1. Silence? Not! The Conversation Buzz Before Creation (Part One)

1. Silence? Not! The Conversation Buzz Before Creation (Part One).

“In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. The earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. There was no form, completely void of substance, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God (the Breath of Elohim, the divine Wind) hovered over the watery abyss.” (Genesis 1:1-2).

The Eternal Song. It appears that there was never a time of complete silence. Even before the creation of the world, the everlasting community of the Godhead were engaged in an ongoing trialogue of love and purpose. It seems that communication is a part of the nature of God, so it makes sense that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were having conversations between Themselves before the wings of the Spirit-Wind were heard flapping over the watery abyss. Each of the Three are so in love with each other that they can’t wait to express this love within their Fellowship. There must have been a discussion within this intimate Inner Circle before the Consuming Fire sent forth a flame to provide light for the universe about to be hatched.

Divine Harmony. Now if each of this divine Triad are all speaking at once, could they understand each other? Maybe, maybe not. I imagine that their trialogue has to be, not spoken, but sung in harmony in which each Voice is different but able to harmonize into one unified song. It makes sense to our limited human brains that Three-in-One suggests the presence of an everlasting three-part harmony singing the same song of Love. Before the flight of the mother Bird over an empty nest, anticipating the new birth of a wonderful world, the supposedly empty atmosphere was spiritually full of sound, the Elohim in full-throated harmony of the divine creation song.  Even before the eternal Singers sang creation into existence, there were the eternal sounds of the Trinity singing to and with each Other.

Imagination. While freely exercising the imagination as we consider the mysteries of creation, may I be so bold as to offer an amusing and creative glimpse of the Trinitarian teamwork required for creation, from the fertile brain of Rev. Robert Farrar Capon. Enjoy. “Let me tell you why God made the world. One afternoon, before anything was made, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost sat around in the unity of their Godhead discussing one of the Father’s fixations. From all eternity, it seems He had had this thing about being. He would keep thinking up all kinds of unnecessary things – new ways of being and new kinds of beings to be. And as they talked, God the Son suddenly said, ‘Really, this is absolutely great stuff. Why don’t I go out and mix us up a batch?’ And God the Holy Ghost said, ‘Terrific, I’ll help you.’ So they all pitched in, and after supper that night, the Son and the Holy Ghost put on this tremendous show of being for the Father. It was full of water and light and frogs; pinecones kept dropping all over the place and crazy fish swam around in the wineglasses. There were mushrooms and grapes, horse radishes and tigers – and men and women everywhere to taste them, to juggle them, to join them and to love them. And God the Father looked at the whole wild party and He said, ‘Wonderful! Just what I had in mind!’ So they laughed for ages and ages, saying things like how great it was for beings to be, and how clever of the Father to think of the idea, and how kind of the Son to go to all that trouble putting it together, and how considerate of the Spirit to spend so much time directing and choreographing… (continued)… Creation is the result of a Trinitarian bash, a divine party, a game of delight. The world is a whole barrelful of the apples of His eye, constantly juggled, relished and exchanged by the Persons of the Trinity. No wonder we love circuses, games and magic; they prove we are in the image of God. The delight of God is the deepest root of the being of everything.” (The Third Peacock, by Robert Farrar Capon, 1971).