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Spirit of Ma'at: "The Water of Life" — Vol 3 No 5 with William Marks by Susan Barber
When William Marks was a young boy growing up on a New Jersey farm, he helped his father and brother dig a much-needed new well. They did not possess machinery that could do the job, and there were no well drillers available, so they proceeded with what they did have: shovels, rocks, concrete, a bending willow branch — and an unbending intent.
In his book The Holy Order of Water, Marks relates the unforgettable experience of digging that well, and being all alone down in its depths when the final breakthrough came. As water gushed up around him, submerging him to the waist, he clung desperately to the suction hose, dangling precariously above the Deep, Dark Unknown. The experience was terrifying. So paralyzed was he with panic that he could not even climb out of the new well, but had to be rescued by his father. Yet for Marks, instead of avoidance or fear, what seems to have come out of this childhood drama is awe — even reverence — and a lifelong quest to understand the great power and even greater mystery that is water. Susan: In this issue, we've talked a lot about the various states and uses of water, for bathing, drinking, and so on. But as I read your book, what I seem to be hearing is that you see water as the Prime Creator. Are you saying that you feel God is water? William: Yes! I believe that water is the Primary Life Form and gives birth to all others. My sincere feeling is that this Reality we inhabit was created from a thought that was born from a Water-Based Intelligence, an Intelligence that always Was, Is, and Will Be. And this Water-Based Intelligence continues to create this Reality every nanosecond — every moment. And we are Godlike living beings. Because we communicate with this Water-Based Intelligence, we are able to manipulate this Reality through our own Water-Based Intelligence. Our own thoughts come from minds and hearts that are mostly water. The Bible's creation story asserts that water was here first. Water was "in the beginning." Before God ever created anything, before the first "Let there be," according to Genesis, "the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Other creation stories are similarly water-based. The ancient Sumerian god, Ea-Enki, was the principle divinity of the liquid elements. As I state in my book, the word "Ea" means "House of the Water," and Ea-Enki was written about as the Creator. And of course "Ea" makes up the first two letters of "Earth" — our watery home. According to Plutarch, Thales the Milesian, the wisest of the Seven Sages of Greece, "doth affirm that water is the principle whence all things in the universe spring. ... He pronounced that all things originate from water, and into water all things are resolved." In the religious pathways, many creation stories begin with water. Hinduism speaks in the Atharva Veda of "that Earth, which formerly was water upon the ocean of space." Susan: How did the ancient Egyptians regard water as related to Creation? William: The Pyramid Texts appear to assume that the goddess Nun, responsible for the beginning of all things, was actually a primordial body of water. Many Egyptian texts refer to Primeval Waters as the origin of the universe. Susan: Does science offer any support for these ideas? William: Yes, it does. For example, NASA has proved that interstellar water is continually being created. In other words, water just appears in the spaces between the stars. And in some cases they have seen that some of the masses of interstellar water are growing. They don't know why or how the water appears, or why it grows in some places more than others. But they have seen and recorded and documented that this is happening. NASA also has realized that water seems to precede all creation. When a star is forming, for example, it would never become a body unless water were there first. Water is what causes the compression. Without water, the emerging star would just keep on expanding. It would simply fly apart. Stars cannot form unless water is present. Water was here before our solar system appeared. Meteors carry water. There's a belt of ice crystals, called the Oort Cloud, that encircles our Solar System. Water has been found on Mars, Europa, the Moon... Susan: How can they detect the present of water in the cosmos? William: Using telescopes like the Hubble they see what are called "color signatures" of different kinds of matter. Water has a specific color signature. They have even found the color signature of water on our Sun! Susan: I have heard that water may actually have come to Earth in the first place from outer space — through meteors. Can you speak to that, please? William: That's true. And meteors and meteorites are still carrying water to our planet, even today. They bombard Earth with water on a daily basis. Some of this water from outer space starts out as giant snowballs that break up in the outer atmosphere and become a kind of "cosmic rain."[1] Susan: If I'm understanding you correctly, you believe that water can teach us a great deal about Life and Consciousness. What can we learn about the nature of Life by studying how water behaves? William: There are many ways in which water teaches us. Scientific studies show that water responds to and is interconnected with everything that exists in the cosmos. Susan: Do you mean that if something happens in outer space, we might see evidence of this in a beaker of water in our laboratory? William: Yes. Studies have shown that water in solutions is influenced by shifts in the Earth's magnetic field, or explosions on the Sun. And since we, ourselves, are largely made of water, especially our brains and hearts, we can see that we also are being affected by cosmic events, and that the same thing is true in reverse. We can see through understanding water how it is that everything we think affects the Universe. Another way we can learn from water is through the way our thoughts affect water, and through it, plants, animals, other people, and ourselves. For example, if we project loving, caring thoughts, plants flourish. Our thought waves energize them, affecting the crystalline forms of the water within the plants. And then the plants respond by becoming more beautiful. I think this is a wonderful teaching. It's as though the plants are saying to us, "I give back to you my beauty, from my life form, so you can see what your thought forms are doing." I think the same thing is taking place when we send healing thoughts, or when we use global prayer. This is the new paradigm: "Think our entire world into beauty." That's our next step. Susan: Are you familiar with the work of Masaru Emoto and his studies of how our thoughts affect the structure of water? We've published two articles on his work. William: Yes. In photographing the crystalline structure of water that's been prayed over, or associated with certain thoughts, Emoto is giving us scientific corroboration of what we know. His work graphically shows how our thoughts affect our environment. How it is that if someone is ailing, our loving prayers can create coherent, beautiful crystals in their bodies and energize them. Because of Emoto's work, these relationships are where we can see them. He's giving us visual proof. Susan: In our interview with Emoto (see More Messages in Water [2]) he speaks of his belief that ghosts and spirits are made of water. That this is why people who see "ghosts" see them as clouds, because that's what they are. And that it is this watery ectoplasm what carries the entity forward from one reincarnation to the next. William: I think so, too. An entity, once it is created, will exist for all time. It cannot be extinguished. And all beings that pass through this place are expressions of water. After death, the physical form is no longer visible, but the being continues to exist. In reincarnation, we see a cycle where water renews itself — recycles itself. Susan: What is your "message in water"? What do you see as the major teaching that we need to learn? William: We can manifest a world with life, or a world without life, just through our thoughts. As I said, this is the new paradigm. And our way of imprinting our environment is what we will take with us when we leave this place. If we live in apartments in concrete cities, surrounded by dead matter — if all we've imprinted was living in environments where there were no other life forms — then that is what we will take with us into the next existence — a kind of hell! Water is life. And life is rare. We are learning this: In the Universe, life is rare and precious. There is only so much of it. And when we use life energy to manufacture dead things, we are taking life and turning it into something that is dead. We need to think of this the next time we buy some plastic gizmo. That a certain portion of life went into its manufacture and has been destroyed. Why would we, in our passage here on Earth, want to destroy this most precious thing, this energy we have that allows life to be here in all its beauty and song, and the way it communicates? For that is what we are doing when we pollute and waste our waters. In destroying our waters, we are destroying life itself, something we cannot replace. For as much as we have attempted to, we cannot create a seed. But a seed, once it has contacted water, has everything it needs within itself. Where do seeds come from? We don't know. But we do know that all seeds have a necessary connection to water. So we need to be more thoughtful in how we use water. If you must live in an apartment, fill it with plants. Have a cat. Realize that when a river is dammed up, the energy that once nourished the life forms of that river has to go somewhere, and where it goes is up into the atmosphere, where it can create climate disruptions or earthquakes. We know when we are wasting water. What we need to know — and remember — is that our groundwater is already fifty percent depleted. Three years ago, Gilbert Grosvenor, of the family who founded National Geographic, said that if we do not change our management and respect for water within the next ten years, then we might as well write off civilization as we know it. The real payoff in our passage here is to participate in a world of life, to help this world sustain and create more life forms. If we upset that — well, water is our teacher. If you pollute water, everything dies. If not, you have life in abundance.
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