Earth: The material world.
Earth: The material world.
In the material world, all matter can be found; therefore, it is not the planet called Earth, but every single atom or particle that exists, and every single galaxy that we cannot see even with the best telescope. These materials exist according to the laws of Heaven.
Genesis 1:1
The material world truly means matter and material manifestation. However, the essential information is not the presence of matter itself, but that the laws present in Heaven appear in material form.
The material world is the projector in which the laws of Heaven appear. Yet they do not merely appear; the relationships between the laws also appear.
The network of relationships between the laws becomes perceptible and understandable only in the material world. Therefore, perceiving and experiencing material manifestation is not only part of the process of knowing, but also its fundamental condition. The network of relationships between the laws is intellect, which consciousness is able to recognize through experience.
The same intellect exists even when consciousness is not present or is not yet capable of recognizing it. The laws exist unconsciously as water, and the network of relationships between them is present as depth. From this depth, whatever reaches the surface becomes knowable and perceptible, and thus the relationships between the manifested laws also become recognizable.
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 the laws appear.
Genesis 1:10
In the second cycle of creation, God created the definitions of time, including the definition of the Firmament, which signifies the present. The Human's perception is limited in both time and space so that, within the material world, the laws of Heaven may be experienced separately and thus become recognizable.
The Firmament signifies the present moment that consciousness is currently experiencing. Thus, the Dry Land signifies the experience appearing in the present. God then called the Dry Land Earth; therefore, Earth, as a name, is the name of the experience appearing in the present.
As experiences appear one after another in time, they become perceptible to the Human as a process, just as the frames of a film follow one another. In this way, the material world is the most advanced three-dimensional cinema, which the Human always sees from its own perspective because perception is provided by the human body.
God completed the definition of the laws on the sixth day; therefore, the world exists. After the definitions of Heaven and Earth, the definitions of time make the world perceptible to the Human, because without time we would not be capable of distinguishing anything from anything else. However, the world appearing in time makes the laws of God knowable to the Human in the ideal way.