{Nature and Purpose}[28th November 1980]

[Redbook2:178][19801128:0015]{Nature and Purpose}[28th November 1980]

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In the last chapter of Esdras God is seen as creating the Universe by mere words. I would see it as an act of 'deep creation'; but the interesting question is whether the process was led, as it were, from the bottom up or from the top down – whether the creation was constructed from (say) sub atomic particles or forces upwards or from its totality in conception downwards – from its nature or from its purpose. It is not quite enough to say that the whole sprang as one, because we are not discussing time. It seems that, by definition, the purpose has the mastery, controlling the development [of] successive hierarchical levels of the nature, which suggests that fundamental nuclear physicists, in order to understand further and make sense of the fundamental nature of the Universe, may have first by their imagination and inspiration to explore and discover the Mind of God.

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