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Before the Beginning there was nothing, and the abyss was empty of both matter and energy. There was no relativity, thus dimension was absent. The universe came into bein
g when the abyss divided into good and evil, in the way that zero Is equaled by the positive and the negative. This was the beginning, and all that is was made and all that will be was begun. Born were the natures of all things, and the nature of man was among them, though not yet born.
Time waited while the universe acquired order. From order sprang life, and life reached everywhere order could sustain it.
From the order and the life on Earth were men formed, and they were first to discover the good and the evil that comprise the universe. Half were drawn by great love toward good, which they found wise and caring, and half were drawn by great lust toward evil, which they found strong and hateful. Out of the good evolved Civilization, and out of the evil evolved Barbarism.
Civilization arose and walked; Barbarism tripped her: so ended the First Epoch of mankind, and the cycle was set.
The Second Epoch followed, and Civilization learned to tap the energy of Earth’s hot blood. In cold hate, Barbarism stabbed and cut the veins, and lava consumed the land and earthquakes rocked the water, and the fury unmasked was so great that the land cracked and divided into continents, and the water into oceans.
The Third Epoch began in the poles of Earth. Civilization thought to capture the energy of the sun by moving the planet closer to the star. The loving warmth brought spring to Earth, and all the continents and oceans were made splendid and fertile. New animals and plants and life of every kind evolved so that the Third Epoch was the greatest of all, But, alas! Barbarism rebelled, thrust Earth back from the sun, even farther then before, and the oceans were frozen at the poles, and the end of the Third Epoch was called the Ice Age. The power of the greatest epoch was immense and lasting though, and slowly Earth still pendulates nearer to and farther from the sun, but nevermore as near and comforted as in the great Spring.
The Mediterranean Gorge, in its transient majesty, was the setting of the Fourth Epoch. Civilization built great dams to harness the power of the waters, and the glorious cities were filled with fountains and aquaducts and flowing buildings such as none seen before or since. Atlantis was the most fabulous of these cities.
At the peak of the epoch, Barbarism abducted Civilization, and the races interbred. Thereafter were there evil and good in all of mankind, and the new race learned apathy, for the positive and negative equal zero, and there was concern for neither good nor evil. The tremendous Dam of Gibraltar fell into disrepair and finally ruin, so that all of the Mediterranean Gorge was flooded, and the end of the Fourth Epoch was known as the Great Flood. Survivors were few, but they were carried by the waters to all the continents, and they forgot one another.
The Fifth Epoch is the first to have been conceived in both good and evil, and its growth has been slower and less triumphant than the others. War was invented, for no race was wholly good so as to prevent it. When the Dark Ages befell, it appeared that all knowledge might be lost, ending the Fifth Epoch in its infancy; but, to the salvation of mankind, the Dark Ages were followed by a Renaissance. Occasionally individuals have arisen who approached the pure races of the epochs before the Abduction. Among them were Jesus, Buddha, Stalin and Hitler.
The future of the Fifth Epoch cannot be told, for the mix of good and evil is now unstable. The only certainty is that Time is the great Equalizer.
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