There is one aspect of Saturn that few today notice, a somewhat obscure prophetic reference regarding Cosmic time and manifestation. The Demiurge crafted a Cosmos before this one, built upon the sixth, yet the centre could not hold and the entire creation broke into shards.
It was from these remnants that the current Cosmos was constructed, following the Glimpse, the reflection of reality beyond simple manifestation, which the Demiurge believed was his view alone.
Mike, this is quite a fascinating cosmological cocktail you've served up!
After diving deep into the ancient Gnostic and Hermetic libraries — from the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Apocryphon of John to the most obscure Hermetic treatises — I'm afraid I've come up empty-handed on your specific narrative (otherwise I would have included it - or at least, added it to my reference library for future stories)...
The ancient sources are remarkably chatty about cosmological disasters, actually. But curiously, you've uncovered a creation myth that somehow escaped the notice of every Gnostic scribe, Hermetic philosopher, and esoteric compiler for the past two millennia.
Your comment about 'the centre could not hold' does have a lovely ring to it — very reminiscent of Yeats, though I suspect W.B. was thinking more about political upheaval than cosmic architecture when he penned those words in 1919...
All joking aside. I'm genuinely curious - could you share where this particular teaching originates? What specific texts, traditions, or lineages preserve this account? Because if there's an authentic source I've missed, I'd be absolutely delighted to be proven wrong...
Otherwise, I think we might be looking at a rather creative modern interpretation — which is perfectly valid as contemporary spiritual synthesis, mind you — just perhaps not quite the 'prophetic wisdom' it's presented as.
There is one aspect of Saturn that few today notice, a somewhat obscure prophetic reference regarding Cosmic time and manifestation. The Demiurge crafted a Cosmos before this one, built upon the sixth, yet the centre could not hold and the entire creation broke into shards.
It was from these remnants that the current Cosmos was constructed, following the Glimpse, the reflection of reality beyond simple manifestation, which the Demiurge believed was his view alone.
Mike, this is quite a fascinating cosmological cocktail you've served up!
After diving deep into the ancient Gnostic and Hermetic libraries — from the Corpus Hermeticum, and the Apocryphon of John to the most obscure Hermetic treatises — I'm afraid I've come up empty-handed on your specific narrative (otherwise I would have included it - or at least, added it to my reference library for future stories)...
The ancient sources are remarkably chatty about cosmological disasters, actually. But curiously, you've uncovered a creation myth that somehow escaped the notice of every Gnostic scribe, Hermetic philosopher, and esoteric compiler for the past two millennia.
Your comment about 'the centre could not hold' does have a lovely ring to it — very reminiscent of Yeats, though I suspect W.B. was thinking more about political upheaval than cosmic architecture when he penned those words in 1919...
All joking aside. I'm genuinely curious - could you share where this particular teaching originates? What specific texts, traditions, or lineages preserve this account? Because if there's an authentic source I've missed, I'd be absolutely delighted to be proven wrong...
Otherwise, I think we might be looking at a rather creative modern interpretation — which is perfectly valid as contemporary spiritual synthesis, mind you — just perhaps not quite the 'prophetic wisdom' it's presented as.