Why Does God Separate the Waters from the Waters?
The waters represent the unconscious existence of the laws. In the present, the laws appear, become established, and become concrete experiences.
The past and the future are unknown; we are only capable of perceiving the present. In the material world, every law appears. Therefore, everything we perceive appears in our experiences under the influence of all existing laws.
However, within the experience of the present, we are only capable of perceiving and comprehending what our current knowledge makes possible. We can connect additional knowledge only to our current knowledge. As our knowledge grows through our experiences, we become capable of perceiving and understanding more and more of the world and of the laws of heaven.
The past and the future cannot be perceived by us, yet we always have some conception of both the past and the future.
These conceptions, however, continuously change and develop as our knowledge changes. Therefore, they are like water — they are fluid.
In the present, however, reality appears concretely, because reality does not depend on our conceptions or on our knowledge. Within the process of knowing, the experiences of the present always appear with complete certainty according to all existing laws, whereas our conceptions of the past and the future continuously change as our knowledge changes.
The world exists, but we are always capable of perceiving only a small part of it — the present. The rest of the world is unknown to us; we have conceptions about it, and these conceptions continuously change.
Our conceptions of the past and the future change according to our knowledge. Therefore, the waters do not mean that the past and the future themselves change. Rather, they mean that the past and the future change for us, because we continuously change as we come to know the world, and therefore our conceptions of time are always changing.
Reality does not change. However, by experiencing reality in time, consciousness continuously learns and changes.
Therefore, through perception, the world also appears to consciousness as a continuously changing world.
God separates the waters from the waters so that the laws may become recognizable and knowable, and so that consciousness may be able to know the world down to its smallest details.