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The April, 2009 issue of the
magazine has these words on the
front cover: WHY THE UNIVERSE HAD
NO BEGINNING. The question: WHAT
ARE THE IMPLICATIONS? is
mine.
To begin with, the theories in
the article discussing this
assertion seem essentially to
agree with this paragraph in my
essay #90 in March, 2009 website:
"I think the best way to conceive
of God is as ISNESS or what
Charles Fillmore, Unity's
co-founder, calls PURE BEING. All
creativeness is implied by these
terms. ISNESS does not require
something prior to give it it's
power. Anything that can ever
happen is implied in the
term."
A second implication may be
found in these words from the
article:
"According to
this model, the universe is
endless. It undergoes
limitless cycles of expansion
and cooling, each of which
begins with a Big Bang and
ends in a Big Crunch. The
event that occurred 13.7
billion years ago is only the
most recent bang. Although
this moment created the matter
contained in everything we
see, space, time, and energy
existed before the bang. And
more Big Bangs await us in the
future."
Our Unity or spiritual
intuition is that the nature of
the universe is implicit in all
creation. In other words, human
beings are eternal beings with
many cycles of beginning and
ending not one of which
represents THE beginning nor THE
ending.
The universe and life as we
know it may seem to have
countless beginnings and endings.
That phrase Big Crunch may sound
ominous, but in context the
article is talking about cycles
of beginning and ending much like
human birth, death, rebirth!
Jesus' words on the Cross, "It
is finished," may well be
interpreted in our Unity context
as meaning My mission, this
incarnation, is completed. It is
easy to apply this to the death
of a 90-year-old, and not easy at
all to early or accidental deaths
when our hope would be for a
person to have more years of
life. But let us stay with the
context of eternal life. Death
ends a cycle and is at the same
time the beginning of the next
cycle.
Unity and the scientists
presenting these theories are
talking the same language: life
or the universe or the concept of
God are best defined in terms of
an infinite process of the
emergence of life's expression
and manifestation which completes
itself and is followed by another
such period. Science speaks in
terms of evolution; the spiritual
context speaks of the
ever-renewing, the ever-unfolding
expression of life. Do you feel
the thrill as I do that this
agreement is pretty
wonderful?
Don
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