Third Eon: 01: The Works of Creation
Out of the Fire and Shadow at the End of the Second Eon comes the Divine Cosmic All and the Outer Dark, third pairing of Light and Void that define every Eon of Existence.
The Divine Cosmic All manifests as God and Cosmos, while the Outer Dark threads a devouring and corrupting Entropy throughout an emergent Creation.
God
The One. The Embodying. The Who and What of All Things. The Eternal Thought. Guiding sentience of Creation, unknowable and imperceptible.
Cosmos
The All. The Encompassing. The Where and When of All Things. The Infinite Form. Supporting structure of Creation, imperceptible and unknowable.
Together, God and Cosmos are the Divine Cosmic All, the How and Why of All Things.
The Works of Creation
Then God Knew the Existence of Cosmos while Cosmos Felt the Presence of God, and through this Awareness brought forth the Aspect of the Lord and the Realm of Heaven, beginning the Works of Creation.
The Lord
The Prime Aspect of God and the closest to God among the Sacred Hierarchy, the Lord is the extant manifestation of God’s Will and the First Work of Creation.
Heaven
As the Lord was created, so too was Heaven, the Ethereal Realm of Cosmos. This is the Second Work of Creation, simultaneous with the First
The Archangels
In Their first moment of existence, as Heaven coalesced around Them, the Lord Knew at once and only once God’s Entirety, Knowledge even They could not contain for long.
From this Knowledge of God’s Entirety came forth the Archangels, representing the Third Work of Creation.
Six there are, who abide in Heaven with the Lord: Aspects of God: Archangels of the Sacred Hierarchy, through whom we learn to know the Unknowable:
Sophia: Wisdom of Heaven. Through Sophia we appeal to the highest understanding, and contemplate the radiant Mind of God.
Gabriel: Messenger of Heaven. Gabriel is the Herald of the Lord, and can speak with the Voice of God.
Raphael: Guardian of Heaven. Raphael delivers us from suffering and deprivation, through the endless Grace of God.
Raguel: Justice of Heaven. Raguel’s Fire burns in the hearts of the righteous, incinerates the souls of the wicked, and is born of the Wrath of God.
Michael: Warrior of Heaven. Eternal foe to all dark forces, Michael defends the righteous from the wicked, with the unbeatable Strength of God.
Uriel: Deliverance of Heaven. Uriel comes to all at the beginning (delivering to us the boundless Potential of God) and in the end (delivering us to the compassionate Judgment of God).
There was also Samael, once Beloved of the Lord, now cast down from Heaven and cursed as one Fallen: no longer an Aspect of God.
The Material Universe
The Material Universe was the Fourth Work of Creation and is the Mortal Realm of Cosmos. Every Archangel -including Samael, for this was before his Fall (but not before his corruption)- took part in shaping its nature, but none of them -not even Sophia- know how it came to be.
It is said, among wise and fool alike, that some Works are the province of their Creator, and not everything is ours to know.
Humanity
As with the Material Universe, no Archangel, not even Samael, has taken credit for humankind.
The Lord takes no hand in crude Matter, instead being elite to the realms of Energy, and rejects any part in humanity’s existence.
But unlike the origin of the Material Universe, Sophia knows humanity emerged from the infinite Dreams of God. She had Witnessed humanity in those Dreams long before the first of their kind appeared in the Material Universe.
Sophia does not comprehend that it was her Knowledge of God’s Dreams that allowed the seed of humanity to gestate there in the first place. As such, she is the only Archangel to participate directly in a Work of Creation, the Fifth and Final.
The Outer Dark
The Null. The Devouring. The Emptiness and Finality of All Things. The Endless Void. Unraveling entropy of the universe. Casts a Shadow across the Works of Creation.
