Deep: Unknown laws.

Deep: Unknown laws and the network of relationships between them.

Depth is the intellect existing in unconscious existence, the presence of the laws and the harmony between the laws, because the existence of matter is made possible by the existence of the laws, but there is no one to interpret or comprehend these laws. There is no present consciousness. The laws that shape the world, yet remain unknown, which consciousness has not yet come to know.

Genesis 1:2

Depth is identical with intellect, but it is the part of intellect that is not yet known. The unknown laws were named waters, and the relationships between the laws — the network of relationships — are identical with depth.

The relationships between the laws are not in heaven, among the definitions, but appear only in the material world, where the definitions are present together. Through the material manifestations of the definitions, it becomes apparent how the laws appear in relation to one another, and thus the relationships between the laws also become perceptible, comprehensible, and understandable through experiences.

Intellect is also part of the process of knowing, and intellect also exists before consciousness comes to know it. The unconscious existence of intellect is depth.

Within the experiences that are presently appearing, the network of relationships between the laws that are presently appearing also becomes manifest and becomes knowable. This is the surface, the face of the depth, which has just become perceptible to consciousness.

Our experiences are the appearing dry land, which becomes perceptible in the present.

Every law always influences the manifestation of the material world, but our present knowledge determines how much we are capable of understanding from the experience that is presently appearing. Within the depth, however, all laws and all relationships are continuously present for us unconsciously.

The growth of consciousness — that is, the growth of knowledge — makes it possible for us to come to know increasingly more of the depth through our experiences, as it continually rises to the surface and appears within our experiences.