The process of creation starts with thought - an idea, conception, visualization. Everything you see was once someone's idea. Nothing exists in your world that did not first exist as pure thought.

This is true of the universe as well.

Thought is the first level of creation.

Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and sends forth creative energy to the universe. Words are more dynamic (thus, some might say more creative than thought, because words are a different level of vibration from thought. They disrupt (change, alter, affect) the universe with greater impact.

Words are the second level of creation.

Next comes action.

Actions are words moving. Words are thoughts expressed. Thoughts are ideas formed. Ideas are energies come together. Energies are forces released. Forces are elements existent. Elements are particles of God, portions of All, the stuff of everything.

The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating - or God experienced.

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: an uncommon dialogue