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VII - Alpha, or “in the Beginning”
BEFORE the beginning of things, before the generation
of the heavens, the great and invisible God alone subsisted.
2. Even the God whose name is
unspeakable, upon Whom no eye hath ever looked, whose
nature no mind create can fathom.
4. The Elohim filled and comprised
the universe, and the universe was at rest.
5. There was no motion, nor darkness,
nor space, nor matter.
6. There was no other than God.
7. For
there was One only, the Uncreate and Self-subsistent.
8. But forasmuch as motion was
conceived in the bosom of the Elohim, the Invisible Light moved on itself;
9. And gathering itself inward toward
its axis, left beyond and without it another self.
10. So that where God was not, there
was darkness and the abyss.
11. Yet had the darkness of itself no
existence, for before the beginning God was all in all.
12. And that which had been God
became darkness by the withdrawal of God.
13. So that the darkness is no
entity, for it is the negation of being.
14. It is no presence, for where a
presence is, there is God.
15. Neither can it produce, neither
can it be manifested, neither can it be annihilated.
16. Yet, forasmuch as the darkness
doth not comprehend God, it is as another self.
17. Not having power in itself, for
all power is God’s.
18. Neither having personality, for
all personality is of God.
19. But unless there were again to be
cessation of motion, there can be no extinction of negation.
20. It may be bounded, but never
annihilated.
21. Whatever is,
is of God; but God only is absolute and perfect being.
22. All things visible and invisible
were potential in God before the beginning, and of God’s fulness we have all received.
23. Inasmuch as anything is absolute,
strong, perfect, true, insomuch it resembles God and is God.
24. Inasmuch as anything is out of
reason, weak, divided, false, insomuch it approaches negation, and is of
negation.
25. Now the Absolute, which is God,
is Spirit.
(141:1)
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