Why Can the Sea Not Be Known?
The Human's perception is limited both in space and in time; therefore, the Human is capable of perceiving reality only in the present. The Sea is that part of reality which exists in the past or in the future; therefore, it cannot be perceived by the Human.
The Sea can only be known to the extent that we have come to know the laws of the world so far, because we can imagine the past and the future only according to the knowledge we have already acquired.
In the stories of the Bible, the Sea is sometimes calm and sometimes stormy, yet it is always fluid and ever-changing. We always plan the future, but because we do not know all the laws of the world, we cannot know whether events will unfold according to our imagination.
If what happens is what we planned, then the Sea appears as calm waters; if not, it becomes stormy and unpredictable.
Based on our experiences, we imagine the future, and if what happens corresponds to what we imagined, it confirms our knowledge and supports our understanding of the world. However, if events unfold differently, this reveals that our understanding of the world is false or incomplete.
The experiences that appear either confirm our knowledge or point to its errors and deficiencies. However, the Human does not merely come to know the world but also wants to shape it, because the Human fully identifies with knowledge.
Based on our limited knowledge, we always imagine the future in a specific way, and we also want to bring this imagined future into manifestation. With the emergence of evaluation, we not only perceive the experiences of the present but also want to change the world we have come to know. Therefore, the Sea often appears to us as a stormy and overwhelming force, greater than ourselves, because reality is not influenced by how we imagine the future or by how we want to change reality.
The world exists, and what exists does not depend on our current knowledge, our emerging will, or our intentions to change it. The Human's evaluations, will, and intentions to change also appear in experiences in a defined manner, because the experiences appearing in the world exist. During the six cycles of creation, God defined everything that exists.
According to the six days, the world exists, and within the present experienced by the Human, reactions and evaluations also exist, because they appear in our lives as the result of definitions born from the interpretation of past experiences, with which we identify. Therefore, the future imagined according to our evaluations and expectations is also defined. As we move through time, we perceive it as a process, and the experience of the differences between the imagined future and the future that unfolds also appears in our lives in a defined manner.
The differences between the imagined future and the future that unfolds give rise to emotions, which confront us with the differences between reality and our imaginations and definitions of reality.
The Sea always exists according to all the laws of Heaven, which God defined during the six cycles of creation. However, the Human always knows only a part of these laws; therefore, the Sea is never identical to what we imagine as the future.
As time passes, we always possess more experiences. Our understanding of the world changes, and we create more and more definitions concerning the existence of the world.
Therefore, it is we who change in time, not the Sea. The Sea, as the experiences appearing in the world, has existed from the beginning, but the Human's understanding of the world continuously changes, and therefore assumptions about both the past and the future also continuously change.
The Sea, which is the future that unfolds, is just as solid and unchanging as the present moment. However, because the Human's understanding of the laws that define the existence of the world continuously changes, the imagined future also continuously changes for the Human. Sometimes exactly what we expect happens, while at other times something entirely different occurs. Therefore, the future is sometimes calm and predictable, and at other times stormy and unpredictable. Yet it can never be known, because we are always able to imagine the future only according to our current knowledge. The future, however, always exists according to all the laws of the world, exactly as God completed them at the end of the Sixth Day and declared that He would never change them again.