First came God, and then the object of His Love which is called Creation. Then God in Love entered into union with this Creation and all the living forms appeared, the Highest being man, which is the one resembling the Spiritual Parent most.
But God, not being man, loves and can enter into union with all creatures, as soon as that creature - atom, rock, earth, stone, plant, vegetable, bird, beast, fish, crawling creature, human being, djinn, spirit or angel - turns toward God. The difference between this second kind of union and the first is that in the second instance one becomes entirely united with God, without producing any further fruits of union necessarily.