2005-7-7 04:09:00
Part 19Let's go in to the gathering principle as a whole. The gathering principle is the key principle behind all evolution, physical or spiritual. Think about that. The gathering principle is the guiding principle behind all evolution, physical or spiritual. Let's go into the physical.
After the big bang there were all kinds of random particles. The particles began to gather. The particles gathered to produce greater particles until they produced particles that we can understand, like electrons and protons and neutrons and the particles that make them up and so on. The gathering that we can understand is as far as we have a rudimentary understanding on the atom. The atom is a composite gathering or particles which we call neutrons, protons and electrons. The neutrons and protons gather in the center while the electrons gather in the periphery. They are opposite polarities. By the gathering principle all the atoms of the world were made.
One interesting way to look at this is, it says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Some scholars have dissected the word 'Elohim' for God saying that part of the word represents male and the other part represents female, El and Heem. El means powerful, mighty or strong. I've heard several different interpretations on 'heem'. Maybe Assaf has some insights. One of the interpretations I've heard about 'heem' is that it represents 'covenant'. I've heard others besides that. Does that make sense to you? Consider that this may be true. Strong covenants between male and female energies create the heavens and the earth. That's the literal reading of the first verse of the Bible.
So, what created the atoms that create the heavens and the earth? Strong bonding between electrons, negative energies and protons, positive energies; strong bonding between male and female energies creates the heavens and the earth. Now we take these atoms. The atoms join together and they create molecules.
Molecules are the next step in evolution. Again, the molecules are created by the gathering of atoms and the gathering of certain types of atoms. To create a water molecule nature sifts through everything but hydrogen and oxygen. It doesn't accept nitrogen. It doesn't accept carbon. It doesn't accept zinc or copper or any of these other things. It will only accept hydrogen and oxygen and out of all the elements it gathers hydrogen and oxygen and creates water. It gathers peculiar atoms into combinations to form other things and to produce different types of molecules from sugar, alcohol and all types of molecules that exist about us. So, the gathering principle creates the next step. What's the next step after that? Are the molecules then gathered?
Molecules gather into various compounds and orders until the next great step in evolution occurs. And what is that? A cell. A cell is a gathering together of all kinds of different molecules that are specifically designed or needed for this creation. The cells are created by gathering of all types of molecules; the gathering of different ones to create the DNA and others to create the genes and so on. We have a whole city or almost a whole earth or planet of different types of molecules gathered together to create one living cell. One living cell has a complexity that boggles the imagination.
What gathers next? In the beginning of our evolution we had one celled organisms. For many millions of years that's probably about all we had on the earth. Eventually they gathered together and created greater organisms, amoebas and eventually different types of fish. We had different types of insects, lizards and animals and birds. These cells gathered together to create many sorts of living things.
Audience: inaudible
JJ: What causes this is what I call the intelligence of God. The Universal Mind or the Mind of God concentrates on the current point of evolution on any particular planet or sphere. This is where the mind of God is. When the mind of God finishes its job then it leaves and goes to the next step. That which is left behind is then like a giant computer program that runs be itself and the mind of God doesn't need to consciously concentrate on it. Your heart beats without a need for you to think about it. It's like a computer program. Some people think it's controlled by your subconscious mind.
There is no such thing as a subconscious mind. It's an oxymoron. If you have a subconscious mind it means it's below the threshold of your consciousness. If it's below consciousness, then it's not consciousness. Consciousness is only something that's conscious. You don't have a subconscious mind any more than your computer has a subconscious mind. You have computer programs that run yourself and this is what they call the subconscious. If you tell a psychologist that he'll think you're crazy but think about the oxymoron here. If something is below your consciousness how can it really be conscious?
What we think is below our conscious mind is like a running computer program. The mind of God creates and as it begins to create there is a lot of imperfection involved. It's like us who are in the image of God. When we create something, like software, we have version one, version two, version three, version fifteen. Maybe by version one hundred we'll get it perfect so it can't be improved anymore. This is what God does. He creates version one of man, version two of man, version three. Eventually He creates a version where any improvements would be very minimal and reaches a point where working on improvements would be a waste of time. This is what we call relative perfection. There is no such thing as absolute perfection. There's only relative perfection. Relative perfection is when something works so well that it's extremely difficult to improve it. It's like having the final version of Microsoft Word. When Bill Gates finally gets it the engineers won't be able to figure out how to improve on it. They'll look at this final version and think, "Man, we can't really improve this. We've done everything possible. There's no tweak we can put on. We've put on everything everyone has asked for. The thing talks. The thing writes in Hebrew. The thing will read your mind. It does everything you can imagine." Eventually you'll reach a point any improvements would be a judgment call and probably wouldn't improve it at all.
This is the way the mind of God works. When the mind of God made the first atoms it made a lot of mistakes in their creation. He reconstructed them and made them again. If they fell apart the mind of God would put them back together. The mind of God is operating through the little particles of the atom itself so the little particles are controlled and tuned into the mind of God. All these little particles and the mind of God work together. The particles play around at balancing themselves off. Finally they create a hydrogen atom that is so perfect that the mind of God cannot improve on this atom. It is almost flawless.
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