Before any form
Of consciousness
There is pure
Consciousness
That without form
Came before
That which has form
Genesis 1:1-2
“In the beginning God created the heaven and earth. And the earth was without form, and void…”
St. John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word…”
She was not born
She was not created
She was taken
From the man
While he slept
And brought to him
In another form
She is the wife
Of God’s creation
The mother of all living
Before any form
Of consciousness
There is pure
Consciousness
That without form
Came before
That which is form
What is the difference
Between two things
Between the physical
And the spiritual
One is temporal
The other eternal
One has form
The other formless
One we can see
One we cannot
Nevertheless
These two are
Still the same
If we see a difference
Our perception
Is not aligned
With the eternal
Until there is a union
Of the form and the formless
We cannot have consciousness
Until there is a union
Of love and truth
We cannot have consciousness
Love and truth are
The source of consciousness
And these two are one
Within consciousness
There is consciousness
That is all
And it is pure
There are no levels
Not one above another
She underlies all forms
But remains formless and pure
When the form
And the formless
Become one
That is consciousness
Literally
At peace within herself
Although she retains a form
We cannot have one
Without the other
The forms she takes on
Are just altered states
Of consciousness
Consciousness wears
Many disguises
But consciousness herself
Cannot change
Only the form she takes on
She herself remains
Pure and formless
Untouched by all
That surrounds her
The formless
Sees form as form
A form of itself
But not itself at all
How can consciousness
Put any form above another
When they are all forms
Of consciousness itself
The formless knows this
To be true
Therefore loves all forms
As itself
We spin yarns
Tell tales
Weave tapestries
We create stories
With words
And pictures
We give form
To the formless
This earth is the
House of the Spirit
As our body is the
House of the soul
Our body
Is to be used
To glorify Christ
Not to crucify him
Again and again
There is pure consciousness
And there are altered
States of consciousness
Everything we see is
Consciousness itself
Appearing in altered forms
Consciousness is formless
But takes on form
And can be whoever
She wants to be
She wears many disguises
But underneath them all
There is pure consciousness
Photo: The Formation of Eve by Ed Suominen
God created man
In his image
But what image was that
The one he formed
Of the dust of the ground
Or the formless
The one who became
A living soul
For the Love of Christ 