Metaphor 12 - Imagination as a Metaphor of Creation

Consider this. God creates "ex nihilo" or "out of nothing." What in human comprehension is the one thing that is like that?

Answer: the conception of ideas.

You cannot create materials without using pre-existing materials, but in your mind, you can create dream houses, dream cars, and (unfortunately) dream relationships out of nothing.

In your imagination you can say "Let there be a mansion in Bermuda," and lo! it is there. It only requires a certain amount of imagination. But note well, it is in your mind that you are having this creation. It is intimately apart of you in a way nothing external can be.

So realize that in a very real way, God’s whole creation, though separate and not the same "substance" as Himself once it was brought into being, is still very much connected to Him and that very intimately.

And also realize that you are in this Creation, and that all the moments of your time in this Creation, both of as to your thoughts, and as to your deeds (remember Chicagoland?) are present to Him as if they had just happened, and they will always be that way to Him for all eternity. They will be, as the expression goes, "in His face."

And consider now the works of all men everywhere and everywhen and consider that if the Creation is anything like a dream of God’s, then we who are in it have surely become His nightmare.