I have spent years studying the “Creation.”
I believe the Bible is the true account of all that exists. What sets me apart
from others is the word “day” and the two divisions of it, “morning” and “evening.”
The Bible can be taken literally
where it is meant to be literal. I believe that the Book of Genesis is a
literal account of the ages of creation, beginning with Adam and ending
with the death of Joseph in chapter fifty. All those patriarchs are the genesis
of mankind. The Genesis is “the origin and formation”
Genesis is divided into “ages”
from the age of Adam to the age of Jacob’s (Israel’s) children. Genesis is
complete with the Abrahamic Covenant fulfilled by the establishment of Israel. Hence,
“Genesis” is from the formation of the cosmos through the formation of Israel,
and perhaps specifically from the creation of “Paradise” in heaven to “Paradise”
on Earth. Paradise in heaven remained unscathed through it all, but Paradise on
Earth (Israel) required refreshing throughout the ages.
Aeons are “ages,” according to the Slavonic Book of the Secrets of Enoch. Therein are two “Great Ages”: (1) The Aeon of Light or Higher Things (Adoil), and (2) The Aeon of Lower Things (Arkhas). [1] Herein is a quote from that book:
The Lord told Enoch: And I thought up the idea of establishing a foundation, to create a visible creation. And I commanded the lowest things: "Let one of the invisible things come out visibly!" And Adoil descended, extremely large. And I looked at him, and behold, in his belly he had a great age. And I said to him, "Disintegrate yourself, Adoil, and let what is disintegrated from you become visible." And he disintegrated himself, and there came out from him the great age. And thus, it carried all the creation which I had wished to create. And I saw how good it was. And I placed for myself a throne, and I sat down on it. To the light I spoke: "You go up higher and be solidified and become the foundation for the highest things." And there is nothing higher than the light, except nothing itself. And I spoke, I straightened myself upward from my throne. And I called out a second time into the lowest things, and I said, "Let one of the invisible things come out solid and visible." There came out Arukhas, solid and heavy and very black. And I saw how suitable he was. And I said to him, "Come down low and become solid! And become the foundation of the lowest things!" And there is nothing lower than the darkness, except nothing itself (2 Enoch).
“Eons” (modern terminology) are immeasurable
time increments because they are so great; hence, an “eon” is a great age. That
implies that there are lesser ages encompassed in those two “great ages.” In
modern times, divisions of eons are called “eras,” so each era is an age.
Both Adoil and Arkhas are stages
in the Creation. Those two stages are ranked. “In the beginning” (Gen 1:1) is
literally “rank one” before time began
Somewhere in those rankings the
creation of the angels preceded the creation of mankind, to wit: “We see Jesus,
who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned
with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every
man” (Heb 2:9). Jesus was both man and God. His physical presence is man, so
man was made of a lesser rank than angels.
That brings up the questions: What
ranking are the angels and in what age were they made? Perhaps the making of
the angels were the second rank, “God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so” (Gen 1:7) and that was done during the second “day”
(sic).
Firmament is matter. Most believe
that the firmament is the dome-like celestial sphere with the same axis as the Earth,
perhaps running through the Foundation Stone in Jerusalem — the “navel of the
world” and the “celestial axis.” It is the cosmos with the material things
within it.
God separated “the waters from
the waters.” Those waters were not H2O, but literally “semen from
the semen” (ibid). In other words, God divided the genus of angels
in His seed from the genus of the other kinds. The second rank of things
seems to be that the seed of angels were planted in the “Garden of God.” Ancient
Hebrew literature place the origin of angels during the second “day.”
I have written about those time periods as “days” but twenty-four hour days in the beginning did not exist since the Sun and Moon were created on the “fourth day.’ I submit that Adoil began with the first eon, “God said, ‘Let there be light: and there was light’” (Gen 1:3). With that said, Adoil came down, and the Great Aeon was finished. Next Arkhas came undone:
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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Gen 1:4-5)
“יוֹם yôwm, yome; from an unused
root meaning to be hot” (ibid). Heat is a prerequisite for any thermodynamic
process, and the first rank of any process is heat. God, as Light, provided the
hotness that commenced the process. E=mc2 is that notion operationalized,
wherein “c” is the speed of light.
Now for “evening” and “morning”
in scripture, “God called the light “Day,” and the darkness he called “Night.”
And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Gen 1:5)
“Night” in the Hebrew is “layil”
— “a twist (away of the light)” — “a season.” (ibid). It is a moving
away from the hot to the cold. A cooling of a process continues until reaching
equilibrium. When equilibrium is reached the process is finished, and that
indeed was “very good” (Gen 1:31) for each of the processes.
“Evening” in that passage is ‘ereb
in the Hebrew, or “sunset,” when the heat is reduced for the matter to form.
“Morning” in the Hebrew is borqer,
means “to split.” (ibid). That would be the point in the process where
the heat is removed and the electron fields of one element “penetrates” the positron
fields of other elements. The “morning”
in the process might be the combination of the elements to form compounds that
are stable at equilibrium.
How else would God describe such
great processes in terms that could be understood by the first men? “Processes”
and “thermodynamic” would have not meant anything to them. Ironically, the English
in 1611 understood processes; they began to divided time into various
processes, to wit: “in process of time it came to pass…” (Gen 4:3) referring to
the process of Cain’s growing his crop of grain. “Process” therein is qets
in the Hebrew. It means literally, “border,” indicating order. That
is what a thermodynamic process is, creating order from chaos.
Therefore, my hypothesis is that “days”
in the English are processes with long durations in time — “ages” — and the
first rank of them all was the longest, and perhaps the most intensive — the
Higgs Boson was the First Rank of the longest age. It began with a bang… a “Big
Bang,” or as Enoch said it, “A Great Age”!
Whether science has discovered
the beginning is debatable, but the “Bang” would be spontaneous but lasting for
aeons. In fact, it may still be resonating at the present time. “Cosmic equilibrium”
is that the universe is neither contacting nor expanding, as was the theory
just a few years ago, but is forever fixed. The universe does resonate but the
universe is not “God” as yogis believe. God remains silent but aeons still
linger.
“Aeon” is the archaic form of
modern “eon.” Just what is an aeon? “From the Greek aion ‘age, vital
force; a period of existence, a lifetime, a generation; a long space of time,’
in plural, ‘eternity,’ from PIE root *aiw- ‘vital force, life, long life,
eternity.’"
As can be seen, an eon is
both a time period of existence and a vital force. In theology, that “Vital
Force” is Yahweh, the LORD GOD, to wit: “’I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning
and the Ending,’ saith the Lord, ‘which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty’” (Rev 1:8). As you can see, the Almighty God is Power,
Time, and Equilibrium (Stability and Continuity). He is always Almighty and is
always the LORD GOD, from the beginning to the ending; from Genesis 1 to
Revelation 22. He is the WORD from start to finish in the Bible.
Enoch called the aeon “Light” and
“Adoil.” As it turns out Adoil came down, meaning that Adoil had Power. Not
only that but Adoil was the Beginning, and as scripture says, He is the “Ending.”
Hence, Adoil is the Word for the Power of God, Eternity, and Existence at “rest”
(Gen 2:2) and in Equilibrium. The word, “Adoil” is God’s definition of who He
is and that is “Creator” and “Preserver” who scripture refers to as “Husbandman”
(John 15:1).
An Eon is generally an
undefined time, too lengthy to measure. Another word for eon is “ages.”
However, we think of ages as sub-units of eons. For instance, an eon is from
the beginning to the ending of Existence, but that eternal time is divided into
ages. Of course, the ages do repeat, and hence the “clock” for ages is just
like a wall clock… it cycles and repeats but the repetition never ends.
God’s “Clock” for eternity measures
ages. It is called the “Zodiac” and comes from the Greek, “Kyklos”— the
circle of life (ibid). Therefore, the Zodiac is the circle of the clock whose
infinite rotation is in eons and one revolution is marked off as “ages.” The
total ages are the twelve “houses” each defined by animal life.
The Bible, in the Book of Ezekiel,
identifies the Hebrew Zodiac. For instance, the Age of Aquarius for them was
the “Age of Man.” Recently some say, was the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” (December
2019), not only the age of mankind but the Luciferin Age.
The Zodiac never ends. The
constellations appear regularly like clockwork. That “Clock” has on its face 25,772
years, and each increment is 2147.7 years. Hence, theological “ages” seem to be
around 2000 years on the average since each constellation differs in how long we
are in that “house.” If anno mundi (AM) was the beginning of the world,
I believe the clock started when Adam and Eve were cast out into it. The Adamic
Age could have been many thousands of years, perhaps an eon, since the constellations
are viewed from the world and not Paradise.
The clock is now at AM 5784 as
some have calculated from the Bible. They estimate that based on the creation
of Adam, but death ensued with sin.
Time is defined by carbon-decay
and its half-lives, so it makes sense that time began when Adam’s carbon began
to decay… at the time of the original sin. Sin and time would have begun, based
on that, in roughly 3760 BC, the Age of Taurus the Bull.
The Age of Taurus ended in 2400
BC. That coincides with the deluge of Noah’s time in 2400-2300 BC. Ironically,
the Ark of Noah landed in the Taurus Mountains of Ararat (Ancient Armenia.). Is
that coincidence, or is that to God’s Clock?
The Age of the Ram (Aries),
because of the precession of the Earth, comes after Taurus. That would have included
the Abrahamic age, signified by the substitution of the ram for Isaac. That
lasted until 6 BC when the Age of Pisces dawned with the birth of Jesus. It waned
in December 2019 as some say. Pisces is the Christian Era. It seems that God
measures time with ages and that many ages equal eons of time.
No matter how it is examined. Eons
and ages are significant since God’s Time is not our time.
Do aeons exist elsewhere in sacred literature? Most certainly with Adam and Eve:
The revelation which
Adam taught his son Seth in the seven hundredth year, saying, “Listen to my
words, my son Seth. When God had created me out of the earth along with Eve,
your mother, I went about with her in a glory which she had seen in the Aeon
from which we had come forth. She taught me a word of knowledge of the eternal
God. And we resembled the great angels, for we were higher than the God who had
created us and the powers with him, whom we did not know.”
“Then God, the ruler of
the Aeons and the powers, divided us in wrath. Then we became two Aeons. And
the glory in our hearts left us , me and your mother Eve, along with the first
knowledge that breathed within us. And glory fled from us; not from this Aeon
from which we had come forth, I and Eve your mother. But knowledge entered into
the seed of great Aeons. For this reason I myself have called you by the name
of that man who is the seed of the great generation or from whom it comes. After
those days the eternal knowledge of the God of truth withdrew from me and your
mother Eve. Since that time we learned about dead things, like men. Then we
recognized the God who had created us. For we were not strangers to his powers.
And we served him in fear and slavery. And after these events we became
darkened in our hearts. Now I slept in the thought of my heart.”
How do you get lonely in one day, as
scripture infers (Gen 2:18)? It took time, even a different age. The evidence
is that there were many ages, amounting to eons of time before the original sin.
I submit that the world clock began with the measure of death… with the
original sin. No telling how many ages had passed before the sin, but a good
guess is six Aeons.
Also, within that passage is the notion
of “Adoil” — the Light of God — as the first “Aeon.”
Now, let’s consider the Dead Sea Scrolls,
specifically the “Ages of Creation.” (Note that some of the scrolls, due to
time, are indecipherable; however, some words were inferred from the context.):
Frag. 1 1 Interpretation concerning the
ages which God has made: An age to 212 EXEGETICAL LITERATURE
4Q180 . 18:1
achieve [all that there is] 2 and all that will be. Before creating them, He
determined their operations [according to the precise sequence of the ages,] 3
one age after another age. And this is engraved on the [heavenly] tablets
[for the sons of men,] 4 [for] /all/ the ages of their dominion. This is the
sequence of the so[ns of Noah, from Shem to Abraham,] 5 [unt]il he sired Isaac;
the ten generations . . .] 6 Blank 7 Interpretation concerning c Azaz’el and
the angels who [penetrated the daughters of man] 8 [and] sired giants by them.
And concerning c Azaz’el [who misled them into fallacy,] 9 [to love] sin and to
make them inherit evil for all the ag[es, for destruction] 10 [for the fervour]
of the judgments and the judgment of the council of [...]
Frags. 5-6 1 [... for e]ver. Blank [.. .]
2 [. . . And what is wr]itten concerning the earth [...] 3 [...] two days’
journey [...] 4 [...] is Mount Zion, Jerusalem [...] 5 [... and wh]at is
written concerning Pharaoh [...]
4QAges of Creation (4Q181 [4QAgesCreat])
Frag. 2 1 [to Abraham until he sire]d Isaac; [the ten generations. C Azaz’el and the angels who penetrated] 2 [the daughters of] man and sired gian[ts] by them [. . .] 3 to Israel in the seventieth week to [. . .] 4 to love sin and to make them inherit evil [. . .] 5 in the eyes of all those knowing [. . .] 6 and his goodness is unfathomable [. . .] 7 these are the wonders of knowledge [. . .] 8 he measured them by his truth and [...] 9 in all their ages [...] 10 their creatures [...]
Frag. 1 1 for guilt in the Community with a
counsel of sin, to wallow in the sin of the sons of man, and for great
judgments and vile maladies 2 in the flesh. According to the powerful deeds of
God and in line with their evil, according to the foundation of their impurity,
he delivered the sons of the heavens and the earth to a wicked community until
3 the end. In accordance with God’s compassion and in accordance with his
goodness and the wonder of his glory he approaches some from among the sons of
the world [. . .] so that they can be…
In that passage, God achieved all
there is to achieve, and furthermore, all that will be. He is indeed the “Beginning
and the Ending.” The Essene writer, or whoever the scribe copied it from, knew
who God is and what He was doing all along!
The seven days in Genesis
are the sequence of the ages, culminating in equilibrium on the seventh age
after finally creating animal-kind, including mankind, in the sixth age.
Finally, after mankind
degenerated, in fragment 4Q81, God started over again with Noah, and this time,
God used generations for the ages, and family members for the newly generated
peoples. Both the “sequences” and “generations” reveal processes and their
order… “in the process of time,” as was noted earlier.
In conclusion, I firmly believe
in God, the Creation, and its sequences. I truly believe that the Bible is the
literal Word of God. However, God did not speak to man using the King’s English
but Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The King James Bible is a version; that
is what it is called.
Certainly, in the western church,
Enoch is not canonical. Neither are sacred writings canon. However, both are
commentary by early writers, and as commentary, they must be tested by
scripture, in like manner, as all things. That includes science that seemed to
have got some of it right.
That ages explain well the
creation and rebellion of the angels as well as Adam’s loneliness; it makes
sense. That the creation of the souls of Adam and Eve are the processes of
chapter one of Genesis and chapter two the generation of the bodies of
the two also begins to make sense.
Note that “In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1) reveals something. Perhaps chapter
one is the creation of the heaven and chapter two the earth.
If that is true then firstly, He
created the “heaven” and secondly, the “earth.” It makes sense that chapter one
is the Creation of Paradise in heaven along with the souls of Adam and Eve, “As
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world” (Ephes 1:4). By
that, it is meant that of all the animals, God chose us before the firm
things of the world in chapter two of Genesis!
Then, after the souls were chosen
and created, God breathed their souls into the firm image of Adam and made man
(in chapter two.) There were not two Creations, but two Aeons as noted in the Apocalypse
of Adam.
Some will say that is not scriptural,
but as I have shown, it is according to the Word, not a version, but the textus
receptus, which I believe the ancient Hebrew to be.
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