Fiat Lux

Fiat Lux!

It will be light.

I will that there be light.

"Let there be light" is really a namby pamby translation.

Too polite, to gentle, to soft, too given to alternative, too given to other possibilities. It reads as though there might be a choice, that light really didn't have to be if it didn't want to. Or, if light just didn't feel like it that "day", G and light could sit down and have a nice discussion about it.

That is not G.

This is G.

Fiat Lux!

By Fiat.

By command, by order, by demand, I shall create something out of nothing. (re. creation ex nihilo and it's various and sundry philosophical and physical issues? Not going there right now. Another can of worms, for another days fishing.)

Well, maybe I'll open a little tiny can of wormness - if G pre-exists his creation of the universe, (which G of course, being eternal and unchanging, must), then something (G) existed prior to creation, therefore G is not creating the universe ex nihilo, but instead either out of his very substance, or by an act of pure will, or pure thought, (whatever the hell that means, your guess is as good as mine).

(On the basis of the observed results, I'd have to say that G has a problem with "pure" anything.)

Either way there is no Ex nihilo involved.

G speaks the word, and it is.

This is a very old and common idea, found in almost all early cultures. The idea or belief that words are not just symbolic of an idea, thing, action, or person - Words ARE the idea, the thing, the action, the person.

Therefore saying and doing are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing.

You're probably more familiar with this as magic - or magick, if you are fussy that way.

And which term - Magick - I use out of a strange sort of respect for poor old Aleister, who was every bit as deluded as the celibate men in cassocks and silly hats who still, to this very day, stand before the altar and chant the meaningless spell over the bread and wine, in the belief (under the delusion) that the bread and wine will be transubstantiated into the body and blood of someone called the savior, Aka, The Christ, (who has been dead to this world for about two thousand years, and is beyond ripe), which flesh must then be consumed in a public act of ritual cannibalism, so that, through another form of magic, (sympathetic) the consumer becomes one with the consumed, thereby inheriting his powers, and thereby obtaining all the rights and benefits appertaining thereto. Said benefits being more commonly known as "life everlasting" in "Heaven", where they will hang with "G", in eternal bliss

for ever and ever,

world without end,

Amen....

G knows, if the eucharist isn't ritual magick, then they ain't no such thing.