From the heart of the creator is born the ground of existence ­ being. From being manifests consciousness; from consciousness, intelligence; from intelligence, understanding; from understanding, pure knowing; from pure knowing, beyond knowing; from beyond knowing, the beyond itself.

Consciousness is the luminosity of being, intelligence is the brilliancy of consciousness, understanding is the radiance of intelligence. When understanding reaches its supreme flowering, pure knowing, it returns to the root of being. As this spiral cycle of creation continues, being again manifests consciousness, consciousness manifests intelligence, and intelligence gives rise to a new expansion of understanding before merging into the supreme state beyond knowing and not-knowing.