THE TWO CREATIONS

First Creation
Yami and Yama
Cosmogony
Second Creation
The Yuga of the Ascent

This chapter is divided into two parts.

• The "first creation" is a look at how our ancestors understood the universe.
• The italicized text is drawn from the Upanishads. [ Sacred Hindu texts. ]
• The "second creation" will open the door to a theory — one that shows that our universe is not infinite, but is instead defined.

The theory of the Kalpas.

Read these two chapters with a spirit of discovery and openness, since no theory can be accepted as an absolute.

THE FIRST CREATION

The first creation holds that the universe arose from God, or from an Energy. This power emits a seed from which life appears "from the depths of the waters." Though this account is legendary, a measure of truth always emerges from it.

Here is a series of very ancient poems recounting, in their own way, our origins. ( Spelling left uncorrected )

It was neither extension, nor void, nor beyond the sky. In a deep, watery gulf that covered everything, where everything rested. Then there was no decay, no death, no change between day and night. Quietly, the first breath, sustaining itself, calmed the void.

Probably a reference to the Big Bang or to the formation of the earth.

From the darkness of darkness, existence's beginning, a sea let loose its vision. This first thing, released from a chaos of chains, grew from an inner ardor. There rose, in a first desire, the original seed of spirit. Piercing with wisdom the discovery without which no link in the chain could exist!

We note that even in this age so distant from our so-called modern sciences and archaeological discoveries, our ancestors already knew that life arose from the waters.

This spark of kindling wood, like a burst of fire in the darkness of the abyss. Was it above, or was it below? What bard can answer that? This fertile act was found and strove at its task. This support of the masses below and the energies above.

Who knows, who has ever told, from where this creation came? From where did this world emerge, framed by divine hands? No god, having been born, can ever reveal this truth. This Lord, in the sky, he alone can tell it, if ever he wishes to show it.

They did not know how, however. Something we may perhaps succeed in doing soon, with modern science. There would be a God of the heavens and gods of the earth. Which still holds true today.

The Laws of Manu, or the Genesis of Hinduism

There was That, made of darkness, indistinct, without characteristic, undefinable, unknowable, and as though entirely relaxed.

The Creator causes the whole of that to evolve, from the coarse elements. That is, the gases that form the universe.

Then appeared the Lord Svayambhuva, involutive, enduring, whose essence is (at once) Being and non-being, this is the created being, celebrated throughout the world under the name Brahma.

We translate "Brahma" as the one who exists in and of himself, and "Svayambhuva" as origin.

In the theory of the "Kalpas" we recognize "Svayambhuva" as the first cycle in a series of fourteen. We will return to this in the second part, or second creation.

In this golden egg, the Lord resided for an entire year. Then, of his own accord, through his own meditation, he split this egg in two.

This poem carries a far-reaching lesson. For the "golden egg" is recognized as the vessel in which "Brahma" travels to seed the planets he visits!

Consider this argument with care, since it approaches the reasoning that would have life bound to the earth alone, and that we would be unique in the universe.

Travel beyond space would be permitted to a single being, one who would be our Creator. In what form, in what manner, these remain open questions! Note that we now know about DNA. Why would a Creator, or a group of travelers, journey alone through a universe? Because intergalactic travel is possible only over many thousands of "light" years of transit, in search of a planet to inhabit or to fertilize. This is recounted, in certain poems, as the period of darkness being equal to the period of daylight.

Science admits the possibility of wormholes for intergalactic transport…

After a fertilization, we see it quickly divide into two parts, this is the beginning of the trinity. Agni, Surya and Indra, or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, whom we will study in the mythology section.

This poem thus lends itself to every thesis on extraterrestrial invasions.

From the two hemispheres, he made heaven and earth. In between, the ether, the eight cardinal regions, and the eternal abode of the waters.

A poetic way of describing the birth of a planet.

Then it was from himself that he drew forth the spirit, made of being, of non-being, and of mind, and in turn, the Ego, the self-centered master of the world.

The beginning of the food chain, followed by human desires.

Then again the Great Self, the three constitutive qualities, and in succession the five organs of sense for apprehending sensible objects.

Then he fixed the subtle parts of the six senses, of immeasurable vigor, within the elements of the Self, and from them he made all beings.

The appearance of the human being.

YAMI AND YAMA

YAMI

Would that I could draw my friend toward friendship, though he had gone far away, beyond the seas! The wise man must obtain a grandson from his father, if his mind looks far enough ahead on earth...

YAMA

Your friend wants none of this friendship, by which the woman bearing the same marks would become a stranger. The sons of the great "Asura," the heroes, now of Heaven, look out over the whole expanse.

YAMI

Here is what the immortals want: that the one mortal should have a survivor. Let your thoughts rest within my thoughts! Enter as husband into this body of mine, your wife!

YAMA

What we have never done, shall we do it now? Speaking the truth aloud, you murmur what is false. The Gandharva in the waters and the nymph of the waves, that is our navel, our closest kinship.

YAMI

From the mother's womb, the Creator made us husband and wife, he the instigator, the God of every form. No one transgresses his ordinances: earth and heaven bear witness of this for us.

YAMA

Who was witness to that first day? Who saw it, who could bear it out? High is the ordinance of Varuna, of Mitra. Wanton girl, will you speak to men with such mischief?

YAMI

Toward me, Yami, love for Yama has come, to lie with him upon a shared bed. As a wife to her husband, I wish to give my body. Let us roll together, this way and that, as the wheels of a chariot turn.

YAMA

Those ones do not stay still, they do not close their eyes, those spies of the gods who move about below. Go quickly, wanton woman, with another than me, roll with him, this way and that, as the wheels of a chariot turn.

YAMI

Yami would adore you both night and day, she would deceive the sun's gaze for but an instant. Our pair shares the same kinship as Heaven and Earth. Yami alone would bear the forbidden act.

YAMA

There will surely come, generations later, a time when kin will do to kin the forbidden act. Press your arm firmly against a man, seek, oh my fair one, a husband other than me.

YAMI

What is a brother, if one must be without protection? And what is a sister, if destruction assails us? Shaken by love, I murmur more than once: mingle your body with my body.

YAMA

I do not wish to mingle my body with your body. He who consorts with his sister is called wicked. Prepare your pleasure with another than me. Your brother, oh my fair one, wants none of this from you.

YAMI

Alas! You are to be pitied, Yama. I have failed to find your thought or your heart. Another will surely embrace you as the girth embraces the horse, as the vine embraces the tree.

YAMA

You too, Yami, embrace another, and let another embrace you, as the vine embraces the tree. Seek to win his thought, and he yours, form with him a blessed harmony.

Commentary

Yami and Yama are recognized as the Adam and Eve of the Vedic age. We find three points at odds with the Genesis of the Old Testament.

First:

Yama and Yami are brother and sister.

Second:

Yama and Yami do not commit the act.

Third:

We find no trace of a serpent.

It is quite possible that the Catholic version is a plagiarism of the Indian version.

We may also note the term "asura," which denotes wealth. We know today that this wealth was transformed by evil, or by wrongful deeds.

This shows how ancient this poem is. Over time the asuras' power was altered until they became demons, or toxic attractions.

I : Hoping to be applauded, we shall proclaim the begettings of the gods, in the form of recited hymns, so that a vision of them may reach future ages.

2 : It was Brahmanaspati who welded these worlds together like a smith. In the primal age of the gods, being was born from non-Being.

3 : In the first age of the gods, Being was born from non-Being. After it were born the easts, from the womb of the one in labor.

1 : By the strength of the gods, the message is kept, carried forward and preserved into the future.

2 : Birth of the world, separation of antimatter and matter.

3 : Here we note the east as the first site of life within the laboring "creation." Note that we have physical traces in Africa and spiritual traces in India.

The next two poems were composed to underscore that we may never fully uncover the secret of the universe or the causes of the original seed, despite the latest discoveries such as the theory of parallel universes, the big-bang and parallel universes. Let us hope nonetheless that we will be able to overcome these obstacles before long.

Visvakarma

The Father's eye, he who is wise in thought, created these two (worlds) bowed in homage (as one prepares) the ritual butter. As soon as the eastern ends were made fast, Heaven and earth began their unfolding.

Heaven could be understood as synonymous with spirituality. Earth, as drawing closer to matter.

You shall not know the one who created these (worlds): something else has screened it from you... The reciters of hymns, seizers of life, walk wrapped in clouds and chatter.

Our mission, to speak of creation.

P.S. These poems can be understood in different ways depending on the reader.

COSMOGONY

Neither, non-Being did not exist then, nor Being. There existed neither the airy space nor the firmament beyond. What moved so powerfully? Where? Under whose watch? Was it water, unfathomable and deep!

What exists before creation.

There existed at that time neither death nor non-death; there was no distinguishing mark for night or day. The One breathed by its own impulse, without there being any breath. Beyond That, nothing else existed.

The initial structure.

In the beginning, darkness was hidden by darkness. This universe was but an indistinct wave. Then, by the power of ardor, the One was born. (Principle) empty and covered in vacuity.

This wave is Shabda, which you recognize through auditory contemplation.

Desire was its original unfolding, (desire) which was the first seed of Consciousness. Searching within themselves, the poets came, through their reflection, to discover the bond of Being within non-Being.

This bond is contemplation.

Their cord was stretched crosswise. What lay below? What lay above? There were givers of seed, there were powers. The spontaneous impulse was below, the gift of self was above.

Who truly knows, who could here proclaim from where this secondary creation was born, from where it comes? The gods (were born) afterward, through the secondary creation of our world. But who knows from where this creation itself arose?

This secondary creation, whence it arose, whether or not it was subject to some ordinance, he who watches over this (world) from the highest firmament, he alone knows, unless perhaps even he does not know?

THE THEORY OF THE KALPAS, OR THE SECOND CREATION

Let us go back twelve thousand years into the past and study these millennia. They are divided into four ages.

The Krita Yuga

4000 divine years; the golden age.

Plus two twilights of 400 years.

The Treta Yuga

3000 divine years; the silver age.

Plus two twilights of 300 years.

The Dvapara Yuga

2000 divine years; the copper age.

Plus two twilights of 200 years.

The Kali Yuga

1000 divine years; the iron age.

Plus two twilights of 100 years.

[ We would be in this last twilight. ]

Divine Years

In the theory of the Kalpas, one divine year comprises three hundred and sixty mortal years. Multiplying the total of the different ages by three hundred and sixty, we get the sum of four million three hundred and twenty thousand years, "12,000 x 360."

Let us specify that access to, and explanations of, this theory are difficult, and that we do not wish to make it into an absolute… You may discuss it further if you wish.

Maha Yuga

The twelve thousand divine years are part of another cycle, the "Maha Yuga." "Maha" in the Sanskrit language translates as "great." A thousand Maha Yugas form one day of Brahma.

There is also a night of Brahma, equal in length to the day. During this period, the universe collapses in on itself.

Brahma has a lifespan of one hundred years; he has reached the halfway point of his existence, the Paradha; para "half," dha "existence of Brahma."

Kalpa

We find fourteen lives of Brahma, which we call a kalpa. We are in the second kalpa, the "Vaisasta," preceded by the first kalpa, the "Svayambhuva." Note that scientists agree that the universe is around one-seventh of the way through its "expansion" and "retention."

The theory of the Kalpas places us at the midpoint of the second kalpa out of a total of fourteen kalpas. There is thus a certain agreement with science. Given the possibility of several kalpas, scientists would also agree with the theory of parallel universes.

14 Kalpa
Svayambhuva = Origin
Vaisasta = Second 1 Yuga
12000 * 360 = 4,320,000 MahaYuga
1000 Yugas

Yuga

Each of the 4 Yuga has different characteristics. Thus the Krita Yuga nourishes the purity of the human race. We also call it the golden age. Whereas the Kali Yuga, which we have only just left, around 1858, is marked as the iron age. The Krita Yuga, or the age of the eternal virtues of the world's creation, is noted for an absolute soul that was white.

In the Treta and Dvapara Yuga, favor could be obtained only through lengthy sacrifices. The human being adheres to truth, to devotion and to ceremony, and understands their calling or their duty. The absolute soul becomes yellow.

In the Kali Yuga the virtues are reduced to their minimum. Anxiety, revolts and wars are part of this era.

Traveler

The traveler could be an "extra-terrestrial," seeding the planets by mingling with apes...

We use the term extra-terrestrial here, but the terms divine Being or space traveler would suit better.

We hold to no extra-terrestrial belief of our own, and we advise you to filter such approaches carefully. The universe being an immense expanse that allows for the great journey only on the scale of billions of years. We believe the great journey is reserved for the creator being, or for a people who would possess the resources for it. Would they be earthly like us? All of this still remains in the realm of either the tangible or the impossible.

Extending into the Future

The Kalpas offer a broader measure of reality.

Let us note, however, a different point of view. After the Age of Aquarius, we will pass through the age of the constellation, followed by that of the infinite, which will span several millennia.

The Vaisasta Kalpa's existence being at its halfway point. Some billions of years in which the Yugas will be born and expire on different planets, but only one at a time.

Scientists estimate the age of the universe at around 13 billion years. The theory of the Kalpas could likewise be given a figure, but given the divergence of the accounts, since some Upanishads attest to 30 Kalpas, we will not attempt to do so.

Our aim here is to corroborate the theory of the Kalpas with modern science through three present-day facts, that is to say parallel worlds, the big bang and wormholes.

Could the fourteen kalpas be synonymous with parallel worlds?

What we want to convey is that for infinity to be possible, life is admissible planet by planet. Although this may seem implausible, there is nothing that contradicts what we must define as a reality.

Let Us Summarize

A cycle called a "yuga" comprises a thousand "Maha Yuga" cycles. A thousandth of a "Maha Yuga" in turn counts twelve thousand divine years. There are fourteen "Kalpas."

It is not necessary to understand the theory of the "kalpas" for our own evolution. Still, if you do grasp its direction, we can only congratulate you.

That said, the relationship carries this simplicity: that the universe is not clothed only in infinity, but is also clothed in definition.

THE YUGA OF THE ASCENT

Here is a statement equal to our future, the yuga of the ascent.

A saying goes: everything that rises must come back down. Since we were, let us say for the sake of this phrase, far purer in our youth. Must we now rise back up? Physics would surely take issue with this formula. Still, it is better to take an objective stance while holding on to the hope of improvement.

The "Kali" yuga has been over since 1858. In other words, a yuga of ascent has already been under way for more than a hundred years. The driving force in this ascent is the human being, and the means of that ascent must be God, through the techniques of auditory and visual contemplation.

"Shabda" and "Téjas"

Conclusion

What can we conclude from our reading of the theory of the Kalpas? What we have just studied only lightly touches the summary of the twelve thousand "divine" years that separate us from our point of origin on earth. We recognize that it is difficult to grasp so divergent a culture, but let us try to determine its connecting threads.

Let us once again awaken our analysis of the theory of the Kalpas, to weigh its weakness or its strength.

The Orient dissolves into the millennia that saw it born. In this way truth and evidence grow stronger. And yet, the vehicle of the theory of the Kalpas remains fascinating, given its great age.

It would be quite easy to describe the origins of humankind as reaching back more than twelve thousand years. But the theory speaks of twelve thousand divine years. And we know that one divine year amounts to three hundred and sixty years as we understand them.

Is It Its Weakness or Its Strength?

To continue on soundly, you will agree to a small caveat: every piece of writing is formulated through the strength of a theory. Sciences and research must be freed of the burden of proof.

A theory always remains a theory. We have, of course, found objects or civilizations more than twelve thousand years old. Can the logic of divine years be accepted? All of this remains at the stage of exposition. Would a blending of divine beings with apes be the answer to the question?

Be that as it may, through its complexity and its simplicity, the theory of the Kalpas captures a divine secret. Is the human being four million years old?

It should be stated one last time, before closing, that the theory of the Kalpas must be grasped as a theory and not as an absolute; since we do not know its origins, we do not wish to make it into a truth.

That said, there is a certain nobility in reading it, understanding it and sharing it.

Note also that other means of conveying or understanding the message of this theory are promoted as well, since we are not entirely settled on the date of the end of the "Kali" yuga. This calls into question the way of presenting it.

P.S. This other way of viewing the theory of the Kalpas mentions that we would have about 400,000 years of earthly coexistence remaining, while the theory of the ascent would allow for another 4 million.

It is simply worth remembering that the theory of the Kalpas holds that for a universe to be infinite, it must be defined, and that this definition permits life on only one planet per cycle, or else its infinitude would be brief.