Just imagine for a moment that you were God before the creation of anything.
You are alone with no interactions with other beings and there is nothing to enjoy or look upon.
Would you like to spend eternity in this state?
So, from God's point of view, why do you think an all-knowing being needed to create things?
It was so He could have an object partner and a realm of object partners to love. They would eat and live in love and return to God's original world and eternal kingdom of love for eternity with Him.
In other words, God needed a partner in order to feel the stimulation of love.
Today, many religious people believe that because God is all-knowing and powerful that the world was created when simple words were spoken.
They do not realize that the world was created in stages or different time periods that correlate to the six days of creation that are referred to in the Bible account in Genesis.
God invested all of His being, all the energy He had to create the universe and all of creation.
He did so as a gift for His beloved sons and daughters, His beloved family of the future by investing all the power of love He had.
Thus, we should look at things of creation with this kind of understanding.
God's will in creating the world
God experienced great joy when He was creating all things.
After creation was complete, He said that it was good. This means there was joy. Joy is what you feel when you have finally achieved a certain purpose. Since all things contain God's consciousness of purpose, He was able to feel joy with them.
The world of restoration will be a world that is populated with people who have a connection of heart where they can sing and praise God even when looking at an individual masterpiece of the creation.
This is where God sees the value of personality.
The story of Saint Francis preaching to animals animals is a dream-like story. But it is a true story.
Everything in creation is made by God as a textbook so that His beloved sons and daughters could learn and nurture the ideal of love.
Through observation of penguins int he Arctic, we see how important community and family is to the survival and well-being of the family.
By observing nature, we will not only learn about God, but also how to create the world of peace.
Minerals function through a relationship of subject partner and object partner.
Protons and electrons within atom relate on a subject-object relationship.
Without interacting, these elements would cease to exist. If they are not in motion, they cannot continuously exist.
The universe was created to relate to the central point which is human beings.
The universe is a mysterious world.
God did not create the universe as something to fool around or play with. He created using the most devoted efforts for the sake of his beloved people.
So, when we look at this universe, we should have an extremely grateful heart toward the Father who created it for us.
When you walk around a blooming garden in the summer, beholding the trees, plants, flowers, and birds and watch the streams flow, feel the wind blow with this heart of appreciation, you cannot help but be overwhelmed with wonder.
Perfection of the universe involves the external and our innermost self to rejoice. In rejoicing, both our mind and body must be joyful, and all the cells must be delighted.
The cells of my eyes and those at the bottom of the feet are different, but this has to be a world where these cells, too, can rejoice.
The cells in our hands and all the cells in our entire body including the mind can rejoice as well.
While doing so, they should not stay separated but become connected in the resonant joy of love which is based on dual purpose. Only then will the universe reach perfection.
Connections start from extremely small things.
You are a living body which consists of as many as 400 trillion cells which are connected together.
In the ideal world centered on God, among all of existence, there is none that came into being from outside God's heart.
You are consisted of as many as 400 trillion cells connected together in your living body. A poet who can feel these kinds of emotions for God's creation would be a great poet once he began to write a sonnet.
If there were a poet who could feel and express a cosmic heart when seeing a leaf shake, he would thus become a poet of the universe.
We may not know of all the phenomena that is unfolding in heaven and on earth, but without us knowing, there are things that exist together with God's love.
When you enter a meditative state, you can see that even a small grain of sand contains all of the principles of the universe. Even one small atom contains the bottomless and inexhaustible harmony of the universe.
Even science cannot deny that all of existence is the result of a complex force, although we are unable to clearly understand it.
Atoms exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms. These forms do not exist below molecules and elementary particles exist below atoms.
These forms do not unconsciously exist, but have a certain consciousness and purpose.
Therefore, we should clearly and fully understand the fact that all things in existence appeared through the loving hands of God and exist in a necessary relationship of heart with God.
What kind of people are the enlightened masters?
They are those with a heart so deep that they recognize even the value of one stem of grass as equal to their own and can cry out "God!" They would be of the highest level of enlightened masters.
Those who can sing its value this way would be the artists of the highest caliber.
If there are people with this heart that could allow them to discover the charm of God's love and heart in every variety of creation, in all their forms and colors, then befriend them and find enjoyment together, they would be the people who could represent the entire universe.
If there were people whose cells could move one by one with this type of feeling, they would be the lords of creation. Conversely, if there is a person who knows about nothing but eating, can he become the lord of creation?
Nature is a textbook teaching the ideal of love.
People observe and learn from nature as they grow up.
From playing with and interacting with nature, they will come to understand what the insect world is like. When you listen carefully on an autumn night while the full moon and the stars shine, then the sounds of the insects are like an orchestra.
Why do they like to make such a sound at night?
They do so because they are looking for their ideal partners.
They are whispering love throughout the night.
Birds and all other animals also follow this same common denominator of love when they make happy and sad sounds.
They are low on the scale and far away form the axis, and yet they are circling around in parallel. This is the same for all existent beings.
There are three types of bird songs.
First, there is a song which expresses his hunger.
Second, a song which expresses his love for a mate.
Third there is a song which is sun in time of danger. These are all different. We ordinary people do not know this small detail about nature, but only know about their own world.
Around what does a birds life revolve?
Hunger is taken care of simply by eating, and they do not face danger everyday either. Most of their singing goes back and forth in the give and take relationship with their partner.
If you were to sit out on the porch one Sunday afternoon, you could catch the call of two birds separated on different trees exchanging bird calls. It is a beautiful sound.
Human beings were also created as a pair - subject partner and object partner.
The world of all things also exists for the sake of humankind, creates harmony under the law of love and then manifests its life and ideal through the love of humankind.
This would have been the maturing Adam and Eve. The created world of all things was to be a textbook of love, a museum that infinitely displayed the essence of love.
All of nature exists in pairs and harmonizes with each other through love.
Flowers and butterflies relate as two opposite poles, yet they find a way to harmonize with each other.
This is the harmonious relationship of heaven and earth. The opposite poles of the universe create harmony through love.
It is the same with migratory birds.
Birds that live in the south migrate north, and birds from the north migrate to the south, loving each other back and forth as they cross the regions.
Through this, they are able to revolve around love.
People learn about love through this textbook in the museum God created.
When people and God love each other in joy, then all things in heaven and earth will follow their rhythm and harmonize around them.
If God likes this, and loves this, the angelic world will also like it.
The entire created world will like this, too. It would applaud and offer praise for such unity between mankind and God.
Songbirds would sing praises and flower that blossom in the fields would offer praises through their scents.
This created world exists in order to expand the fragrant atmosphere in which the central personages of the highest love can enjoy themselves.
Even large ugly toads make croaking sounds when they make love.
They kick their legs and move them up and down while they delight in love. This is the highest art which God created.
When it is time for spring to come, whenever you hear the birds sing, as soon as you hear the song, you should think of your wife, your children, your country, the world and even God.
When you think in this way, then everything is complete.
Birds can only think of their own existence, but people have a sense of being in relationships with other people.
This relationship in the human world is the mediator between the animal world, plant world and the spirit world as an exclusive privilege to human beings.
Only human beings have this special authority.
As Adam and Eve matured, they would have come to understand their purpose through observing the animal world. They would have understood how to make love.
God laid out the world of all things as a textbook for humans to understand how to bring the ideal of human love to maturity.
As Adam and Eve continued to grow toward maturity they had different feelings toward each other.
They knew that they were brothers and sisters in the past but now they have different feelings for one another.
Love is like a nerve.
It is the same as pulling on a strand of hair that pulls the entire body with it. If we pull on the love strand, the universe itself is pulled along with it.
As motion is created in love, the entire universe will come into harmony, too.
When love is present, we dance.
Is this how dancing came about?
It was because of love. So, when there is love, we dance. It was through the experience of love.
Songs came into being because of love and so did laughter.
If love was to be taken away, everything would become hard and stiff.
People like butterflies more than bees, because butterflies dance as they fly. Everything which flies has a rhythm and a beat with a melody.
Fast-flying creatures fly in time with a beat. So do slow-flying ones.
There are various styles of flight, but everything flies according to a certain rhythm.
The way deer run and rabbits lay in the mountains is musical. The way they hop around has a certain rhythm, too.
The way they eat has a musical quality.
This is the same for people. We eat with a certain rhythm as well. These all express something musically.
If we think in this way, we should feel thankful to God that someone made this universe for me to last for eternity and put it in place for me. We should feel grateful to Him.
We should not think as an onlooker as if it has nothing to do with us, but understand the depth of creation.
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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book three, 'True Love', Chapter Two, Section 9
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