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Overview
Why are we here?
Does God Love usalways, no matter what?
I am more than my human body. What does that mean?
Tales of Our Beginnings combines elements from many respected metaphysical and spiritual teachers and messengers. It presents a story that provides some answers and some new possibilities to talk about. Each of the tales is structured so that it can be read in a simple form to younger children or in its complete form to older children.
Beginning with the initial appearance of light, and moving through the birth of the physical universe, the birth of the Creators family, and the adventures of the Creators children as they explore the universe, Tales of Our Beginnings tells how we came to be physical beings on this planet Earth. Children and adult readers will come away with the understanding that we are all powerful beings living in a supportive and loving universe.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781452563794 |
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| Publisher: | Balboa Press |
| Publication date: | 12/18/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 42 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
| Age Range: | 4 - 8 Years |
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Tales of Our Beginnings
By Penny P. Best
Balboa Press
Copyright © 2012 Penny P. BestAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-6378-7
Chapter One
A TALE OF CREATION
The story teller came into the room and took her place in the special chair. It was a comfortable chair of warm polished brown wood. The thick seat cushion was covered with colorful patches of rich fabrics. Another matching pillow was tied to the back rest with ribbons of fabric. It was a chair for quiet dreaming, for uninterrupted reading, and for telling wonderful stories.
The story teller smiled. "My story today is a tale of beginnings. Before time began, before the stars decorated the night-time sky, before the bright sun traveled across the day-time sky, there was the darkness and the deep silence called The Void. It was a comfortable darkness. It was safe. It was a good place to rest and to awaken.
Within The Void was a Presence. Some might say that this Presence was very small, smaller than a grain of sand or a tiny speck of dust. Inside of Its Self this wonderful Presence did not feel small at all. It felt HUGE and UNLIMITED. It felt full of possibilities and miracles just waiting to come forth. Most of all this Presence felt full of LOVE. The Presence made a decision to Become all of the Love and Miracles waiting to be born within IT.
Suddenly a great burst of LOVE exploded out from the center of the Void, sending wave upon wave of loving energy rolling outward. Within the darkness a glow appeared, then a burst of brilliant white light.
The light traveled out from its source in waves and circles. The darkness of the Void began to shiver and vibrate. Then like ripples on water, the waves of light faded until there was one bright spark of light resting like a jewel on a piece of black velvet.
From that One Light there came into the darkness many other lights moving out across the velvet blackness. These points of light became spinning suns, stars, and clouds of light.
The One Presence gave Itself a name.... a deep sound that rolled across the New Creation, "OOOOHHMMM, I AM ALL THAT IS. I AM THE BEGINNING AND THE END".
The One Presence, The Creator rested, admiring the contrast between the pure darkness and the shining lights. The Creator was pleased with the Light of Creation and called it GOOD.
Now the One Presence felt a desire to add something new to Creation. Some of the new lights in Creation were gathered into clusters and groups. Upon these lights the Creator blew a cooling breath. As these lights began to cool, the white light of their birth began to change. Before long a rainbow of new colors filled the Universe with Purples, Blues, Greens, Yellows, Amber, Oranges, Reds, and Pinks.
"Aahh, Magnificent!" thought the Creator. "This is Very GOOD."
Each new color had its own vibration and sound, its own song. Soon the new Universe hummed with these sounds. The Creator called these sounds "Music" and declared that it was All Very Good.
Chapter Two
A Family for the Creator
The One Presence was deeply pleased with the delightful new Universe, but there was so much more to unfold and to experience. The Creator conceived a desire to share all of this, and more to come, with Others, Family. A new wave of LOVE and JOY rolled through the Universe. A host of new Lights appeared at the center of Creation. These Lights were not suns, stars, or spinning planets. They were smaller versions of the One Presence, Beings of Light and Love.
Each of the new Beings knew itself to be a child of the Creator, and a valued member of the universal family. At first these young Beings all stayed close to the center of Creation. The One Presence spoke to them of the power of Love and the workings of the Universe.
"There are Three Powers that shape the Universe I have made, the Creator told them. These Powers are Pure Desire, Unconditional Love, and Divine Truth."
The Creator explained, "Pure Desire is the power of Choosing something, Deciding that it shall be, and Intending to create it. This always comes First," declared the Creator
"Unconditional Love is the power that calls all things into Being. Love attracts, draws together everything to make a desire real. Love supports life. Anything that comes from Love nurtures Life and causes things to grow, to unfold, to expand."
"The third power is the power of Divine Truth. This is the power that organizes and shapes Love in many different ways to create substance and new forms."
"I will help you to learn how to mix your Pure Desires with Unconditional Love and Divine Truth so that you can create as I do."
The Children of Light grew strong in the radiations of Love and Appreciation that the One Source showered upon them. They watched the new Universe unfold around them and they learned about their own special talents and interests. These young Beings were made to create and to experience their creations.
As with all children, the Creator's children began to seek new things to experience and new ideas to explore. Some of the Children of Light moved out into the Universe in family groups to explore and to try their hand at creating. These beloved children were awed by the beauty of the Universe and inspired by the possibilities revealed to them.
With great Joy some of the Creator's children used the powers of Pure Desire, Unconditional Love, and Divine Truth to shape the birth of new suns, moons, planets and stars. Another group committed themselves to learning every Law and Principle that moved the Universe so that they could help and advise their family members when there was a need.
The Divine Creator saw the works of the Children of Light and decided that every part of Creation was Very Good indeed.
Chapter Three
The House of Creation
When the One Presence conceived the desire to create this Universe, there were SO many exciting possibilities tumbling around in the mind of the Creator that there had to be a Plan to allow all of it to fit in our universe. The Creator decided to make the Universe like a great Bubble with many levels, like the layers of an onion, and many rooms.
Each room was a star system where life could unfold in new ways. The Creator was at the center of it all. When new possibilities became real through the powers of Pure Desire, Unconditional Love, and Divine Truth, the Universe Bubble expanded to embrace them.
As the young universe grew, new suns, stars, and solar systems with many kinds of planets appeared. Some planets were rather small, some were Very Large, some had a moon or two, and some had no moons at all. There were worlds covered with water, or with cold ice, and worlds dry as dead sticks. These worlds were covered in sand and jagged rocks.
Some of the worlds were populated with many kinds of living beings while others were quiet and seemed to be empty.
In all of Creation no star, no planet, no sun or moon, no form of life, or any other thing appeared without its own stamp of the Creator's Essence. Everything was an expression of the One Presence, the Creator. Each form of Life, whether small or large, strange or common, simple or complex, contained its own spark of the Divine Creator.
The Children of Light began to move outward to explore the other levels and rooms in the House of Creation.
Each level was a realm, like a different country, with its own rules in addition to the Primary Laws of the Universe. Just as people and animals from separate countries will look and act differently from one another, so did the Beings and creatures of the many realms in the House of Creation.
The worlds at the edges of Creation were in the realm called The Fields of Structure, or The Physical Realm. These worlds at the outer levels of the House of Creation were subject to the rules of Time and Gravity, and of Birth and Death. The Physical life forms on these worlds came in many shapes and sizes.
All physical life forms were born into their world, where they grew, matured, became old, and then their physical life ended.
The Children of Light all knew that the death; or end of a physical form was not truly and end. They all knew that the seed of Divine Life, the Soul of each physical Being, returned to the higher realms of Light when the physical body died.
The experience of aging and changing form was not a part of the Higher Realms. The Children of Light were eternal Beings dwelling in the Love of their Creator. They did not experience old age, or sickness, or death of their bodies of Light.
(Continues...)
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Table of Contents
Contents
Preface....................1Part I: A Tale of Creation....................2
Part II: A Family for the Creator....................7
Part III: The House of Creation....................11
Part IV: Gaia the Beautiful....................15
Part V: A Problem in Paradise....................22
WORD HELPER....................34