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one. There are too many similarities between hieroglyphic texts
and Vedic ones, these in turn echoed in a somewhat diluted form
and a confused fashion by the authors of Babylonian texts and the
Old Testament:
In the beginning there was darkness,
Utter darkness, darkness upon darkness,
The world then was merely its primordial essence, its formless
fabric.
Thus what would become this world was first wrapped within
the all-pervading power of the Eternal One
Before whom our material world is but a trifle brought into
existence
By the omnipotent force of His will alone.
- From the
Rig Veda
(10.129.3)
Yet the Vedas go further, being philosophy, or really spiritual science,
rather than myth:
Who truly knows, who can honestly say where
this universe came from
and where it will vanish to at the End?
Those godlike wise men who claim they know were born long
after the birth of Creation.
Who then could know where our universe really came from?
And whoever knows or does not know where Creation came
from,
Only one gazing at its vastness from the very roof of the final
heaven -
Only such a one could possibly know.
But does even He know?
- From the
Rig Veda
(129.7-7)
The Bible begins with the Creation. Before the Creation, however,
there was the Creator; but does even He know what was there before
She existed? Long before such philosophical questions occurred to
