The First Trinity
Without awareness there is nothing. Awareness is the beginning of anything. Every intention begins with an awareness. Every belief is based on awareness of something. Without awareness there is nothing.
Logically there is no other conclusion except that awareness is the beginning of both intentions and beliefs. The ancient mystics of Sumer came to this same conclusion 6500 years ago. They taught that in the beginning there was thought and this thinking mind was a part of the Divine, this thinking mind was the Divine.
The name they used for the Divine was AN and they taught that AN existed before the beginning. AN thought because AN had a thinking mind and that thinking mind was AN. Because AN was the first, AN is the source of everything.
Most spiritually-minded people believe the same thing today. They see the Divine as the Source of everything. AN, the Source, Awareness and One Thing are all references to what Kabbalists call Kether, the first Sphere at the top of the Tree of Life. This first sphere, this Source, is the first part of the Trinity of Mind, the first part of the First Trinity.
Thinking results in intentions and beliefs. Our ancient brothers and sisters understood this. They understood that the mind creates many intentions every day, every hour, every minute. The mind is creating intentions all the time. Most of these intentions, like sperm die, without coming to fulfillment.
They also understood that beliefs are containers that allow only agreeable and compatible thoughts and ideas to become intentions that are fulfilled. Beliefs limit what we can do. They render many intentions ineffectual and inept. They are eggs that choose which sperm they will accept. Beliefs are selectively nurturing and loving.
To our ancient brothers and sisters it was obvious that Intentions were masculine in nature and that Beliefs were feminine. They also saw the Source of all intentions and beliefs as neither masculine or feminine and as both masculine and feminine. They saw the Source as expressing itself as either, both or neither. This wqas the first creation.
The first creation was a creative act of the Source of all things separating itself into both masculine and feminine and yet remaining and retaining itself as the Source of all things. The Kabbalists see this three - in -one as the First Trinity, the trinity of Creator God (Awareness), Father God (Intentions) and Mother God (Beliefs).
The First Trinity is a balanced trinity being one part masculine, one part feminine, one part neither masculine nor feminine and one part both masculine and feminine. Yet there is only one part.
It works like this: First there is Awareness which is neither masculine nor feminine. Secondly, Awareness gives birth to Intentions within itself and these intentions remain forever within the awareness of the Divine. Thirdly, Intentions instantly give birth to Beliefs within itself and these beliefs remain forever within the intentions of the Masculine Divine. Fourthly, Beliefs nurture some intentions and keep them foreven within the Femnine Divine.
Thus, within Awareness is Intentions and within Intentions is Beliefs and within Beliefs are fertile Intentions. The Sphere of Intentions is inside the Sphere of Awareness. The Sphere of Beliefs is inside the Sphere of Intentions. Some of the intentions, the fertile ones, are within the Sphere of Beliefs.
Everything is within the Sphere of Awareness. Awareness stands alone as the Source of Everything, the Creator. Everything else is within the Sphere of Intentions. Beliefs are within the Sphere of Intentions. If the creation stopped at this point, there would be nothing else. There would be three spheres with number 3 inside number 2 and number 2 inside number 1.
But the masculine sparks the feminine and the feminine creates everything within itself. Some intentions enter the container called Beliefs and become fertile. These fertile intentions will give birth to everything else in the creation. The First Trinity gives birth to everything else in the creation.
In the beginning God (Awareness) created Heaven (Intentions) and Earth (Beliefs). Then these three created everything else. Without Awareness there is nothing, no intentions and no beliefs. Without Intentions there can be no beliefs and hence nothing can be accomplished.
Without Beliefs there is no possibility of doing anything. The Sphere of Intentions would just keep on creating sterile intentions. Without the feminine the Creator is imbalanced and only chaos results. The feminine is necessary to balance the Creator. Beliefs are necessary to create anything out of intentions.
Creator, Father, Mother God are the First Trinity. Awareness, Intentions, Beliefs are the First Trinity. Everything else in the creation is born of them.
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