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What is the Big Bang?
There are many theories to explain this event. Let us look at different points of view. Science tells us that all the energy of the Universe, all that it contains, was compressed into a whole that is said to have been the size of a thimble. This 'ALL THINGS' was pure energy. That mass heated up, it is not known why, and exploded. Hence, the creation of the Universe.
* Hindus are not troubled by the mystery of creation and destiny. Above all stands the illuminat-ing Light. Hinduism does not fathom benevolent unique Creator, it merely describe man's awe when faced with 'Creation'.
* In China, they were not concerned by the mystery of Creation, its origin or destiny. Philosopher Confucius did not claim any divine source. He thought that peoples' problems could be resolved not by miraculous intervention, but by individual experience and that of the ancestors. During the Han Empire, Confucius' teachings became ideology and state dogma.
"The importance that Confucius gave to family, morals and the part of a good government do not satisfy the need to explain man and his place. Then, another Chinese school of thought was born: Taoism. Taoism was interested in the relation of man with the Universe and Nature; but there was still no place for a Creator in this philosophy".
* Buddha had no explanations about creation. He refused to explain what he considered inexpli-cable. Research for research's sake, with a goal to know more, had no place in Buddhist philoso-phy. Buddha's goal was not to know and improve the World but to escape its sufferings.
* By and large, the passion to 'Know' comes to us from the Greeks. However, sacred Greek texts do not say much about the beginning of things. Their saga was one of adventures and human gods, and Plato complained that Homer's Iliad and Odyssey offered no moral commands or divine ordinances.
The gods and goddesses of Homer's World completely avoided the questions of the World and of man. In the Iliad and the Odyssey we see already mature men and gods. The Greeks molded their gods after the image of men and everyday they saw men and women frustrated or helped by the gods. They found all this more appealing than speculating on the 'how' and 'wherefore' of everything that had happened or the way it all started.
* Judaism and Christianity turned the question around and started with God. By making man in God's image, the priests decided to face the mystery of Creation with all the consequences that are thus brought about. The idea of an original Creation by a single all-powerful Creator comes to us through Moses, the greatest of the Hebrew prophets. It is also he who first spoke of the mysterious nature of God. Mostly it is because of him that we ask crucial questions about our nature and that of God, of our Universe, of His Creation.
According to scientists, it is between sixteen and twenty billion years (earth time) that the Big Bang occurred. They arrived at this figure by observing the color produced by galaxies moving away from one another. Yet, they don't know why it happened.
I think that before Everything was physical, measurable and touchable, there was a Conscious-ness conscious of Being, Consciousness had all the qualities of creation, expansion and move-ment. It possessed a Will and wanted to express all that It was: essentially Itself, in all Its parts. It created movement, the Big Bang. It breathed and moved; compartmentalizing and dividing Itself; exploding.
The Universe was created; and with it, all possibilities of expression had also been created. Con-sciousness could organize Itself. Thus were born galaxies, nebulae, solar systems and all that is included in the physical universe. The Universe, born of Consciousness, lives; It is conscious of Itself. Primordial Consciousness named Itself 'Word' and the One spoke.
Creation was and still is a movement of the Logos. I exist because before me, in Consciousness-Logos, there was a notion of being. Consciousness spoke about Itself; divided by Itself. It might well be the only time, in all of creation, that One has been divided by itself.
We are reflections of the One. Yet we are each unique; as are all the galaxies and celestial bod-ies. Unique Consciousness has diversified and transformed Itself and multiplied ad infinitum.
Where do we come from?
We are products, endowed with Consciousness, born of the Consciousness-Logos itself.
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