Toward the Origin

You look at a nice car...

If I told you that the car made itself, would you believe me?

What about if I told you that a stone can fly by itself, without having to throw it in the air? You would say: that's impossible.

And if I say that energy creates itself, without a source that gives it out ("perpetuum mobile")? You will say: we know that's impossible.

But if I persisted in saying that energy can transform itself to become matter or an object?..

We know that, basically, nothing comes to existence by itself, by chance. That is true for all matter, and even more so for living matter, which is incredibly complex, structured and logic in its essence, in its functions and, at the same time... radiant with beauty.

You may talk of... evolution... an exceptional situation... an unexpected encounter of chemical substances that were united in a favourable environment, in particular conditions, and so on... the way science could explain it. Well...

We know that matter is nothing else than a form of passing energy. That means that, before the existence of matter, there was energy.

Then... let us go back, to that moment when the matter of the universe didn't exist yet. In order for it to be formed, there had to be a source of energy. We can suppose also that this source was endowed with a creative, intelligent, inventive and logic will that would allow it to devise the global concept of the physical universe, with all its forms and movements...

At that moment in time everything was new, and the physical laws that we know today didn't exist yet, because, before that... nothing existed.

Even if we admit that the universe could have come to existence "all by itself", by a number of things happening by hazard, in spite of the fact that "things" didn't exist at that time yet (!), it is evident that hazard couldn't act logically and intelligently. Therefore, in this alternative, this same hazard would produce a universal anachronous creation, weird and incongruous, where the element of beauty would be excluded.

Yet, we know that the universe is all the opposite of that.

By seriously considering the facts, we can try to take a glimpse, as through a very small opaque window, at the ORIGIN of all this greatness, which can be no other than GOD HIMSELF.

When we consider the extraordinary enormity of the universe, it is useless to ask any question: why, how... because no one is capable of understanding, of... imagining, or... answering.

We know, through the revelation of the saints, that God is LOVE. That He is a SPIRIT OF LOVE. For Him, there is no past or future. He exists outside of time because... HE IS. 

God didn't need to create anything - or to create us - because He is EVERYTHING in Himself. Yet, He created everything for us, as an act of overflowing Love, to share everything with us.

To end this reflection, here is an excerpt of the Introduction to the Gospel of St. John, about the origin of everything:

"Before the world was created, the Word already existed; he was with God, and he was the same as God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him..."

(John 1,1-4)