apex of creation: The highest or initial movement in the mind that will eventually manifest a creation. The quantum level of manifestation. See: microcosmmacrocosm, quantum, tattva.

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apex of creation: The highest or initial movement in the mind that will eventually manifest a creation. The quantum level of manifestation. See: microcosmmacrocosm, quantum, tattva.

(See also: Apex of creation, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

A Christian theological definition of Creation according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Creation

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CREATION MYTH - myths about the origins of the world, often falling in one of four types.

1. creation from nothing in which God fashions Heaven and Earth from sound, word/thought.

2. creation from a cosmic egg in which the universe arises from complementary opposite principles.

3. an Earth diver story in which an emissary from the heavenly realm plunges into the chaos below and brings up clay or mud to fashion the Earth.

4. an emergence myth in which the first people emerge into the world of light from the underworld below. (NAD)

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Hammer of Creation. See SWASTIKA; MJOLNIR

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Creation (from Latin, cf Greek krainein, Sanskrit kri to make, do)

The Ever-existent, which in its transcendent aspect is the eternally embracing Boundless, is the source as well as the sum total of all beings and things; hence in essence all beings and things are eternal and have never been created in the Christian sense, for they are of the very stuff, essence, and be-ness of the Boundless itself.

Yet the word creation has a legitimate use in the original sense of coming forth from being into existence, not as something produced from nothing but in the ordinary sense of production of something out of something else.

A human being can be said to be created in that he is brought into being as such, not from nothing but from the various elements which when combined form the human constitution, conjoined with the contemporaneous evolution of the powers and substances of the monad by which it acquires its various sheaths; worlds also can be said to be created out of primordial matter, and compound elements from simpler ones.

Hermes says that matter becomes; formerly it was -- profound expressions indeed; and Fichte expresses the same idea in his distinction between Seyn and Daseyn. In this sense, matter or worlds may be said to be brought forth or created, with the significance of becoming.

See also PRIMARY CREATION; SECONDARY CREATION

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A Christian theological definition of Creationism according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Creationism

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Primary Creation Used in theosophy for the openings of the different dramas of life, as opposed to the secondary creation, their more or less present conditions and appearances. Yet primary creation in strict logic appertains to those primordial beginnings of manifested life which precede the operations of nature when it has once entered into its established habits due to past karma, these established habits or courses of action being the karmic results of precedaneous causes. For example, the creation of the hierarchies of the gods or dhyani-chohanic hosts, and of their various worlds and activities, belong to the so-called primary creation; and at the close of this creation opens the drama of established nature and of the hierarchies and their respective operations beneath those hierarchies of gods.

Ancient cosmogonies begin with the secondary creation in cosmic things; hence, before the creation of light, they postulated darkness. But this darkness is the eternal light shining through and guiding the primary cosmogonical creation, and it was called darkness only by contrast with the manifested light of the secondary creation.

In the beginning of the primary creation the world, and on a smaller scale the earth, was in the possession of the three elemental kingdoms, and its three elements were fire, air, and water. It is the evolution of worlds from primordial atoms and from the pre-primordial atom; yet in the subsequent portions of primordial creation came forth into active manifestation the various hierarchies called angelic or dhyani-chohanic. Mahat, called lord in the primary cosmogonical creation, is universal cognition, thought divine; but in the secondary creation that which was mahat becomes the vast range of hierarchical manases which construct, inhabit, develop, and even emanate, manifested worlds.

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Secondary Creation The creation of the manifested universe, after that of the unmanifested universe which is called the primary creation.

In a more restricted meaning, the evolution and progression into manifestation of the almost innumerable hierarchies of builders of the universe, both higher and lower -- the primary in this connection referring to the purely spiritual hierarchies and individuals which issued from the womb of space along the lines of primary spiritual emanation as already residing karmically in cosmic ideation.

Ancient cosmogonies in general begin with the secondary creation and with the creation of manifested light; what precedes this is called darkness or night, because the unmanifested absolute light can thus be named only by contrast with the manifested light. Thus in Genesis 1:2, darkness is upon the face of the deep, and in verse 3 "light" is created.

When spirit has permeated every atom of the seven principles of kosmos, there is a period of stabilization and preparation, and then the secondary creation begins. In the primary creation earth is in possession of the three elemental kingdoms (SD 1:449-50, 2:312).

In the primary creation, mahat functions as universal ideation or divine thought, while in the secondary it differentiates into innumerable emanating streams of individualization, which is the field for the coming into activity of the innumerable hosts of monads -- described as the appearance of egoity. The primary creation is that of light or spirit; the secondary that of darkness or matter -- these being employed in a relative sense, and in a sense the reverse of that mentioned above.

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co-creation

The act of creating from a state of full awareness in partnership with humankind, the living Earth, or God

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Definition and meaning of creation theory:

creation theory

In response to the evolutionary theory often taught in science classes in postwar public schools, religious fundamentalists have argued in favor of teaching the biblical explanation of Creation.

(Source: Madrid Waddington High School )

Also see these pages:  American History, American History Sitemap, History, History Sitemap

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Kumara or Kaumara Creation Ninth creation, both primary and secondary. (SD 1:75, 456; 2:106)

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Creation Myth

The legend of the origins of the world, often falling in one of four types.

1)    creation from nothing in which God fashions Heaven and Earth from sound, word/thought.

2)    creation from a cosmic egg in which the universe arises from complementary opposite principles.

3)    an Earth diver story in which an emissary from the heavenly realm plunges into the chaos below and brings up clay or mud to fashion the Earth.

4)    an emergence myth in which the first people emerge into the world of light from the underworld below.

(See also: Creation Myth, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Creation:

Creation (present) by Vedic Chronology:

Present creation exists within 1 day of Brahma

 1 day of Brahma is 1000 divya (divine) yugas

 1 divya yuga equals 4 million 320 thousand years

 1000 times 4.320.000 years equals 1 day of Brahma

 1 day of Brahma equals 4 billion and 320 million years

 There are 14 manvantars in one day of Brahma

 14 divided into 4.320.000,000 = 's 308.571.428 years per manvantar

 Creation has already passed through 6 manvantar cycles

 6 manvantars multiplied by 308.571.428 equals 1.851.428.568 years

 Present creation is approximately 1 billion and 851 million years old

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Hamsa, Hansa (Sanskrit) The mystic swan or goose; representing divine wisdom beyond the reach of men. Exoterically, a fabulous bird which, when given milk mixed with water, drank only the milk and left the water, milk standing for spirit and water for matter. Anagrammatically, hamsa

"is equal to a-ham-sa, . . . meaning 'I am he' (in English), while divided in still another way it will read 'So-ham,' 'he (is) I' -- Soham being equal to Sah, 'he,' and aham, 'I,' or 'I am he.' In this alone is contained the universal mystery, the doctrine of the identity of man's essence with god-essence, for him who understands the language of wisdom. Hence the glyph of, and the allegory about, Kalahansa (or hamsa), and the name given to Brahma neuter (later on, to the male Brahma) of 'Hansa-Vahana,' he who uses the Hansa as his vehicle. The same word may be read 'Kalaham-sa' or 'I am I' in the eternity of Time, answering to the Biblical, or rather Zoroastrian 'I am that I am" (SD 1:78).

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