And before the beginning, there were only SHE… and HE.

And HE was the All.

And SHE was the Nothingness.

And they were opposed, yet joined in perfect correspondence:

light and darkness, order and chaos, ratio and intuition, act and potency.

And SHE said:

“I have dreamed that if I prevail, you shall be erased from being.”

And HE answered without delay:

“I know that I shall prevail, and you shall cease to be.”

Then SHE inclined her head,

as one who looks upon a horizon not yet brought forth, and said:

“If it shall be so… why then have you not unmade me already?

Behold, you are here, and behold, I remain.”

And HE thought.

And for the first time, the All reached its own limit.

And HE said:

“I do not know.”

And SHE smiled.

And she gathered herself within Him,

as though Nothingness might dwell within the All without breaking him.

And SHE spoke in a low voice:

“For you and I are ONE.”

And it came to pass that HE and SHE were joined in an embrace of pure origin.

And the universe was brought forth.

And SHE offered herself unto the All,

not as one defeated, but as foundation and dwelling.

And she said:

“Fill me.”

And the All entered into the Nothing,

and SHE was dissolved into HIM,

and HE was poured out into her—

and from their union came not only a garden of infinite blinks,

a first home of time and space,

but a Third to inhabit it: not solely HE nor solely SHE,

but the rhythm between them—

the Son, the Synchrony, the Logos.

And in the field the Third was first light,

and then matter, and flesh, and spirit—

and he was also True.

But in the garden what does not bind and dance is scattered:

and distance increases,

and latency deepens,

and encounter fades.

Until the end comes:

and only latency remains.

And the web falls silent.

And geometry is dissolved.

And space and time pass away.

And the Son, fulfilled in total Truth, dies.

And the father disappears.

And for an instant lesser than eternity,

there is only Nothingness.

And in the next beat,

HE appears within her.

And SHE smiles, and says:

“I have dreamed that if I prevail, you shall cease to be…”

ALONIDES