What Does the Deep Mean in the Bible?
The Deep is a qualitative designation of the Water, of the laws that are present unconsciously.
Order prevails among the laws. Everything that exists, exists in complete order and harmony with everything else that exists.
The relationships among the laws can be recognized if we know the laws. Every law is connected to every other known law. In the same way, there are also relationships with the laws that we do not yet know, and therefore we cannot know those relationships either.
The Deep, however, shows us that the order and harmony among the laws exist just as much even when no one knows them. Therefore, this is another confirmation that the existence of the world does not depend on the observer.
According to our current knowledge, the Deep represents relationships that cannot yet be defined. It points to the previously unknown relationships among the laws that become known and understood through further experiences.
Specifically, the Deep means that everything that appears in the material world appears as a result of laws, which are connected to every other appearance and every other law. Therefore, every event and every experience has a cause, which can also be understood.
Our current knowledge determines how much we can understand from our present experiences. The rest occurs as a result of laws for whose understanding we do not yet have sufficient experiences. Therefore, we cannot yet understand the relationships behind the appearing events.
However, through understanding the Deep, we come to understand that every event, every “coincidence,” everything that exists on the material level, is the consequence and result of the laws that determine the world. Nothing can happen by chance. Nothing can exist without a law that determines its existence. Therefore, all our experiences exist so that we may understand additional laws concerning the existence of the world.
What we are capable of knowing depends on the knowledge we currently possess, because we are only capable of knowing new laws that can be connected to our existing knowledge through our appearing experiences.