Generation 1:
All Things and Nothing (creation story)
In the beginning was the Old New Land.
All things and nothing.
Heaven was earth and earth was heaven and both were hell.
And hell was bad and good.
And good was earth and bad was heaven.
And heaven and hell were inextricable.
Therefore in the beginning Man created God, who created the Heaven and the Earth, and therefore God created Man.
For the earth was both with form and void; And the spirit of God moved upon the face of men.
Who said, There was light, and light there is, therefore light let there be.
And man saw the light, that it was good, and man divided the light from the darkness.
And some men called the light Night, and some men called the darkness Day. And the evening and morning were the first generation.
And man discovered firmaments in the midst of the waters, and waters in the midst of firmament.
And man divided the firmaments and used the waters to grow the firmaments, and in competition for the water, man rose up against man, and it was so.
And man called his own firmament Heaven, and the firmament of others Hell. And the evening and morning were the second generation.
And man said, let the men under the Heaven be gathered unto one place, and let God appear, and it was not so.
And man called the others with land heretics, and the occupation of lands he called Holy, and man saw that it was bad, and he called it good.
And man said, since the earth brings forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, and it is so:
Let us bring forth more and better grass, more and better herb yielding seed after his kind, more yielding trees bringing forth more and better fruit, upon the earth, and man saw that it was good and saw no bad in it.
And the evening and the morning were the third generation.
And man said, there are lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from night, let them be signs, for seasons, and for days, and years:
And the firmament of the heaven gave only the light upon the earth that was already upon the earth, and it was so.
And man made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night,
But man set them both in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness, and man saw that one light was good and one light bad, but none could determine which to each, and man fell eternally upon man over which light was the greater and which light the lesser. And each man called that which he was good.
And the evening and morning were the fourth generation.
And man said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly for our people of the light, and scarcely for their people of the darkness, that farming may fail upon the part of the earth closed to the firmament of heaven.
And man created great works, and every living creature that moveth were forthwith affected abundantly after their kind, and every work fulfilled after its kind, and man saw their works benefit all men, and men saw that it was good and not good.
And man cursed their works, saying, be fallow, and divide, and fill the waters with poison, and let division befoul the earth.
And the evening and morning were the fifth generation.
And man said, we brought forth on the earth living creatures after our kind, but thou art cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after thy kind, and it is so.
And man made men into beasts and cattle and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after their kind, and man saw that bad was good.
And man said, let us make all men in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And to every man that is like beast, to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth, all wherein there is life shall serve us, and it was so.
And man said, Behold, we have taken every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to us it shall be for meat.
And man saw every thing that he had taken, and, behold, he saw that it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth generation.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
And in the seventh generation all life that served men did rebel against that work which he had made, and they fought to rest in that seventh generation from all work which they had made.
And they did create a new god to bless that seventh generation, and sanctify it: because in that god they would rest from all their work which without a god they created and made.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they are created, in the days that men make the earth and the heavens,
And every plant of the field after it is in the earth, and every herb of the field after it grows: until the Lord God shall not cause it to rain upon the earth, and there is not man to till the ground.
For we work, and we work, and we work; and we wait, and we wait, and we wait, but we're always thrown out of the Old New Land.
Century 2:
Chapter 2:
And there went down a mist from their eyes, and watered the whole soul of their faces.
And men did form their new god from the dust of the ground, and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life, and their god did become a living soul.
And this lord god commanded men to plant their garden in the new earth, east and west and north and south, and there they put the men whom their God had formed, who in turn was formed by men.
And out of the ground made men to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, trees of life in the midst of the garden, and trees of knowledge of good and evil.
And fresh rivers went out of earth to water the gardens; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The name of the first head is Europe: that is which compasseth the whole land of the north, where there is God and gold,
And that land hoards both well: there is bedazzlement and hearts of onyx.
And the name of the second river is Africa, the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Egypt to Ethiopia and well beyond.
And the name of the third is Asia; that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth region is Eurasia, which goeth from the Tigris and Euphrates to Europe.
And the lord god took the man who invented him, and put man into the gardens of earth to dress it and to keep it.
And the lord god commanded man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, for I wast made to bless thee in thy consumption.
And man did answer: But of the trees of knowledge of good and evil, every day we eatest thereof, and we shall surely die. We do not believe that thou, our god, shall make us immortal.
And the lord god which man created said, it is not good that man should abide existence alone, I will make myself half-woman to helpmeet his belief in rebirth.
And the half-woman god did help man to bear the burden in every beast of the field, and every fowl of air, and brought them unto men. And men did determine what they shall be called, and whatsoever men called every living creature was their name thereof,
But belief in rebirth did make men heedless of death, and men did give other men names akin to all cattle, and did treat other men like every beast of the field, and mock them like the fowl of the air, and for such cattle-trodden men there was no helpmeet.
And man did cause in god despair, and a deep sleep to fall upon god, and they slept, and man took one of god's ribs, and closed up the flesh thereof.
And the rib, which Man had taken from Lord God, made God all Man, and brought God unto Men.
And Men said, God is now bones of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, God shall be called Man, because He was taken from women.
Therefore God shall abandon our mothers and daughters, who shall cleave unto their husbands, and we and God shall be as one flesh.
And the nature of Man and His God stood naked, and They were not ashamed.
Generation 2:
Now Woman was grieved, and had as much cause as any man made into beast of the field and dream of more subtle things than any beast of the field which Man had dreamed the Lord God did make.
In longing to possess a God from which she was kept, woman did dream of an other to overthrow Man's God, And the other did say, Yea, hath god said, Woman shall not rule every tree of God's gardens?
And women replied unto the other, We shall not, but we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the gardens.
But Man hath said, we shall not rule of it, lest we die.
And the other did respond unto women, Ye shall not surely die.
For God knoweth that in the day ye rule thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, doing good and evil as Men doeth solely evil.
And women did say, We do know good and evil very well, and we wish to be as no god. Man doeth evil all the days of his life for he believeth God is Man.
And the other did reply, ye are already as Gods, for thou becomest great with child, and surely Man knoweth that thou art His one true god.
And women did respond, If we be as gods, then why be we slaves like the beasts of the field?
And the other did say, Because woman is other than man, as is God. But thou women art as gods.
And woman did reply, even if woman is as other, we wish not to slay Man, for it is Man's slaying that doth make women other.
And the other did respond, thou can'st not reason with Man.
And women did say, then why art thou reasoning with us?
And the other did reply, For we knoweth of higher gardens, and if thou eatest of the knowledge of Men, thou shalt as gods, see what men cannot.
And women did ask, What can we see that men cannot.
And the other did reply, A greater garden, a higher garden from which Men are barred, good for food, and pleasant to the eyes, trees to be desired to make one wise, where no man worketh as beast of the field. Where one taketh the fruit thereof, and doth eat, and give also unto thy husbands with thou, and they do eat, and becometh good.
And woman did ask, Where is the garden?
And the other did respond, An old new land no Man hath seen. It existeth in a space between space where existeth potentials, heavens, antiquities, health, infinity, and justice.
And women did awaken from their dream.
Generation 3:
And women took of the fruit of the trees thereof, and gave also unto her Husband with her, and Man did eat of a greater portion than woman did eat.
And the eyes of woman were opened, and she sowed leaves of the trees thereof and made aprons, for it was only in her dreams that longings were stretched before her naked.
And in dreams she heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the gardens in the cool of the night, but Man, knowing she might hear celestial voices as men did, did bar his wife from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
But in dreams, the other called upon woman, A Man who bars the way to the gardens of the earth is no man, nor God a god. You are the god, and Man is the other. When Man is asleep, thou ought walketh in the garden and gaze thine eyes upon all that from which Man barreth.
And when Man was asleep, woman went into the gardens, and saw the trees, good for food that make men wise, were upon earthly gardens themselves.
And Man did awaken from his sleep to find woman's absence from His bed.
And Man went into the gardens in the cool of the night, and woman hid herself from the presence of Man in the trees of the gardens.
And Man called unto Woman, and said unto her, Where art thou?
And she said, I heard thy voice in the gardens, and I was afraid, for my desire to see the gardens was now naked, and therefore did I clothe myself in the trees.
And He said, Who told thee to desire the gardens? Hast thou heard the voice of my God, whereof I commanded thee was Mine over yours?
And woman said, A voice did I hear who called to me in dreams, he enticed me of the tree, and I did eat.
And the Lord Man said unto the woman, is this voice a dream? Is it god? And the woman said, it is another voice than God, another voice beguiled me, and I did eat.
And unto the woman the Lord Man said, Because the other hast done this, I do name this other Evil, as is God's right of Men, and to have another voice art thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly be thy work, and my dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
For this other hast put enmity between Me and the woman, and between my gardens and my seed, I shall bruise over her head and she shall bruise my heel.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conceptions; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and We shall rule over thee.
And unto God, Man said, Because another voice hast hearkened unto the dreams of My wife, and bade her eat of the tree, a voice for which I created thee, Thou art either half evil: therefore be cursed is the nature of God for the other's sake; in sorrow shall we partake of You all the days of our lives.
This other, Lord God, this voice that speaketh to those whom we had not blessed to rule shall evil be, thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to those to whom we forbid thou to speak, and thou shalt dwell beneath the herb of the field.
In the sweat of thy fire shalt we eat dread, till we return unto the ground, for out of fire was God made; for fire thou art, and unto fire shalt thou return.
And Man called woman's other voice 'evil' or 'devil', because her dream was the mother of all threats.
Unto God also and to his wife did the Lord Man make coats of shame, and clothe them.
And the Lord Man said, Behold, God is as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live on earth:
Therefore the Lord Man sent God forth from the gardens of Man, into the minds from whence he was taken.
So Man drove out the god from all human forms; and he placed at the east of the gardens of Men priests and prophets, and inflamed swords which turned every way, to keep in the way of the freeing of wife.
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