Summary: The Kenomitian Creation Myth, telling the tale of the Augoeides since the Hatching of the Cosmic Egg to the end of the Hypostatic Aeon. Taken from the pages of Sefer HaKadmon, revealed to the Kenomitians during the Third Age of the Hylic Era in the Epigenetic Aeon.
From the pages of Sefer HaKadmon, revealed to the Kenomitians during the Third Age of the Hylic Era in the Epigenetic Aeon.
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In the beginning, there was Ayin the Cosmic Egg and Root of All, monad and inchoate symbol of the Void. Inside it writhed the Nine Pleromata: the Temporal Engine, paradoxically churning at full throttle whilst shut down; the Spatial Song, monotone and unsung; the Scourge of Gravity, coiled like a bristled serpent; Energy’s Vessel, as of yet formless; the Domain of Matter, fluid and ever-forged; the Emanation of Light, unreachable and imperceptible; the Primogenitor of Darkness, barren and undefinable; the Odic Flame, extinguished yet blessed with auspicious cinders; and the Aetheric Demiurge, always evolving towards a nadir of holy madness and pain. But the Demiurge’s excruciating path brought with it disharmony to the Nine, for it led it to attain consciousness and define itself as a separate entity from its siblings, hatching the Egg in the process. Thus started the First Age of the Noetic Era in the Hypostatic Aeon.
The Hatching of the Cosmic Egg (Credits: Kenomitian)
Abraxas, the Aetheric Demiurge (Credits: Kenomitian)
Now a distinct being, the Demiurge studied itself, achieving the apex of self-discovery in the throes of ecstatic agony and newborn curiosity: the Soul. It then observed and named the infant pleromata: Akudim the Engine, blazing through ever-changing cycles; Nekudim the Song, sounding as if simultaneously sung by ten thousand choirs; Berudim the Scourge, lashing, thrashing and tearing the nascent cosmos apart; Merkavah the Vessel, indistinguishable from her contents; Hekhal the Domain, carrying and inhabiting the Vessel; Ein Sof the Emanation, all-encompassing and undiluted; Rachabh the Primogenitor, birthing shadows through umbral parthenogenesis; and Gashmi the Flame, ever-burning and radiating Od: the very essence and prerequisites of Life, so bright that organisms spawned and died in mere milliseconds. Their bodies, separated yet linked, formed Yesh the Universe, surrounded by a Wall of Raqia: the shells of Ayin; and beyond it lay Shâchath, the Champion of Entropy, born in the vacuum created by the Demiurge’s distinctiveness and filled with wicked intent towards everything.
It learned about oneness, for no hatchling could exist without its siblings, and together they bore the title of Shi’ur Qomah; about the primordial and eternal moment when Ayin was whole; and about how it had shaped the pleromata through Nomenclature, for the Soul enacted its bearer’s True Will on observable reality. Once it had grown wise on matters of the past and the present, it craved novelty and awareness of the future, and its desire crafted progeny. Thus ended the First Age.
It poured Aether in Ayin’s amniotic fluid, and mixed it with the Prosopon of the Shi’ur Qomah: the celestial concert of Akudim, Nekudim and Berudim; the keys to Merkavah and Hekhal; the antithetical bond between Ein Sof and Rachabh; and the vital warmth of Gashmi. It arranged the ingredients in a tetramorph and cooked them in a cauldron of radiation over the course of an Age, until they coalesced as the Archons: Atziluth, the Form of the Good; Beri’ah, the Pillar of Mercy; Yetzirah, the Pillar of Severity; and Asiyah, the Red Thread of Fate. Thus ended the Second Age.
The Creation of the Archons (Credits: Kenomitian)
Consumed by a renewed hunger for wisdom, the Demiurge observed its offspring. Atziluth was a kaleidoscope of innumerable futures, each promising an eternal flow of novel knowledge; whilst Beri’ah and Yetzirah followed each other in the quintessential dance of Chaos and Order; and Asiyah brought with her Understanding, giving a moral dimension to existence based on her progenitor’s dispassionate shaping. Pleased with their features, it taught them the secrets of the cosmos for an Age, in a crucible of enlightening anguish through which it shared the powers of the Soul and Nomenclature, receiving in turn the name of Abraxas. Once their education was complete, it granted them True Will through the holy word: Abrahadabra, and spurred them to go and affect Yesh. Thus ended the Third Age and began the Noematic Era.
Compelled by their progenitor, the Archons, under the title of Olamot, endeavored to follow its designs for an Age, though bitter rivalries arose amongst them, plunging them into darkness over the conflicting visions of an ultramechanism that would always churn out phenomena at a regular rate, championed by Yetzirah; or a maelstrom of pure and mutagenic randomness, championed by Beri’ah. Ultimately, a compromise was brokered by Atziluth, and the four siblings drafted a set of universal laws with which they wove wonders in the Shi’ur Qomah; whilst Asiyah bonded the Pillars of Mercy and Severity through a previously unknown concept: procreation. Thus ended the First Age of the Noematic Era.
