The Meaning of Alpha and Omega

I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Revelation 22:13

    What does Alpha and Omega mean in relation to you? It means the entire series of causation from the first originating movement to the final completed result. Whether you consider it on the Universal scale of creating a universe or on your own individual scale of building a house: everything has its origin in an idea—a Thought—and it has its completion in the manifestation of that idea (Thought) in form. Many intermediate stages are necessary, but the Alpha and Omega of the series are the Thought and the Thing. This is evidence that, in essence, the Thing already existed in the Thought. Omega is already potential in Alpha.

   In relation to your life, this means that if there is an Alpha, the Omega must already be in it. The end always has its locus in the beginning. So, in terms of you, it means that where you start today counts. Each new day is a fresh starting point—a new Alpha. The Omega that was in your Alpha of yesterday will not be present in today’s Alpha, if you have changed your Alpha course since yesterday.

   The manifestations of this truth for you are enormous. If you have been on the wrong track for years, you can get on the right track today. More than that, you can avoid the Omega that was in your past Alpha of thinking and behavior. On the other hand, if you leave the right track and choose the wrong track today, the Omega of good that you had been building up over time will be replaced by the Omega of bad inherent in the Alpha you chose today.

   The Alpha and Omega in your life function according to how you work with the Law of Cause and Effect. It is as basic a Law as “What you plant, you will harvest,” and “As a man thinks, so is he.”

   You must lay hold of this general principle that the Thing already exists in the Thought. The meaning of a general principle is that it can be applied anywhere and everywhere. You are the most important person you must deal with now and in the future. So, you must begin to see the Alpha and Omega in terms of your own potential.

   In the apostle John’s vision in the book of Revelation, the one who spoke the words in the above Scripture is described as “like a son of man”—i.e., however transcendent the appearance in the vision, it is essentially human and suggests the presence of the Universal Principle at the individual human level. But the figure in the apocalyptic vision is not of a human being as you would ordinarily know and recognize her or him. The figure is that of Omega as it exists enshrined in Alpha. It is the Ideal You, in your future evolved state as it exists in the Divine Mind which was manifested in objective form to John’s eyes. It was presented as the Alpha and Omega of that Ideal in all the majesty of the Divine glory.

   If you can grasp the truth that the Thing is already existent in the Thought, then you should find it a short leap of faith from there for you to see that this transcendent Ideal You already exists in the All-Originating Spirit of God’s Mind. If on the plane of the Absolute there is no space-time continuum, but only an everlasting now, then it follows that your evolved and Glorified Self is a present fact in the Divine Mind.

   But if it is true that the Thing exists in the Thought, it must equally be true that the Thought finds form in the Thing. Since Things exist under conditions of time and space—while Thought does not—Things are necessarily subject to the Law of Growth. While the essence of the Thing in the Thought is perfect from the beginning, the expression of the Thought in the Thing is a matter of growth.        

In the Beginning

 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

    Before there was anything anywhere at all, there was the Word. So, the beginning referred to in the above passage of Scripture is not the beginning of time as we know it, or the Word, but rather the story of the beginning of the universe which we now inhabit. The Word is the voice of God who is with God and existed as God before the universe was created. The Word brought into being all that was brought into being by the sound emanating from the Word—“Let there be”—after the Spirit of God hovered or was in motion (Genesis 1:2-3).

   Only after the Word “spoke”—generated sound—did anything come into being that was not in being before the Word “spoke.” So, a discussion of what modern science has found to be the relationship between sound and first cause is appropriate.

   Modern science acknowledges that every chemical atom is made up of particles of only one substance—the Original or Primary Substance—that seems to occupy all space-time. The specific identity of a given atom, whether it turns out to be iron, phosphorous, hydrogen, or some other substance, depends solely on how many particles of negatively charged electricity revolve around a center of positively charged electricity, and the rate of speed at which they move.

   Modern science also acknowledges that all material substance, inanimate matter as well as animate or living matter, has no inherent qualities or characteristics that distinguish one part of this Original or Primary Substance from any other part of it. The electronic theory explains how all matter is evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. But this does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came.

   Science is also clear that if anything is in motion, its movement has been caused by someone or something. At the beginning of creation, the Word used sound to set all things in motion. Sound is transmitted through waves, and sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it. So, we can say that in the beginning the Word produced the sound that caused waves that set everything in motion. Thus, science and the Bible agree that the Law of Cause and Effect requires that every effect is the result—and only the result—of the cause that produced it.

Accept the Power of Your Thought

 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will  know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  John 8:32

   If your thought can produce one thing, it can produce all things. Nothing can stop you from thinking. You can think what you please, and if to think is to form, you can form whatever you please. Since it is true that to think is to form, then you must accept that your limitations and expansions come from your Thought alone.

   You believe erroneously that conditions outside yourself have power over you, and so you think power into them. In essence, you are creating and worshiping idols of your own creation.

   A careful study of philosophy and religion, as a whole, will lead you to the truth that “in the beginning” there was no other Creative Power than Spirit, and the only mode of activity that you can attribute to Spirit is Thought.

   Thus, Thought is at the root of all things. If it was true “in the beginning,” it must still be true. Since all things originate in Thought, all things must be modes of Thought.

   Accordingly, it is not possible that Spirit could or would ever relinquish Its creation to some power which is not Itself—i.e., Its Thought Power. Consequently, all the forms and circumstances that surround you are manifestations of the creative power of Thought.

   You might argue that this is God’s Thought and not your Thought. But this goes against the self-evident axiomatic truth that “in the beginning” nothing could have had an origin other than Thought. It is also true that nothing has any origin except in the Divine Mind, and you are a mode of Divine Thought. You are self-conscious, therefore you are the Divine Thought evolved into individual consciousness. When you are sufficiently enlightened, you will realize that this is your origin. 

Your Thought Creates Your World

   To think is to be consciously aware, even if you are not aware of yourself or your surroundings. If you were waking up from a coma in a dark room where you had been completely immobilized from head to toe, and had no memory of your name, family or station in life, you would be aware only that you exist. To be aware of your existence is to contemplate yourself as a distinct entity and to express that contemplation in the only form available to you: the form of thought. In order to think, you must be conscious. You cannot think when you are unconscious—your unconscious mind takes over and ruminates on what you thought when you were conscious.

   Since thinking is a conscious act, and everything that you will ever create comes from your thought, then raising or heightening your level of consciousness (awareness) should be your highest priority in life.

   The way to begin to do this is to discover who you are at your core. This means that you must look deep within yourself to discover your true identity. The barrier that stands in your path of self-discovery is your own self-image paradigm—that mental idea, picture or conception of yourself that you did not create, but that you have been taught to rely on by those who came before you and defined who you are to yourself. The truth is that you are not the conception you have of yourself, whether you view that conception as good, bad, or indifferent. It is a false idol, a non-entity. You exist, but your conception of yourself does not exist in reality. It is merely a place-holder that was given you by those who came before you. It is now your responsibility to create who you are at your core from the inside out.

   At this point, the creative process requires that you see yourself from a God Mindset—i.e., from a spiritual perspective which is not limited by your past experiences, prejudices, beliefs, or negative states of consciousness induced by yourself or others. This perspective allows you to see yourself not as a blank canvass, but as one already prepared and primed by the Master’s Spiritual Gesso and ready for the Master’s Paint. From this spiritual perspective, you are empowered to assume that you are free from every influence that defined you previously by using your imagination to create that very feeling of being free from former influences.

   The next step is to decide whom you desire to be, so that you can create that person within yourself. Imagine what you desire your Ideal Self to be: the attributes, ways of being, character traits, world view. Then, because only you are the Master, paint that picture of your desired Ideal Self in your mind and claim it as yourself-in-being right now and not in the future. Keep that painting of yourself that you have created in your mind, despite the temptation to give up and abandon it by negative thoughts that will assail you. 

   Make a habit of returning often in the day to the portrait of your Ideal Self and claim to yourself that you are already that Ideal Self in childhood, who is growing up rapidly. Your thought about yourself transcends time and space. You are now what you think yourself and believe yourself to be. You are just growing and living into the Ideal Self that you have created for yourself. So be patient with yourself, as you would be toward any 9-month-old child attempting to take her first steps in life.