Polarity of God and Creation

God, the Creator, is an infinite, invisible Spirit and does not appear fully in any finite or visible form. Nevertheless, it is given to man to see God. A human being is heart and body, or inner self and its outer expression.

What we think and feel is shown outwardly in our facial expressions and, indeed, in our whole body. Thus, her body is directed by her heart, the inner cause and purpose. The heart is invisible, and its function transcends time and space.

Nevertheless, we can sense another's heart by seeing their outward expression.

Plants and animals also seem to have an inner cause and purpose that directs their motions and actions. However, their activity does not reach the human dimension.

The universe also operates from a definite cause and purpose, which is the Heart of the universe. This Heart is God.

God is reflected in the whole creation, which is God's outward form. Thus, God is revealed in the creation (Psalm 19: 1 6), most specifically in humankind. (Gen. 33:10)

Through understanding the creation, particularly man and woman, we can perceive God and know God's nature. Man and woman, inwardly and outwardly, reflect God most fully. They are like a mirror in which the image of God can be seen.

This, then, is the implication of Genesis 1:26a: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

Here, God was telling the angels that God would make humans after the divine nature and in the divine image. To create humans in God's image, God created male and female. (Gen. 1:27)

Thus, "humanity," the image of God, exists in these two distinct forms, which together make a pair. This indicates that God must exist in polarity. That is, God too must possess the dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity, which are perfectly harmonized in God's nature.

Therefore, Adam alone could not be the complete image of God. By creating woman, Eve, to be Adam's mate, God completed the creation of humanity in God's total image. Adam and Eve were to relate to and complement each other as subject and object, inner and outer, or positive and negative. 4 (Gen. 2:18b)

The creation of man and woman as a pair was the external and objective manifestation of the polarity of God. 5 The polarity of God is also reflected within the nature of the individual, who is both inner and outer, heart and body.

Furthermore, in our inner nature, there are two distinct functions, feeling and reason. The former seeks love, beauty, and goodness, and the latter, wisdom, truth, and knowledge. (Psalm 42)

Feeling is inner and subjective, while reason is outer and objective. These two functions work as a pair. This may be called the polarity of the heart.

Since the human heart, as the image of God, has inner and outer functions, God's infinite, divine nature must have feeling and reason, or the inner attributes of love as well as the outer attributes of wisdom. (Proverbs 8)

Thus, we exist in polarity from innermost to outermost: feeling and reason within the heart, heart and body within the individual, and male and female to complete God's image. Because we are created in God's image, God also must exist in a harmonized polarity of inner and outer, positive and negative, and male and female.

We call God the Father because He is inner, the masculine subject, and creation is outer, the feminine object to Him. (Hosea 11:1-4) However, God is also our Mother. As God said through the prophet Isaiah:

Behold, I will extend prosperity to her [Jerusalem] like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall suck, you shall be carried upon her hip, and dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you... (Isaiah 66:12-13)

Both humanity and the universe are created in the image of God. However, humans are the direct manifestation of God's polarity, while the creation is the indirect and symbolic manifestation.

Therefore, everything in creation exists in paired relationships of male and female, positive and negative, or subject and object. Examples of only a few of these relationships are male and female animals, staminate and pistillate plants, protons and electrons, the sun and the planets, consonant and vowel, the spirit world and the physical world, right and left, front and back, inside and outside.

Everything is composed of a subject element and an object element, which complement one another. Since the universe is similar to humanity in polarity, elements, structure, and function, each of us is a microcosm.

Each man or woman, because he or she resembles God, is a single unit of truth.

Every other thing in the universe is a single unit of truth in symbolic form. Hence, it is possible to perceive the nature of God in the created universe. Paul also expressed this fact:

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. (Rom. 1:19-20)

As the direct manifestation of God's polarity, we can respond to God directly as God's substantial object. The universe, however, cannot respond to God directly, since it is the symbolic manifestation of God.

It responds to us as their substantial object, thus responding indirectly to God.

God is the Subject, and humankind is God's responding Object. Humankind, in turn, is the subject of the universe, its responding object. (Psalms 8)

Finally, God is the subject, and the entire creation, both humankind and the universe, is the object of God.

All things, from the smallest to the largest in the creation, exist in a paired relationship of subject and object and thus reflect the polarity of God's nature. God is causal and vertical, and creation is resultant and horizontal.