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To what does God speak when he says “let there be light”? This question plagues the history of theological thought. Assuming him as the beginning, the tale of how the world came to be is troublesome. It suggests that there’s a listener to God’s command—more so, a will to enact his request. If this is true, it places the idea of God as a starting point—as a sole origin—on its head. For you see, he’s at the company of a voiceless response. The case that’s being proposed is not God and creation, but God and something that allowed creation. In other words, it is not God that created but rather God that instructed.
But what is he instructing? Supposing both God and the ‘canvas’ for creation are the start, what’s all of this nonsense about light? How does the ‘listener’ know what they’re being asked? Commanding the activity supposes it already being there—somewhere, looming, being ‘light’ elsewhere until summoned. The driving idea here is precisely that these things that come about in creation seem to already ‘be’ upon their debut to the world, leading us to theorize of a ‘somewhere’ that holds them. If this is the case and we’re still considering the conditions for an origin, this correlate to God’s instruction can only be that of pure information—coded perhaps in a language that communicates the will with information in the same way that a body responds to its nervous system. A level of communication that precedes all of the layers in nature between objects: the first language.
The question acquires strength once we ponder the recognition of speech. This pocket where all things reside in code form can only ‘be’ that—a tool shed of parts that remain senseless until something nudges them. The matter at hand transforms from talking about ‘creation’ to talking about ‘sense-making’. For there to be light, this registry must understand ‘light’ from ‘non-light’—and this implies conditions where there’s light and conditions where there’s none. More strictly put, the start of sense-making is delimiting the logic of a world; in doing so, this simultaneously creates other worlds that function with opposing logic. Therefore, what God is communicating with is properly the ‘nexus’ of those logic systems. In giving out a command, a logic route is chosen that separates it from all of the possibilities left unchosen. The attention changes from a lone God to the binary God-Registry.
The story goes that God’s speech jumpstarted the universe as we know it. First a single point, the ‘verb’ had it expand endlessly. Yet in its expansion, once a certain distance is travelled, the nature of the energy seems to condense—essentially becoming of a different kind. This brings forth ‘layers’ that we call Planes; the Aeonic, Divine, Spiritual, Buddhic, Mental, Astral and Physical planes respectively. What has them differ from one another is the density of the energy and information schema in each: the further the plane is from the starting point, the more condensed its information and energy are. But once this information settles, the condensation is experienced in various scales—planets, germs, trees, animals, humans, etc. However, only some share the legacy of speech.
Those that carry speech bring with them ‘echoes’ of each plane before their condensation: we call these Chakras. The struggles of life and distancing from one’s self provokes the chakras to cloud and distort; but through meditation, it is believed they can be opened. It is claimed by those that achieve this that they experience the world through symbols and numbers that don’t seem to correspond to any known language: they effectively meet that ‘other’ which responds to the originating verb. In tracing a line from that primal start to where the speech holders are, they’re capable of manifesting events in the same manner that God instructed light to come forth—like pinging coordinates for a vault of miracles to descend one of its possibilities unto them.
A long list of individuals have come and gone that succeeded in not only experiencing these symbols, but also rescuing them as a method to communicate with that latent plane—producing a science that is known to us as Alchemy. Some of them, however, enjoy a stronger connection with Speech than others; these are called Aeons. Manifestations of the Verb, it is through them that God becomes a part of his instruction—how we’re capable of looking back to how we’re made as well as think about the things we do. Alchemy, piled with this, is the practice of communicating with the plane of information in order to produce an event in a lower plane.
We’ve traditionally known this as magic; alchemy seems to be no different. There’s a conjuration of spells in the same manner, following the descriptions we provide to the information plane. The plane then translates our desire into the linguistic characters necessary to invoke the event—such as summoning fire or ice in the same way fiction has taught us. Alchemic circles with numbers, geometric designs and obscure runic markings that act as language are only some of the traits found in this system.
The idea is pretty straight forward: we search in that registry for the very elements that make up the event of our intention through our use of alchemic components. Naturally, the content of every schema varies—but the ingredients seem the same: the circle as the ‘universe’ of existing elements to the event; the center symbol as the ‘engine’ for the event; the inner shapes as the layers for the event and the markings along the shapes as the ‘content’. The more material the thing is, the more markings and shapes it will have. The more immaterial it is, however, the more elaborate its engine and outer markings are.
What’s peculiar about this world is that through psion altering technology, we’ve managed to conceive hundreds of scales for alchemic circles—zooming into them as if they were images to be edited. A proficient user could add hundreds of other circles into a single one, allowing for the schema to become more complex. These see use in weaponry such as guns—some having thousands of circles etched inside their barrels. Others (like the tribal groups on the outskirts of Pleroma) have developed a method of ‘memorizing’ circles with their bodies by outlining every line with their chakras. Were they to make contact upon some surface, the circle will ‘print’ itself or carry out the effect without showing its diagram. This and more number the reasons for alchemy’s rise as the most prominent science of Pleroma.
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