Genesis

## The Beginning

*1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.*

Here, existence is created. And yet, in order for something to exist, distinction must first be made between something and nothing. And for something to be distinguished from nothing, there first had to be an empty ‘nothing’ in which something could exist (as opposed to the ‘nothing’ that is void) . Here, by counterbalance to positive existence its opposite was necessitated to exist. As GOD is perfect in itself and its own causation (ipse esse subsistens), the existence of a material, dynamic world/universe in flux necessitates the existence of the concept of ‘that what is not perfect’ and as such ‘that-which-is-not-God’ , the absence of perfection, the source of entropy, imperfection and non-existence, what would be called nothingness, or simply ‘the Black’.

*3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.*

*6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.*

*9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.*

*Here the Earth itself takes shape, forged out of the elements and pure sub-lunar materiality.  All the elemental energies and arcane flux that, in time, would power the works of Mages, Nobles and Dwarves alike now run rampant across the globe, absent guidance, as part of raw existence.*

*11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.*

*14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.*

*20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.*

*24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.*

Life is created and with it, the entirety of creation attains a new dimension. With life comes death, with birth comes growth and with living existence comes mind, the representation of existence in a limited way, yet connected to the Highest. Here the Dream world takes root and GOD anoints several of his Angels to merge with the Dream, the everflowing flux of life, and interiorize its whimsy and dynamism. These angels would in time become known as Grand Fey and from the Dream, they would tend to the ever-teeming Wyld. Their ‘creation’ (ie. the Angels becoming Fey) is a simple consequence of ‘God seeing that it was good’ (ie. extending His Grace over it, which implies Angelic (in casu, Fey) presence.)

*26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”*

*27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.*

Here GOD creates mankind. Note that in this verse, no distinction is made between the male and the female in worth. In one swift stroke they are created, in the image of God, and inherently completely the same and equal, the male and the female. And yet, if we turn to the next Chapter in Genesis, we read another moment of human creation :

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

*23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”*

There is a contradiction at first sight, as in the first chapter the creation is of equals, whereas in the second chapter the woman is created out of Adam’s rib, and placed in inferiority. The Apocrypha have explained this as follows. Eve has never been mentioned in the first chapter; it is a pure assumption that she would be the female here. She’s not. Eve was not the first woman, that woman was called Lilith and fully equal to Adam. This equality of will and dominance, however, would split the first human couple in perennial conflict and strife. Such was the disarray that, even before the first children were born, the humans decided that this cooperation could no longer stand. It is unknown how it was decided, but it was to be Lilith that left (became banished from?) the garden of Eden, carrying her unborn children with her.

Lilith left Eden, into the Wyld, that spanned the rest of the globe. And so, Lilith made her home here, and became to the untamed Wyld as Adam was to Eden. She gave birth to four children : the two firstborn, a boy and a girl, would become the progenitors of the earnest firstborns of Nature : gnomekind. The two children born last, also a boy and a girl, would become the ancestors of elfkind, the brash and impetuous ‘junior children’ of Nature.

## Adam’s Fall

*23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.*

For their hybris and their Sin, Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden, never to return. This was God’s decree and could therefore never be broken. Adam was forced to walk the path of Lilith, but found the Wyld much less welcoming. Through toil and labour they would have to exist now.

## Cain and Abel

*10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”*

*13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”*

*15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so[e]; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[f] east of Eden.*

With the slaying of Abel, murder had come into the world, an act that would resound into perennity. It was GOD himself that marked Cain and forced him to walk forever, unslayable, untouchable. It is in the land of Nod that Cain discovered his new and grim existence. Through the sign on his head, the word of GOD himself, a great power over Death could be wielded, that would later be known as ‘Necromancy’ , that which was not meant for man. It is said that Cain himself never wielded this power, out of reverence for GOD, but his curse passed through his seed to his descendents.

Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

Cain’s tribe would hold their city to the coming of the Great Flood that would destroy all. The city of Enoch held the greatest repository of necromantic knowledge the world had ever seen and it is said that their abuse of this power to cheat death and live for millennia was part of the offenses that would cause the Great Flood to descend upon mankind. While it is certain that Cain, who by decree of God could not be killed, survived the Great Flood, the same cannot be said of his scions. Most scholars believe them destroyed in the flood, though of course certainty cannot exist on this point. What is known is that some knowledge of Necromancy re-emerged after the flood (possibly because Cain could not be killed by the Flood, as what is unkillable cannot be killed). At least this fel Art seems to have been reduced to puny and pathetic levels compared to the Sorcerors of Enoch.

## The sons of Eve

*25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth,[h] saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” 26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.*

Though Cain & Abel were the firstborn, Adam and Eve sired more children after them, Seth being the first among them. They thrived and prospered and built cities to live among each other. This is the period of ‘Kenosis’ , the empty Throne, that point at which the Father himself became absent. As reality continued to exist and Heaven still stood sacred beyond its golden gates, it is clear that GOD yet had to exist, but none, not man not Angel not  Angel- of- the- Dream (Fey) could tell where He might be.

*5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.*

Here is the point where the sages of man, and all the priests and chroniclers of Truth, being trapped in the sub-lunar perspective cannot help but deviate from Truth. It was not the LORD who judged himself anymore, buthis Angels that attempted to rule in his absence, who attempted to conserve that what the Father had made. Here the first great problem emerged.

First and foremost among the Angels , second only to GOD, stood Lucifer, the bringer of Light, primus of the Choirs. As he looked down on Earth, upon the wickedness of man, he remembered his own objections during creation. “Do not endow this beast with reason” had he pleaded with GOD “do not elevate him so high, his corrupted wickedness will be his downfall. Do not waste Thine Own image on them.”

In horror they looked down on how man trampled on creation, turned against his fellow man in greed and wickedness until all had become Black and the veneration of GOD almost forgotten. We shall shatter the Earth, topple the cities of man and drown every one of his children safe a very few, so they may start over and return to the state they were, when GOD had just left His Throne.” the Angels spoke by mouth of Lucifer, who was followed in this by a great many.

.And though the  Angels of Heaven and those of the Dream stood together in decision in the end, the protest of a very few being noted, they found that wielding the Wrath of GOD was outside the scope of even their own superlative abilities.

“And yet it shall be done” spoke Lucifer. “GOD never intended them to live like this and were HE here, His wrathful fist would descend upon them.” Being made out of the essence of God’s Wrath, Lucifer himself, through his very nature could not be made to think differently and as time went by discovered a way that his dreadful work might still be done. He himself was made of Wrath, endowed with it as essence. “This could either keep me alive, or serve another purpose yet…” he spoke. “I shall descend out of heaven, as the eldest and first it is my duty to the Father. And as I collide with the Earth, it will shatter and break and obey GOD’s wrathful command, released by mine own destruction.”

And as Lucifer, Samael and the wrathful Angels of the Dream designed the destruction of man, Gabriel, Rafael and the angels of absolution searched the world of man for a single pure soul amidst the ocean of Black. They found a man named Noah, whom they ordained to prepare for destruction, and save what could be saved.