Spirit: Consciousness
Spirit: Consciousness
Conscious existence.
Genesis 1:2
The interpretation of the word spirit lies outside the definitions. The Spirit of God is not included in the enumeration of created things; it only appears above the created world. God creates the heavens and the earth, which exist unconsciously, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
The Spirit of God is not defined in the text, yet the Spirit of God hovers over the waters.
The Spirit of God does not appear in the subsequent enumeration either. It appears only in the second chapter, when God defines the Human, forms the body from the dust of the earth, and breathes the breath of life into its nostrils; thus the Human becomes a living spirit.
Therefore, the Spirit of God is, in reality, consciousness, which is capable of perceiving the world through the human body, with the help of the sensory organs of the human body, and by identifying with the human body, it is capable of appearing in the world.
The Spirit of God is not part of the created world, because the created world is described in detail throughout the six cycles of creation, yet the Spirit of God is not included in it. The Spirit of God is not in heaven, nor does it appear upon the earth. The human body is defined, and it also appears in the material world. Likewise, time, the sequence of experiences, qualities, emotions — everything can be found within the description of the six days, all of which can be interpreted.
Consciousness, however, perceives and comes to know the world. Through consciousness, the world becomes a conscious existence. Intellect is not a property of consciousness either, because it also appears among the created things.
The relationships that appear among the laws appear as intellect, which also manifests in the material world through experiences.
Consciousness, however, only identifies with everything that it comes to know.
Consciousness, by itself, cannot be interpreted. It has no form of appearance, it has no will, and it has no actions. Consciousness identifies with everything that it comes to know and understand; therefore, consciousness is always what it knows, what it has come to know up to that point.
Thus, the breath of life signifies the beginning of knowing, when consciousness begins to know that which appears in the material world through the human body.
Thus, the Spirit of God is nothing other than consciousness, through which the world that God created becomes conscious of its own existence, because during the process of knowing, consciousness identifies with everything that it comes to know.