Let There Be Light: A New Way of Seeing Genesis
I've been thinking a lot about consciousness lately — where it comes from, how it unfolds, and what it means that awareness exist at all. When the revelation God is, I Am, You Are arrived in my life, it didn't feel like just another spiritual idea. It felt like a formula, a Divine formula. I soon began to see it as a structure, a geometry, a way of seeing how Being expresses itself.
One day, almost playfully, I laid the Formula over a familiar line: “Let there be light.” I'd heard that phrase my whole life. I had never thought much about it. But this time, I didn't hear it as a line in a creation story I heard it as consciousness speaking to itself. “Let there be light.” suddenly sounded like: Let awareness awaken. Let consciousness illuminate itself. Let the field become aware that it is. And when I looked at that moment through the lens of: God is, I Am, You Are, something inside me started to stir. It was as if the first verse of Genesis was no longer about physical light at all, but about illumination within awareness — the first movement of consciousness itself. That was the doorway. From there, I didn't so much “go back to Genesis” as realize that Genesis had been quietly waiting for the right key.
Realizing Genesis wasn't about earth at all
Up to that point, I'd always placed Genesis in the same category as other creation stories. I assumed it carried a seed of truth, something symbolic and sacred, but wrapped in language I didn't know how to unpack. Growing up Catholic, I knew the basic outline by heart: God creates the heavens and the earth, light and dark, sun and moon, animals and humans, and rests on the seventh day. It was familiar, but I hadn't truly looked at it in decades. And I certainly didn't have a framework for understanding what the text might be doing beneath the surface. But once I laid the Divine Formula on that first phrase — “Let there be light” — the rest of the chapter started to open. Not all at once. Not like a flash of instant understanding. More like a slow quiet revelation. I wasn't seeing a timeline of how our planet was built I was seeing a sequence of movements in consciousness: illumination, differentiation, formation, pattern, motion, self-awareness, rest in Being. The more I sat with it, the more obvious it became: Genesis wasn't describing the creation of the Earth. It was describing how awareness unfolds. The “light” wasn't sunlight. The “waters” weren't oceans. The “earth” wasn't our planet. The” days” weren't 24 hour periods. They were all speaking the language of states and structures inside consciousness. It felt humbling — like I was being allowed to see something ancient and important that had been hiding in plain sight. And it was beautiful in a way I didn't expect, as if the text had been waiting for this lens all along. At times I had to stop, because it felt less like I was figuring something out and more like something was quietly remembering me.
A new series: the Divine Geometry of Genesis
Out of this unfolding, a new project has been born. I've started a series on my website called:
The Divine Geometry of Genesis
In it, I walk through Genesis line by line:
Showing keywords in the original Hebrew
Breaking down the deeper meanings
Revealing the geometry hidden in the language
Connecting each movement to the Divine formula,(God is, I Am,You Are)
Mapping the “seven days” to stages of consciousness —from pure awareness to self-awareness in form
And offering a modern “Divine Formula Translation” of each passage in our language
This is not theology. It's not dogma. It's not a literal creation model. It's a way of reading Genesis as a map of consciousness.
For me, it has been one of the most awe-filled and humbling experiences of my spiritual life.
If something in you stirs at the idea that these old stories might be talking about you — you're awareness, you're awakening —you're welcome to step into this exploration with me. I've created a series in the Divine Geometry section beginning with The Prelude: Awareness Before Light.
A closing reflection…
I used to think that Genesis was about how God made the world out there. Now I see it as a story about how awareness awakens in here. “Let there be light” isn't just a line in an ancient text. It's an invitation that still echoing in consciousness. Maybe that's the real creation story.
With love and wonder,
William Allard
