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he concept of a void in a spiritual or religious sense is foreign to the majority of people in the Western World. Some religions and philosophies in the Far East do accept the validity of the Void. All humans who desire knowledge of God and of God's creation will probably perceive the idea of the Void as truth. The Void is a reality for God and for humans who aspire to an alignment with God. They will find the transition process to be easier if they accept the Void's existence. This chapter will inform mortals about it and give them a greater appreciation for God's desire, courage and struggle for freedom from the Void.
God can be described as the source from which Creation emanated and also the source from which sustenance and nurture flows. In many cultures, God is also thought of as the model from which humans have been cloned. The concept of humans being physically created in the image of God has wide acceptance, although there is no evidence to support this belief. There is considerable empirical evidence for individuals to perceive that they are souls spiritually similar to God but in bodies unlikely to resemble God. Mortals who attempt uniting with God will discover, during the process, that there is a void within themselves that can only be escaped by union with God. In time, they will also understand that their efforts to become free of their egos are similar to God's encounter with the Void.
As humans, it is impossible to duplicate God's experience of the Void. However, it is possible to imagine the Void if it is based on the most negative, evil and nightmarish of humanity's dreams. The Void may be considered to have been a vacuum within which physical manifestations were non-existent. It was a barren space and its color a shade of gray about to be black. No being or breathing was possible there, and there was an awareness that it was so. The only movement was in the consciousness of the Void about its condition of self. It was a paradox, an awareness of nothing knowing its nothingness, with a great desire to be something. But what? No precedent or model existed there. Instead, fear, guilt, frustration, anxiety, depression and desire were perpetually there. It was death knowing death and desiring to be other than dead. But what could it be? To be or not to be, whatever it was that to be would be, God finally decided to be.
The desire of the consciousness was eventually great enough to risk the consequences of breaking the bondage of fear and guilt. The awareness of the Void became the antithesis of the Void, God. God is ever-aware of the evil authority of the Void. God is ever-vigilant that evil not be given an opportunity to establish a bridgehead in the God-self or in the spiritual realm. Souls in the spiritual world are equally as vigilant of evil as is God. In assuming some responsibility for protecting themselves, God's task of safeguarding them, God and all else in the Universe is still formidable, but easier to manage.
Rebel souls are those who soon after their creation succumbed to evil and who chose not to align themselves with God, their Creator. God isolated these souls on the human or spirit plane and established a system of redemption for them. It is evidence of God's loving and forgiving nature. Every soul experiences, in microcosm, God's encounter with the Void. Rebel souls have their own voids, their anti-God egos, which they must encounter and overcome in order to unite with God. Every rebel soul has to decide to be or not to be one with God.
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