as all the angelic societies that live above them.
The name of the Grand Man is well known to you - it is the Lord our God, Jesus Christ! He is the GOD of our universe! But, as you remember, He came from the Holy Seed of the Mysterious Unknown, which means that He is the Son of God!
And how many Sons of God did the Mysterious One create? I think that's a lot. And each of them is God, and each of them is the universe! And all together They make up the Spiritual Body of God the Father - the Mysterious Unknown.
So, according to this scheme, the universe is not one. There are many of them. Just as many as the Sons of God. And there are probably a lot of Mysterious Unknowns. But in order not to get completely confused, we will stop and say Stop! You can't go any further! Let us take as a basis that God the Father is the First Cause and the final result of the created world, because otherwise, it is logical to continue this scheme in the direction of the microcosm, and assume that we are like Gods, and inside us is the same universe like ours, and that angels live inside our cells, and on all our atoms micro-people are born and die, inside of which there are micro, micro universes, and so on ad infinitum.
Although, personally, I think so. After all, the microcosm is limitless. But for the sake of simplicity, let us assume that man is the ultimate intelligent product of creation.
And now let's think together how this structure of the world is combined with the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
There is one passage in the Gospel of John where Jesus Christ says to His disciples:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever." (John 6:51 [NIV]).
"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him." (John 6:56 [NIV]).
Hardly anyone living on earth understands what this is about. After all, it is impossible to eat the flesh of a living person.
Indeed, if we live inside the body of Jesus Christ, we are forced to eat the products produced by the smallest part of this Divine body - the planet Earth.
And the expression:
- I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me (John 14:10 [NIV]), clearly and unambiguously confirms this theory.
Well, the two main Biblical ideas:
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" and "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt 22:37 [NIV]), follow from the above assumption. After all, all the inhabitants of the Earth, with all their differences, are only small, almost invisible particles, of a single Divine organism. And who among us does not love your body. After all, only madmen can hate their arm, leg, head, and entire body. And such people King David in his psalms called sitting in the darkness and the shadow of death.
And why should you hate your neighbor? After all, we are a single organism. We all ultimately have the same destiny, the same task - to come to the Lord and merge with His spiritual body. And all earthly sufferings exist in order to purify our souls from blackness. And they are cleansed by love, prayer, and charity.