Creation

**Creation** is the beginning before the beginning itself. It is the moment that everything and everyone, from the largest of bodies to the tiniest of molecules, came into existence.

## Overview

The tale of the Creation varies considerably but it is shown that there is a repeating pattern of motifs in many creation myths within other mythological tales. These repeating patterns imply that the gods of pagan belief and their ancestors aided the Abrahamic God in the creation of all things which would also imply that the universe itself is far more infinite than people seem to think.

## Description

There are several theories and explanations for how the Universe began, including the Angels themselves have their theories. The Malakhins believe that the universe was created by God, born of his pure and virtuous power, and that it will exist forever as long as God exists. The Seraphs, on the other hand, believe that the universe is cyclic, and that although God prepared the ground, the birth of the Universe was a natural event that would occur with or without God's interference, and that one day the universe will contract and thanks to entropy everything in the universe will return to its primeval state of an ultradense singularity that will explode again causing new Creation.

In modern science, the Big Bang theory seems to point to an ex nihilo creation, as explained by the physicist and theorist Stephen Hawking who uses as an example that "there is nothing south of the south pole" to simplify that "there is nothing before the Big Bang". Indicating that the universe came out of nothing.

## History

### Background

In the beginning, there was nothing but darkness. An endless, shapeless, and formless void of nothingness. The only things that existed at the time was God, Barbelo, Khaos, and The Darkness. Eventually, God decided to create something and by doing that he must separate the void and abyss from the latter. He first did this by declaring "Let There be Light" and when His light shone, it cast a shadow upon the waters of chaos and the shadow took form of his dark half which came to be known as Azathoth. Azathoth was immediately bombarded by the light and its intensity brought him pain and anger and he warred with the Almighty.

While the duration of the battle between these two cosmic forces is unknown due to the fact that the concept of time was nonexistent, it is written that it took six days for God to finally defeat Azathoth. On the second day, God and Barbelo created the Archangels, Michael, Lucifer, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel, in order to combat Azathoth. On the third day, Azathoth dipped into Khaos and from it he created the Ogdru Jahad in order to combat God, while on the fourth day God and Azathoth, through their collision, created the essence of the Primordials. The fifth day resulted in the Primordials being fashioned by Barbelo through their essence after She cupped the waters of Khaos into Her hand to mold them in order combat the Ogdru Jahad. At last on the sixth they were finally able to defeat both Azathoth and its creations.

However, God was unable to destroy Azathoth fully nor was he able to do the same to most of the Ogdru Jahad, only successful in destroying some of them, and had no choice but to instead imprison what remained of Azathoth in a chrysalis state and chained him using what can only be described as metaphysical existential chains that held all of everything together. Moreover, Azathoth fell into a deep and endless slumber due to the surrounding of creation being too much for it with God then exiling the Ogdru Jahad into the Outerverse.

### Creation of All

On the seventh day, God and Barbelo laid to rest alongside His creations as the collision between the darkness and His own was starting to form the universe. After they plant the Tree of Life, the sovereigns rested on the seventh day. It is said that they rested beneath the Tree of Life, where the aroma from the dews from its leaves gave them comfort. As they rested, the inexhaustible profusion of their thoughts overflow, and Barbelo then decided to create a new species of beings, the Aeons, and when she did, they praised the Invisible Father, saying: "It is because of you that everything exists and everything will return to you. I will praise and glorify you and the Autogenes and to the three aeons: the Father, the Mother and the Son, the perfect power."

As they rested, they commissioned the archangels and the primordial gods to rearrange the scattered universe and properly place it in the way humans have come to know it as it is. While the universe was being properly formed, thirteen artifacts were created in the process. These artifacts became the living manifestations of the aspects of creation itself.

God then created Heaven with the archangels then helping Him cement the fundamental cogs that make up all that there is when the Primordials were done. After He created Heaven and Earth, God noticed several artifacts that took form during His war against Azathoth. He scattered these artifacts upon the new born Earth as a way for it to be nurtured. By creating a firmament between Heaven and Earth which is supposedly a dome of some sort that separated the two from one another, it cannot be accessed by the inhabitants of Earth unless God allows it. The firmament is then populated by luminaries which become the stars and the light to signify morning and night. The Primordials' children, who were referred to as the Giants or Titans, were also allowed to inhabit the Earth to protect it from any invading Old One. During their reign they would also reproduce and spawn the countless polytheistic pantheons of deities.

Before He created man, God made the first beasts which each ruled over a part of the Earth. The first among them was the Leviathan, a primordial creature that swam within the oceans of chaos and was tamed by God to then roam within the depths of the Earth's waters, lording over the creatures of the sea. The second was the Behemoth, who lorded over the earth and its creatures and the third was the Ziz, who lorded over the skies and its creatures. These beasts were created as representations of the Earth's majesty and to express the dominant power of nature over man and are the only three beasts that Adam and Eve have no lordship over.

### Creation of Man

After which, the angels were then created and acted as both His emissaries and soldiers. Their ranks were made and each given a specific task that was overseen by His archangels and Himself. Lucifer, the first born, was the most perfect of all His creations and thus appointed him into lightening the stars by condensing clouds of hydrogen into star-masses and set them alight, earning him the title of "Morning Star", and also being the brightest angel in existence. Lucifer was so loved by God, even more so than Michael himself. Because of this he was prideful of himself. When God created the animals of the Earth, He created the last of His creations which was man.

He placed His two beloved creations known as Adam and Lilith in the Garden of Eden alongside His most prized creations. However, upon seeing that Lilith would not submit to Adam, He had his angels escort her out of Eden before forming the woman known as Eve from Adam's rib as a replacement for Lilith. Samael, later to be called Satan, was then tasked with watching over the humans, however, ruled over by his pride, Samael saw that these humans were flawed and was angered that he would be tasked that he would have to guide and protect such creatures. Lucifer in the meantime, due to being His favorite, was exposed to God's plans and would only see that everything, including His children, would be under His rule and thus having no free will of their own. Lucifer was against this and rebelled against His creator.

Lucifer gathered one third of the angelic host and waged war against God. However, there was resistance as God tasked His greatest soldier, Michael, into leading His armies and defeating his brother. After a titanic struggle, Lucifer and Samael were defeated and was cast out unto the Earth alongside their legion of rebellious angels by Michael. The collision of the fallen angels to Earth were like an endless stream of powerful fiery lightning, which soon created a deep abyss of its own and later be known as Hell that became a realm of endless punishment for the sinful.

God then continued to oversee Adam and Eve's development in the Garden of Eden, He told them that they could do anything they wanted but were prohibited to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam would name all the animals and creatures in Eden whilst Eve would name all the plants. Seeing this, Lucifer had the fallen angel Samael to possess a serpent before entering the Garden, then enticed Eve into eating the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, in order for Samael to show how flawed they are and for Lucifer to cut God's hold over free will of mankind. He succeeded as Eve and then Adam was tempted into eating the fruit, from which God specifically stated not to. In the process, God had Uriel cast Adam and Eve to Earth and were cursed with the mark of sin; Eve would have labor pains while giving birth and menstrual cycles.

### Cain and Abel

When Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel, Abel became a herder of sheep while Cain was a tiller of the soil. And it happened in the course of time that Cain brought from the fruit of the soil an offering to the Almighty. And Abel too had brought from the choice firstlings of his flock, and God regarded Abel and his offering but did not regard Cain and his offering. And Cain was very incensed, and his face fell.

Jealous of God's favoritism towards Abel, Cain led his brother, while being under the influence of the Mark of Cain, out into the wilderness to kill him. Upon returning, God asked Cain, "Where is Abel your brother? And he said, "I do not know: am I my brother's keeper?" Upon realizing what he had done, God cursed Cain and his descendants, saying, "Your brother's blood cries out to me from the soil. And so, cursed shall you be by the soil that gaped with its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand. If you till the soil, it will no longer give you strength. A restless wanderer shall you be on the earth." The curse that Cain was given prevented him from dying and being slain, which would eventually drive him mad. Cain's killing of Abel tainted the Earth with sin.