God Reveals How He Created the World from Nothing

God summoned Enoch to sit at His left hand, beside the archangel Gabriel. Then He spoke — not through angels, not through intermediaries, but directly, with His own voice — and revealed the secret of creation that He had never told even to His angels.

"Before the very beginning," God said, "I alone existed. I moved through the invisible, like the sun from east to west and from west to east. But even the sun has peace in itself. I had no peace — because I was creating all things. I conceived the thought of placing foundations, of bringing visible creation out of invisible nothing."

He called into the depths, and a being named Adoil descended — vast and great, with a belly full of light. God commanded him: "Become undone, and let the visible come out of you." Adoil dissolved, and a great light burst forth. From that light, as light is born from light, an entire age emerged — all of creation, everything God had conceived.

God saw that it was good.

He placed a throne for Himself and sat upon it, and said to the light: "Rise higher. Fix yourself above the throne. Be the foundation of the highest things." And above the light, there was nothing else.

Then He called a second time into the depths. A being called Archas emerged — hard, heavy, and very red. God said: "Be opened, and let there be born from you." Archas came undone, and an age came forth — very great, very dark — bearing the substance of all lower creation. God sent it downward: "Fix yourself, and be the foundation for the lower things." Below the darkness, there was nothing else.

Then God commanded light and darkness to thicken. He spread light over the waters and darkness beneath them. He made the waters firm — the bottomless deep — and created seven circles within, imaged like crystal, wet and dry, transparent as glass. He set the seven stars in their heavens and gave each one its road.

He separated light from darkness. He said to the light: "Be the day." To the darkness: "Be the night."

And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day (Genesis 1:3-5).

This was creation as God Himself described it — not to prophets, not to angels, but to one man, sitting at the left hand of the divine throne, hearing the voice that had spoken the universe into existence.