Manifestation in Space and Time
The material world appears to us continuously according to the speed of our perception, in a manner limited both in space and in time. This is the concrete definition of the timelessly existing world and the perceptible world.
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The world exists timelessly in its entirety. Not only Heaven, the world of laws, but also Earth, the material world.
The Human, however, cannot perceive the world in its entirety, because then it would not be capable of comprehending any of it. The key to knowing the world is the limitation of perception in time and in space.
After defining time and the present within time, the Bible also defines this concretely, if we seek a consistent explanation for the continuation of the text according to the previous interpretations:
"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas."
According to the meaning of the text, the world exists unconsciously. We have identified the waters with the unconsciously existing laws; therefore, this has already been established. Laws are laws because what they define appears in the material world.
Thus, the Seas are the material manifestation of the laws, existing unconsciously within the material world.
After the definition of time, the Dry Land emerges from the Seas as the present moment that we are experiencing.
For the Human, the present that is experienced appears continuously. It is not possible to move away from this process in any direction. The past is also within the Seas, unconscious. We can only remember it, but we cannot perceive or experience it again. The future is also within the Seas. We cannot experience it either; we can only predict what it will be like or imagine it.
Bible translations do not reproduce the structure of the Hebrew text precisely in this verse, because according to the original text, the waters are not merely gathered together into one place. Rather, they are gathered one by one, in sequence, one after another.
Therefore, based on this wording, the text is actually describing that experiences continuously follow one another for the Human. They emerge, become perceptible in the present, and do so in a defined sequence.
The material world exists in its entirety because, at the end of the six cycles of creation, God declared it complete and stated that He would create no more laws. However, the world cannot be perceived in its entirety. It appears to the Human only in a manner limited both in time and in space.
Sea: The sequence of our experiences.
The combined effect of the laws, which shape our material world, creating experiences through which a given law becomes revealed.
Genesis 1:9–10
Based on the above, the Sea is therefore the sequence of our experiences, from which the present emerges as the reality that can presently be experienced.
Dry: Experience.
A change appearing in material form, which can be perceived, through which the laws that shape our world become revealed.
Genesis 1:9
The Dry Land is the reality appearing in the material world that we are presently experiencing — the continuous present. While thinking about the past and the future, even our experiences of the past remain fluid. As our knowledge changes, so too does the way we see past events or the way we perceive the future that unfolds. The waters exist unconsciously; therefore, the Sea cannot be known. Only the Dry Land provides the possibility for knowing, for appearance. The present, however, appears in a completely stable manner. Every one of our experiences is concrete and defined.
Earth: The place of knowing.
The designation given by God to matter, in which, like on a cinema screen, the experiences necessary for the knowing of laws appear.
Genesis 1:10
The Earth was already defined earlier, in the very first verse of the Bible. The meaning of Earth does not change; rather, it is expanded, because the text has now defined time and the sequence of experiences, which appears perceptibly for the Human in the present.
God gives the name Earth to the Dry Land, the experience appearing in the present that provides knowing for the Human. As we analysed earlier, naming signifies a concrete definition. Therefore, from this point onward, Earth appears in the text as a name. It no longer refers to the material world in its entirety, but to the name of the Dry Land, which is the reality appearing in the present — experience.