Why Creation Begins at the Centre? It's Christmas Day 2013 and my friend took me hiking at Coyote Creek Trail. Nearby is Creative Labs whose logo struck me like lightning out of the blue. How fitting that the logo designer of Creative Labs placed at its center the Greek letter Lambda Λ that Plato called in Timaeus "Soul of the Universe". Does not everything begin with the Soul and all creation start from the centre? A pebble thrown in water makes ripples spreading out from center to circumference. Buildings are centered by their foundations, plants grow better centered in their pots, seeds reside at the center of all fruits, and the home is center of all families. The nine planets circle around the Sun like electrons orbiting the atom's nucleus. Milky Way has a black hole at its center, and our universe is born from the Big Bang. God had an angel with a flaming sword guarding Tree of Life in the Garden's midst, so afraid Adam would steal the sacred fruit that would make him godlike and immortal. Blake got it right painting God creating the world with a compass in his hand. All creation begins at the centre because that is where the Soul abides. Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 11-12-2014 |