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through experience. The New Creation Sleeps At a certain point in the development of the New Creation, it will cease to expand and begin to contract back into itself. Based on the spiritual evolution of the Creation, it can only sustain its existence so long, and then it begins to contract back into itself to prepare for sleep. The Material Belt and all life forms in it return to a spiritual existence. One of the problems for our scientists in determining the age of our universe is the speed of light itself. Light is faster in the past than in the future. Astronomers look out into the universe and study light that is billions of years old. New formulas will have to be created that allow for the fact that the older the light, the faster it is moving. The speed of light is also variable, depending on gravity and the mass of space it is passing through. As our universe continues to expand, all energies will continue to slow down. Until we have a better understanding of the entire cycle of the universe, it will be difficult to gauge the time until the expansion is over and the contraction begins. This is a time for the New Creation to contemplate the experiences from which it has gained wisdom. At this point the sleeping Creation is complete y spiritual consciousness; there is no material matter. As it rests, it will finish out its thinking and reasoning on the wisdom learned from the experiences the material life forms have provided. Since only the material world can provide the experiences, there will not be any new data, just contemplation of what has happened. Creation has reasoned and learned how to create seven cycles of consciousness, beginning with intelligent light, which turns into fluffy matter, then gas, minerals, flora, fauna, and