In the beginning God Almighty in His majesty created a huge jewel of green peridot. No one but He knows its size. Then the Lord trained His gaze onto that jewel and looked on it with a glance of awe. Under the influence of God's gaze, this jewel became liquid and began to undulate. It turned into a sea and nbegan to boil and churn and was moved from its depths. As it boiled, it began to evaporate, and steam rose up from it. This vapor continued to rise, and below it remained a thickening, coagulated, precious mass. From the layers of vapor the Lord of the worlds created the seven heavens, and from the remaining primordial mass he created seven layers which He then made into the seven earths. The thickness of each of the layers of heaven and earth was five hundred thousand light-years, and as for the space separating each of them from the next only God knows it as He said:
After creating the heavens and the earth, God created a great angel. Between his eyebrows there is a distance of five hundred light-years. He has two wings decorated with great constellations. They spread their lights like flickering fires over his majestic shoulders. One wing represents the East, the other the West. The angel was ordered to bend down his neck. With both his arms he lifted up the whole of creation spanning the East and the West. He carried this burden until he came to rest right beneath the divine Throne. There he will remain until Judgment Day.
When he lifted his burden, the angel saw that his feet remained
suspended in mid-air. God then ordered the angels to bring from the highest
Paradise a stone of red ruby. This heavenly rock was placed beneath the
angel's feet so that he found a place for his feet. Now this red ruby
remained suspended in mid-air. So the Lord brought an enormous ox
which had seventy-thousand legs from Paradise. This ox was so huge
that its horns reached from the highest heaven to the foot of the divine
Throne. It was immeasurably greater in size than the angel carrying the
heavens and the earth. The angels placed the red ruby stone between the
horns of the ox where it was firmly grounded; except there was nothing to support the feet of the ox. God, therefore, fashioned a dome-shaped vessel; its breadth was a distance of seven hundred thousand light-years.
The angels placed this vessel beneath the feet of the ox. The ox now stood firm. But the vessel was left hanging in the air.
From the perfection of His divine power, God created a whale by the name of
Lutia. He then ordered the angels to place the vessel on its back, and the
angels obeyed. By the will of God, the vessel stood fast. Now only the whale remained in the air. So God created an angel more beautiful than the new crescent moon. Half of it is fire and half snow. Its constant prayer is:
"By the Lord who has made this fire cohabit in peace with this snow, may
God bless and forgive His human beings." Thus God made the angel that
carries the universes stand on top of the red ruby, placed on top of the
ox that rested on the dome-shaped vessel that sat on the whale Lutia who
swam in the palm of the angel of opposites like a ring lost in the midst
of a great desert.
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