@steve reid,
Quote: I assumed God created the universe, then set in motion the Big Bang which spawned the EMS, but if both God and energy are eternal one could not create the other, or perhaps God and energy are one and the same, is this what you are implying with the great thought?.
The Buddhists believe in an eternal oscillating universe that expands out of the seemingly darkness of nothingness only to later return to its origin and disappear into the seemingly nothingness, to later reappear once again.
“Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non-being, and again from non-being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all, the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism.
And this eternal wheel has so to speak, ‘SIX’ spokes representing ‘SIX’ forms of existence.” - --- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.
The Hebrews believe that the creator God created the universe of today through a succession of ‘
SIX’ separate generations, see Genesis 2: 4; concerning the
SIX periods of creation or ‘
SIX’ creative days (
These are the 'GENERATIONS, of the heavens and earth=universe when they were created.)
The Hindu believes that the days and nights of Brahma are called Manvantara, or the cycle of manifestation, ‘The Great Day,’ which is a period of universal activity, that is preceded, and also followed by ‘Pralaya,’ a dark period, which to our finite minds would seem as an eternity, or but a moment in time.
To the Hindu, Brahman, is the divine reality of the universe, the eternal spirit from who all being originates and to who all must return at the close of each period of universal activity.
‘Manvantara,’ is a creative day as seen in the '
SIX' days of creation in Genesis, ‘Pralaya,’ is the evening that proceeds the next creative day. The '
SIX' periods of Creation and the seventh day of rest in which we now exist are referred to in the book of Genesis 2: 4; as the
“GENERATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE.”
The English word “
Generation,” is translated from the Hebrew “toledoth,” which is used in the Old Testament in every instance as ‘births,’ or ‘descendants,’ such as “These are the generations of Adam,” or “these are the generations of Abraham, and Genesis 2: 4; it is written concerning the '
SIX' days of creation; “These are the generations of the Universe or the heavens and earth, etc.” And the ‘Great Day’ in which the seven generations of the universe are eternally repeated, is the eternal cosmic period, or the eighth day, which is a day eternal with neither hours, days, weeks, months or years, for all time is stuck together in one aeon, etc, etc, in which those who attain to perfection, are allowed to enter, where they shall be surrounded by great light and they shall experience eternal peace, while those who do not attain to perfection are cast back into the refining fires of the seven physical cycles of endless rebirths that perpetually revolve within the eighth day, the eternal cosmic cycle. And all who enter into the generation of the Light beings, are able to visit all those worlds that still exist in Space-Time, but not in our time.
The ’
SIX’ generations of the universe are seen as a series of worlds following one upon the other-- each world rising a step higher than the previous world, so that every later world brings to ripeness the seeds that were imbedded in the former, and itself then prepares the seed for the universe that will follow it.