When you ask most people what creation is they will start to tell you the biblical story of how this manifest universe came into being or how man came to be. Those are but one example of what creation is. The simplest explanation would seem to be the making of something out of nothing. At the very least this explanation is innocently inaccurate and at the most purposefully misleading.

Creation simply it taking an idea and causing it to become manifest. In other words you imagine or think of something that doesn't exist and you find away to change it from just an idea to something tangible.

In the Bible it is written that "Man was created in the image of God". For many this means that man has an appearance similar to God. I believe that the statement is much more subtle than that. I think it means that man was manifest with creative abilities like God.

Metaphysics teaches that before the existence of our manifest reality there was only chaotic potential, and from that chaotic potential the first manifestation occurred. That manifestation wasn't physical as we would describe it. It was consciousness. Metaphysics calls this the Cosmic Consciousness mostly because it is a consciousness that exists beyond our manifest reality. In other words it exists both within and outside the universe of physical reality.

Consciousness is simply an awareness that you exist within and separate from something else. Consciousness in and of itself can't do anything, but if you add thought and will it can cause things to happen.

This however isn't a writing to define God. Consciousness, will, or thought. It is a writing to describe and clarify what creation actually is. Even for God or the Cosmic Consciousness it isn't possible to "create" something out of nothing. For God or the Cosmic Consciousness the creation of our manifest state of being used parts of the chaotic potential. Simply stated all that was done was to separate some of the potential from all the rest so that the potential could be organized in to patterns that we understand to be manifest physicality, In other words our universe and reality.

Please don't confuse building something that already exists with creation. Creation is the making of something that didn't exist before. Some people say nothing is really new or truly unique, which is just silly. Simple examples are writhing or some other means of expressing and idea that is new, or making something that didn't exist before the first of its kind was made. Some where in history a chair was only an idea. Someone decided to create a chair, gathered the parts, designed how it would be built and what it would be used for, and then created it.

One thing I want to point out about creation is that no creation is stagnant. What I mean by this is that once something is created it starts a voyage of change. If the manifestation is not accepted then the voyage is towards disintegration and being forgotten to the point of it no longer existing. On the other hand, if the manifestation is accepted then the voyage is towards duplication and improvement. In the example of the chair (obviously an accepted creation), once the first chair was created the idea of the chair continued to change. A variety of chairs evolved. From the creation of the chair came the idea of the couch or sofa. A variety of names and designs are still going on. This is one simple example of creation.

The manner that humanity has been created in the "image" of God is simply that we are able to create. We may not use potential from the chaos but we do create by changing or reorganizing into different patterns things that already exist, things like wood or ore that we change into tools or nails or screws. From this I deduce that the very act of creation of one idea usually requires the creations or alteration of other things till we can manifest the idea we first proceed to bring into existence.

I would love to hear comments from anyone that either agrees or disagrees with what I have expressed here.