🌌 Introduction

Creation is not random. It unfolds through deep principles — axes of Yahweh’s Will through which infinity enters finitude. These principles are not “things” but modes of divine expression. They filter the inexhaustible plenitude of Being into structured reality.

At its heart, there are three foundational principles: Potential, Form, and Coherence. But beyond them, Yahweh may bring forth countless more, for His infinity knows no exhaustion.

🔥 1. Potential — Endless Depth

What it is:

  • Potential is pure capacity — the “can-be” before anything is shaped.
  • In physics, it resembles undirected energy.
  • In theology, it is plenitude itself: Yahweh’s infinity brimming with possibility.

Why it is endless:

  • Rooted in Yahweh’s own being, potential has no boundary.
  • Realizing one possibility does not reduce it — each form simply opens new horizons.
  • Like a fractal, zoom in anywhere and more appears.

Relation to Will:

  • Potential is Will in its depth-mode.
  • It is the inexhaustible shine of Yahweh before specification — like light before it is divided into colors.

🌳 2. Form — Finite, Yet Infinite in Number

What it is:

  • Form is Will specified — the law, boundary, or pattern that shapes potential.
  • Example: potential = “music,” form = “a melody in C major.”

Why finite:

  • Each form sets limits: this tree, not all trees; this law, not all possible laws.

Why infinite forms exist:

  • Because potential never ends, Yahweh can always press new forms into being.
  • Each form is finite, but the set of all forms is infinite.

Relation to Will:

  • Form is Will’s face — Yahweh saying not only “let there be” but “let there be this way.”

🎶 3. Coherence — Will’s Bond of Harmony

What it is:

  • Coherence is the relational glue that binds forms together.
  • It prevents reality from being a scattering of fragments.
  • Example: gravity holds galaxies; rhythm holds music; love holds community.

Why it matters:

  • Without coherence, forms disintegrate.
  • With coherence, creation sings as one.

Relation to Will:

  • Coherence is Will in unity-mode — Yahweh saying: “Not just this, not just that, but together in harmony.”

🌊 4. Directive vs. Permissive Presence

Directive Presence:

  • Yahweh directly shapes creation by specifying form and coherence.
  • “Let there be light” is this mode — His active composition of order.

Permissive Presence:

  • Yahweh sustains being but withdraws direct specification.
  • This is contraction (tzimtzum): stepping back to allow freedom and underdetermination.
  • Like a conductor letting the orchestra play unscripted.

This stepping back is why chaos emerges: potential keeps overflowing, but without imposed form, it swirls, collapses, and reforms endlessly.

⚡ 5. Chaos — The Womb of Creation

What it is:

  • Chaos is not evil but raw, unsorted being.
  • A swirl of possibilities without final lock-in.
  • Patterns arise, collapse, and reemerge.

Why it matters:

  • Chaos is the womb from which cosmos is born.
  • Yahweh hovers over it, shaping by Word and Spirit into order.

Genesis 1:2 captures it perfectly:

  • “Darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.”
  • Deep = chaos.
  • Spirit = Will ready to shape.
  • Light = first structuring word dividing order from void.

🌟 6. Beyond Three: Why Principles Exist

Principles are modes of Will, not objects. They are Yahweh’s way of letting infinity flow into creation without overwhelming it.

If Yahweh poured unfiltered infinity into reality, all would collapse. Principles act like filters or axes, translating endless depth into livable order.

Possible additional principles:

  • Motion — Will as unfolding.
  • Relationality — Will as dialogue and love.
  • Transparency — Will as revelation, allowing Being to shine through.
  • Transcendence/Immanence — Will as both beyond and within simultaneously.

Because Yahweh is inexhaustible, He can bring forth new principles whenever His Will unfolds in fresh ways.

✨ Conclusion

Potential, Form, and Coherence are the primary colors of creation.

  • Potential gives the endless depth.
  • Form shapes it into particular realities.
  • Coherence binds it all together.

When Yahweh steps back, chaos stirs. When He steps forward, cosmos blooms. Both are needed — freedom and order, wildness and harmony, void and fullness.

This is why creation is not static but ever-new. Each moment is another unveiling of Yahweh’s plenitude — endless possibilities flowering into order, bound together by coherence, sustained forever by His inexhaustible Will.