| BkI:3.II.2 | The mind is a creative medium. It is a means through which all creation is manifested. Creation is a literal expression of something through both mind and heart. As much as it seems to be, the thinking mind is not a source of creation. Even though feelings and emotions seem to create an emotional state or climate, the heart is not a source of creation. There really has to be something that precedes the mind and the heart for creation to take place and that uses both mind and heart in its expression. Consciousness is also not a source of creation because consciousness is simply that part of the self that makes you aware of what the mind and heart are manifesting. Consciousness is the window of the self by means of which you know yourself. We could then argue that will and its freedom of choice are a source of creation, and that all creation is the result of a creative will. However, the will and its freedom—in the degree that it is, because you can limit it—cannot be the source of creation because will and freedom are means and not ends. The end or purpose of creation is not for the mind, nor the heart, nor the consciousness, nor the will. |