From the spiritual perspective and experience, there is an infinite Existence at the very origin. This infinite Existence has an urge to express all its infinity. This is what is the first stir of creation. Picture this as an author who feels the stir or inspiration to write a book or many books to express all that is within him.
How will he do it? He will take up a paper, a pen and then write. Now, though the whole plot is already within him as a seed idea but in actual writing or expression, it will be page by page. Or a dancer knows the entire dance within himself, but the actual dance will be step by step. The page or the stage is Space, while the sequence of writing or the steps of the dance becomes Time.
What it means is creation is the unfolding of all that has been already prefigured within the consciousness of some ultimate Reality. The unfolding is gradual and progressive through Space, Time, Causality of interconnected events and changing circumstances.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
