What Does the First Day Mean in the Book of Genesis?
The First Day represents the first cycle of creation, in which the first relationships between the first laws already appear.
The first cycle of creation means that, with the beginning of the alternation of Day and Night, the repetition of experiences also begins. The condition of knowing is that the laws appear continuously, again and again. Through repetition, we become capable of recognizing that what appears, appears according to law.
Everything that is defined in heaven appears in the material world, and only that appears. Nothing can appear unless it has been defined in heaven, because the material world is the manifestation of definitions.
The definitions that appear in the world also influence one another's appearance, because what has already appeared determines what can still appear and how something new can appear.
In this way, the relationships between the laws also become apparent. We would not be capable of recognizing or understanding them if we knew the laws only individually. We may know the color yellow and the color red, but we understand how orange comes into existence only when yellow and red are present together.
The laws exist in complete harmony with one another. However, what appears through them in different combinations can be known only through experiencing their manifestations in the material world.
Knowledge of the laws alone does not constitute complete knowing. Through our experiences, we come to know them in every possible form and variation, and later even through every possible evaluation.