The Myth of Cosmogony

The fundamental, underlying principle of the Night Song world is this: The objective truth of the subjective universe is that the subjective universe is silly putty.

We have an objective truth which transcends a plastic and pliable subjective universe. 

We, as sentient beings, seek to approach that objective truth through the subjective universe because that's the only option that's open to us. We can only perceive and process as what our "physical state" allows. We're only aware of the colors that our eyes see. We can only taste and smell what our noses and mouths permit. We can only process information that our brains are equipped to process. We realize this, and we are constantly trying to expand the limits of our comprehension and ability through technology, science and philosophy. As a result of these efforts, our subjective universe changes, flexes and grows. 

Fair enough, right?

The thing is, nobody really knows what the objective truth really is, but the general consensus seems to be that it must have something to do with a governing principle of some sort. The belief is that if we can grasp something of this governing principle, we may truly gain some understanding about what's really going on and thus gain some power or at least some leverage over the forces that affect our lives. 

We approach this governing principle in several ways - divine intelligence, metaphysical checks and balances, mathematics and physical laws. Most people merge all of these things together in varying proportions to come up with some approach to living that seems to work most of the time. If it can be shown to work, then it must contain something of the objective truth. For instance, believing that the tides are caused by the swishing of the tail of a giant fish works just fine for giving  you an idea of the cyclic nature of the tides. But if you decide to go looking for the fish, then the whole world view falls apart - yet the tides still continue. 

Do you see where I'm going with this? No matter, that's not really what I want to talk about.

What I really want to point out is that once some idea of the governing principle is grasped, part of making it work is to put it into the largest context possible. Once you have some revelation about how something is, then you have to explain how it got to be that way. By doing that, you can show how everything fits together into a system and form a complete world view.

The best way to create such a context is to work backwards to the very beginning of everything. When you do this, you arrive at a cosmogony myth. 

The Big Bang is a cosmogony myth that's currently stylish, but it comes and goes. Genesis is a cosmogony myth. The tale of the Titans was a cosmogony myth. There are literally thousands of cosmogony myths floating around out there - and they're all equally valid because they are all speculative, and they all work on some level for some world view. And until a particular world view is crushed by some other world view, it is, for all practical purposes, true.

Okay, that opens up another can of worms that I don't want to pursue right now. 

What I really want to do is present the cosmogony myth upon which the Night Song world is based. And here it is.

The Nothing was. It was veritable Nothing and Will to Nothing, and thus Infinite in its Nothingness. But in that Nothingness, by virtue of its sheer Perfection, the Will to Nothingness became Imperfect in that the Perfect Will to Nothing became Something. And when the Will to Nothing became Something, then Nothing was nothing no longer. 

And the Something became Pure Will, and existed apart from the Nothing. This Pure Will became the Pure Will of Being and became the Primordial I. This Pure Will of the Primordial I coalesced into a singular point of Something within the Nothing, and thus the Nothing became Infinite no longer. 

The border of the Something became the boundary of the Nothing.

And the Nothing pressed against the boundary to reestablish its Purity and its Perfection - because such is the nature of Nothing when confronted with Something. As the Nothing pushed in, the Pure Will of the Primordial I pushed out against the Nothing, and it thus became the Pure Will To Be of I AM. 

And at the borders of Nothing and Something, that Will To Be was challenged the most. As it resisted the pressure of the Nothing, the Will To Be was split at the border, much like a prism splits white light into component colors such that the border between Something and Nothing became a swirling, chaotic mix of variations and aspects of Pure Will To Be.

And out of that pulsing chaos came the Will To Be…Something as the I AM…SOMETHING.

Within that chaos is the existence of all time, all space, all dimensions, all thought, all dreams, all deeds  - all swirling in one magnificent Eternal Moment.

This is not to say that "will," as we understand it, is the governing principle of the megaverse (if you will). Rather, it is to say that the closest thing to the governing principle that our minds can grasp is something akin to our concept of will. 

I know that this is bothersome to some people because they think of "will" as something inherent in "mind." That's okay. You just have to differentiate the experience of the thing from the thing itself.  For human beings the "will" that we have is a pale reflection of the "Will" that we are.

There's more to be said about all that, but it's not really the point of the story. The thing we want to think about here is that border land between the Nothing and the Something. That's the real beginning - a swirling mix of variations and aspects of Pure Will To Be.

Yeah.