by Don Lewis
In the beginning was the God/dess, and S/He was alone in the darkness, for S/He was the darkness which was all that was. And in this darkness which existed before the dawn of creation and which was God/dess, were all of the things that would later take form existing in an unmanifest state. They were Her dreams, Her thoughts, Her fantasies – but they were mere shadows because they were as yet unmanifest. This was the first darkness, the first night – and S/He was the first dreamer.
And in the fullness of time the God/dess focused Her energy upon these, Her dreams, there in the primordial darkness. S/He focused Her energies and from Her deep desire came forth the first creation –the God. The God burst forth from the primordial darkness in an explosion of light and flame, shooting forth in all directions. And all that was warm, and active, and changeable in the darkness went forth with the light, which was the God. And all that was cool, receptive, and eternal in the darkness remained in the darkness which was the Goddess. This was the first dawn, the first creation, the first act of manifestation –and all subsequent creation has occurred in the same way, through the focus of energy.
The God spread forth in manicolored fiery glory, and His essence began to cool and take on form. The Goddess remained in Her darkness and watched. Both Goddess and God were transformed by this act of creation, as creation is always transformation, but primordial God/dess remained within Them both, and was Their Soul, the ultimate center of being. This was the first day, from which all subsequent days have taken form.
The Goddess was fascinated by the God, Who was Her own dreams given form, and She desired Him exceedingly. She longed to take that which She had created back into Herself, to be One with it. But the God did not wish to unite with the Goddess, for He feared that such a uniting would end His own existence -and He loved existing. And so He fled from Her, and in fleeing created the Seven Planes of being. At last the God in His flight established the Physical Plane, and here He took the form of inert matter and pattern.
The Goddess saw the rainbow of the Seven Planes, and the emergence of matter, and She desired the God even more. As His nature was motile He continued to change and expand and diversify, and the more She watched the more the Goddess desired to reunite with Him. At last She decided that She must do something. So She looked within Herself to the deepest part of Her, which was primordial God/dess –that part which had existed from before creation, and which still contained within Itself the potential and knowledge of all things. Goddess asked God/dess how She could reunite with the God, how Spirit and Matter could be One again. And primordial God/dess answered, “To Rise, You Must Fall.”
“To Rise, You Must Fall.” It was not possible for Goddess to bring God back into Herself as He had been before creation. What was done could not be undone. But it was possible for Her to go to Him. It was possible for Goddess to unite with God and experience creation if She entered into creation with Him. And so the Goddess fell. She separated off parts of Herself, and sent them into matter. These parts were the Monads. Each Monad was a perfect microcosm of Goddess at the moment She separated it from Herself. Each Monad had a different focus, different desires and issues that it brought into creation, representing the mind of Goddess at the moment of its separation from Her. The Monads entered into matter, and through their experiences became Souls –and thus was the ensouled universe created.
Each Monad became many, many Souls, and each Soul lived many, many lives, all seeking to experience the world of matter to the fullest – seeking out every experience, every lesson, every perspective they could have. So many Souls, so many lives, so many experiences that the pattern they wove is of infinite complexity. Each of us is one of these lives of one of these Souls, which is part of one of these Monads. Not only that, but new Souls, new lives, and new experiences are constantly taking shape in every moment of continued existence. This is how Goddess reunited with God by entering the world of matter.
The Goddess fell by creating the nine Monads and the millions of Souls. Her rise was in the endless billions of lives and their infinite experiences. She descended through the Seven Planes to unite with God in matter, Soul entering into matter. Then, Goddess united with the God, They rose back up through the Seven Planes through the experiences of the millions of Souls in the world of matter. The more lives, the more experiences, the more fully Goddess is expressed in the world of matter, until in the end it will be a perfect union of Spirit and Matter, Goddess and God, just as it was in the beginning except infinitely expanded in scope and character.