The Language of Creation Commentary
Introduction
The Language of Creation Commentary is written in the spirit of The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis by Matthieu Pageau.
To make it clear
We are NOT endorsed by Matthieu Pageau, The Symbolic World, or any other referenced source
Let’s begin “in the beginning”…
Genesis 1
v1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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God, heaven, earth
We begin with God, and 2 biblical axioms:
- Heaven
- Earth
“on Earth, as it is in Heaven” - Earth should embody the Heavenly pattern(s)
We then attempt to derive other meaningful categories from these axioms based on the biblical narrative and stories.
For example:
- Time, where “Heaven and Earth” DO NOT unite
- Space, where “Heaven and Earth” DO unite
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v2
The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Mirror
The pattern of the Mirror; the Spirit of God hovering over the “face” of the waters
7 Days of Creation
- Days 1-3 are for that which will host
- Days 4-6 are for the creatures which inhabit and multiply
- Day 7 is the remainder, it is Sabbath
Time As Irrationality and Space As Rationality
Day 1
v3
God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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v4
God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
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v5
God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
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Day 1 begins at night (counter-intuitive to our modern worldview, some might even say “inverse”): - Darkness before Light (to this day, the Hebrew concept of a new day begins at night)
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Day 2
v6
God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
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v7
God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
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v8
God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
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Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7 - Sabbath
Genesis 2
v4
This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
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Third, the literary structure of the passage puts man’s creation from the dust of the earth in a place of significance. The structure of Genesis 2:5-9 can be broken down like this:
A No plant life (verse 5a)
B No intervention by God (verse 5b)
C No man to work the ground (verse 5c)
D Mist from God (verse 6)
E God creates man (verse 7a)
X God gives life (verse 7a)
E Man become a living creature (verse 7b)
D Garden from God (verse 8a)
C Man works the ground (verse 8b; cf. verse 15)
B God intervenes (verse 9)
A Plant life exists (verse 9)