Chapter 6

Universe - the Original Being’s intention

Essenceism in all its analyzes uses the notion of the concept of the universe derived from its Creator - the Original Being. At the same time, the same universe has been described by science without referring to a named Creator. Apart from the initial peculiarity, it showed quite well the process of its formation, although the knowledge about its entire functioning is still poor. It did so thanks to the development of theoretical astrophysics, Einsteinian physics and quantum mechanics. They are able, at least in general terms, to describe the processes taking place in the universe. Many events are already defined and many processes can be predicted with high probability. We slowly get to know the laws governing the cosmos, we understand more and more the transformation of energy and matter, the expansion of the universe and many phenomena occurring in galaxies, stars and planets. Thanks to this, the cosmos is not treated as a great secret. So it is an evolving structure the operation of which we will know well sooner or later. Then we will understand that it is not a pit filled with galaxies here and there, but a place shaped by the Original Being as a zone intended for the development of people - His children.

Thanks to this approach, we can treat the constant expansion of the universe as a phenomenon related to our future. It is true that this statement is still a long way off, because we still cope poorly with the Earth itself. Even so, essenceism firmly claims that our planet is well and wisely prepared to raise people on it. For example, let me give you the problem of heating our homes. When there were few of them thousands of years ago, we only needed wood cut from numerous forests. When there was a lot more of us, we found coal underground, which turned out to be more caloric than wood. Over time, we started to extract an even better raw material, which is crude oil. I will also mention smaller energy sources, such as thermal resources, wind power in wind farms or lignite. To heat our homes, we use electricity from power plants based not only on fossil fuels, but also from nuclear or water plants. In addition, there are photovoltaic panels that use the sun. All of this points to a wise supply of our Earth. It can even be considered that equipping our planet with energy sources may be the intelligent plan of the Creator.

In this context, essenceism could have made the bold thesis that our planet is one of the many places where the Creator has created the conditions for raising His children. He would like that everywhere in the universe there were physical environments for people intended for their achievement of perfection equal to him. This hypothesis is one of the main ideas of essenceism. One of the principles of this system regarding the sense of the existence of space-time speaks about it. It says that the space-time of the universe is the only place of growth to perfection for human beings who carry in themselves spiritual beings intended for eternal existence in the spiritual world. Perhaps this approach seems to be utterly fictional, but it gives meaning to the existence of the universe.