Ancient history of creation - Act 1: The mineral era

Move from state of nothingness to the existence of matter. The age of Saturn.

In the beginning there precipitated out of the void (=Leere) matter that was finer and more subtle than light. Then came an exceptionally fine gas. This gas or mist was the Mother of All Living. This Mother Goddess will metamorphose in the cause of history, but in the beginning Earth was without form.

History's first great reversal of luck was when Mother Goddess was attacked by a searing dry wind that almost extinguished the potential for life altogether. Through a physical eye it would have looked as if the gently interweaving mists were suddenly overtaken by a second emanation from the mind of God. Two titanic forces locked in combat at the beginning of our time.

Mother Goddess would often be remembered as a loving, life-giving and nurturing figure, comfortingly round and soft-looking, but she also had a terrifying aspect. She was warlike when needs be.

Her opponent was even more frightening. Long and bony the Dark Lord Saturn was armed with a deadly scythe (=Sense). (In Egyptian mythodology Saturn was Ptah.)

What Saturn's invention introduced into creation was the potential for individual objects to exist - and therefore the transition from formless into form. Because of Saturn there is a law of identity in the universe. Because of Saturn a certain object occupies a certain space at a certain time.

But if an individual entity can exist through time, then by implication it can cease to exist too. This is why Saturn is the god of destruction. Because of Saturn's influence everything that lives contains the seeds of its own end, and it is because of Saturn that what feeds us also destroys us. Because of Saturn our lives are hard. If we sometimes feel our lives almost too hard to bear, it is because Saturn pushes us to our limits.

Saturn's tyranny over Mother Earth, his murderous attempt to squeeze all potential for life out of the cosmos, continued over vast periods immeasurable to the human mind. Eventually his tyranny was overthrown, and Saturn, if not entirely defeated, was kept in check and confined to his proper sphere.

(Inspiration and extracts from Jonathan Black: The secret history of the world)