Day: Creation cycle.

Day: Creation cycle.

The day, as a unit, based on the first chapter, represents a creation cycle.

Genesis 1:5

At the beginning of the text, the days, as the cycles of creation, reveal the order in which the laws are built upon one another.

The day first appears as the alternation of consciousness and unconsciousness. God called the conscious I Daytime, and the unconscious I Night, and there was evening and there was morning — the first day. Thus, the day signifies cyclicality: experiences are repeated so that the laws of the world may become recognizable through recurring experiences.

The order of creation is essential during the process of knowing, because the laws that were defined in an earlier cycle also determine the possibility for later definitions to appear.

What already exists does not change when a new definition appears. Rather, the new definition adapts to the already existing world and to the already existing definitions. It comes into existence among them and defines the appearing reality in greater detail.

Day, Daytime, and Night were defined before time. Therefore, time appears only within the already existing material world as a law that is essential for consciousness. However, the existence of time governs the process of knowing, not existence itself. The world exists in the same way that a film exists on its storage medium, but understanding it requires time, within which perception takes place in a defined manner for consciousness.