Lesson 14 - “God did not create a meaningless world."
- Alexandre Puglia
- May 27
- 7 min read
1. The Lesson
The idea for today is, of course, the reason why a meaningless world is impossible. What God did not create does not exist. And everything that does exist exists as He created it. The world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making, and it does not exist.
The exercises for today are to be practiced with eyes closed. This will emphasize the idea that what you are seeing is a world that is not there.
Begin the practice period by repeating the idea for today quite slowly. Then, with eyes closed, look about you. This is to be repeated quite slowly as you look about:
“God did not create a meaningless world.”
Say this as you look about at whatever you see. Let your glance rest on each thing you see long enough to say this. Then move on to the next.
As you apply the idea to each subject, say:
“God did not create that wall, and so it is not real.”“God did not create that body, and so it is not real.”
It is emphasized again that while your eyes are closed you can still be seeing. The aim is to train the mind to stop giving meaning to what it sees and to remember instead what is real.
Do not be disturbed by thoughts that tell you this is blasphemous or insane. Do not pass judgment on what you are learning. If you continue to do the exercises, the thoughts will begin to make sense to you and feel true.
2. Explanation
God is Spirit. He lives in the eternal — a place beyond past and future, beyond loss and decay, beyond anything that changes or dies. Only pure being. Only eternal joy. Only Love.
In His love, He created Spirit to live in the same place. We were created not as bodies, but as pure extensions of His Being — timeless, boundaryless, free.
Creation is the expansion of Love — not the making of forms, but the endless extension of Truth.And because we were made in His likeness, we were given the power to co-create — to extend what is eternal.
But then, a small idea entered our powerful minds:
“What if I could be separate?”
We did not laugh it off.We believed it.And so the dream of separation was born: a dimension of time and space where beginnings and endings seemed real.
This is the world we see — a world made not by God, but by the mind asleep in the dream of separation.It is the “fall” told in the story of Adam — not a fall from God's grace, but a fall into forgetting.
Even now, we continue to create.
When we create with the Ego — from fear, judgment, and guilt — we make temporary things inside the dream: objects, systems, illusions.
When we create with Spirit — from love, forgiveness, and union — we create eternal treasures that extend the Heart of God.
Quantum physics echoes this reality.In The Field, Lynne McTaggart describes the universe not as a structure of objects, but as an interactive web of energy — a field that responds to belief, attention, and intention.Our thoughts shape our reality.When we think with the Ego, we collapse reality into fear and separation.When we think with Spirit, we extend love into eternity.
And here is the miracle:
Because the meaningless world — the world of fear and decay — is not God's world,it cannot touch God’s Being.But Love is so infinite, so complete, that it enfolds even this dream without being touched by it.
Heaven is so large that it embraces time, space, and even the dream of separation inside it —without losing a single drop of its joy.
The ocean of Love remains still, even as tiny waves rise and fall on its surface.
We are not trapped.We are still held.And we are still free to awaken.
3. Integration with Christianity
If God did not create a meaningless world, then the world we see — a world of loss, decay, conflict, and death — must not be God's creation.It is not our eternal home.It is not even reality.
When Jesus speaks of "heaven and earth passing away," he is not prophesying a catastrophic end.He is gently pointing to the truth that everything made within time — even the skies and the earth — is temporary, and therefore not created by God, who creates only the eternal.
When Paul says we walk by faith, not sight, it is not a command to blindly trust doctrines, but a call to trust the unseen reality of Spirit, even when the visible world seems overwhelming.
And when Jesus tells us to store treasures in heaven, it is not about earning a distant reward.It is about creating with Spirit — extending love, forgiveness, and union — planting seeds in eternity instead of investing in the illusions of time.
The shift is radical:Instead of seeing the world as God's stage where we must prove ourselves worthy,we begin to see the world as a dream we made,and remember that we were never separated from the real Home of Love.
The verses we once read as warnings now become invitations:not to fear the passing of this world,but to awaken to the eternal world that has never left us.
And yet, even within this dream, something sacred happens:In Kabbalah, the concept of Tikkun teaches that we are here to repair and evolve — to transmute the fragments of separation into vessels of light.This aligns beautifully with the Course's teaching that “the Holy Spirit can use what the ego made” as a tool for healing and remembering.Even the world we made can become a classroom for awakening.Seen in this light, Jesus’ call to store treasures in heaven is also an invitation to use this life as a space of learning — not punishment, not exile, but an opportunity to expand our spirits through conscious love, moment by moment.
4. Bible Verses and New Meaning
1. Matthew 24:35"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
Traditional view:
Seen as a prophecy of the world's destruction and a call to cling to God's teachings to survive the end times.
Deeper meaning:
Everything made inside time — even heaven and earth — will dissolve because they are not eternal.
Only the eternal Word of Love remains, forever untouched by the changes of the world.
2. 2 Corinthians 5:7"For we live by faith, not by sight."
Traditional view:
Understood as a call to believe in God's promises even when they are not visible, often stressing moral endurance.
Deeper meaning:
True life does not depend on the transient forms seen by the body's eyes, but on the unseen, changeless Reality of Spirit — the eternal Love that cannot be perceived by the senses but is known within.
3. Matthew 6:19–20"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."
Traditional view:
Interpreted as a warning against materialism and a call to live righteously to receive heavenly rewards after death.
Deeper meaning:
Treasures tied to the world of form inevitably decay because they are part of the dream of separation.
True treasures — acts of love, forgiveness, and union — are creations of Spirit that extend into eternity, untouched by time.
Even the creations of our ego are transformed by the Holy Spirit into learning opportunities — new lessons that gently teach us how to choose better treasures, ones that will never fade.
5. Message to Friends
The reason I chose the verse from Matthew today — the one about storing treasures in heaven — is because I see a deep and powerful invitation in that teaching from Jesus.Not to delay joy. Not to moralize peace. But to learn how to choose what lasts.
To say that God did not create a meaningless world is also to say this:we are the ones giving this world its meaning — every day, as we look, as we see, and as we feel.
It’s been my experience that when I identify with my problems, my fears, my deadlines — and try to solve them all in my mind — I get stuck in a cycle that’s hard to break. I spiral.And unless something external interrupts me, I stay there — anxious, afraid, unable to sleep, my body caught in the tension.
What’s really happening is that I’m giving my power away.To people. To situations. To thoughts.And I start to believe that I’m not in control of how I feel — that someone else’s behavior, or some outcome I’m waiting for, is holding the key to my peace.And when that key turns, then I’ll feel okay.
And yes, there have been seasons in my life when the right things did happen — and for a time, I called that peace.Sometimes I worked hard for it.Sometimes it came by grace.Sometimes something better showed up that I hadn’t even asked for.
But this lesson brings me back to something deeper:God did not create the world where I live in pain.He did not create the world that fights, that forgets, that fears.That world is one we made — together — each morning, as we wake up and decide what meaning we will live from.
I hear people like Peter Crone and Byron Katie say we only suffer when we make the connection between a situation and ourselves — and that connection is shaped by how we see.
So when we say, “I have this limiting belief” or “I’m stuck in this negative thought,” it’s already too late.The thought came because of the way we perceive.The belief appeared because of the identity we unconsciously chose.
That’s why the verse “We live by faith, not by sight” holds such power.Because sight — as the ego uses it — will always show us problems, losses, threats, and things to fix.But faith — real faith — reminds us of who we are before the problems.And when we anchor there, perception shifts.What was a problem becomes simply a situation.
And if we stay in the situation —without reacting, without blaming, without forcing our way out through fear —something begins to dissolve.The pain softens.The grip of meaning we had placed on it loosens.And sooner or later, we move through it.
Every time we walk through a hard, triggering moment without collapsing into the ego’s narrative of destruction —we expand.We become larger in eternity.We need less time here, because we’ve learned one more lesson from the Holy Spirit.
This is the shift.This is the treasure.Not something to be earned later — but a liberation that begins now.A lesson remembered.A world re-seen.A step closer to the meaning that was always waiting underneath.
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