God established all the Laws of the Universe. When you study these Laws, you can fit them into categories. There are Creation Laws, Relationship Laws, Physical Laws, Natures Laws and Scientific Laws. When you combine all of God’s Laws together, we then have all of God’s Divine Laws. Divine Law is any law (or rule) that in the opinion of believers comes directly from the will of God (good) or of the will of a god (evil). Like Natural Law (which may be seen as a manifestation of Divine Law) it is independent of the will of man, who cannot change it. However, it may be revealed or not, so it may change in human perception in time through new revelation. It is all the Divine Laws that allows us to experience Life in this physical form. The Physical (Scientific) Laws and the Laws of Nature are Laws we had to learn in our education process, they are readily available and have much documentary evidence of their existence.
For the purpose of this educational topic, we will only review Creation Laws and not Relationship Laws. It is these two Laws that God’s government deals with the relationship with mankind.
God tells us through His governmental rules and ordained order that He has given us authority over things of this earth and in His name identify what the needs are and declare them in the name of God to be so. What are these Laws of the Universe that gives us this authority? Are these Laws different from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant? Are these Laws different than what we were taught as being the Laws of God in the Ten Commandments? We will answer these and many more questions regarding God’s governmental laws in this Chapter.
In getting started, we will look to the creation as our beginning point and move through history to build the framework leading us to today’s understanding. One thing that is important to make note early on in this chapter – Universal Laws that existed at the beginning of time are the same today. They have never changed. What has happened is that as we evolved through Life in meeting the commissioning of Life by our Creator – go forth in my eyes and perfect thyself – our physical mind (we have connected the Physical Communication System to the Universal Communication System) has evolved to the point of understanding these Laws which we brought forth with us when we came into this physical form. Some of us have lived our lives in the beliefs of others and have taken these Laws as they were taught to us. Others have moved passed the beliefs of others and the belief of religions and have come to a knowing of these Laws that allow us to co-create our Life which is the Divine plan. This does not mean we are like God in His creation but are co-creators of our life experiences on earth if we are living within the divine authority given by God to mankind. We get to choose when, how and what we want, and God provides if we are covered through His covenants with mankind.
In the middle and at the end of all life experiences – His Ordained Order, through His covenants with mankind, that the umbrella of sovereignty resides.
So, let’s take a journey through time one more time and look at God’s governmental Creation and Relationship Laws as they were laid out for us from the beginning. This will allow us to build our knowledge base considering the teachings we have all had in our churches, schools and Life itself. The Divine Plan is one of freedom. Freedom is the birthright of every living soul. The Truth points the way to freedom under the Law. The bondage we sometimes feel is only created by man; it is not God ordained. It is through our soul (Universal Communication System) that directs our mind (Physical Communication System) to achieve that which is given by the Law under God. We could not have a mind unless there was a First Mind behind ours – the Mind of God which communicates with us constantly through our soul.
Before the Creation – the Beginning – there were no Laws. God, being pure love, had no reason for creating any Laws. It was not until the Creation itself that we find the first Laws. It is in the ancient writings and biblical translations that teach of the lesson of Life, of individuality, and the relationship of the individual to the universe. These writings show that our God is perfect and a God that works through Laws. Therefore, these Laws must be perfect, but it must also be entirely impersonal. God, being the essence of goodness, can never be or do evil, but man, being finite, or undeveloped, does both good and evil, and through experience learns the lessons that good alone is ultimate and absolute.
What is Law? It is interesting to me that the definition of Law is as difficult in defining as is the definition of Life so-to-speak. When we look up the word Law in a dictionary, we find several different definitions of the same word depending on what subject we are looking at – courts, nature, science, biblical, etc. Instead of including herein each different definition we have looked to the commonality of all the definitions and developed a comprehensive definition reflecting their commonality herein. We have provided reference so that the entire definitions could be reviewed.
Law is defined as “A system or collection of rules whether it be in the form of regulation or principles established in a community by some higher authority and applicable to its people that is regarded as governing the structure or the relationship of an element in the structure of something to the authority, to another element, or to the community as a whole.” So, as we investigate today’s society and the past for how things operate in this world, we should not look for things labeled as laws. In fact, we should look for the relationships existing between authority (God), the elements (Energy at its basic form) and the community (Universe) as a whole. It is in these relationships where the system of rules has been given to us to know the truth of Life and to govern life on this earth. For if we were to live by these rules, we would need no other laws. Laws as we know them to be our labels made by humans and not our God. God tells us how we should manage the relationships between authority, elements and community to live a Life in-Spirit.
These relationships go far beyond what many of us can understand. It is not because we do not know they exist. It is because we have closed our minds to that which we know but have been taught something completely different - programming. It is these relationships that respond to all our thoughts, both good and evil. It is the principles and regulations given to us by God that become the how we operate in this physical life form. They are impersonal and remain neutral for all. To apply them correctly is the knowledge we must gain by understanding them and allowing them to take place. We can choose to prevent them from taking place in how God has provided by allowing our EGO to govern our lives and experience unrighteousness not only in our life but in our home, our nation and our world. In doing so, we limit our ability to co-create our Life experiences when governing under God’s government and receiving all the abundance given to us by the Universe.
The Law of the Spirit. Prior to the Creation everything that existed merely as a Divine possibility latent with energy and creation principles, ready to receive the Creative Word that shall cause it to spring into definite forms. Through Quantum Physics we have determined that everything that is visible to us comes from that which is invisible. This is true because everything is energy and energy cannot be seen. We are told in the ancient texts and biblical translations in Genesis Chapter 1 that “In the beginning God created the heaven and earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, …..”
The Universal Energy Source (God), invisible essence, yet of Itself and not of form, a conscious Intelligence which we call Spirit that through the word of the Spirit all is created. This Law is a reactive Law which responds to this conscious Intelligence (Spirit) towards a substance ready to take form through the word of the Spirit. Without this Law there could be no creation.1
The Law of Creation or Creation Law. We need to understand that because our God had no reason to create law before Creation itself, it was in the act of his first Creation that God had to convey to the Sons of God His principles of Life and how we can use the abilities He provided each of us. This Law is addressed to the Spiritual component of Life. It is in the Spirit where we have all the Powers of God, and it is here where His Creation Law applies.
Spirit has the Power of selection and choice. It can create what it chooses. It cannot create anything that would contradict Its own Nature. This limitation is perceived, but not a real limitation. It is the necessity of Perfection (God’s commission for our Life here in the physical form) to remain perfect.2
Law of Reality. Moving into the Creation itself we find the reference to this as being the next Law. We find this when we look to the ancient texts and biblical translations still in the book of Genesis Chapter 1 that tells us “And God said, Let us make man in our image; after our likeness. So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.” In a Course of Miracles, we are told, “Image can be understood as thought, and likeness as of a like quality. God did create spirit in His Own Thought and of a quality like to His Own.” We find here that what God did was create man with the Nature of God reproducing His Divine nature on the scale of the individual life. God is the single Source of all, the Mother-Father Principle, creating the first androgynous Unit.3 Male and female proceed from the God, who is neither male nor female but who contains the elements of both.4 We, as humans are living in a little world (the world around us) within a big world. God, who is Life, is self-conscious and provides words that are constant creative, individualizes Himself through His Spirit residing in physical form in this time space reality.5 Hence, because we are the Spirit of God, we have all the same attributes of Life as our Source – we are self-conscious, and our word becomes creative in our world. It is this Law that governs our total Life here in this physical form.
We are given a free will of choice and imagination that has chosen to experience a physical Life. We have access to all the attributes of our Creator provided to us in the Spirit which we house inside us. It is through the creative power of our own thoughts by which we create our reality.
The ancient writings and biblical translations teach us of this Law in many ways. We are told what will happen when our thought is constructive and what will happen when it is destructive. It is the purpose of all these writings to educate us of the Laws and show the way to freedom within the Divine Plan. The Divine Plan is always one of freedom of thought, freedom of choice, and freedom of Life. The bondage, fear, health issues, financial issues, relationship issues, and any other issue we deal with in this Life form come from our misinterpretation of the Law of Reality.7 It is through our thoughts that we limit our ability to achieve conscious energy thoughts of Life.
God commissioned us to walk before His eyes and perfect ourselves. Perfection is in our ability to open our minds to the hidden truths of the Universal Laws and live in this physical form perfecting our knowledge of these truths.
In a Course of Miracles, we are told that, “The miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids for facilitating a state in which they become unnecessary. When spirit’s original state of direct communication [our soul talking through us directing our every action] is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose. While [we] believe [we] are in a body, however, [we] can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression. [We] can make an empty shell, but [we] cannot express nothing at all. [We] can wait, delay, paralyze [ourselves], or reduce [our] creativity almost to nothing. But [we] cannot abolish it. {we] can destroy [our] medium of communication, but not [our] potential. [We] did not create [ourselves].” [author emphasis]
Through the Law of Reality, we are given our free will of thought and choice allowing us to co-create our Life experiences. There are many Principles and Regulations provided with this all-encompassing Law that govern why, how, and the effect on the relationships of Source, Energy, and Universe. Due to these multiple Principles and Regulations we need to breakdown this all-encompassing Law. While we have been given Life in this physical form through the Law of Reality more Laws (principles and regulations) exist that governed all of nature and our thoughts and actions. So at this point, we will separate this all-encompassing Law of Reality into Laws (principles and regulations) pertaining to nature, our mental Life experiences, and our physical Life experiences.
So, we find now in Genesis 1:1 "in the beginning (before nothingness) God (Elohim) created (Thought into existence itself with all of the laws required to create) the Heavens and the earth."
Let's continue by looking at the words Heavens and earth.
Heaven - The heavens: hashamayim (Strong’s 8064)
Root: שָׁמַ֫יִם (shin, mem, yod, mem sofit)
Sounds like: sh’MYim
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [Beresheit bara Elohim et ha-shamayin we-et ha-aretz].
Shamayim is “heavens”, ha-shamayim is “the heavens”. In the Hebrew scriptures the heavens refer to the sky. The sun, moon and stars are in “the heavens”
Earth - Adamah (Biblical Hebrew: אדמה) is a word, translatable as ground or earth. The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon breaks this down further as follows:
ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
piece of ground, a specific plot of land
earth substance (for building or constructing)
ground as earth's visible surface
land, territory, country
whole inhabited earth
city in Naphtal
In conclusion, God's first creation was in His Mind that can be understood in Genesis 1:1 as the following.
"In the beginning (before nothingness) God (Elohim) created (thought into existence - existence itself with all of the laws required to create) the Heavens (the condition of his creation as the universe) and the earth (Adamah - what the earth would look like and those that would inhabit the earth)."