“Thoughts On ‘Creation’” is one of a 12 part series of posts reflecting on the songs of Julia Wade’s CD, Solos, with lyrics from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Music by Peter Link.

Here’s a concept that may rock your boat.  Now don’t shy away … Boat rocking is good for the soul.  It keeps you on your toes, keeps ya’ honest, keeps you learning and evolving.  Nothing wrong with that.

All that we experience with our five physical senses – what we see, what we touch, what we hear, etc., is illusory.  It’s not really there except in our mortal imaginations – like a dream we have when we’re sleeping – only in this one, we’re awake – sort of …

I kinda think we’re only really half awake in this lifetime.  We are pretty clueless about most of the physical world around us as well as the spiritual world in which we have always existed.  It’s why, when someone has a powerful spiritual revelation, we call it an “awakening.”  Because it’s an awakening from this mortal dream.

More and more in my life, as I get older and hopefully wiser, I try to see God as pure Spirit.  I try to ‘un-thingy’ (now there’s a concept) Him, Her or It as much as possible and supplant this way too huge a concept with simpler concepts that I can understand like Love, Mind, Soul, Intelligence, All-being, that sort of thing.

So when it comes to the concept of creation, which is, I confess, far too enormous for me to wrap my brain around, I turn to others to chip away at ‘the beginning of it all’ for me and simply see what flies.

In tackling this song for Julia’s new CD, Solos, from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, I thought it an appropriate subject to include so I turned to Mrs. Eddy for her thinking which was again far to enormous for one song.  I decided to keep it simple and use only a few declarative sentences and pace the music ever so slowly so that you, the listener could ruminate in it while considering creation.

So the opening sung notes Julia sings are not words at all, but the formulation of thought.  She sings:

Hmmmm
Hmmmm

This is not intended to be just humming, but rather a deeper consideration – an inward journey into the wonders of Mind.

And then, the simplest of phrases, but one which stands at the root point of not only Christianity, but all of the major religions of the world today.

There is but one creator
and one creation.

Here is thinking which revolutionized human thought away from gods many to one God.  Without this truth we have confusion.  With it, we have creation.

Then Mrs. Eddy goes on to say:

Infinite Mind is the creator,
and creation is the infinite image or idea
emanating from this Mind.

I find it interesting to note that this lonely only sense of one-ness does not limit creation, but, in fact, expands upon it.  Why?  Because it is infinite.  It is one infinite thought creating all other infinite thoughts into one wholeness.  It is the new multi-universe theory, it is the Internet, it is quantum physics and it is eternal, spiritual man and all spiritual ideas all wrapped up into one bundle.

I once took a beautiful autumn leaf to my spiritual teacher and, presenting it to him, asked, “Did God make this leaf?”  If all matter is illusion, then God would have nothing to do with this mortal experience and therefore nothing to do with this leaf, I reasoned.

He smiled in his pause and then began to clarify.  “God is not the builder of the leaf, but you might say He (or It) is the intelligence behind the design – the architect, perhaps.”  If God is intelligence, is grace, is the root of beauty, then that design is part of the allness of creation – is part of the one creation.

I’ll have to admit, decades later, I’m still wrestling with that one, but sometimes I get shocking glimpses into its basic truth.

There is but one creator
and one creation.

Creation is ever appearing,
and must ever continue to appear
from the nature of its inexhaustible source.

Here’s the thought that hit me and enabled me to write this song.  Creation is not synonymous with ‘the beginning; rather, it is ever appearing.  It is continuation.  It is constant and it perpetuates from an inexhaustible source.

Oh how I love this idea!  It means that I never have to start a new song, a new album and new work of any kind in my own creativity.  I just continue the work.  It means that now that Julia has sung her last service in Boston after seven years soloing, she does not have to start all over, but simply has to continue the work.  It means that in every step of our lives, we never have to begin again, but, instead, carry on.

Creation comes with every breath, every heartbeat.  It means that there are no dry spells, no writer’s cramp, no lost ways.  Life is simply an eternal continuation of creation.  When we truly get this, when we accept this concept into our being, when we awaken to this new/ancient idea …

When we learn the way in Christian Science
and recognize man’s spiritual being,
we shall behold and understand God’s creation, —
all the glories of earth
and heaven
earth and heaven and man.

What a thought!  In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy discovers the science of Christianity, the truth of being, and separates mortal and spiritual mind from one another debunking all things material as illusory.  I understand that she, among many, discovered truths that Jesus illuminated, that Buddha considered and taught his followers, that Muhammed preached …  She wrote her revelations down in words that I have studied all my life and that now I sing.

There is but one creator
and one creation.
and one creation.

Hmmmm