Ancient history of creation - Act 2: The vegetable era

Transition from a purely mineral cosmos to a cosmos burgeoning with plant life. The age of the sun.

The Sun God arrives in order to rescue Mother Earth from Saturn. In the eye of imagination the Sun is a beautiful and radiant young man with a leonine mane. He rides a chariot and he is a musician. He has got many names - Krishna in India, Apollo in Greece.

The Sun arises in the midst of the storm, pushing back the darkness of Saturn until it becomes like a giant dragan or serpent encircling the cosmos.

The Sun then warms Mother Earth into new life. As he does so, he gives vent (=macht sich Luft) to a great, triumphal roar that reverberates to the outer limits of the cosmos. The roar causes matter in the cosmic womb to vibrate, to dance and form patterns. This process is sometimes known as 'the dance of the substance'. After a while it causes matter to coagulate. The sun is singing the world into existence. The victory of the Sun god indicates the momentous transition from a purely mineral cosmos to a cosmos with primitive form of pant life.

Time passed and the primitive plant life began to weave together more permanently. The vast vegetable being at the heart of the cosmos was Adam. Adam's body had first been very soft and amorphous, with a skin almost as delicate as the skin on a pond. But gradually it began to harden, warmed by the sun, and what would in time become bone, now became something closer to wax. As Adam solidified he also began to devide into two, which means he was a hermaphrodite who reproduced in an asexual way. This asexual reproduction was by a method called parthenogenesis, where a part of the plant falls off and grows into a new plant. By this plant-like method of reproduction Eva and other progeny were born out of Adams body. In a sense this is a continuation of the old plant which therefore somehow does not die.

As time went on, the plant forms became more complex, more like the plants of today. Because there was as yet no animal element to the cosmos, they were without desire and so without care or dissatisfaction. Needs were satisfied before they could even be felt. This was Paradise.

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