Before Time Was

Before time was, there was The One; The One was all & all

was The One.

And the vast expanse known as the Universe was The One,

allwise, all-pervading, all-powerful, eternally changing.

And Space moved. The One molded energy into twin forms

equal but opposite, fashioning the Goddess and God from

The One and of The One.

The Goddess & God stretched and gave thanks to The

One, but darkness surrounded them. They were alone,

solitary save for The One.

So they formed energy into gases and gases into suns and

planets and moons; They sprinkled the Universe with

whirling globes and so all was given shape by the hands of

the Goddess and God.

Light arose and the sky was illuminated by a billion suns.

and the Goddess and Gods, satisfied by their works,

rejoiced and loved, and were one.

From their union sprang seeds of life, and of the human

race, so that we might achieve incarnation upon the Earth.

The Goddess chose the Moon as her symbol, and the God

the Sun as his symbol to remind the inhabitants of Earth of

their fashioners.

All are born, live, die and are reborn beneath The Sun and

Moon; all things come to pass thereunder, and all occurs

with the blessings of The One, as has been the way of

existence before time was.

Finding your way around

(taken from the writings of Scott Cunningham, Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner, 1988, pg 113)