By « deep meaning » I frankly think of the “mystical”, “spiritual” meaning.
You might be surprised, but
Philosophy doesn’t address the act of creation itself. Why? Because it supposes
a "Creator" and a knowledge about this Creator. And this requires the grace of “faith”, i.e. a superior Light.
So if we really want to understand "Creation", "Nature", all what is created, including ourselves as creatures, we
need to accept to make a leap of faith.
Paradoxically, we can touch with our
hands all the created things, but we can’t touch with the same hands the
Creator. The Creator is certainly bigger and much more beautiful than his Creation, therefore, we need something bigger than our hands to grasp Him. By definition, He transcends his creation, He is of a different nature.
In this post I am not dealing with « proving » that a Creator exists… It is about trying
to discover the meaning of Creation.
For that, we have two classical
questions :
1- « why are we
created ? » and 2- « what is the goal of the Creation of this
world ? »
And we have two classical answers
that go like that:
1- We are created by God, out His of
love for us, we are created in order to know Him and Love Him (and be known and loved by Him).
2- The rest of Creation is there to
help us fulfil that Goal (know Him and love Him).
The human being is created "by God" and "for God". You might object: "this is too selfish from God’s part". Well the human
being is created “at the Image and at the resemblance of God”, capable of entering
in a personal relationship with God. He is created free, as God is free. Free
even to say “yes” or “no” to God Himself. In fact, you can only love if you are
free. You can’t be forced to love. It has to come from you, not from outside of
you.
How the human being is created?
Before Creation (don’t ask me right now
“when did it happen?”) we were – as a thought, as a project, as a dream – in God's Mind, in His Thought. We were imagined as sharing His Life, His
Love, breathing from the same very “Life” of God.
He Created us according to His
Thought, according to what he foresaw and dreamt about us.
Many people
think wrongly that the story of “Creation” as it is told in the Book of Genesis (Gn 1-3) is a bit out-dated. I do not share that opinion. For people who want to gather
scientific information about planet earth, the Milky-way galaxy, etc., they did
open the wrong book. But, for people who are trying to understand "who is God" and "who is the Human being", and "what is the purpose of life", the stories you find
in the Bible, especially in first chapters of Genesis, are simply a Golden Mine.
Creation of Eve |
For instance, the « days »
of Creation are not “days” (we can’t have “days” before having the “sun”), but
they still describe the formation of the Human being, who is the highest point
on earth, the meeting point between earth and heaven. Man is at the meeting
point of two triangles, one from below pointing upwards and one from above pointing
downward.
Man is the achievement of the
visible Creation, the point where it is aiming, he summarises in himself all Creation, he has in himself all aspects of the visible Creation: water
(mineral), vegetation (vegetal), and animal. But he goes further and transcends
them.
The Jewish mystical tradition always
considered the first chapters of Genesis as being very deep and kept their
explanation for people after 40 years old, since they enclose a deep mystical
meaning. “mystical” in the sense that it discloses many aspects of the meaning
of who is the human being, and who is he in relation to God, and to the
intimate relationship with God.
(to be continued)
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