Why is the Fourth Day necessary as a separate cycle of creation?
After the definition of time and the sequence of experiences, it became necessary to define the laws in a form in which they can be interpreted by consciousness with limited perception.
The laws are timeless, unlimited, and unchangeable, but without time they cannot be distinguished, nor can the network of relationships between them, or the order in which they build upon one another, be recognized.
Time and the sequence of experiences make it possible for the laws to become recognizable and interpretable for consciousness. Thus, the laws appear in time and space in a form, thanks to limited perception, that consciousness is able to interpret. However, we must also be able to describe the laws that appear in this way with the limited amount of information available to consciousness through the perception of a limited number of experiences.
The Greater Light therefore defines the limited amount of information that is available to consciousness, but is sufficient for the intellect to create definitions from it.
The Lesser Light also represents a concrete amount of information from which the intellect is already able to recognize law-governed functioning, but this amount of information is not yet sufficient to create definitions. Therefore, only repetitions can be recognized in experiences, and they can only be interpreted as emotions, as emotional reactions.
In reality, the Lesser Light is the greater one, because all the information that is already present in the Greater Light as a definition is available to the Lesser Light as well, but the Lesser Light also contains, based on experiences, those “definitions” of which only the repetition can be established, while their cause cannot be defined from the available information.
The stars are the laws defined by God, which cannot be comprehended with limited perception, but as experiences increase, they appear in a form that can be known by consciousness, and the intellect also defines them in a form that can be understood by consciousness.
God’s laws are therefore not identical with the laws that we are able to understand, because God’s laws are unlimited, timeless, and unchangeable, yet they become knowable to consciousness according to the definitions of the Fourth Day.
The world exists in its entirety, because God did not define a process for the existence of the world, but made the perception of the world limited by defining time and the sequence of experiences.
In the process that for us is reality appearing in time, life, our definitions change, and they also appear through emotions, and thus the harmony of the world is not harmed, but God’s laws do not change. For Human, the appearing reality continuously changes, but this does not mean that the world created by God changes, only that for consciousness, knowing the laws of the world continuously modifies the perception of the world as well, and thus it is our image of the world that changes.
In practice, we continuously change, but the unchangeability and stability of the world do not change. The process of knowing, the sequence of experiences, was already defined in the previous cycle of creation. The fourth cycle defines how the laws appear for consciousness, how consciousness is able to comprehend and interpret the laws, and in what form consciousness is able to define God’s laws with its limited perceptual capacity.