THE SACRED CODEX OF GENESIS: CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1

¹In the beginning, there was only the Lord, eternal and without shape, whose spirit moved in stillness beyond time and beyond knowing.
²And He looked into the Void, which was not dark, for even darkness had not yet been made, and He willed into being the first of His works: three realms for His purposes.
³First, He made Heaven, high and radiant beyond imagining, a place of glory and song, where the righteous would dwell in His presence forevermore. It was not made with fire or stone, but with His breath, and it shone like the heart of a star.
⁴Then He made Hell, not as a punishment without cause, but as a place of justice and separation. It was set deep and low, a realm of bitter frost, where the light of the Lord does not shine and the warmth of His breath is withheld.
⁵Hell was shaped with wind and frost, with silence and sorrow. It was of ice and rime, with snows that fall forever and jagged lands of pale stone. Its throne was empty, awaiting the one who would be cast down.
⁶And last did He form Ivalice, as a place between, where life might grow and be tested, where the soul of man might blossom or wither.
⁷And Ivalice He placed between Heaven and Hell, and its sky was lit with stars to remember the High Realm, and its depths were hollowed to echo the Cold Below.
⁸To each realm did He give its law: to Heaven, holiness; to Ivalice, choice; to Hell, judgment. And none might dwell in one without the merit or the cause.
⁹Then the Lord declared: “Ivalice shall be the place of breath, where flesh walks and the heart is measured. And when the breath is spent, I shall weigh the soul. To those who walked in righteousness, I shall say: Come and enter into My rest. But to those who walk in cruelty, I shall say: Depart into the cold I have prepared.”
¹⁰And He set a veil between Ivalice and the other realms, that none might cross unbidden, save by the Lord’s decree.
¹¹Then He drew forth light and made it to shine upon Ivalice, and He separated it from the dark, not that darkness is evil, but that choice might be seen clearly by those who dwell in the middle place.
¹²And the Lord named the light Day, and the dark He named Night. And thus were time and cycle begun, so that all things might have their season and their measure.
¹³And the Lord looked upon the three realms and declared them good, for each served its purpose: one to reward, one to test, and one to judge.
¹⁴Thus were Heaven, Ivalice, and Hell formed by the will of the Lord, before any creature moved or any wind stirred upon the face of the deep.

▷THE SEVEN SCRIPTURES OF THE CHURCH OF GLABADOS
    ▷THE FIRST TESTAMENT
        ▷THE SACRED CODEX OF GENESIS
            ▶1—2—3—4—5

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