The Bible describes creation happening at one point in
time. However, the Jewish mystics, or kabbalists, claim
creation happens continuously. This means creation is
occurring right now, in this moment.
In fact, kabbalists describe creation as a thought in the
mind of God. If God had the first creative thought —
the thought that caused the universe, the world, us to come
into existence, then God's continuous thought process or
focus on the thought of creation sustains that very same
creation. If God removed Its attention from that thought,
all of creation would disappear. If God were to focus for
even one moment on a new thought, the universe as we know
it — and us, too — would disappear. We and our
world would fold back into the Source of Creation from
whence we came.
All of creation is sustained constantly each and every
moment by the energy God continues putting into creation.
To understand this better, imagine creation as a light bulb
that stays illuminated as long as the electricity is on.
Turn off the power, and the light goes out.
From a Kabbalistic viewpoint, humans serve as God's
co-creative partners. Since in Jewish philosophy God's
essence is unknowable and without recognizable form, we can
assume that if humans were created in God's image we were
gifted with God's creative nature; the Divine creative
ability represents the only thing we may know about God
with any certainty. What do we co-create? Our lives and
the things in the world that we can directly affect.
While a Divine Plan influences the overall theme of our
lives, we can pick and choose how we get to that
pre-planned end. When we come to a fork in the road, we
decide to take the long or the short route. We focus our
thoughts on a desire and create it — good or bad,
right or wrong. Thus, God created the play and story line,
and we, the actors, improvise our parts based on what is
happening in the moment. We create...moment to moment.
If we are to be efficient and masterful co-creators, we
have to remember that, just like God, we must continue
focusing on what we are creating. We mustn't remove our
attention from what we want to manifest, or what we have
manifested, or it might just disappear. Take money for
example: Many people focus on creating wealth, and once
they have it they simply stop paying any attention to that
money at all. And then, one day, they discover there's no
more money in their bank account. The same holds true for
relationships. We may focus on creating one and actually
manage to manifest one. Maybe we even get married, but if
we then stop focusing on that relationship - if we place
our attention elsewhere, we might turn back to that
marriage only to find it has fallen apart.
When we are in the process of creating something, this
principle holds true as well. It takes all our focus and
attention to actually bring an idea into form. From the
moment we feel that inspiration to create something new,
just like God, we have to allow that desire to grow and to
overwhelm us. At that point we allow it to move into the
realm of thought, where we conceptualize it and put it into
words or pictures that detail what we want to bring into
this physical world. We allow all our thoughts to be
trained upon this desire. Then we begin feeling what it
would be like to have manifested that desire by asking
ourselves if we can truly imagine having it, and our focus
turns to that experience. From that feeling place, we
begin to get a sense of the inspired actions necessary to
bring that desire into the physical world, and our
attention turns to how to bring our desire into form though
doing as well as thinking and feeling. With continuous
focus in all four of these worlds - desire/inspiration,
thought, feeling and action - we see creation become
manifest in much the same way as God's focused attention
continuously manifests our world.
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The author of The Kabbalah of Conscious Creation, Nina Amir
is a journalist, motivational speaker, and Kabbalistic
conscious creation coach. Register for the next kabbalah of
Conscious Creation teleseminar (3/26, 4/2,9,16,23,26) or
for a free preview teleseminar on 3/19. For information on
Amir's books, teleseminars and classes, visit
http://www.purespiritcreations.com , e-mail her at
namir@purespiritcreations.com or call 408-353-1943.
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