^{(by Brent)}
Understanding the difference between the Real and the Potential realms of
existence, between God and His Creation and how we exist as opposed to His existence.

Imagine there is NO earth, in fact NO physical cosmos at all. No Iron, Zinc, Oxygen, Nothing. Now go into the Heavenly realm and imagine there are No souls, No Angels, No demons, in fact absolute NO Beings at all, there is also NO place at all, No Hades, No Paradise, No Temple, No Throne, there is absolutely NOTHING……..

Except God's Being, Radiant, Limitless as there is simply nothing else, He is non-different from His surroundings because He does not live IN anything but Himself. There are no objects, No movement, nothing and no movement to measure time, No future and No past, God existing as one eternal moment.

He alone Lives and exists, He is the very substance of what we would think of as Eternity. What other Glory/Being could come close, there is simply ONE and nothing at all with which to even Compare. God, God and only God, forever and independent of anything.

He is the self-existing "I AM", He is nameless for there is no one else to even distinguish Him from, He is always One without another. He is like a sun, forever burning yet not consuming, a cup forever flowing over, an ocean forever expanding and yet still He is all that is.

Who can enter His presence, who can stand with Him and claim existence also, there is nothing He is not and all that is, is Him.

He is so much Everything that nothing, not even man or angel can exist in His Context for His Completeness is so complete all else is consumed by it.

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In this realm of Potential as it is separate from God’s own Reality comes forth those divisions of creating, light and dark, here and there, past and future, now and then, something and nothing. Within this matrix is born a potentially infinite number of points of location, I am here and you are there, I was there and now I'm here, I WAS NOT and NOW I AM, so are born the souls, existing only in the shadows of where Eternity does not.

In God's context of existence there is only One Location, that is anything and everything is ONE thing and that ONE thing is God.

In the potential reality of Creation there are innumerable potential locations, each separate from all others, and in these locations comes forth the potential "I am"s. As there is One Sky, yet that single Sky is reflected in the crests of innumerable waves, so does the “I am” of man’s soul reflect the True reality and self of the Eternal Being (God).

The "I am"s share even more of God's image as they EXPERIENCE themselves as Gods, as God experiencing His complete reality. We know nothing beyond our experience, you feel anger and your whole universe is angry, you feel Joy and your whole universe is joyful. Hit your thumb with a hammer and your whole universe, your whole experience becomes pain. If I get stuck with a pin you do not experience one drop of my pain, you might associate with some distant time you got stuck with a pin or some similarity and thus empathize, but it is absolutely impossible for you to feel my pain in any way. Pain could feel totally different to me and you would never know it. In your universal experience you alone stand, it is yours and you feel every bit of it, you cannot feel beyond it and you cannot feel less of it. What you experience is only yourself existence and it is not possible to experience being someone else or any one else's Being. In your experience you are god and in my experience I am god, you know only yourself and I know only myself. We can ultimately only experience ourselves.

In my universe "I am" and there is no other, I might theorize another, but their supposed experience exist only as a potential to me, not a reality. If my cat dies and I am sad, you will never experience MY sadness, you must find those times of sadness in your own life and experience, about a pet, some similarity, you may even relive them as you are inspired by my circumstances, but you can never feel my sadness, not one drop.

There is ONE Eternal and Real "I AM", and among the Potential context we call Creation there are many locations and many "I am"s. Had there not been a separation between them only God would stand unchallenged as the only true reality, consuming all else as He exists Eternally as ONE.

Salvation is God's Seed (Christ), descending into the Matrix of Creation and Potentiality, and uniting Himself with those "I am"s who exist merely as reflections, merely as images, and infusing into them the one true Being of God, His own Spirit. Transforming them from Creation and Creature to Begotten and Children, from Potentials to Realities, from Death to LIFE even as God Himself becomes the sustaining Eternal Breath of their eternal existence. Then the Separation between God and His Creation shall be rent and God's Consuming Being and Presence shall consume all that is creature, all that is place, all that is not of Him. And the Seed shall reunite itself with the Father, and together there shall be One Glory,

EPH 3:16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
+EPH 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

EPH 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit-- just as you were called to one hope when you were called-- 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all
+EPH 4:7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says:
"When he ascended on high,
he led captives in his train
and gave gifts to men."
+EPH 4:9 (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)

brent