One may rationalize that originally there was nothing, the mind (God) was not active, and nothing was so vast it was the All. This vastness of empty-space (void or pneumatic vacuum), boundless (un-curved), was absolute. Natural time is said to have been fixed (hyper-time), but it is also true that creation must derive from something. Hypothetically, that "something" is the unlimited realm of all possibilities within the vastness of nothing, the infinite light and pure potential to create, for nothing must contain the possibility of something.

"THE ALL is MIND; The Universe is Mental... Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted, from state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole; vibration to vibration. True Hermetic Transmutation is a Mental Art... Under, and back of, the Universe of Time, Space and Change, is ever to be found the Substantial Reality—the Fundamental Truth... THAT which is the Fundamental Truth—the Substantial Reality—is beyond true naming, but the Wise Men [Women] call it THE ALL. In its Essence, THE ALL is UNKNOWABLE. But, the report of Reason [and Logic; linearly cause and effect] must be hospitably received, and treated with respect."—The Kybalion

This ambience or essence of the mind, an ambient ground-state symbolized by a standing light wave, allows permanence amidst change; All is the mind stuff of the dream of creation. The All may be acted upon by the awakened mind, just as the human instrument may awaken the life-force inherent within it, in dream and life, and awaken to its inherent being-consciousness-bliss. What manifests within manifests without, the ground-state renders a dynamic, though finite and transient, life-form.