“Creation started — if it ever started, and of course it never started. So when I say started, it is again squeezing a concept into human language for which there is no other word. Try to feel this truth! Creation “started” with the divine spark. The spark may have been tiny in an immense vacuum. Yet in this tiny spark was the utmost of divine reality, comprising everything of consciousness, the most powerful creative energy, the most incredible wisdom and love. The infinite goodness of the divine Creator made it his aim or plan to gradually fill this vacuum, a vacuum of nothingness, the spark being the All. Gradually the spark began to spread and slowly interpenetrated the vacuum: the vacuum in its darkness and nothingness; the spark in its incredible light, its glowing aliveness and allness; the vacuum an infinity in the outer regions; the spark an infinity of the inner regions. Here a contradiction may appear in human dualistic terms. How could there be “two” infinities? It is quite impossible to convey this to the human consciousness. How it could be true that there is an infinity, but there is both vacuum and inner spark of eternal light, the latter filling the former?

“The eternal spark, its inner infinite regions, spreads and spreads inexorably. Perhaps you can visualize a form, a picture: a thick golden, sparkling “liquid,” teeming with energy and glorious creative potentials, all seeds contained in it, brilliant, effervescent, alive, intensely conscious, endowed with every conceivable and inconceivable power to create worlds, beings — slowly spreading and spreading, aiming to fill the apparently infinite nothingness. Yet this is the All, in its infinity and eternality, filling this vacuum inexorably.

“Since the All is such vibrant consciousness and powerful energy and aliveness, it must be the ultimate that cannot help but penetrate the entire vacuum until there is no longer a vacuum. The outer region will be entirely filled with the inner world of light and life.

“In the process of spreading, particles of this All, of the divine spark, seem to get lost and ‘forget’ the origin of their wholeness and their connectedness. These particles believe themselves to be isolated dots of consciousness thrown into the outer darkness and struggling against being swallowed up by it. This struggle is an illusion. The fear is an illusion. The apparently isolated dot is not really isolated. The connection always exists, but in the process of penetration, the advancing, spreading life and allness is partially diminished in its manifestations. In this diminished state, there are ‘times’ when the outer darkness seems nearer and more real than the inner life of the spark.

“The outer vacuum is not evil, for evil is not nothing. Evil comes into existence when the divine spark loses its memory, has not yet regained its knowledge of connectedness, and struggles against the vacuum. The ferocious struggle against giving up being, existing, aliveness distorts divine reality and energy. The temporary transition creates a state that may be called evil. But it is temporary.

“This temporarily and apparently separated aspect of divine reality must inevitably be drawn back into the ever spreading All. That is, it is not really ‘drawn back.’ It is rather that the ever growing fullness of the spreading spark ‘catches up with’ the aspect that has moved ahead in a diminished form. All of nature with all her manifestations and various forms of life is part of this great and slowly advancing wave that fills the outer regions. Your own life manifestation, your struggle and your development are to be viewed in this light. Feel yourself as you bring truth and divinity into your whole being. This is the spark in you pushing to interpenetrate the outer regions. The more life on earth progresses in spirituality, justice, love, truth, and oneness, the more this creative process is being fulfilled.” (PL #203)