The Source

* Pre-Crisis
* Post-Crisis
* New 52

> And beyond all the knowledge and sweeping concept at our command, the mystery of the Source lies -- Omnipotent -- All-Wise!
>
> Metron

> In the beginning... the Universe was void and without form. Great energies were born and just as quickly died as that which was formless struggled to find a form... and that which was without reason or meaning sought purpose. Out of this was born that which is eternal, that which is the all and beyond the all. The Source.
>
> Narrator in "Jack Kirby's Fourth World #1"

> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was the Source.
>
> Narrator in "Green Lantern/New Gods Godhead Act 1, Part 1 : Genesis"

## Summary

**The Source** is considered to be God of the New Gods and Old Gods.

## Stats

**Tier:** **Unknown** | **1-B** | **1-A**

**Name:** The Source, God, The Presence

**Origin:** DC Comics

**Gender:** Unknown

**Age:** Unknown | Predates the concept of time (The Presence, the The Source and Monitor-Mind The Over-Void are one) | Predates the concept of time (The Presence, the The Source and Monitor-Mind The Over-Void are one)

**Classification:** God

**Dimensionality:** **Unknown** | **Trans-dimensional** | **Trans-dimensional**

**Power range:** **Unknown** | **Trans-verse** (The Philosopher's stone, a fragment of the Source, "transcends time and space" | **High Trans-verse** (The Source is on the same level/plane as Monitor-Mind The Over-Void)

**Travel Speed:**  **Unknown** | **Irrelevant** (Transcends space and time) | **Irrelevant** (Transcends space and time)

**Combat Speed:** **Unknown** | **Irrelevant** | **Irrelevant**

**Reaction Speed:** **Unknown** | **Irrelevant** | **Irrelevant**

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Unknown**

**Punching Power:** **Unknown** | **Unknown** | **Unknown**

**Durability:** **Unknown** | **Trans-verse** | **Trans-verse**

**Powers and Abilities:**

* Pre-Crisis
* Post-Crisis
* New 52

Nothing notable

Trans-Dimensional Existence, Creation, Conceptual Manipulation, Duality Embodiment, Immortality, Life Creation, Power Bestowal, Spatial Manipulation, Temporal Manipulation

Trans-Dimensional Existence, Creation, Conceptual Manipulation, Duality Embodiment, Immortality, Life Creation, Power Bestowal, Spatial Manipulation, Temporal Manipulation

**Standard Equipment:** None | None | None

**Intelligence:** Nigh-Omniscience | Nigh-Omniscience | Nigh-Omniscience

**Weaknesses:** Unknown | None notable | None notable

**Key:** **Pre-Crisis** | **Post-Crisis** | **New 52**

**Note:**

* **Note 1** :

Post-Crisis depictions of the Source share common motifs with the Life Entity, but the difference is that the Source is written as transcendental.

## Explanations

* Pre-Crisis
* Post-Crisis
* New 52

**The Source in Pre-Crisis continuity**.

Jack Kirby left us very few elements in his works on the New Gods to understand what the Source is. Maybe in order to keep the mystery about this character? But these few elements remain sufficient to understand that the Source is the God of the Old Testament, in particular with figures such as Izaya based on Moises, as shown in the following scans recalling the moment when Moses received the 10 commandments.

Without forgetting the characteristics of the Source, i.e "Omnipotent" and "All-Wise" which are attributes identified with the Judeo-Christian God. Besides these elements that Jack Kirby left in his works, he left another element on the Source in one of his interviews. But as Jack Kirby stated, "we don’t know what the Source is, where it is, we can’t identify its form, but we know it’s there."

**The Source in Post-Crisis continuity**.

* John Byrne interpretation on the Source.

In John Byrne interpretation on the Source, the Source still is part is part of the Judeo-Christian context as we can read in the following statement taken from Genesis :

*In the Beginning... the Universe was void and without form.*

In this interpretation of the Source, the Source is the light when God said : "*Let there be light*". So, in the context of the interpretation of John Byrne on the Source, the Source is the light that gave form to the formless Universe that was void. Likewise the Life Entity also part of the Judeo-Christian context with the repeated statements : "*Let there be light*".

* Grant Morrison interpretation on the Source.

Though Grant Morrison interpretation on the Source has not been incorporated into his works yet, it is interesting to note that Grant Morrison interprets the Source as the Ain Soph Aur in Kabbalism.

The reason why it is interesting to mention this is because on the Map of the Multiverse, Grant Morrison wrote : "beyond [the Source Wall] lies only Monitor-mind, The Source and the Unknowable." It is unclear if Grant Morrison meant "the Unknowable" literally, but "the Unknowable" is a character in the DC Universe who is the Ain Soph Aur in Kabbalism :

**The Source in New 52 continuity**.

The difference of the Source in New 52 is that it is more of part of the Christian context with the following statement taken from John :
*In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was the Source.*

## Gallery

The Source in Pre-Crisis.The Source in Post-Crisis.The Source in New 52.