The Creator

[anagogy]

However, I guess I mean to ask is if the creator truly took baby steps toward true intelligence and power?

In my humble opinion, no. Intelligent infinity has always existed. Infinite intelligence was there before the construct we appreciate as "time" ever came into being. There was always infinity. Everything that has a beginning, inevitably somewhere down the line, has an end too. Infinite intelligence had no beginning and thus will have no end.

People often imagine that in the beginning there was nothing, and things somehow came out of that nothing, and gradually became what we know now. But in actuality, it was the other way around. Everythingness always existed, and all realities are created by filtering out all the components of "everythingness" that are not needed. Sort of like carving a duck out of a block of wood. All the potential "shapes" are in the that block of wood/everythingness. We forget everything that doesn't equal this reality. However, the plenum of intelligent infinity contains all possibilities. We didn't want to experience all possibilities though, we wanted to experience a specific one. And in illusion, this became our experience.

What happened, from my perspective, was this infinity explored a series of temporary finite refinements. So in actuality, it took a series of baby steps towards an illusion of less intelligence and power. Every finite exploration was a kind of a boundary, or limitation, imposed upon that unbounded infinity. And these limitations were desirable. Limitations empower creativity. Limits give things form and specificity. Without them, things are intangible and general. Individuality became possible in this finite exploration. Growth was possible in this finite exploration. You cannot learn in an environment where you know everything already. And games without rules are not very much fun (because there is no challenge).

The steps of light, or the true color densities of consciousness, are simply an illusory amusement park ride from the realm of infinity to the realm of finity and then back to infinity again.

As Ra says, the distortion is not, in any case, necessary. We do it for fun.