fr-Chapter 24 - The Spiritual and Material Creation

The Creation of Spiritual Beings

1. Before there were worlds, before all creatures and matter came into being, My Divine Spirit already existed. Yet as the All-One, I felt an immeasurable emptiness within Myself, for I was like a king without subjects, like a master without disciples. For this reason, I conceived the plan to create beings like Myself, to whom I would devote My entire life, whom I would love so deeply and intimately that—when the time came—I would not hesitate to sacrifice My blood for them on the cross.

2. Do not take offense when I tell you that I already loved you even before you existed. Yes, beloved children! (345, 20–21)

3. The Divine Spirit was full of love, even though He existed alone. Nothing had yet been created; there was nothing around the Divine Being, and yet He loved and felt Himself to be a Father.

4. Whom did He love? Whose Father did He feel Himself to be? It was all beings and all creatures that would proceed from Him and whose power lay hidden in His Spirit. In that Spirit were all sciences, all forces of nature, all entities, all foundations of creation. He was Eternity and Time. In Him were the past, the present, and the future, even before the worlds and beings came into being.

5. That divine inspiration became reality under the infinite power of divine love, and life began. (150, 76 79) 6. So that God might call Himself Father, He brought forth spirits from His bosom—creatures who were like Him in His divine attributes. This was your origin; thus you came into spiritual life. (345, 22)

7. The reason for your creation was love, the divine longing to share My power with someone; and the reason I endowed you with free will was likewise love. I wanted to feel loved by My children—not out of obligation to a law, but out of a spontaneous feeling that should spring freely from your soul. (31, 53)

8. Every spirit arose from a pure thought of the Deity; therefore, the spirits are a perfect work of the Creator. (236, 16)

The Work of Great Spirits in the Work of Creation

9. Elijah is the great spirit who sits at the right hand of God, who in his humility calls himself a servant of God; through his mediation and that of other great spirits, I move the spiritual universe and carry out great and lofty decrees. Yes, my disciples, I have multitudes of great spirits at my service who govern creation. (345, 9)

God's Thoughts of Providence

10. Hearken, disciples: Before you entered into life, I already existed, and in My Spirit yours was hidden. Yet I did not wish to make you heirs to My Kingdom without having earned merit, nor that you should possess what exists without knowing who had created you; nor did I wish for you to depart from Me without direction, without a goal, and without ideals.

11. That is why I gave you the Spirit, so that it might serve as your guide. I granted you free will so that your deeds might have true value in My sight. I gave you the soul so that it might always yearn to rise toward the Light and the Pure. I gave you the body so that, through the heart, you might have a sense of the good and the beautiful, and so that it might serve as a touchstone, a constant test, and also as a tool for living in the material world. (35, 48-49)

The Creation of Material Worlds for Spiritual Beings

12. When space was first illuminated by the presence of the spirits, they—since they were still wavering and stumbling like little children and had neither the development nor the strength to remain in places of high spirituality—felt the need for a foothold, for a base of support, to feel strong; and so matter and a material world were given to them, and in their new state they gained experience and insights. (35, 50)

13. The universe filled with beings, and in all of them the love, power, and wisdom of the Father were revealed. Like an inexhaustible source of life, the bosom of the Lord has been since that moment when He commanded that the atoms should unite to form beings and bodies and give them shape.

14. First there was spiritual life, first there were spiritual beings, and only then did material nature come into being.

15. Since it was decided that many spiritual creatures were to take on physical form to live on material worlds, everything was prepared beforehand so that the children of the Lord would find everything ready for them.

16. He showered the path His children would have to walk with blessings, flooded the universe with life, and filled with beauty the path of humankind, into whom He placed a divine spark: the spirit, the soul, and thus created them out of love, intelligence, strength, will, and consciousness. Yet He enveloped all that exists in His power and revealed to it its destiny. (150, 80–84)

17. When the Father created the world and gave it the purpose of being a place of atonement, He already knew that His children would fall prey to weaknesses and transgressions on their path, that a home would be necessary to take the first step toward renewal and perfection. (250, 37)

The Creation of Man

18. Hear this: God, the Supreme Being, created you "in His image and likeness"—not in regard to the physical form you possess, but to the abilities with which your spirit is endowed, similar to those of the Father.

19. How pleasing it was to your vanity to consider yourselves the image of the Creator. You consider yourselves the most highly developed creatures that God has made. Yet you are gravely mistaken if you assume that the universe was created solely for you. With what ignorance do you call yourselves the crown of creation!

20. Understand that not even the earth was created solely for human beings. On the endless ladder of divine creation, there is an infinite number of souls developing in fulfillment of the Divine Law.

21. The goals that encompass all things—and which you, as human beings, cannot comprehend even if you wished to—are great and perfect, like all the Father's intentions. Yet truly, I tell you, you are neither the greatest nor the smallest of the Lord's creatures.

22. You were created, and in that moment your spirit received life from the Almighty, which contained within itself as many qualities as were necessary for you to fulfill a difficult task in eternity. (17, 24–28)

23. Into the soul of man, which is My masterpiece, I have placed My Divine Light. I have nurtured it with infinite love, just as a gardener tends a cherished plant in his garden. I have placed you in this realm of life, where you lack nothing for living, so that you may know Me and know yourselves. I have given your soul the power to sense the life of the hereafter, and your body senses, so that you may refresh and perfect yourselves. I have entrusted this world to you so that you may take your first steps upon it and, on this path of progress and perfection, experience the perfection of My Law, so that during your life you may come to know and love Me more and more and, through your merits, reach Me.

24. I have granted you the gift of free will and endowed you with a conscience. The former so that you may develop freely within the framework of My laws, and the latter so that you may know how to distinguish good from evil, so that it may tell you, as a perfect judge, when you fulfill My law or violate it.

25. Conscience is light from My Divine Spirit, which never leaves you for a single moment.

26. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; I am Peace and Happiness, the eternal promise that you will be with Me, and also the fulfillment of all My words. (22, 7–10)

The Memory of Paradise

27. The first humans—those who were the forefathers of mankind—retained for a time the impression their souls had brought with them from the "Spiritual Valley" —an impression of beauty, peace, and bliss that persisted within them as long as the passions of the flesh and the struggle for survival had not yet appeared in their lives.

28. Yet I must tell you that the soul of those people, although it came from a world of light, did not originate from the highest abodes—those to which you can only attain through merit.

29. Nevertheless, the state of innocence, peace, well-being, and health that those souls preserved during their first steps was unforgettable as a time of light, the testimony of which they passed on to their children and these to their descendants.

30. The materialized minds of humans, having misunderstood the true meaning of that testimony, eventually came to believe that the paradise in which the first humans had lived was an earthly paradise, without realizing that it was a spiritual state of those beings. (287, 12–13)

The Nature of Man

31. Soul and body are of different natures; your being consists of them, and above both stands the spirit. The former is a daughter of light; the latter originates from the earth and is matter. Both are united in a single being and struggle against one another, guided by the spirit, in which you have the presence of God. This struggle has been taking place continuously to this day; but ultimately, soul and body will fulfill in harmony the task that my law assigns to each of them.

32. You can also imagine the soul as if it were a plant, and the body as the earth. The soul, planted in matter, grows and rises upward, nourishing itself from the trials and lessons it receives during its human life. (21, 40-41)

The Unity of the Creator with Creation

33. The Spirit of God is like an infinitely vast tree, in which the branches are the worlds and the leaves are the beings. Since it is one and the same sap that flows through the trunk to all the branches and from them to the leaves—do you not believe that there is something eternal and sacred that connects you all to one another and unites you with the Creator? (21, 38)

34. My Spirit, which is all-encompassing, exists in everything I have created, whether in the spiritual or in the material realm. My work is present in all things and testifies to My perfection on every level of life.

35. My divine work encompasses everything—from the greatest and most perfect beings who dwell at My right hand, down to the barely perceptible micro-organism, the plant or the mineral, the atom or the cell that gives form to all creatures.

36. With this, I once again point out to you the perfection of all that I have created—from material beings to the spirits who have already attained perfection. This is my work. (302, 39)

37. Whoever deviates from the Spiritual Law, which is the highest law, falls under the dominion of the subordinate or material laws, of which people know little. However, whoever obeys the highest law and remains in harmony with it stands above all the orders you call natural, and feels and understands more than one who possesses only the knowledge found in science or in religions.

38. That is why Jesus amazed you with the works you call miracles; yet recognize the teachings he gave you out of love. Understand that there is nothing supernatural or contradictory in the Divine, which resonates throughout all creation. (24:42–43)