Epi-Genesis

What if the Old Testament creation story of Genesis were being written today?  What if it eschewed superstition and folklore and took into account what we now know about the universe and its creation and the laws that govern it?  What might that story look like?  Here is a possibility...

Epi-Genesis

Listen all to these words of Truth and learn them well.  So it has been from the Beginning, and so it shall be until the End.

Before the Beginning, there was Nothing.  Nothing was the Supreme Unity, the Universal Mystery.

Substance did not exist.  Space and Time did not exist.  Spirit did not exist.  The only thing that did exist was Potentiality.

Then, by the creative Power of the Universal Mystery, it Began, and Space and Time were born.

Space and Time were empty, yet there was one Sacred Power at work, and that was the Power of Change.

In that emptiness of Space and Time, Change created One Thing, and Substance was born and the Universe was empty no longer.

Since the One Thing, subject to the Power of Change, could not remain One, it became Two.

Then Change worked on the Two, and the Two became Four.  Then there were many things, and all of them changed.

With the creation of the Two, the second Sacred Power was born, the Power of Opposites.

Where there was Substance, this Power created Emptiness.  Where there was Light, this Power created Dark.  Where there was a Positive, this Power created a Negative.  Where there was one quality, this Power of necessity created its opposite.

Now there were many things, of which everything had its opposite, and they all moved and changed according to the Divine Plan, which was just the unfolding of the Potentiality that existed from the Beginning.

Yet, in the unsettled chaos of the Many and in the whirlwind of Change, there were echoes of the original Emptiness, the Void, and the original Unity, the One Thing. 

And these echoes shall never perish and shall never be constrained, because they are not bound by Time or Space.  Together, they are the Song that binds the Universe together and Creation forever sings their Harmony.

The Power of Change and the Power of Opposites, working within the Universe, produced the third Sacred Power, the Power of Evolution.  This Power shows Change the way, and works within the Power of Opposites.

These then are the Three Sacred Powers of the Universe and through them, all is created, all is destroyed, and all will someday be re-created.

But that creation and destruction, that birth and death, is not just a random collection of events—there is a Direction and there is a Universal Cycle.

The Universe was born in a breath when the Universal Mystery first breathed outward and created all things.  In a time long to come, the breath will turn inward again and all will begin to return to the Supreme Unity, the One Thing.  That is the Life of the Universe, and the Great Cycle of its Eternal Breath. 

So it has been from the Beginning, and so it shall be until the End.