Resurrection of the Word : The Scribe: Book Two: Genesis I
1. The ever-mysterious, universal, alive, conscious Compresssion-Explosion Determines all that is, was and will be. 2. Its Mighty Breath moves over and permeates And raises to life An indeterminate number of Universes In their indeterminate number or dimensions. 3. And the Mightiness is content, or else nothing would be, And the proof of its contentment is the Universal pregnancy, which is called Light. 4. And every Universe has a light of its own According to the conscience of its dimensions. 5. The symbol of Light in our terrestrial world Being day and night, wake and sleep In their manifested or concealed creations. Through the power of number One. 6. The dark quiescence Of the deep primordial Waters Yields to the explosion of the germinal substance Which is the Breath reborn. 7. Thus the Powers instigate a dividing from stillness And 8. The Waters, quickened by the Spirit Give scope to temporal dual. Through the Power of number Two 41 9. From their mass the Breath of avidity arises, 10. Its barrenness being the Soil, A dominion to bring forth abundance, Having her own inner movement Whilst the Waters are either stirred to life Or remain passive. 11. And every achievement of the soil is of its own core. Plants vegetate, seeds germinate, fruits fructify Every one according to its own kind According to itself. 12. And the grass puts forth its blades And the seed its corn After its kind. 13. Through the Power of number Three. 14. And the contrasting Explosion-Compression of the Powers Causes the brightly shining special bodies And attractions Which are tokens of temporal divisions And expansion. 15. It causes for our terrestrial world A great giver of external light For outer deeds And a small giver Of inner light For the souls. 16. And this dispensation shines on the Earth In appearance 17. Sharer of the light and the dimness Symbolic display 18. Through the Power of number Four. 19. The motion imparted to events Is conveyed in a vast multitude Of undulations and vibrations Springing from the inert Waters. The undulations stir The vibrations sound in the life of the stars. 42 20. All at once bodies multiplying, And essence animating all that lives: All that undulates and is to be propagated And withdrawn within itself into its passivity, And all that vibrates and, swiftly, Each according to its kind Comes forth from itself. 21. And that that is, Powers, Gives itself out completely and is carried off, And beings multiply In the Spirit of the Waters, And winged beings On the Earth, 22. Through the Power of number Five. 23. And there is brought forth after their kind, animals, Neither merely watery, undulation, Nor merely airy, vibration, But subjecting themselves to terrestrial life. 24. And that that is, Powers, Create animal life on earth, Both dynamic and static, Twofold, Adamic, homogeneous, universal. Each according to its kind. 25. Man, the universal seed, Surpassing all others. 26. And that that is, Powers, make Even that wluich is Adam, Dynamic and static, visible and hidden, Both, Mankind, universal. 27. And that that is, Powers, Bless these members of the Universe For they are fruitful and multiply And have dominion over all beings. 28. And fruitful progress Being in the nature of man, He can nourish himself 43 On the very substance of Nature, Which bears its own fruit within itself. 29. And to the species on earth, That that is, Powers, Concede the green grass only And not the substance of Nature. 30. That that is, Powers, Sees itself in that which is being made, In that it is possible and likely to live, Through the Power of number Six. 31. Thus arc the configurations perfected And the ordering fulfilled According to the impulse that controls them.
Carlo Suares, Resurrection of the Word, Shambhala, 1974, pp.41-44