Objective:

This week’s discussion, we will cover the three “pre” days of the creation.

Beads:

These passages will cover the first three beads of the 4th section:

(Bead 1): “Even as in the beginning, the Creator contemplated this, the creation before the days in which she was organized.”

(Bead 2): “And the Creator caused darkness to come up upon the face of the endless abyss.”

(Bead 3): “And Ruach Elohim was brooding upon the face of the waters.”

Passages to Ponder

1 Moses 3

1. And it came to pass that Ahyeh Asher Ahyeh spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven and this earth; write the words which I speak.
2. I am the Aleph Tav, Elohim Shaddai; by the Yachad Yachid Echad I created these things.
3. Yea, in knowledge and in wisdom created I the elohim, and Heavens, and the Earth.
4. And the Earth, she was empty, and chaos filled her; and I caused darkness to come up upon the face of the endless abyss.
5. And Ruach Elohim moved upon The Presence of the Waters, for I am Elohim.

Abraham 4

1. And then the Lord said: Let us go down; and they went down at the beginning, and they organized and formed, (that is, the gods,) the heavens and the earth.
2. And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate; because they had not formed anything but the earth: and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of the Gods was brooding upon the faces of the water.

Book of Remembrance – Chapter 2

13. And by the Only Begotten, YHVH who is Jesus Christ, were these things created; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.
14. And the earth was without form, and void; and I caused darkness to come up upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water; for these are God’s.
15. ¶ And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate, because nothing had been formed but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of the gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.

Questions of Knowledge (What it says at the surface)

• What does it say the condition of the Earth was before she was Created?
• Who does it say did the creating?

Questions of Wisdom (What it means below the surface)

• What is the “difference” between the face of the abyss, and the face of the waters? (or face of the deep, and Presence of the waters?)
• What is the difference between darkness upon the face of the deep, and the spirit moving upon the presence of the waters?

Questions of Understanding (Likening it to Ourselves)

• Have you ever encountered darkness at the edge of the abyss?
• Have you ever “brooded” upon the face of the water?
• In what way do these things prepare you for creation?

Questions of Mystery (What deeper meaning can be harvested)

• In what way are these two days about knowledge and wisdom?
• In what ways are the events of this “pre-creation“ like the Mother/Father of creation?