THE SACRED CODEX OF GENESIS: CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2

¹And the Lord turned His eye to Ivalice, which He had placed between the Heights and the Depths, and found it a place of potential, for it was yet unformed, without shape or sound or seed.
²And with His voice He parted the waters from the firmament, and commanded the sky to vault above Ivalice like a shield of breath and color. He stretched it wide, so the birds might soar, and so that the Heavens might declare His glory.
³And beneath the sky He drew the waters into their courses. He carved great basins with His hand and filled them with the deep, and they surged forth into seas and rivers and lakes, according to His design.
⁴Then He gathered the land from beneath the waters, and made it rise in places, as mountains and hills, and made it lie low in others, as plains and valleys.
⁵And the Lord shaped the mountains like folded arms, to shelter the lands; and He smoothed the plains like open palms, to grow the harvest; and He gouged the canyons and set the cliffs, that man might marvel at the strength of His hand.
⁶Upon the land He scattered stones of many kinds: granite, obsidian, jasper, iron, and gold. For some were to be hidden and uncovered with toil, and others laid bare for beauty and delight.
⁷Then the Lord set winds upon Ivalice, and made them to blow from the corners of the sky, to stir the seas and sweep the land, and He gave them song, that Ivalice might never sleep in silence.
⁸After this, the Lord spoke again, and from the dust of Ivalice He called forth the green. He covered the ground with soft grasses and great forests, with palms and brambles, with flowering trees and vines heavy with fruit.
⁹He formed the olive tree, whose fruit gives light; the fig, for sweetness; the grain, for bread; and the vine, for joy. He gave each plant its kind, each seed its season, and each root its depth.
¹⁰He commanded the trees to stretch upward in praise, and their leaves to tremble with the breath of His winds. He made them to bear fruit according to their kind, that Ivalice might be filled with nourishment and beauty.
¹¹Then the Lord made flowers to bloom upon the hills and in the valleys, and to fill the air with fragrance, that man might remember wonder.
¹²And He made the herbs and spices of the field, for healing and for food, and He placed in each plant its purpose: some to give medicine, and some to give delight, and others to teach caution and reverence.
¹³Then the Lord looked upon the waters and spoke, and they teemed with life at His command. Great fish swam in the deep, and creeping things in the shallows. Kraken He made to thunder through the seas, and shoals of silver fish to dance like stars beneath the waves.
¹⁴He made the dolphins to laugh, and the whales to sing, and the eels to flash like living wires. He filled the coral with color and the tides with rhythm.
¹⁵And the Lord said: “Let the skies be filled with winged things,” and from the breath of His word, the birds arose.
¹⁶Some soared on high and called to the sun, while others made their nests in the quiet corners of Ivalice. He made the eagle for majesty, the raven for mystery, and the sparrow for companionship.
¹⁷And He set each bird its song, and no two were the same, and their voices rose up like incense to the sky.
¹⁸Then upon the land He brought forth the beasts. He made the wild and the tame, the mighty and the small.
¹⁹The lion He made to rule the savannah, the bear to roam the forests, and the deer to leap in grace. He made the cattle to serve, the sheep to follow, the dog to guard, and the horse to run swiftly.
²⁰He made each after its kind and saw that each bore the mark of His hand. He gave them instincts and hunger and seasons of rest. He gave the hare its fear, the serpent its stealth, and the ox its patience.
²¹He watched as the herds gathered on the plains and the predators stalked in the thickets, and He saw that the balance was right.
²²To each creature, He gave the breath of life, and to some, the gift of voice, and to others, the quiet language of movement and gaze.
²³He did not create the world in haste, but in the fullness of thought, and each thing He made was not only to survive, but to praise Him by its being.
²⁴And the Lord placed cycles in the world: day and night, season and harvest, birth and death. For without the ending, there is no meaning to the beginning.
²⁵He ordained the snows to fall in their time and the rivers to swell in spring. He gave the sun its arc and the moon her phases, and He scattered the stars in their places as lamps to mark the night.
²⁶He looked then upon all that He had made: the mountains and valleys, the rivers and seas, the forests and meadows, the birds in their flight and the beasts on the ground.
²⁷And He was pleased, for Ivalice had shape and voice and fullness. It was no longer void but abundant.
²⁸Yet still it was not complete, for though it teemed with life and echoed with song, it had no mind to speak back, no heart to know Him.
²⁹And so the Lord turned His thoughts toward a greater creation still — one that might choose, and remember, and bear His image in flesh.
³⁰But this He withheld until the sixth day, for it would be a work unlike any other, and it would bear the weight of freedom and consequence.

▷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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