This infographic is inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda’s poem “Dreams of God” (published in his book Whispers From Eternity).
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In the above-mentioned poem Paramhansa Yogananda poetically described the conditions prior to the first creation (i.e., “the song”) being made. He gave us an illustration of how Spirit first realized that It could divide Himself and share the enjoyment that She felt.
Note that mixing genders in the previous sentence aims to highlight that God is genderless and impersonal. While manifesting as creation, the impersonal Spirit becomes the Universal Substance (that everything is made of) but also assumes the roles of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost (i.e., Mother Nature). It is still one and the same God that manifests through these three distinct roles (personalities), so it is no mistake to worship Spirit as Father, or Mother, or Son. In fact, Paramhansa Yogananda often addressed God as “Father, Mother, Friend, Beloved God,” adding another role that God has in relation to us—God is our Beloved and craves for our love.
When God started to create, He first thought about things and then gave them the reality of individual existence by shining on them with His Light. Moses’ indication (see Genesis 1:2) that the earth was “without form and void” points out that God first created the heaven and the earth in thought only; they were mere ideas in His mind. First He thought about them and then He created the means (light) with which He was able to manifest those ideas.
St. John’s gospel describes the same process; God first created the blueprint of creation by using the primordial sound vibration, the Word, and then lit it into life by shining on it with the primordial light vibration (“In him was life; and the life was the light of men”, see John 1:4)
Elsewhere I wrote how Word means intelligent vibration issuing from God and how God is essentially the Universal Substance that vibrates, and how everything is made of It and by It. In my book Whence Do We Come? I’ve expanded on this topic and wrote that Word, or the sound vibration, consists of a multitude of compression waves, which compress and rarefy the underlying consciousness (God, the Universal Substance) thus creating “all things”. Hence space is made of the rarefied consciousness, while matter is made of the compressed consciousness.
Even though the primordial sound vibration (the Word) creates all things (the blueprint of creation), without the light of Christ Consciousness (God’s Light, the Son) these things would be just ideas in God’s Mind (i.e. “without form and void”)—they wouldn’t have an objective existence. The light vibration (transverse waves of consciousness) is needed to give them the consciousness of separate existence—life (“and the life was the light of men”) .
Thus we might recognize the Holy Trinity as: the Universal Substance (God the Father), God’s Light (Son) and the creative sound vibration (the Holy Ghost, the Word, or in Hindu religious scripts referred to as the Aum vibration). While creation exists, one God manifests through the Holy Trinity, but when creation does not exist, only God (Spirit) exists.
