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I.I.
In a beginning, there was Chaos. There was Chaos before; and there was Chaos after; and there will be Chaos again when the World has run its course. For all things that have time have an end; things that do not have an end cannot have time.
Imagine a pool of ripples, in which small waves bounce from side to side, interacting, contradicting, creating new shapes and new figures which exist for a concrete moment and then disappear. The mortal mind cannot truly comprehend Chaos, for unbounded potential cannot exist in our bounded reality.
I.II.
Chaos is everything and it is nothing. It is infinite potential, which contains within it all possible things in all possible configurations. A moment is an infinity, an infinity, a moment. All that has transpired before will transpire again, and is transpiring now.
Time is the ordered progression of events; the intervals are meaningless, for one rotation of the sun is a lifetime to a mayfly, and an hour is a moment to a great oak. Time ceases to be when all things may happen simultaneously.
I.III.
There arose from Chaos beings of ordered thought which held the power to impose their nature upon Chaos, and to give form to creations within that order. This occurred and will occur an infinite number of times.
It is not useful to ask why the Gods arose. If all things may happen, then all things, given enough time, will happen. An infinity added to an infinity is merely another infinity. An infinity plus a minute is the same length as an infinity. While there is no time, there is no waiting. Our time exists only because the Gods came into existence, and has meaning only because we exist within it.
I.IV.
The nature of these beings was static, not dynamic. Their nature was omnipotent and omniscient; they saw all possible pasts and all possible futures. Thus they possessed the ability to create, but they could not themselves change. They were the Nine Creators, the first Gods.
Growth occurs because of learning and improving one's awareness of and understanding of how the World functions. If one knows all current variables, then one knows already the outcome; it is only the presence of unknown variables, acknowledged or unacknowledged, that may shift this outcome. Therefore, without unpredictability, there could be no growth; the Gods were the prisoners of their own power.
I.V.
The fabric of which they were formed, the structure and order which separated them from Chaos, was the Weave, and the Ninth, the Goddess Hala, was both its master and its heart, so that it was formed from Her and of Her nature.
The Weave which runs through us all and through all things, and gives the World its finite existence, is itself an extension of the Goddess. By dwelling upon it we dwell with Her, and She is present in every mote of dust and shaft of sunlight. That She is a Goddess and female in Her nature is a mortal constraint, for like all Gods She transcends such mortal considerations. But She is our Mother, and as our Mother, our Protector, and our Nurturer we give Her the title of Goddess, and worship Her thus.
I.VI.
The Nine Creators wove the World upon the Weave, binding Chaos within order, potential within outcome, uncertainty within probability. Into this world they placed mortalkind, possessed of finite forms and finite time, in their uncertainty and ignorance possessing the gift of growth and change, learning and adaptation, that they might by confronting the challenges of the World grow to reach a potential that the static deities could not imagine. Thus was brought into being time, and that was a beginning.
Through our bodies run the Warp and Weft of the Weave, and we are of it and of the Goddess as are all things living and unliving. But we also possess a soul, a spark of ingenuity, of novelty, Chaos bound within flesh. This gives mortalkind our curse of mortal susceptibility: sickness, pain, suffering, death, as well as our curse of mortal nature: selfishness, pettiness, and cruelty. However, it also gives us our mortal gifts: the ability to learn, to grow, to change, to develop always towards the potential which the Nine Creators envisaged for their mortal creations.
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