Heaven: The world of laws.

Heaven: The world of laws.

The repository of all the laws of the world, where all knowledge can be found in knowable, conscious form.

Genesis 1:1

Heaven: Present.

The firmament is the present, its name is Heaven. The experiences of the present provide the possibility of the knowing of laws. When we are present in the here and now, then we see the laws appear in reality.

Genesis 1:8

The wording may be somewhat misleading, because there is no separate place for storing information. The material world and heaven are not two separate worlds, but two aspects of the same world — the two sides of the same coin.

The laws determine what appears in the material world, but only what appears in the material world can be perceived. Therefore, the laws themselves cannot be perceived — only their forms of manifestation. It is from these manifestations that we are able to infer the laws.

There are relationships between the laws. They build upon one another, and they regulate one another, not only the material forms of manifestation. Whatever already exists determines something that also appears on the material level, but it also determines what else may appear and in what form what is defined later may appear.

The relationships between the laws are at least as important to the world as the laws themselves. The logical relationships between them are intellect, which also comes into existence during the creation of the laws, but becomes perceptible and comprehensible only through their material manifestations.

Light becomes perceptible through the appearance of the laws on the material level, and thus their relationship to one another also becomes perceptible. In heaven, only the laws exist. For light to appear, what the laws define must appear in the material world, and thus intellect also appears — the network of relationships between the laws.

God is not in heaven; rather, all the laws of heaven are present in God. The laws are not another world, but the laws of the material world that determine the existence of everything that appears in the material world. Intellect, in turn, is the relationships that appear between the laws, which can only be observed and recognized through their manifestation in the material world.

In the second cycle of creation, God defined the conditions of time — the past, the present, and the future — and named the present heaven. Thus, within the process of knowing, God determined that the laws can be known in the present, through our experiences.

The past and the future cannot be perceived by the Human, because perception is limited both in time and in space. We are only capable of perceiving the existence of the world within a specific range of speed and sensitivity, which appears to us as the passage of time.

Thus, the passage of time enables the Human to imagine both the past and the future according to current knowledge. However, our knowledge is not complete; therefore, the past is not as we imagine it to be, and in the future, what happens is not necessarily what we have planned.

We also have different conceptions of the past and the future because we possess different knowledge. If all knowledge were available to us, we would see exactly what is happening. However, because this is not the case, we can only be certain of what we experience in the present.

In the present, the material world appears according to God's laws; therefore, heaven becomes the name of the present.

When we imagine the future according to our current knowledge, reality always reveals in the present whether what happens is what we expected or not. Thus, the present is the fixed point where we experience reality, and where our knowledge is continuously put to the test.