Creation of the Universe, Mother of God.
PostPosted:Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:14 am
I was thinking about Xenogears/Saga and analyzing an old myth. It's an interesting one that explains the universe in terms familiar to Big Bang creationists. Except one that is over 2000 years old dating back to the Roman Empire and the early Christ Cults that would eventually lead to Christianity some hundreds of years later. Maybe some will find this interesting. I'll try to tell it simply:
There existed in another dimension, creatures that we would know in human terms as Gods. They don't live like us; rather they each have an important role in a greater community; kind of like the cells of a multicellular body. This is the existence beyond the physical universe; what we may call heaven or the divine existence.
The universe lived in equal balance; for each God there was an opposite; two beings that could be seen by our understanding as having a value of +1 and -1. These beings, are the very physical laws and all of consequence in the Universe.
In this eternal mass, the youngest was Sophia. Sophia is the Greek Wisdom. Whereas Kaos is the cosmic void. Sophia was interested in a light she saw one day; thinking it was the origin of existence. She travelled towards it, leaving her orbit and her counterpart; travelled further and further until she was lost in Kaos. Lonely, she wished to create children; but without her counterpart the creation of a child could only be of one charge; -1.
The reaction of his birth, creating a negatie without a positive, brought about the creation of a material universe. All matter and energy came into existence. The child was born to the physical realm, and possessed the divine essence of his mother. With the observation that his existence created the universe; and that he wa the sole divine creature; he concluded that he was the one God.
So God, Jehova, brought about his servants to create the world; and into his children, the humans; he gave souls. These souls were the divine knowledge; part of the essense of Sophia.
Meanwhile in the realm of the unknown Gods, Sophia's counterpart had begun to search for her.
On Earth Jehova was not as all-powerful as he thought. Human were worshipping different Gods. He brought down commandments; he was a jealous God - those who didn't follow would be punished.
Sophia's counterpart discovered her existence. She was the collective soul of humanity; and he discovered that some parts of her were easy to save, others neutral, and others so bound to the physical existence that they were blind to the truth.
Her counterpart came down to save humanity by teaching their bodies of the nature of God and heaven; so that they could return to heaven. He would lead the way. This saviour is Jesus; as he came to be known.
This legend is not exclusive to early Christianity. It existed among the Hellenistic Jews, the Greeks, the mystics, the Gnostics, and others. The source of it is most likely in Greek philosophers; possibly Indian or Persian roots leading to it as well.
There existed in another dimension, creatures that we would know in human terms as Gods. They don't live like us; rather they each have an important role in a greater community; kind of like the cells of a multicellular body. This is the existence beyond the physical universe; what we may call heaven or the divine existence.
The universe lived in equal balance; for each God there was an opposite; two beings that could be seen by our understanding as having a value of +1 and -1. These beings, are the very physical laws and all of consequence in the Universe.
In this eternal mass, the youngest was Sophia. Sophia is the Greek Wisdom. Whereas Kaos is the cosmic void. Sophia was interested in a light she saw one day; thinking it was the origin of existence. She travelled towards it, leaving her orbit and her counterpart; travelled further and further until she was lost in Kaos. Lonely, she wished to create children; but without her counterpart the creation of a child could only be of one charge; -1.
The reaction of his birth, creating a negatie without a positive, brought about the creation of a material universe. All matter and energy came into existence. The child was born to the physical realm, and possessed the divine essence of his mother. With the observation that his existence created the universe; and that he wa the sole divine creature; he concluded that he was the one God.
So God, Jehova, brought about his servants to create the world; and into his children, the humans; he gave souls. These souls were the divine knowledge; part of the essense of Sophia.
Meanwhile in the realm of the unknown Gods, Sophia's counterpart had begun to search for her.
On Earth Jehova was not as all-powerful as he thought. Human were worshipping different Gods. He brought down commandments; he was a jealous God - those who didn't follow would be punished.
Sophia's counterpart discovered her existence. She was the collective soul of humanity; and he discovered that some parts of her were easy to save, others neutral, and others so bound to the physical existence that they were blind to the truth.
Her counterpart came down to save humanity by teaching their bodies of the nature of God and heaven; so that they could return to heaven. He would lead the way. This saviour is Jesus; as he came to be known.
This legend is not exclusive to early Christianity. It existed among the Hellenistic Jews, the Greeks, the mystics, the Gnostics, and others. The source of it is most likely in Greek philosophers; possibly Indian or Persian roots leading to it as well.