Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00348)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "christinaleestemaker" 
<christinaleestemaker@y...> wrote:
> Is is not that Aroepa (world without forms=Nous) makes Roepa,the 
> forms.

That is true of course but it just means that forms were preceded for 
lack of form. Form in other words is not eternal/

> I think that is the meaning of Ex nihilo,nihil fit.

Ex nihilo, nihil fit means that matter is uncreated and that it is co-
eternal with spirit, which is to say, with the basis of 
consciousness. That position is also taken in the SD, where 
Mulaprakrti (undifferentiated cosmic matter) exists throughout all 
pralayas, whereas forms come and go and even consciousness lapses 
during the Maha Pralaya. We di not say that matter is co-eternal 
with consciousness itself (as distinguished from spirit) because 
consciousness is preceded by unconsciousness just as form is preceded 
by formlessness. Nonetheless the substratum of consciousness exists 
when consciousness does not.

Of course this is ultimately just sublime speculation. Mind candy I 
think of it as.

Pardons to anyone who thinks the subject insufficiently profound.