These two drawings present this structure visually. Both drawing can be considered correct because The Consciousness, IAM and the mind are not defined by dimension, space or time. Therefore, in order to help the intellect to imagine The Consciousness, we can draw it as an infinitely small point or as something occupying the entire space.
You can imagine one of these processes:
or
Whatever you imagine that process, be aware that The Consciousness is the origin from which IAM appears, then IAM creates the mind.
This sentence describes something very important, the pre-origin of Life, which will become clear to you later. For now, I take another example
from the Chinese history, again from Dào Dé Jīng (道德經), where the mind is called Èr ( 二 ) which I translate to Two. In this scripture, the creation of the mind is described in one short sentence:
Dào Shēng Yī (一生二), which, if literary translated, would be: One gives birth to Two. Following the terminology of this book, the translation is: IAM creates the mind.
As I just mentioned, this sentence describes the pre-origin of Life. In order to understand what Life is, you need to know much more about the mind, what mind consist of and how it functions.
Look at the next picture which presents the structure of the mind.
I intentionally expanded IAM as if I zoomed in it, to clearly show what is inside. Remembering this structure is very important for understanding further explanations in this book.