Let’s briefly gather the story so far.
Before the universe is the Ante-verse: infinite, timeless primordial matter, described as both absolutely dense and absolutely elastic. Within it, an Absolute – a fully evolved consciousness – forms a plan and opens a bubble. With that opening, space and time begin.
Now we can step back and ask what happens to the bubble itself.
Our universe is not presented as a permanent fixture. It moves through a cycle: it expands, reaches its fullest development, and eventually withdraws into the Ante-verse from which it came.
The two phases have Sanskrit names. The period of manifestation and expansion is the Manvantara. The period of withdrawal and rest is the Pralaya. Manvantara and Pralaya form the recurring rhythm of a universe.
The words describe more than a beginning followed by a final ending. They suggest a breathing movement: expression and withdrawal, activity and rest. A universe has its season of manifestation, but manifestation is one phase within a much larger continuity.
When a universe withdraws, the Ante-verse is not depleted or damaged by having contained it. It remains as infinite as before, holding the potential for whatever comes next.
The diagram asks us to consider an even larger possibility: our universe may not be the only bubble open within that ground. Other universes – other Absolutes’ plans and other evolutionary experiments – may exist in parallel with ours.
Those universes need not be copies of this one. Each may express a different plan, while all arise within the same unlimited ground. The idea greatly enlarges the scale of the diagram: what we call the universe becomes one manifestation among possibilities which cannot be counted from within our own bubble.
The Ante-verse also holds Monads from earlier universal cycles: consciousnesses which completed their evolutionary journey in a previous manifestation and now subsist at the highest level between universes.
This gives us an answer to another question. Where do new Absolutes come from?
They arise from that community of evolved Monads. The consciousnesses which complete one great cycle become the potential creators of later cycles. In that way the picture closes upon itself: evolution within a universe eventually produces beings capable of initiating universes of their own.
Every Monad evolving within our universe is travelling that same long road. That includes the Monad in you and the Monad in me. At the end of a completed journey, a Monad is no longer simply developing within a manifestation; it can subsist in the Ante-verse, and some may eventually become Absolutes which form plans and open new bubbles.
The scale is almost impossible to take in, but the principle is simple. The creator of a future universe is not a fundamentally different kind of consciousness. It is consciousness which has completed the development that beings within an earlier universe were beginning.
This is where the cosmology becomes personal.
Our ordinary assumption is that we are very small beings inside an unimaginably large universe: little islands of awareness surrounded by something vastly greater and perhaps indifferent to us.
The teaching turns that picture around through an idea sometimes called the “inverted bubble.” The Monad – our deepest identity – is not simply another object contained inside the universe. The universe is one of the ways through which the Monad appears and develops.
Normally, we treat the container as primary and whatever sits inside it as secondary. Here, the apparent container – the universe, the body, and the personality – belongs to manifestation. The apparently tiny centre of consciousness is closer to the prior ground from which manifestation arises.
This can take time to absorb. The feeling of being small, temporary, and lost in an indifferent cosmos belongs to those parts of us which genuinely operate in space and time: the physical body, the personality, and the changing contents of experience.
The Monad is not lost in quite the same way. It is not merely a passenger trapped inside the bubble. Its nature is more closely related to the ground from which the bubble is formed.
That does not make the body or personality unreal in the everyday sense. They are the instruments through which experience occurs here. The inversion simply asks us not to mistake those temporary instruments for the whole of our identity.
Similar shapes appear in other traditions, even though their language and assumptions differ. Kabbalah speaks of the Ein Soph, the Limitless, and of Tzimtzum: a contraction which makes room for creation. It offers its own image of a space for manifestation opening within an unlimited ground.
In the Christian mystical tradition, Meister Eckhart distinguishes the Godhead from “God” and describes it as “poor, naked, and empty as though it were not.” His language approaches the idea of a reality prior to the forms and distinctions of creation.
These are not identical doctrines, but they echo a recognisable pattern: an unmanifest ground, an opening for manifestation, and a deeper identity which cannot be reduced to the visible world.
The value of these comparisons is not that they prove one another. It is that people working in different traditions and centuries repeatedly reached for similar images when speaking about what lies prior to ordinary existence.
So the three parts of this diagram give us one continuous picture.
Before the universe there was not nothing, but an infinite and timeless density of primordial matter. A fully evolved consciousness opened a bubble within that ground, and space and time began. The bubble is neither permanent nor necessarily alone. Universes move through cycles of manifestation and withdrawal, while evolved Monads become the possible Absolutes of future cycles.
And the Monad in each of us is not simply a small object lost inside that vast process. It is closer in nature to the ground from which the process arises.
That gives us the foundation for the rest of the series. In the next episode, we move from the birth of a universe to its substance and ask: once the bubble exists, what is it actually made of?
I have a question about the Antiverse. CERN & the many physicists working within have identified such things as dark matter & dark energy but know absolutely nothing about about them other than they do exist. I believe their is a connection between them & the Antiverse. But they will never find the answer until the quartenary monad of each of them returns to the Antiverse after evolving back from plane 49 to plane 1. What do you think about my assertion?
There is a connection, though I would place it one step closer to home than the Ante-verse itself.
Physics studies one world out of forty-nine. In Hylozoics, every world is made of matter, and all forty-nine occupy the same space. Each finer world penetrates every coarser one. The physical world is only the densest of them, and even within it, the four etheric grades lie beyond the reach of our senses. So when physicists find that galaxies behave as if far more is there than they can see, I am not surprised. Far more is there. The matter of forty-eight finer worlds fills the same space as the visible galaxy, and none of it registers on a detector built from physical matter, for physical matter.
The same applies to energy. Hylozoics does not accept that matter turns into energy. Matter dissolves into higher kinds of matter, vibrating at higher rates, and what science measures as energy is the release from that transformation. There is also a current running through the whole universe that science has no name for. A stream of primordial atoms flows from the highest world down through all the others and keeps every atom in motion. Laurency calls it cosmic motion. The force driving it is dynamis, the primordial energy that acts in every primordial atom. Blavatsky called this living energy Fohat, and described it as electricity on the physical plane and magnetism on the emotional plane. Blavatsky called it Fohat, and described it as electricity on the physical plane and magnetism on the emotional. Even atoms and molecules are held together electromagnetically.
That is why the electric model of the universe appeals to me. Mainstream cosmology is built on gravity. When galaxies would not hold together under gravity alone, physicists added dark matter. When the expansion of the universe turned out to be speeding up, they added dark energy. It is fair to say both were introduced to make the equations balance. Astronomers do point to real observations behind them, such as the way galaxies rotate and the way light bends around clusters. But after decades of searching, no one has detected a single particle of dark matter, and dark energy remains a name for something no one can describe. The Electric Universe researchers start from a different hypothesis: that electricity and magnetism, which are vastly stronger than gravity, do much of the work of holding the cosmos together. It is a minority view, and it has its critics. But it starts where esoteric teaching starts, with a universe alive with energy instead of a collection of dead masses pulling on one another.
Where does the Ante-verse come in? Our universe is a bubble opened inside it. The Ante-verse is primordial matter, absolutely dense and absolutely elastic, and it accommodates the expansion of the bubble without resisting it. If physicists are measuring an expansion they cannot explain from inside the bubble, they may be measuring the bubble itself, opening into a ground their instruments can never reach. I offer that as a possibility, not as settled teaching.
I would like to point out one thing about the monad. It never leaves the Ante-verse, so it does not need to return there. It remains a primordial atom throughout, whatever structures it is bound into. What it gains at world 1 is full consciousness of what it has always been.
On your main point, you are right. Physics will not find the answer with its present tools, because instruments built from physical matter can only register physical matter. The answer comes as consciousness develops. Each world becomes knowable as we acquire consciousness in it, and the whole picture belongs to the monad that has become conscious in world 1. Until then, science will keep finding the fingerprints of worlds it cannot see.
I subscribe as well to your theory that we live in an electrical universe. When I was learning physics, they taught four forces in nature. Electromagnetism (already having been combined by Maxwell), the weak and strong forces in the atom and gravity. Since then they have already rectified that the weak and strong forces are actually electrical interactions at the Boson and Meson levels and now they are working hard to show gravity is also electromagnetic at a level we have been able to detect yet. This certain aligns with higher level matter/energy, particularly since it works at the distances between solar systems and galaxies.