Sea: The sequence of our experiences.
Sea: The sequence of our experiences.
The combined effect of the laws, which shape our material world, creating experiences through which a given law becomes revealed.
Genesis 1:9–10
Water is the presence of the laws in the material world in an unconscious form. After the definition of time, the Sea becomes identical in meaning to Water. The waters become the Sea because the perception of consciousness is limited in both time and space.
The laws that appear in the material world can be perceived by consciousness only in the present. After the conditions of time have been defined, the material manifestations before and after the present become inaccessible to consciousness and therefore exist unconsciously.
The material manifestation perceived by consciousness is, in reality, experience. Therefore, experiences following one another in time become the sequence of experiences, which appears in the present as a process.
The experience that is appearing at any given moment is the Dry Land, which is the concrete experience appearing in reality that consciousness perceives through the human body.
The past and the future are completely imperceptible because the place of perception is always here and now. Therefore, the past and the future imagined by consciousness exist for consciousness only according to its current knowledge.
Consciousness can perceive only as much of the past as its current knowledge and memory are together capable of interpreting, and it can imagine only as much of the future as is possible on the basis of its current knowledge.
The past and the future exist just as the present does. However, after the definition of time, consciousness can perceive the manifestation of the material world only in a manner limited by both space and time, so that it may become capable of recognizing the laws. For if it perceived the entire world all at once, nothing would be distinguishable from anything else.
Imagine a film that displays sixty frames per second. A ninety-minute film therefore consists of 324,000 frames. If all of those frames were projected onto a cinema screen at the same time, only a completely white, bright screen would appear before us.
However, when the frames are projected one after another, the content of the film appears in a form that consciousness is capable of interpreting. Thus, the Dry Land is the frame that is currently passing through the projector and appearing on the screen, while all the other frames are the Sea, remaining imperceptible until they reach the projector and appear. Until then, we can only guess what will happen, and after they have appeared, they once again become imperceptible, remaining only in our memory as what we were able to comprehend.
The film, however, exists in its entirety. It is not the film that changes from moment to moment as it appears on the screen; rather, it already exists on the reel, and because of time it is perceived on the screen as a continuously changing process.
The Sea is imperceptible and cannot be known, yet the Dry Land continuously rises out of it and becomes perceptible so that consciousness may come to know the laws of the world — the manifested reality.