Q: What is the basic substance that everything is made of?
A: Consciousness, or to be more descriptive, the ultimate substance that everything is made of is Spirit, the infinite ocean of consciousness, ever existing, uncreated, self-evolved and self-conscious, existing unto eternity, boundless and infinite, without form, ever calm and unruffled, living in a state of ever-new and always fresh blissfulness.
Q: Spirit? You mean, God is the universal substance?
A: Yes, God the Spirit used vibration to divide Itself: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). The ‘Word’ is a translation of the Greek word Logos, which also means “speech”—i.e., an intelligent “sound” that expresses God’s ideas and thoughts.
Q: So, this is just another way to say that God spoke all things into existence, right?
A: Yes, Logos or Word denotes the agent through which everything was created. “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3). However, note that the medium which vibrates is Spirit (i.e. “the Word was God”), so all things are made from God.
Q: Well, that can’t be right! That would mean that nothing really exists apart from God, but I know that I exist and I am separate from God.
A: When Spirit creates It becomes three, the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and the Holy Ghost. One Spirit takes on three distinct roles (or personalities) even though it is still one and same God. The Holy Ghost is the Logos vibration mentioned above, Father is the infinite Spirit surrounding the vibratory Logos and Son is the Light that shines on Logos and gives life to all things created by the Logos: “In him was life; and the life was the light of men” (John 1:4). We are children of God and are part of that Light. We don’t normally have that perception though, but we could have it: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). So, when we become sons of God, we will become one with God and would not feel separate from Him, which is exactly what Jesus prayed for (see John 17:20-23).
(find more detailed discussion in Chapters 1 and 2 of Whence Do We Come?; download free PDF copy of the book here)
