Spiritual Spaces

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. In the beginning was the Word. What does ‘In the beginning’ mean? Why would the emergence of something prior to the absolute beginning be impossible? Clearly a beginning can only be observed. Beginnings are only visible from the perspective of a continuity that has already begun. After something has emerged and developed, it is possible to imagine what it previously was and was not. One can imagine whether it existed prior to that transformation or not. So it is possible to ascertain the beginning of an existence, but only retrospectively through memory. The question of the historical reconstruction of the beginning is traditionally answered by the theory of the beginning from the One. The unfathomable One, which is indistinguishably eternal and all encompassing, divides itself and becomes twofold. In this second state it is the double of itself and its difference. If this doubling is understood metaphysically, something different emerges from the One, and this first differentiation is the division of the One into spirit and space.