By Richard Mather
Creation 1
before the beginning
was darkness:
mysterious non-being,
not one, not many
from the darkness
came a great radiance,
truth-as-one: being
identical with itself
and also sophia,
spirit of the two, mother
of the ten thousand things:
the indefinite multiple
Creation 2
at the beginning
a multiplicity
of darkness: ur-chaos
of mathematical
proportions that
is neither one nor many
from the chaos
came a polarity:
being or strife
pregnant with itself,
full of disorder
and also harmony,
barren non-being,
the one who makes
things disappear
by ordering them
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