“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” - Genesis 1: 1-2
THE PRIMAL DARKNESS (Tenebrae Dei)
- Creation begins in absolute Darkness—the Tenebrae Dei, or Divine Darkness.
- God dwells in this ineffable void, invisible and beyond all comprehension.
“Before the Light was brought forth, there existed only an infinite, eternal Darkness, the Womb of the unmanifest God. From this obscurity, the divine Fiat called forth the First Light.” - (Utriusque Cosmi, Vol. I)
The Abyss
The Deep
Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has arisen? — Nasadiya Sukta, concerns the origin of the universe, Rigveda, 10:129–6