14 Jan Koan 14

“There is nothing new under the sun.”

— Ecclesiastes

In the Bible, Genesis 1:3 states: “In the beginning… God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.”

Beyond the beginning, there is nothing new as every thing is a derivative of light.

As every thing is unique, every thing is new; yet, nothing is new, as newness doesn’t differentiate things.

There is nothing new as there are no things; just the manifestation (consciousness) of the soul. The things we see as new are what the consciousness of the self creates out of the consciousness of the soul.

The now appears to be everchanging which makes it seem “new”. Yet, the now is forever unchanged. What changes is what’s revealed by the light spectrum passing over what is eternally before, in and after the now.