Channeled Explanations About 'God' — Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910)

Explanations About 'God' From Extensively Documented Channeling Case Chronologies
(Blog Series Article No. 1) 

The channeled text excerpt presented in this article is here illustrated by AI language model Grok 4.

 
 
The excerpt presented in this blog article is from Part II of the 1847 book The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind, a 'work of unprecedented character' — an 786-page book that came "through" the author.  This channeling case chronology is profiled in three previous blog articles: "Andrew Jackson Davis - Psychic and Channeler", "The Starnos Compendium" and "Reminiscences of Andrew Jackson Davis".
 
The Introduction to Andrew's channeled work (to use a contemporary expression concerning his mediumship) The Principles of Nature . . . (1847) was contributed by his 'scribe' William Fishbough and included a description of the 'phenomena connected with the process of the production of this book.'  Such a process has been documented in video footage for the variety of channeling cases.  William Fishbough wrote: ". . . it is known to an absolute moral certainty to Mr. Davis's most intimate acquaintances, that he was, while in his normal state, totally uninformed on all the great leading subjects treated in his book, until he perused the manuscripts of his own lectures."
   

  

§ 2. Matter and Motion reigned throughout the regions of boundless infinitude.  There were no other forms and no other attributes evolved from Power; for they all existed undeveloped together.  Matter and its peculiar combinations, existed from time unimaginable, as the vehicle of more sublime Ultimates, to be eternally developed by the Design and Power which were constantly being sent forth from the great Vortex of Positive Power!
 
It was impossible for Matter to exist without a principle of inherent and eternal production.  It was impossible for this internal, invisible, Positive Power to exist without Matter as its accompaniment and Vehicle.  In order that this Matter might assume forms, the action of the Great Positive Power was necessary to impel it to higher states of progression.  So the Matter, thus acted upon, was developed until it became an external Equilibrium or Negative of the Great Positive Power internally acting upon it. And thus Positive and Negative were eternally established in Matter.  And Matter was thus obliged to obey every impulse or force given it by the internal Principles, emanating from the Great Positive Mind.
 
The Great First Cause, or the Vortex of pure Intelligence, was a First, or Cause Internal.  Matter, with its properties and inconceivable combinations, was an accompaniment or counterpart that may be termed a Second or Effect.  And the external or countervailing force developed by the action of the Internal, was a Third or Ultimate.
 
Thus was established the Law of universal and eternal Motion.  In the beginning God created — or the Great Positive Mind caused — the existences and forms that are now universally manifested.
 
Having arrived at this state and order of material formation, the true conception of Matter and Motion, of their original combination, of the self-establishment of laws and principles suitable to develop ultimate results, and of the adjustment of laws to produce such, — are made present to the mind.  And this was the condition of these elements and principles in the beginning; and they were thus prepared to develop forms corresponding to the virtue of the internal principles involved in the Great Mass, and to the inherent Power emanating from the Great Vortex in which nothing but everlasting perfection is contained!  Herein is involved all that is everlasting, eternal, and infinite: And herein are established the laws that are to govern the vast Univercoelum and all things therein contained!  At this epoch and state of infinite original constitution, all the laws, elements, and combinations of elements, were involved in the Great Mass, to be subsequently developed in order and succession of degrees, throughout every undefinable avenue of eternal motion, life, and activity.
 
The universal Cause, Law, and Reality, is now established and organized.  Internal and External, Cause and Effect, Positive and Negative, have now assumed their proper stations to produce a constant development of their inherent attributes.  The forms that are involved in this great Whole, are to be also successively developed and made visible, with their consequent developments.  The constitution and laws of Matter* (*The lecturer here remarked, that in speaking of the original condition of things he used Matter and Fire as synonymons.) with all its sublime qualities and essences, will be unfolded ultimately, but by a process graduated by like developments of the Great energetic Cause and Positive Power.
 
This extensive general organization having become now eternally established, new developments must consequently and inevitably occur.  Each of these developments leads only to the perfection that is existing in the Vortex of internal and everlasting Intelligence.

But before contemplating the spontaneous developments of this great and unimaginable Ocean of Matter and Motion, it is well to contemplate the substances which it contains undeveloped.

The gross and lower qualities that are contained in this great Mass; the almost entire dissimilarity of particles constituting the same, with any which may be present to the mind, and the great amount and utter incomprehensibility of the original substance, give some obscurity to the lower and more perfected particles that compose this great Vehicle of Positive Power. The mighty magnitude of this terra-material; the duration of Eternity; the mighty substances and particles that are destined to produce mightier spheres of beauty and perfection; the inconceivableness of this great expanse, developing perpetually spheres and Spheres of spheres, and forms that are indices of forms still higher and greater in their many and successive degrees of perpetual progression, — these all are too vast for human conception!  But still, a general contemplation would be useful, as conveying some slight idea of their nature and destination, — though the almost vacuum of indefinite thought will only radiate and revibrate that which was intended to be the subject of conception.

First, it contains the peculiar combinations that form a Sun so vast that it again forms similar ones, corresponding to the great Sun or World that was first repulsed from the great Body, or Infinite Centre!  And this is an index—a symbol—of an eternity of worlds like unto the first launched from the great Centre to the extremity of its own atmospheric circle.  And each having subordinate worlds, and these having satellites, they in order revolve around each other, and the whole around the Centre or Sun which produced them.  And this, with all corresponding suns and constellations, attended with their many planets and satellites, revolves around the Great Centre or Sun from which the whole emanated!  And thus is established the first motion of planetary worlds!  And these having developed upon geometrical principles, the angular, circular, and spiral motions, this eternal establishment becomes the first system of concentric circles!
 
After the great Fountain has produced from its inherent substance, an infinite number of worlds, the worlds, or the compositions therein contained, progress perpetually to higher states of perfection.  The next development is the crystallization of internal particles, producing the various earthy and mineral substances.  The highest state of mineral, by order of degrees and progression of particles, brings forth the great substance of the whole Vegetable Kingdom.  The lowest of this (including, as it does, the highest), produces the most delicate plant.  This kingdom, again, constitutes, in order and degree, animal composition.  And this again ascending to higher and more perfect orders and degrees, brings forth the essences and qualities that compose the organization of Man.  And all intermediate substances developed, are the Uses adapted to the wants and requirements of each successive material development.  So all substances, which are constantly assuming forms by the action of the Oreat First Form and its perpetual ascension to Ultimates, are in like manner ascending through successive and corresponding stages of development.
 
The Mass that was first repulsed from the Great Centre of worlds, contained the properties and essences, not only to compose itself, but to produce and develop the minutest and most sublimated of all intricacies, apparently, that could be formed from the finest materials : it furnishes materials for, and produces, the brain and human eye, with all their inimitable refinements of matter!
 
Thus, then, this great Ocean of Eternal Matter, not only is a World immense and infinite of itself, but it contains the matter to produce the most inconceivable corresponding World; and this again forming others of like nature, progresses from inherent qualities to the outer development of an organ of vision, and to the substance and formation of the mental organization!  Thus the Lowest or First contains all else; whereas the highest state of perfection acts on the lower.  So while that which is first contains the Ultimate, the Ultimate acts on all things below it, which, though less perfect, are still symbols of eternal essences to be expanded and developed in visible forms and spheres of the highest degrees of magnificence.

 
§ 3. Contemplation on the Attributes contained in, and belonging to, the Great Positive Power, would also lead the mind to properly comprehend what is contained in the Great Vortex of infinite Perfection undeveloped.  Power is manifested in the guidance and control of the great World evolved from the greater one.  And this Power is unlimited and uncontrolled; yet developing Wisdom in the universal expansion and extension of planetary productions.  The perfect and inimitable adaptation of every constellation, planet, and satellite, to the great Sun of its central motion, displays infinite Goodness.  For Goodness is the proper adaptation of things to ends, in order to accomplish some grand and sublime ultimate.

The proper adherence and obedience of all these planetary worlds, to the Positive Law of Cause and Effect, each and every one obeying the original impetus given it when this eternal law was established, displays infinite and universal Justice.  For Justice and Equity consist in an obedience to the laws of Cause and Effect.

The proper accomplishment of the end desired by the original Premeditator, displays the highest and most perfect attribute of Mercy.  For light is evolved from the great Centre thus established; proper elements are developed; air is universally distributed, sufficient to sustain life and to equalize the parts composing the great Whole, — and all to prepare suitable habitations for vegetable and animal existences: and this is the accomplishment of the Ultimate intended. And in this way is displayed the exalted and essential attribute of everlasting Mercy; for Mercy consists in the adaptation of parts to the Whole and in the dissemination and sustaining of sensitive beings.

The gradual and progressive development of each form from the condition of things first existing; the constant and inevitable manifestations occurring in every epoch or stage of Motion; the mutual adaptation of all things which is plainly visible, and the perfect and absolute accomplishment of the end desired, — display the perfection of all attributes, the Ultimate of the Great Positive Mind, Eternal Truth!  For Truth is that inherent principle of divine Law which determines the certain and adequate accomplishment of any good and glorious end contemplated.

Thus Power and its Vehicle constitute the Fountain from which flow all things to ultimate perfection. The inconceivable fiery mass of Matter, in its magnitude and constituents of composition, pass all comprehension.  And Power, wielding its mighty and energetic influence, coeternal with the substance of Matter, is of too great and mighty a nature to be imagined or conceived of.  And this was the condition of things in the beginning.

The infinite mass of Matter developed heat and light by virtue of inherent fire.  And Power being positive, developed a Negative, or the eternal Law of Gravitation, Thus Motion was eternally established in and throughout the vast material composition.

The extension of the atmosphere from the Great Body, was likewise infinite.  And the Great Centre or Sun constantly gave off heat and light, each of which was a development of Matter, thrown off by its repelling power.  This superior combination, as evolved from the Centre, was suitable for the formation of immense worlds.  The substance or unparticled matter which was constantly thrown from the Centre, became at length a nebulous Zone, surrounding the immensity of space!  By constant action and development of the particles thus subjected to the motion of attraction, repulsion, and the laws of condensation; by a repelling of that which was averse to the process of consolidation, and an attracting of that which was of like affinity and suitable to become part of the same mass, the formation of worlds was first instituted, — on the law of progression and development from the Great Centre, until the material evolved was fitted to produce a World, and that others, corresponding to the great original Source.  The worlds thus formed were properly Suns, produced from an inconceivable mass of unparticled matter existing before the process of consolidation commenced.

Thus an incomprehensible and incalculable number of Centres or Suns were produced by the development of heat and light, and their gradual condensation.  And from these were created systems of planets, each of which revolved around its controlling Centre, according to the development of the circular and spiral motions, and the influence of attraction and repulsion, or the laws of centripetal and centrifugal forces.  The first great Ring of converging formations was thus commenced and completed.

After an unimaginable elapse of time—almost the annihilation of time to the mind, if an attempt is made to calculate the immensity of its duration—the constant evolving from the Great Centre, of light still more perfected, produced innumerable millions of suns, which occupied another orbit or circle in relation to the Great Parent of their formation!  After a corresponding organization of parts, these, by attraction, condensation, repulsion, and the evolution of their own atmospheres, produced planets and satellites, in a manner corresponding to the infinite formations of the first Circle.

The extreme heat, the intensity of which transcends the utmost conception of thought, and is as many million degrees greater than the hottest artificial fire, as the latter is degrees above the warmth of the human system, — this heat constantly evolving light so intense, that its strength would have repulsed planets supposed to be near its source (if such were possible) from their orbits, — formed, by such radiation, another Circle of Suns.  And each constantly develops its laws, forces, and motions, expands in power and contracts in volume, according to the law of equal magnitudes.  And each of these suns possesses matter still more refined and unparticled than those of the former system, and their planets were formed out of matter still more refined as evolved from their own centres.  And so there was an endless circle of suns and formations produced as corresponding to other circles, each circle being a System of eternal systems, and an index and symbol of the Great Sun or Focus of undefinable magnitude from which all emanated!

A fourth Circle of Suns was correspondingly formed, with accompaniments similar to those produced by the former.

A fifth Circle of Suns was also evolved in the order of progressive material development.  And from each of these suns an atmosphere, as was the case with the former, passed to the circumference of its influence, the matter of which formed constellations, planets, and satellites, each observing the same laws as were first established, each revolving on its axis, and also observing nearly the same plane in its revolutions around the Centre or Sun which produced them.  And thus was formed a fifth Circle of Suns and systems of worlds.

A sixth Circle of formations was also produced: and these are Suns only.  As they have not yet become properly consolidated, their atmosphere has not yet produced other formations; and so they are at this time pursuing their undefinable orbits in the form and composition of blazing Comets.*  (*On a subject so immense, human ideas, especially in this sphere of being, must of necessity be of a very general and indefinite character; and any illustrations offered must appear exceedingly diminutive and unworthy of the subject.  But on the principle that one atom represents the whole Universe, let the reader suppose that the comparative atom, which is all the most powerful imagination can conceive of in attempting to form an idea of the Great Sun of the Univercoelum, is stationary in the centre of infinite space. Flaming with the most inconceivable heat, its vaporized materials extended from the nucleus far beyond the utmost bounds of the human imagination.  By virtue of a chemical association of particles of like affinity, or gravitation (which the author explains as synonymous), this igneous atmosphere of the great Body, in process of time unimaginable, gradually divided itself into six concentric rings, the only analogue of which we have in the now condensed rings of Saturn.  So long as the great Nucleus remained stationary, it would be the common focal point of all the concentric rings, being equi-distant from all parts of their respective circumferences.  But a rapid motion of the great Body (which the author says it possessed from the beginning) would produce an elongation of these rings somewhat analogous to the trail of a comet, — leaving the great mass of materials in its rear. Supposing the motion to be in an elliptic orbit, the sudden recurve and centrifugal impetus of the projecting trail, occurring at every passage of the great Body around the foci of the ellipse, would finally (when condensation became sufficiently advanced) produce a detachment of the great vapory trail, which would subsequently assume a spheroid form and become a Sun corresponding to its origin.  In this way the six "nebulous zones" formed a corresponding number of central suns, and from which have emanated a corresponding number of Universes!  These the author calls "circles of suns," — that is, circular planes of suns, — and are all, with their countless millions of appendages, silently describing their infinite orbits around the great Centre of all centres!

Our sun and system, and all the innumerable stars which the telescope can reveal, the author informs us, belong to the fifth great Circle or plane of formations.

The author requests me to say that, as this work is merely intended to establish general principles, this great subject is here treated with brevity, and more particular descriptions, and especially calculations as to distances and magnitudes, will be given in a future work.

The nebular theory of creation, as presented on this magnificent scale, does not depend upon any present nebular appearances in the heavens, as the author distinctly says, that with an instrument sufficiently powerful, these all might be resolved into stars.)

The time that has elapsed in years, from the Beginning until the completion of the six circles of suns, could not be represented to the human mind, if every particle that composes this globe should pass separately before the human vision, and millions of years were to elapse between the passage of each particle!  If this duration could be conceived of, the mind would still be incompetent to comprehend the time which elapsed from the Beginning to the sixth formation !

The Great Centre from which all of these systems and Systems of systems emanated, is still an exhaustless Fountain of never-ending materials!  It is a magnificent and glorious Sun — a Centre around which all suns and Suns of suns revolve.  It is a Vortex, breathing forth a system of concentric circles of suns and systems of suns.  It is an everlasting and unchangeable Parent of all things!  It is still an Ocean of undulated and undefinable fire, the holy emblem of Perfection.  With an everlasting spontaneousness, it breathes forth unnumbered worlds, and a corresponding infinite expansion of co-eternal and immutable Power.  It displays, throughout the immensity of space, correspondences of its own inherent nature.  It is a Germ, in which nothing exists but what is everlasting and infinite; and it develops these inexpressible attributes in the successive degrees and orders of formation, throughout the vast Univercoelum and the boundless duration of Eternity!
 

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Compare this description with transcripts from other extensively documented trance channeling case chronologies — Example Article: "Channeled Descriptions About the Creation of the Universe, Earth Beings and Soulmates"
 

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