The beginning. It’s not a moment inside time because time didn’t exist yet. Space didn’t exist yet. Energy and matter didn’t exist yet. Therefore no sequence, duration, or “before/after” relationship was possible. The beginning is a pre-cosmic condition. Which is a state in which none of the measurable quantities used physics (length, duration, energy, mass, motion) were present.
In the Christ Letters, this state is described as the Ultimate Universal Dimension of Consciousness. It’s a dimension that’s infinite without boundaries. It’s eternal outside of time. It’s unchanging in a state of equilibrium. It’s unformed containing no structures, and it’s silent and still containing no activity. The beginning should be explained as the condition before beginning itself existed.
Our universe is measured by time. The Christ Letters refer to something more fundamental than time. It describes this state with no motion, no change, no sequence, no entropy, no causality, and no physics at all. The pre-creation state isn’t an event. It’s a condition. It’s the ground state of all existence. It’s the base reality out of which the cosmos would later arise.
The state in which only the Ultimate Universal Dimension existed, before the emergent of the Universe = The Beginning.
Imagine an endless blank piece of paper, infinitely thick, infinitely long, infinitely wide. This is the best description I could come up with that helped me understand what this dimension is. [Libby Ferguson]
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