John wrote, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

In the ancient Hindu Vedas we read, "In the beginning was Brahman with whom was the Word, and the Word is Brahman."

Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and Sufi mystics believe that it is this Word that creates, pervades and sustains everything that exists. If this is truly the case, then the Word is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

In the book The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East by Baird Spalding we come across this description of the origins of the matter cosmos:

“We are told that in the beginning was the Word and the word was with God.

At this time everything that was to be formed later was in unmanifest form in the universal mind substance or as expressed by some – chaos. This word in the original was actuality. This word, chaos, is misinterpreted to mean a turbulent or warring state, instead of the deep, spiritual state of actuality, always awaiting a definite, creative, spoken word through which it can spring forth into manifest form.

When God Principle desired to bring forth the world out of Universal Mind Substance, God was quiet and contemplative. In other words, God saw an ideal world; He held in mind that substance of which the world was to be formed – or, as we might say, God visualized a mental pattern or mold into which could flow the substance needed to make the world and it came forth in perfect form, built upon the pattern which was held in consciousness.

All of these things might have just been thought of by God. He might have wished for an indefinite time that they were formed and made visible. Had not the definite spoken word been put forth into the formless ether nothing would have been created or brought forth into visible form. In order to establish in visible results the thought and desires of even an Infinite Omnipotent Creator and bring orderly forms out of actuality, it took the definite, positive ‘Let there be.’ So must we take the definite step.”

The Ascended Master Saint Germain teaches us in his work on creating the cloud:

“…There is no free will, there is no free will, there is no freedom at all to our souls, unless we are engaged in creating. The process of creating is the expression of our freedom. His command to create might as well be: Be free!

…If you are not exercising your creative potential, then to you, freedom is yet a word, but you have not yet embodied that word and we are here to embody the Word.”

Taken from The Creation of the Cloud booklet (page 14).

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