Fifth Day: The process of knowledge.

Fifth Day: The process of knowledge.

The definition of laws as the appearance of emotions, then in known, conscious form and as information, through which we come to know them, become certain of them, and they become part of our conscious I.

Genesis 1:23

The process of knowing takes place according to the way knowledge is built upon itself, based on the network of relationships among the laws. Those laws that we cannot yet connect in any way to our existing knowledge are not perceptible to us during our experiences.

The process is as follows:

The laws that have already become known constitute the conscious I. Consciousness identifies with what it has come to know; the information assembled into definitions by intellect constitutes the conscious I.

The laws that have already become known make it possible to know additional laws that are connected in some way to the laws already known. These appear in our experiences, which were determined in the third cycle of creation so that we experience precisely those experiences that reveal the laws that are knowable at that particular stage.

During our experiences, laws also appear that we cannot yet connect to our knowledge, because our existing knowledge is not yet capable of revealing the network of relationships through which we could already interpret them. However, the information is already present within our experiences. This information, which cannot yet be connected to our knowledge, first appears as emotions. As our knowledge grows, our previous emotions also become interpretable, and new information becomes perceptible, which first appears to us as the appearance of new emotions.

Therefore, according to the fifth day, the process of knowing, new laws always first appear at the level of emotions, becoming perceptible from the waters, from the unconscious. As our knowledge grows, our emotions increasingly become interpretable information. Thus, the winged creatures appear as information that intellect is not yet able to assemble into definitions, but which has already become perceptible.

The appearance of the birds means that we are already able to form concrete definitions from the available information. We create definitions that appear in our experiences, and through continual alignment with continuously recurring experiences, our definitions take on increasingly concrete forms.

As knowledge grows, new emotions continually appear — the living creatures in the waters — and we become capable of perceiving ever more information. Thus, the birds also continue to grow.

Emotion and information multiply and increase throughout the process of knowing, and knowledge grows until it becomes conscious.

This is the process of knowing described by the fifth cycle of creation.