Bashar Bodhi Tree: 1-24-97:

_"First Realization"_

In the beginning, which is actually within creation, creation is not
subject to time, time is a creation of the Infinite.  At one time it could
be said: there was the All, that, in a sense, did not know Itself because
it was all there was, and there was no differentiation.  The first moment
of self-awareness was the first split off of Itself to Itself.  The first
reflection, and that first reflection is what you call Creation.  As soon
as the All That Is became aware that it was All That Is, that created the
idea of the process of the creation of All That Is in it's individuated
state.  The first level, the first layer, the first recognition of All That
Is of Itself, the first split off, is what you on your planet typically
refer to as Angelic Consciousness.  Now, more precisely, you must
understand that within the first split-off of Angelic Consciousness there
is by definition the idea of the polarities of positive and negative--
mechanically speaking.  This does not mean good and evil exactly, does not
mean the idea of right and wrong exactly, but just the idea mechanically of
that which integrates and that, which separates--positive and negative
mechanical consciousness.  That is archetypically, symbolically in your
civilization represented in the Angelic level by the symbolism
archetypically of Archangel Michael, and the symbology of the archetype of
Archangel Lucifer.  In this way that polarity was the first split-off of
the Infinite from Itself....