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GENESIS is the first book of the SCRIPTURES. It is the story of how God created himself and then went on to create the universe.

The First Testimony of
SCRIPTURES:

GENESIS

FIRST and FOREMOST, there was God and nothing else.

There is no starting point for God's existence, nor is there an end. God lived in an infinite space of nothingness in a dream-like state. A thought woke God up, "The universe is waiting on you." That was the beginning of God as we know him.
So God carved a figure for himself out of the nothingness he existed in, and stepped out of it. In that way he became born again. It is at God's first thought that he realized he existed, and at that moment he decided that existence without thought or purpose was meaningless, thus God decided to create.
God's first concept was 'time.' So he created numbers. His second concept was 'the day.' God thought that each day should have a purpose, "for a day without purpose is still not a day."
God gave purpose to his day by creating the stars, so that he could see through the nothingness. In that way he became enlightened. God created something from nothing. He decided that was day one, and he named it "Starday."
God saw through the nothingness, but still there was nothing to see. He became frustrated, so he created the earth, so that he could sit and think. That was day two. He called it "Earthday."
But the earth was too dark because God had created it too far away from the stars. And so it was that he made another star that lit up the whole earth. He called this star "the sun." This was day three, and it was named 'Sunday.'
For the first time since God awoke, he became tired from all of his work, so he lay down on the earth to sleep. But the sun was too bright, for he was used to sleeping in the nothingness. So God made the sun go down and the moon come up. God said, "It is good to sleep after a hard days' work." When God awoke, he looked at the moon and he decided that was day four, and he called it "Moonday."
Then he made the moon go down and the sun come up again so that he could see the earth once more. God could see that the earth was barren and blank. God looked straight into the sun. Then he thought of the moon and the stars. He thought that each of them had a shape and that was what the earth needed. And so he created many shapes upon the earth and the earth did take form.
God looked around at all of his creations and a feeling caught hold of him. It struck him so that he lost his balance and he knelt on the earth. God called the feeling "love." Thereby, God prayed for the universe, because he felt humbled by the gift he had just received. For he did not create love, yet the universe had it to offer. Both God and universe took pride in each other and so God said this was day five, and he called it "Loveday.'
It seemed to God that his creations were beginning to have a life of their own. He thought about it and said, "That is what we need more of…life." He put his hands into the soil of the earth and told it to come alive. So the earth did blossom for God with many plants and flowers, and the insects rose from the ground. God was delighted and so he continued. He felt the earth and it felt hard. He felt the sky above the earth and it felt like nothing. He wanted to feel something that was between 'hard' and 'nothing.' Something that was solid like the earth but also vague like the sky, so God created 'water.' Since water was the 'in-between' of sky and earth, he made it reflective, so that it could mirror the sky on earth.
God became enchanted with the insects. Their movement fascinated him. God wanted motion all around him. So he placed the animals on the land, he dropped the fish in the water and he threw the birds in the sky. God became hot from all of his work, so he made the wind blow in the form of a breeze, to take him out of the heat. This was his longest day. It was day six, which God named, 'Natureday.'
God decided to relax and enjoy his creations, and so he created himself extra senses so that he could fully appreciate all of them. He smelt the roses and tasted the honey as he heard the bees buzzing. God then climbed the mountains. He swam with the fish. He ran with the animals and he flew with the birds. God was happy and so he laughed. God said, "It is good to enjoy life." This was the seventh day and he called it, 'Funday.'

God played so hard that he became thirsty. He sat by the water to rest and drink. As he was taking a drink, God noticed his own reflection in the water. It was beautiful, like no creature he had thought of before. He had never seen himself before and he fell in love with his beauty. He put his hand in the water and grabbed his reflection. The image was so beautiful that it made time stand still as he gazed upon it. God thought, "This is love again. And to love oneself is good." But God neglected his other creations as he sat staring at his image. Then God thought, "This is vanity and that is bad." God looked in the water again and grabbed a second image. He put the two reflections together so that they were facing each other. He then kissed them both on the lips as he blew the breath of life into them. But still, God kept them in the dream-like state of which he existed in before he awoke. God then sacrificed a rose as he plucked it and held it to their noses. Thereon, they could smell. He took some honey and put it in their mouths. Thereon, they could taste. God touched their fingertips. Thereon, they could feel. He whispered in their ears, "God exists," and thereon, they could hear.

God looked upon his two creations again and he became tempted, and God said to them, "It is not wrong that I should love you as I do, for beauty lends itself to be loved. But let me keep my distance, for my love must be distributed equally among all of my creations and not so one-sided as I feel it now." It was then that God decided that he would not live on earth, instead the earth should belong to all of his creations, "For each creature needs a home, and the earth shall provide for each creature." God would keep his days meaningful by creating a new home for himself. Thereby, watching over all of his creations at a separate but equal distance. God decided that this was day eight, and he called it, 'Birthday.'

This was also the last day that God gave a name, for he said the number 8 is like a cycle that goes on infinitely by repeating itself. "And so shall the days repeat themselves in memory of each other, for as the days go by, so shall they return." God still did not give his two new creations sight. He did not want them to see him, les they be tempted by God and not by each other. Instead he contemplated their fate, of which he did not know. He thought about his existence and how it had been without meaning or purpose before day one, Starday. He did not want that to be any of his creations' fate.
And so God called to all of his creations so that they could gather around him for counsel. He explained to them that this was his last day on earth and that life was his gift to them all and what they did with it was up to them. He would leave no commandments or rules to live by. They would have to discover that for themselves. For although God could create life, it was not his to own, "For once life is given, it lives as it wills." And God being so new at life himself, did not know it all.
God told his creations some of the things that he had learned from life thus far. He told them that life without thought or purpose would eventually become useless and thereby extinct. "One thing leads to another, so take a positive lead, then good things shall follow. You yourself must make the effort for I am only the teacher. My greatest reward is that a student become my teacher, and in that way, I shall follow, for I too am eager to learn."
Then God told them that he would leave them with one more gift and two warnings. The gift God gave all of his creations was the ability to communicate with each other, "So that you may help each other, for there is one common goal." The first warning that God gave was that all of his creatures stay within the part of the earth he called "The Garden of Rhapsody." "For it is the finished part of the earth," What lay beyond it, God called 'Chaos.' Which he said was wild and untamed in some areas and blank and barren in others. The second warning was that no creature should eat from the cherry tree. "For thoughts and actions bear fruit in our lives, according to the intentions behind them, so whatever fruits your thoughts may bear, let it not be inspired by the cherry, for I have made it sour with ignorance."
Then God pointed to his last two creations as he introduced them and called them by name. And it was so that one was called Adam and the other was called Steve. God then told all of his creations about his discovery of love. He reached his hand into the water and threw the drops into the sky, and they became the clouds. Said God to all that existed, "Behold, for miracles come forth from the hand of God." He told them that he could create many wonderous things, but of the thing called love, he could not. Then God placed his hand on a sheep, and by so, he made it that the sheep could speak and be understood by all. God asked the sheep if he loved him. The sheep replied, "I am grateful, but I doubt that is the same as love." And God said to all, "You may give of many splendid things, but to receive love, there is no guarantee. For whatever love may be, it is not in my hands to create. And in that way I shall always be limited. So go forth and discover love. Wherever you may find it and whoever you may find it with; for who you love should never matter more than the fact that you love."
Afterwhich, God told them about certain laws of nature, such as the dream-like state he called 'sleep,' which Adam and Steve were still in. God said that he would make an end to a day and the beginning of a darkness called 'night.' "In that way, the earth shall respect your sleep and it will also separate the days so you will know when a new day has begun." God knelt before all of his creatures and said a prayer for them, "May all beings be happy."
But God thought it was unfair that the animals had seen him but Adam and Steve had not, so he made the animals all forget what he looked like, but preserving their memories of all he had said and done. He made the sun go down and the moon come up. And God set foot off of the earth and ascended into the sky to create his new home.
When the sun rose again on earth, that was a new day, and the beginning of the cycle of 8 days, and it was Starday. Every creature, including Adam and Steve awoke, and on first sight, Adam and Steve fell in love with each other.