Then
there was not non-existent nor existent:
there
was no realm of air, nor sky beyond it.
What
covered in, and where? And what gave shelter?
was
water there, unfathomed depth of water?
Death
was not then, nor was there aught immortal:
no sign
was there, the day’s and night’s divider.
That
one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature
apart
from it was nothing whatsoever.
Darkness
there was: at first concealed in darkness,
this
All was indiscriminate chaos.
All
that existed then was void and formless;
by the
great power of warmth was born that unit.
Thereafter
rose desire in the beginning,
Desire
after the primal seed and germ of spirit.
Sages
who searched with their heart’s thought
discovered
the existent’s kinship in the non-existent.
Transversely
was their severing line extended:
what
was above it then, and what below it?
There
were begetters, there were mighty forces,
Free
action here and energy of yonder.
Who
verily knows and who can here declare it,
whence
it was born and whence comes this creation?
The
gods are later than this world’s production.
Who
knows, then, whence it first came into being?
He the
origin of this creation,
whether
he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose
eye controls this world in highest heaven,
He
verily knows it, or perhaps he knows it not.
Rig Veda X.129 – The Song of Creation
(circa
3.900 a.C.)
Sanskrit translation: Friedrich
Max Müller
The Birth of the World
The world is being born now. It is being born continuously. At this
very moment, Consciousness creates its possible expressions: Evolution
determines its manifestation. Depending on our level of Consciousness and
Evolution we as beings participate in it more or less consciously.
The myths of every epoch and its peoples seem to agree that ‘universes’
are born in a primordial and transcendent nothingness from the dreams of an Absolute Consciousness as
anomalous waves in the sea
of All.
The Supreme Being can thus know itself and understand itself through
the universes, just as our image is reflected in a mirror. Each universe is the
expression of a new and different equilibrium: each one becomes, in its own way,
a relative manifestation that is temporal and dynamic of the All.
Together the universes comprise an infinite ‘multi-versal’
kaleidoscope. They are reflected in that which the Absolute Being acquires
infinite Consciousness of Itself, even though it is immobile, generative,
eternally omni-comprehensive and totally complete as such.
The Being nourishes itself. The primordial universes give ‘substance’
to the dreams of God, where every
reality can exist. These same universes – each and every part – are generated
by primordial energies which, in their turn, become archetypes and cosmic phenomena,
laws, geometries and vital processes: the instruments through which
Consciousness – in its turn distributed on diverse levels – evolves in every
atom, in every cell, in every body and in every thought.
In extreme synthesis, interpreting esoteric tradition, these
levels of consciousness are represented as primordial ‘forces’ laws and
intelligent entities. They are the Eons, according to Gnostic Christian
terminology, the Neteru of Egyptian
myth or perhaps we might even call them, the ‘Great Old Ones’, to re-evoke the
vertiginous visions of H.P. Lovecraft. They are the existential and conscious Archetypes
(or pre-Archetypes) of our mind itself:
the Primeval Divinities.
In order to exist, the possible expressions of reality have to
expand the territory of their own awareness, with the aim of recognizing
themselves and finally reconstructing themselves but above all, of re-evolving in the infinite in which
they originate, through endless combinations of the possible.
It is as if – paradoxically – the Absolute is insatiable in
renewing Consciousness of itself. And every time such Consciousness is
dissolved into Nothingness to then create itself again, it renews itself: such
dynamics are at once eternal and yet simultaneous, infinite and pulsating,
between manifest and immanifest, noumenon and phenomenon, omniscience and
exploration, eternity and becoming, order and chaos.
Our Universe, in its entirety, is none other than one of these
systems of reality: an opportunity for renewed awareness. It is the crystal in
which Consciousness splinters into fragments, little by little delineating
possible geometries, to then reflect itself infinitely, to evolve and in the
final analysis, play hide and seek with itself.
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