ℑ God said:“In the deepest heart of Truth, nothing exists but I, God. So Who can you be but Myself? There are no two ways about it, even though linguistically We speak of Us as Two. I AM God Who talks to Myself. I speak. I do not mutter.” HL 4751 ℑ
Since energy appears with the will of a consciousness to create, and that Being precedes creation — being is the primordial Self-creation — we could say that consciousness is the prerequisite to creation. If it seems to emerge from creation, it is because it was already there before creation itself. In that sense, the process of creation implies a duality or separation between the creator (consciousness) and the created (energy), although they are coming from sameness.