QUESTION:

A question from J.R., Barryville, New York. "I just finished L.H.’s question: "Why should anyone pray to Cosmic Awareness?", in Issue No. 92-08. It was pretty interesting. Here’s another question: A friend once asked if I thought God could create nothing. I said, "Yes," for reasons I won’t go into now, but this is part of what I came up with. I’d appreciate your input. Suppose there is a Great Nothing that is self- supportive, needs nothing, has nothing and is surrounded by nothing. What if this void, as you expressed it, did something. This something was to exist. What if this existence made the Nothing Something. Once that is recorded anyway. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. My questions are: How long has this Nothing been known? Does it change or grow, and do we come from Nothing?"

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that the terms involved need some kind of definition. You speak of nothing, as though it was a thing. To speak of nothing as if it was a thing creates a conflict in your presentation, in your premise.

Does this nothing exist? It depends on how you wish to describe or define the nothing. If the nothing exists, did something come from nothing?

This Awareness indicates it is all words. In the words as given by you, indeed, something came from nothing, but in your definition, you imply that the nothing is something. Therefore, the terminology in your question is that which allows these concepts of something coming from nothing to exist.

This Awareness indicates that if you look carefully at your word "nothing" and describe it as absolutely nothing, then it cannot become something. If you wish to pursue this reasoning in a more logical way, why not begin with the premise that "In the beginning, there was Something." The Something was without description, until Something began to describe and put qualities and the qualities began to include qualities of movement, qualities of consciousness, qualities of awareness, and these qualities began to add further qualities to that Something and after much additional description, the qualities that existed became substance and the substance took on many different forms.

This Awareness indicates that you do not have to begin your premise with the idea that Nothing existed from the beginning and then Something came into existence. You can just as easily presume that Something existed, and out of that Something, matter emerged, and all forms of manifestation emerged from that existence of Something.

This Awareness suggests that the existence of the Something essentially was frequency, and out of these frequencies, which in Biblical terms was called The Word, The Word being that which is a vibration or frequency, and these frequencies vibrating at different levels, created various forms of substance. This Awareness indicates that these substances took on higher and lower expressions of frequency so that matter and spirit were created from these frequencies.

This Awareness indicates that Something always was, and that Something always changes to be Something Different.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

Awareness, does this mean then that there never has been or could there be any such thing as "Absolute Nothing?"

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This is in the affirmative. This Awareness indicates that Something cannot come from Nothing, if you use the word "Nothing" in its true and absolute sense. Of course, you can use the word Nothing as Something that doesn’t contain any tangible items, but that Nothing still has Something in it.

This Awareness indicates that if you speak of Nothing, in your definition of the term, as being an absolute total void with absolutely Nothing involved, then how can you ever conceive of Something coming out of that Nothing? This Awareness indicates that on the other hand, if you can perceive a universe filled with clear space that has an exceedingly high frequency or vibration of consciousness within that universe, and if you can visualize this consciousness as being movable or acted upon, or capable of acting or being acted upon, then you are talking of Something that looks like Nothing, when compared to a universe filled with tangible objects, and that Something that looks like nothing can be the Creator, the First Cause, the Originator of all that follows as tangible objects in the universe that appears to have come from Nothing.