# God, the Conscious Energy

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Grover Gonzales, God, the Conscious Energy, bahai-library.com.
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> GOD, the Conscious Energy
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> by
> Grover Gonzales
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> 2023
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> God is the Conscious, Intelligent and Creative Energy.
> The coming of Bahá’-Alláh (1) brought not only the wonderful laws and principles that will
> unite the whole world, but also the means to be used to establish it, like the telegraph, TV, iPhones,
> etc., but, most important, Computer Science.
> This time was also accompanied by scientists of extraordinary minds, particularly physicists;
> one of them was Albert Einstein (2), who in his work on Special Relativity (1905) gave this most
> famous equation:
> E = mc2
> This equation contains all reality, all that existed, exists, and will exist. The Cause, the
> Instrument, and the Effect.
> E (Rest Energy) is the capacity for doing work. It can be measured in joules (J) or any other
> energy units like electron-volts (Ev), BTU, horsepower-hour, calories, etc. One joule is equal to one
> kilogram-meter squared per second squared, or 1 newton-meter.
> m (Mass) can be measured in Kilograms-mass (Kg), pounds-mass or any other mass
> measurements. All measures are better understood using the International System of Units.
> C (Constant of proportionality) the limit of the speed of energy in meters per
> second 299,792,458 about 300,000 kilometers per second (Km/s) Because of the precense of E and
> m, C exists as space and time (meters and seconds, or any other units)
> The basic premise that E is all that exists, must have God into it. Otherwise, the god that
> exists in a recondite place, unknowable, abstruse and transcendent, could very well not exist.
> The god of philosophers, theologians, theosophists, and everybody else, could be better
> understood in the field of energy, than in an imaginary void.
> A dialog between science and religion would be more profitable, being God in this field
> rather than in the world of pure ideas.
> Some correlation could be found between God and energy, in that the latter is also uncreated
> and eternal, besides being always in movement.
> In the Bible, there are miracles that are easily understood as transference of energy to matter
> and vice versa. Angels turned to men and back to angels, chariots of fire, the meeting of Jesus, Eliah
> and Moses, the resurrection, the ascension, etc. Also, Muhammad’s Miraj, the Báb’s (3), Husayn’s
> blood, and Bahá’-Alláh’s Maid of Heaven, and many more.
> The World of Spirit or the Great Beyond is the World of Energy (E), and the Universe is the
> matter (m). Space and time are measurable. God is intelligent energy that moves in waves that
> could have, frequency, amplitude, spin, and phase. The form of energy could be radiant, nuclear,
> electrical, ionization, mechanical or gravitational; or all of them together. The spiritual world of
> spiritualists, with ectoplasm, telepathy, and telekinesis, does not exist, it is not measurable. The
> same goes for Dr. Rhine’s (4) Parapsychology.
> God as conscious energy could be easily compared to pantheism (all is God) of some
> Eastern religions, or the Ethics of Spinoza (5) or the ideas of Giordano Bruno (6) that had him burnt
> at the stake by the Holy Inquisition; however, this is or not pantheism, since God is personal, one
> and unique; It has a new Name, al-ÁBHÁ, formerly known by other names as YHVH.
> “Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love
> for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My
> beauty.” (Bahá'u'lláh, Arabic Hidden Words, 3)
> The Creative Energy, the First Cause, produced the Instrument or Word of God, that turned
> energy into that matter that is called the Universe. “Know thou, moreover, that the Word of God …
> is higher and far superior to that which the senses can perceive, for it is sanctified from any property
> or substance. It transcendeth the limitations of known elements and is exalted above all the essential
> and recognized substances. It became manifest, it is without any syllable or sound and is none but
> the Command of God which pervadeth all created things. It hath never been withheld from the
> world of being. It is God's all-pervasive grace [energy], from which all grace doth emanate...”
> (Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 139)
> The known elements or “recognized substances” were given in the Periodic Table of the
> chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (7) in 1869. These elements are matter, not energy; but can be turned into
> energy. In it, this energy gave way to: “the cohesive mineral, the growing vegetable, the sensible
> animal, the mortal human…, the soul of the Kingdom, the soul of the Dominion, and the Divine
> soul the Heavenly court.” (‘Abd-al-Bahá’ (8), Planes of the Soul, p.1, Provisional Translation). In
> man He placed a spark of the Divine, of He, Himself. “With the hands of power I made thee and
> with the fingers of strength I created thee; and within thee have I placed the essence of My
> light…” (Bahá'u'lláh, Arabic Hidden Words, 12)
> This Word has been presented in the Bible thus: “In the beginning was the Word, and the
> Word was with God, and the Word was a god.”—John 1:1, New World Translation. A better
> translation of “a god”, would be “a Manifestation of God.”
> An elegant approach to the beginning of the universe, was done by the Big Bang theory. On the
> ideas of G. Gamow (9) and the description of an expanding universe of E. Hubble (10), the Catholic
> priest G. Lemaitre (11) calculated that the universe was created 13.8 billion years ago. Since he had
> the acceleration of the expansion observed by Hubble, he went back in time, contracting the
> universe to the point of reaching a small solid mass with the highest density and extreme
> temperature. And God? He could be a metallic god, or a god in a non-existing vacuum. Some flows
> have been found in this theory, but still is a good approach to cosmogony. What was before? The
> particles cannot be compressed beyond the Plank’s (12) distance, that is:1.6x10^-35 m.), an
> extremely small distance; but, in a universe extremely compacted, it has a bearing. It is well known
> that at this distance the forces of physics do not follow their strict laws. The alternative is: back to
> energy. God, the Creative and Intelligent Energy, through His Word created from the non-
> intelligent energy, the universe. The alternative is to change this energy into a compact matter, that
> contains all potential life and humanity (with a spark of Himself into it)
> The high esteem that Bahá’-Alláh has for the Classic Greek Philosophers, particularly
> Socrates (13), have us thinking if they knew about Energy as we know it now. Platon’s (14) forms and
> geometrical metaphysics might be well considered types of energy. Aristotle (15) contribution to the
> Abrahamic religions is well known. However, Plato’s Immortality of the soul has poisoned these
> religions with something completely foreign to all the writers of Bible. Bahá’-Alláh’s immortality
> of the soul, needs to be seen as a personality kept in the Memory of God, the Greatest Computer.
> God is not an Entity in some unknown place that does not exist, He is here and now. “This
> most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is
> closer to you than your life-vein.” (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings p. 326)
> Scripture says that God knows, even how many hairs has our head; some plainly do not
> believe it, or others think that He has more important things to do. With the coming of computers,
> we can be sure that this is quite possible and that He has everything in His memory, the greatest
> computer. Everything that we have in the laptop that He gave us when we were born is there; when
> we died, the laptop is gone, and God decides to resurrect us to matter, that is the earthly paradise or
> physical resurrection, or to energy that is the spiritual resurrection. It will have what best befits its
> immortality. “When the soul attaineth the Presence of God, it will assume the form that best
> befitteth its immortality and is worthy of its celestial habitation” (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings, p. 157)
> In the golden age of this dispensation, Shoghi Effendi (16) considers “that more study will be
> done to the sharpening and refinement on the human brain.” (Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of
> Bahá'u'lláh, p. 203)
> The energy of the laser or other radiation, or the matter of the scalpel, will eliminate sin. The
> chosen angels, who are the neurons, will be ready to lead us to victory, but we must command them.
> Annex I
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> It is not coincidence that the coming of the Divine Prophet is accompanied by scientists of
> extraordinary insights. It is worthy to note, that the language of God in this case, is couched in
> energy words. An example is heat, that is energy transferred between systems, that can be measured
> in Joules, and its rate of heating in Watts (Joules per second) Others are electricity, light, active
> force, sound, power, vibrations, and so on.
> 
> From the Tablet of Wisdom by Bahá’u’lláh
> “As regards thine assertions about the beginning of creation, this is a matter on which conceptions
> vary by reason of the divergences in men's thoughts and opinions. Wert thou to assert that it hath
> ever existed and shall continue to exist, it would be true; or wert thou to affirm the same concept as
> is mentioned in the sacred Scriptures, no doubt would there be about it, for it hath been revealed by
> God, the Lord of the worlds. Indeed He was a hidden treasure. This is a station that can never be
> described nor even alluded to. And in the station of ‘I did wish to make Myself known', God was,
> and His creation had ever existed beneath His shelter from the beginning that hath no beginning,
> apart from its being preceded by a Firstness which cannot be regarded as firstness and originated by
> a Cause inscrutable even unto all men of learning.
> That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today. The
> world of existence came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between
> the active force and that which is its recipient. These two are the same, yet they are different. Thus
> doth the Great Announcement inform thee about this glorious structure. Such as communicate the
> generating influence and such as receive its impact are indeed created through the irresistible Word
> of God, which is the Cause of the entire creation, while all else besides His Word are but the
> creatures and the effects thereof. Verily thy Lord is the Expounder, the All-Wise.” (Bahá'u'lláh,
> Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 139.
> ‘Abd’al-Bahá explains this paragraph of The Tablet of Wisdom, thus: “ ‘The world of existence
> came into being through the heat generated from the interaction between the active force and that
> which is its recipient. These two are the same, yet they are different.’ That is to say, the primary
> matter of contingent beings is the ethereal power, which is invisible and can only be established
> through its effects, such as electricity, heat, and light, which are vibrations of that power. This is
> established and proven in natural philosophy, and it is called ethereal matter. This ethereal matter
> is itself both the force active and the recipient; in other words, in the world of corporeal existents it
> is the sign of the Primal Will. “God created man by the Will, and He created the Will by means of
> itself.” Therefore, this ethereal matter is, in a certain respect, the active force, since light, heat, and
> electricity appear from it. It is also the recipient, for as vibrations take place in it, it becomes
> visible. For instance, light is a vibration occurring in that ethereal matter. From these vibrations
> the power of sight is affected, and the result is seeing. Likewise, vibrations take place in the air and
> from them the eardrum is affected. That effect is sound, and the result is hearing.” (Lawh-i Qúchání,
> translator, Kevin Brown).
> God is the Conscious, Intelligent and Creative Energy.
> Footnotes
> 1) Bahá’-Alláh (or Bahá’u’lláh), Born Mírzá Husayn-‘Alí Núrí (b. Tehran, 2 Muharram 1233 A.H. (Nov. 12,
> 1817); d. ‘Akká, 2 Dhi’l-Qa‘dih 1309 A.H. (May 29, 1892). His parents were Mírzá ‘Abbás (Buzurg) and
> Khadijih Khánum. The Sháh exiled Him to Baghdad. Later the Sultán brought Him to Istanbul and then,
> exiled Him to Edirne and finally to ‘Akká, where died and is buried. His extensive writings cover the
> mystical, ethical, social and political interests, all envisioned the New World Order and the Most Great
> Peace. “His Holiness the Abhá Beauty [Bahá’u’lláh] is the Supreme Manifestation of God and the
> Dayspring of His Most Divine Essence. All others are servants unto Him and do His bidding."(Abdu'l-
> Bahá, The Will and Testament, p. 19)
> 2) Einstein, Albert (b. Germany, 1879, d. USA, 1955) He is considered the best physicist ever. His most
> important writings are about the Special Relativity that contains the well-known formula: E = mc2 and his
> General Relativity.
> 3) The Báb, Born ‘Alí’Muhammad Shírází (b. Shíráz, 1 Muharram 1235 (Oct. 21, 1819), d. Tabriz, 28th of
> Sha‘bán 1266 A.H. (July 9, 1850). His parents were Mírzá Muhammad Rida and Fátimih Bagum. He wrote
> about every subject but, His main concern was a Personage that will be come after Him, referred to as “He
> Whom God Shall Make Manifest” i.e. Bahá’u’lláh.
> 4) Dr. Rhine (USA 1895-1980) Founder of Parapsychology.
> 5) B. Spinoza (Netherland 1632-1677) Influential philosopher.
> 6) G. Bruno (Italy 1548-1600) Philosopher and Astronomer.
> 7) D. Mendeleev (Russia 1834-1907) Famous Chemist.
> 8) ‘Abd’al-Bahá (or ‘Abd’ul-Bahá), Born Mírzá Abbás (b. Teheran, May 23, 1844; d. Haifa, Nov. 28, 1921).
> Son of Bahá’u’lláh and Ásiyyih Khánum (Navváb). He was appointed by Bahá’u’lláh, “The Center of His
> Covenant and Interpreter of His Teachings.”
> 9) G. Gamow (Russia 1904-1968) Physicist and Cosmologist.
> 10) H. Hubble (USA 1864-1934) Astronomer and Cosmologist.
> 11) G. Lemaitre (Belgium 1894-1966) Priest and Astronomer.
> 12) M. Plank (Germany 1858-1947) Well-known Physicist.
> 13) Socrates (Greece 470-399 BC) Influential Moral Philosopher
> 14) Plato (Greece 427-348 BC) foundational thinker in the West.
> 15) Aristotle (Greece 384-322 BC) Polymath. “The Philosopher” par excellence. His work has greatly
> influenced the Western World.
> 16) Shoghi Effendi. (b. ‘Akká circa 1897; d. London, Nov 4, 1957) Son of Mírzá Hadí Shírází and Diya’i’yyih
> (Ziaiyyih) Khánum. He was          appointed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá as “The Guardian of the [Bahá’í] Cause.”
> 
> GG
>
> — *God, the Conscious Energy (Used by permission of the curator)*