First Day: Consciousness, the conscious I and the unconscious I, intellect.

First Day: Consciousness, the conscious I and the unconscious I, intellect.

The first cycle of creation.

The creation of matter, and of conscious and unconscious existence. The definition of the Human’s conscious I and unconscious I.

Genesis 1:5

According to the description in the Bible, the material world is like a projector. What has been defined in heaven — that is, in the world of laws — appears in the material world.

Definitions build upon one another; therefore, every subsequent definition comes into existence among the definitions that have already been created. It follows from this that the order of definitions is of fundamental importance, because a definition can only be limited by definitions that already exist.

Therefore, the definitions that already exist always provide the framework for subsequent definitions. Likewise, every limitation that has already appeared in the definitions also appears in the material world.

The First Day represents the most fundamental definitions, which define the foundations of the world. These definitions present a completely different picture of the world from the one we currently perceive, because the material world is not fundamental—quite the contrary. The material world is only the projection of the world of definitions, where the primary reality is not material forms of appearance, but the way definitions build upon one another.

Consciousness is the most fundamental definition according to the description of the First Day, and it has no material manifestation. Consciousness has no opposite. The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters, yet there is no mention of the creation, definition, or any limitation of the Spirit of God, nor of any material form of manifestation. The Spirit of God is consciousness—a fundamental essence for which even the Bible provides no explanation. At first, this may seem strange; however, because everything else is defined, this also has an interpretable significance.

The definitions that appear in the material world exist in interaction with one another and in relationships of dependence. Therefore, the fact that consciousness has no definition means that the existence of consciousness depends neither on the existence of the laws nor on material forms of manifestation.

The definition of the conscious I and the unconscious I is established according to how much of the definitions in heaven is known by consciousness. What consciousness knows becomes part of the conscious I, while everything else remains part of the unconscious I. It follows from this that the unconscious I contains everything that exists, whereas the conscious I is the part of the unconscious I that consciousness has already come to know.

The process of knowing does not only mean coming to know the definitions themselves, but also coming to know the relationships of dependence and limitation between the definitions. Every one of our definitions has many material forms of manifestation, depending on the circumstances under which, and the interpretations and evaluations through which, we experience the manifestation of that particular definition.

Intellect is neither a quality nor an IQ score. Intellect is the relationships between definitions. Every definition that already exists limits and provides the framework for newly created definitions. These limitations also appear in their material forms of manifestation, in the material world. A law defined earlier limits a law defined later; however, this "earlier" and "later" do not refer to chronological order, because time itself also appears as a result of definitions. The order in which definitions are created determines which definition is of a higher level and therefore has limiting power over the definitions created later.

Intellect is the recognition of these relationships. Definitions appear in the material world, and their forms of manifestation reveal the framework within which each definition is able to exist. The recognition of these frameworks is intellect, which consciousness only recognizes.

Therefore, intellect is also a fundamental definition. It is not a property of consciousness, but the recognition of the network of relationships between definitions.

Thus, the First Day is the description of the four fundamental definitions, which do not yet determine the manifestation of anything, but they determine the order and logical structure of the relationships between definitions, as well as the manner in which they become knowable, through which the definitions become conscious.

Definitions are like individual lines of code in a computer program. We may understand them and learn what each line of code does, but we only see the actual mode of operation when we run the program. The lines of code written in heaven run in the material world, and the relationships, the effects, and the material forms of manifestation appear.

The material world is perceptible, and here we can recognize not only the code—the lines of code—but also every relationship that exists among the laws of heaven. These relationships are the manifestation of intellect, which is far more than merely knowing the laws.

The definitions of the First Day are the most fundamental laws, to which every other law adapts, because they are the foundation. In contrast to the materialistic worldview, according to the description of the Bible, the material world is the form of manifestation of the laws, and it is in the material world that the chain of relationships between the laws becomes perceptible. Consciousness, through the perception of material forms of manifestation, is able to recognize the laws and understand the network of relationships between them.