for encouraging ex-Christians
My Creation Story (A non-deist mythology)
The Creation Story, as told by ME
In all things we know this truth - that there are no beginning and no ends in the turning of the great wheel. All things are born, they grow, they live, they die, and they are born again. We measure this. We call it “Time.” But before there was Time… there was only Infinite Potential.
The Infinite Potential culminates the essence of the divine Feminine. It is the womb that incubates all life and to it all things return. But it could not begin life alone. The Spark culminates the essence of the divine Masculine. The Spark holds the vitalizing energy of power and creation. The Spark and the Infinite Potential met, and the shout of their union echoed through eternity.
From the union of the Spark and the Infinite Potential the four forces of Nature laid the foundation of the Universe. Tremendously heated masses began to spin together until they formed stars. Alone they represented a piece of the Spark, together, they formed whole galaxies and represented the Infinite Potential.
Our own Sun is a part of the great Milky Way galaxy, fondly known as the Spiral Goddess. From him came the material to form the earth, and the energy that gives the planet life. The Earth herself is a marvel of continuous growth and balance, eloquent and purely beautiful. To all of her children she gives life and embraces them at last upon death, only to return the life again. For the Spark can never be lost and the Infinite Potential can never cease to create. We call this Love.
Within each of us is a piece, brought down from the very Beginning. The first stars were born, grew and died birthing new stars, through the supernovas and the nebulae and all the things which we do not yet know or understand. It continued on and on to our galaxy, our Sun, our Earth, Ourselves. In each of us is the Spark that makes us unique, filled with the power to create, and to learn. In each of us is the Infinite Potential that connects us to everything that ever is, was, or ever will be.
Seeking, learning, searching, understanding. We are called to discover and to know, to connect and to love and to believe in something bigger. Something bigger is beneath our feet, within our soul, and in every living thing. It is out there; it is inside ourselves. Humanity is not exempt from nature but inherently a part of it.
Do I believe this all literally? Yes, to a degree. It is highly stylized with a romantic, poetic touch that I find aesthetically pleasing. Its my way of looking at the Big Bang, all that resulted in the culmination of time as something beautiful in its own right. To quote a cheesy line from a movie (The Day the Earth Stood Still) "The Universe doesn't waste anything." The idea of the soul is interesting to me, though if they exist I sincerely doubt it retains much of what we consider humanness (our personalities, or knowledge, or beliefs etc). But what happens on a small scale (i.e. Earth) we see mimicked in large scale - energy and matter are constantly exchanging, changing, but remain in balance. Whatever is in us will not be lost to death - at the very least all the physical pieces that make up our bodies will exist in some fashion for eternity. That's enough afterlife for me.
In all things we know this truth - that there are no beginning and no ends in the turning of the great wheel. All things are born, they grow, they live, they die, and they are born again. We measure this. We call it “Time.” But before there was Time… there was only Infinite Potential.
The Infinite Potential culminates the essence of the divine Feminine. It is the womb that incubates all life and to it all things return. But it could not begin life alone. The Spark culminates the essence of the divine Masculine. The Spark holds the vitalizing energy of power and creation. The Spark and the Infinite Potential met, and the shout of their union echoed through eternity.
From the union of the Spark and the Infinite Potential the four forces of Nature laid the foundation of the Universe. Tremendously heated masses began to spin together until they formed stars. Alone they represented a piece of the Spark, together, they formed whole galaxies and represented the Infinite Potential.
Our own Sun is a part of the great Milky Way galaxy, fondly known as the Spiral Goddess. From him came the material to form the earth, and the energy that gives the planet life. The Earth herself is a marvel of continuous growth and balance, eloquent and purely beautiful. To all of her children she gives life and embraces them at last upon death, only to return the life again. For the Spark can never be lost and the Infinite Potential can never cease to create. We call this Love.
Within each of us is a piece, brought down from the very Beginning. The first stars were born, grew and died birthing new stars, through the supernovas and the nebulae and all the things which we do not yet know or understand. It continued on and on to our galaxy, our Sun, our Earth, Ourselves. In each of us is the Spark that makes us unique, filled with the power to create, and to learn. In each of us is the Infinite Potential that connects us to everything that ever is, was, or ever will be.
Seeking, learning, searching, understanding. We are called to discover and to know, to connect and to love and to believe in something bigger. Something bigger is beneath our feet, within our soul, and in every living thing. It is out there; it is inside ourselves. Humanity is not exempt from nature but inherently a part of it.
Do I believe this all literally? Yes, to a degree. It is highly stylized with a romantic, poetic touch that I find aesthetically pleasing. Its my way of looking at the Big Bang, all that resulted in the culmination of time as something beautiful in its own right. To quote a cheesy line from a movie (The Day the Earth Stood Still) "The Universe doesn't waste anything." The idea of the soul is interesting to me, though if they exist I sincerely doubt it retains much of what we consider humanness (our personalities, or knowledge, or beliefs etc). But what happens on a small scale (i.e. Earth) we see mimicked in large scale - energy and matter are constantly exchanging, changing, but remain in balance. Whatever is in us will not be lost to death - at the very least all the physical pieces that make up our bodies will exist in some fashion for eternity. That's enough afterlife for me.
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