The Steps of Creation

[Nau7ik]

Interesting:

The nature of the vibratory patterns of your universe is dependent upon the configurations placed upon the original material or light by the focus or Love using Its intelligent energy to create a certain pattern of illusions or densities[...]

(27.17)

All matter throughout the universe is the outcome of one primal matter called Akasha; and all force, whether gravitation, attraction or repulsion, or life, is the outcome of one primal force called Prana. Prana acting on Akasha is creating or projecting the universe.

Source: "Selections From Swami Vivekananda"

“Light is the shadow of God.”

Very interesting indeed! It would seem that the Ra Material, the Holy Qabalah, and Eastern metaphysics all agree here. We are simply using different terminology. And when multiple sources bear witness to the same truth, we know we are onto something.

Qabalah knows this as the play of force and form; Chokmah and Binah. The Limitless Light represents the possibility of manifestation. Kether is pure being (unity) from whence comes the Big Bang of Chokmah (“Let there be light!”; the Word). The outflowing Force is unrestricted and expanding initially until the Binah phase supervenes and constricts Force into form.

The Sword and the Serpent describes the creation of the Material universe thusly: 1 Kether as Unity, 2 Chokmah as Expansion, and 3 Binah as Constriction:

Prima Materia and Big Bang
Space, initially, in this connotation, symbolizes the Ain Soph: negative existence. A number of physicists in past generations have made the mistake of trying to identify Space with a hypothetical aspect of positive existence, as for example, an ether; but the negative attribution is needed to fulfill all the conditions. Out of negation appears the First Sephirah, Kether [Unity; Pure Being]. Movement indicates the precense of energy, and energy is the potential of matter. Whence comes this first impulse? [...] Here is the mysterious but essential nexus between the Worlds: energy pouring through from the Astral Light at a point which is at first truly without dimension. This energy is not the outflung imbalance of a single Sephirah: it holds concentrated in its single brilliance the influences of all the Sephiroth as these have been developed and balanced in the three Worlds down to Yetzirah. It is thus a true Kether-Force, increasing field of energy manifesting as white heat of incomparable intensity.

The force-fields increase as tremendous areas of electrical tension. The critical point is reached: that which the Qabalists have dignified as the Big Bang! [...] The first varied associations are formed, becoming stablised as atomic structures: some of a few such infinitesimal particles, others of greater numbersZ these first atoms hurled in great clouds through space make up what can only conceived of as the most tenuous of gases, but a gas is atomic matter. The tremendous development of our universe has begun.

[...] The primal gas is hurled outward from the centre of explosion into the void, and now the Binah phase supervenes. Still at white heat, it has nevertheless lost temperature considerably, and contraction and an increase in density ensue. Long have the Qabalists spoken of a “sterile Mother” without being deterred by the paradox, and in this they are right, for this aspect of Binah is typified by the contrasting of the radiant torrent of Chokmah in the cold womb of Space into which it has been poured. Yet Binah is also to us a bright and fruitful Mother, for it is her tempering and formative power which makes possible the development of all the sustains our life.