This is the Storyteller’s creation story that reimagines the universe’s origin as a joyful unfolding of the “Isness” into eight primal energies—Chaos, Allowance, Allegiance, Will, Love, Harmony, Knowledge, and Wisdom. These energies shape all existence, including the human experience.
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from the Foundation class in Vista, CA. 1987. Unlike most transcripts, this one is heavily edited. But it is less wordy and easier to read.
In the beginning of all things you may imagine the Isness, and the Isness to be, looking upon itself. In that looking, the Isness also discovers that it is not. In the discovery and the understanding that it is not, it becomes two.
Two halves. Those two, in the understanding that they may create from thought, become four. And those four in the joy that they are, burst outward in what you know to be the Big Bang.
In their joy to create, they burst outward into eight. And those became the primal energies of which I am one.
So the Isness begins to split, to become two, to become four, to become eight. These eight are the energies that combine together in different proportions to form all things that you may perceive.
These are the energies that form our ten-dimensional universe, and what you may know to be the ten dimensions of creation.
These energies flow through all things; it is the proportion of them that makes one thing different than another thing.
The smallest sub-atomic particle includes all eight energies.
The first of these energies to expand outward is known as Chaos. Chaos is an energy that is combined. It has nothingness within it. It has emptiness. It is unspecified. It also has one piece of each of the other energies. This is very important, for it is the place of all creations. It is the emptiness that is filled by all your creations. It is the place which you create into. It is a time and a place, it is a when and a where that you may place your creations into. Without this, there can be no creation. Chaos expands into all places and all whens and all wheres.
The next energy to separate out is Allowance — Allowance to the universe, and Allowance to man. Allowance becomes the first part of the paths. It becomes the first focusing. It becomes a movement. It becomes what is allowed to be and what is not allowed. It is the flow, the movement together.
The next energy is Allegiance. Allegiance moves together in the flow. For that which is allowed to move, Allegiance begins to move it all in the same direction. You give your Allegiance to yourself and to your desires and your actions. Within the universe, Allegiance forms together the gases into masses you call stars and planets. And the movement together of all the smallest particles.
Then there is Will and Power. In the universe, Will and Power becomes to control and to cooperate. It is one part of gravity. It causes to force things together, to move together, to hold. And in your being, it is also part of your personalities: to control self so you may take the steps of your life to observe your creations.
Then there is that which I am, the energy of Love. Love, for all things, is the glue. As the glue, it also holds things separate, so a thing may have some definition. For without the definition, you may not identify what is and what is not. The glue holds things together, yet holds them separate, and is the other part of gravity. To the universe, it checks the Will and Power, to know how much to pull against a thing. It is the governing thing that holds things away so that they may be separate. Without it, you would lose yourself into another. Without love for self, you quickly lose yourself to another thing outside of you. That is what we will learn, how to find the balance of your being with Love.
Then there is Harmony. To the universe, Harmony knows the proportion. How much Love to use for the weight of a thing to be felt properly in gravity. How much Allowance, how much Allegiance, how much of the energies to place together in certain ways that form either salt or sand, water or rock, flesh or bone or tissue. All of these things Harmony knows. And if it is used in balance, it is held in balance.
Then there is Knowledge. Knowledge in your understanding becomes the past, that of time. All things that are past, all things that have been created are past. When you look upon a planet, it is Knowledge, for it is past. In the observances of your life, when you see through the five senses, what you see is already past. It is most wondrous.
Then there is Wisdom. Wisdom is that which is yet to be. It is all possibilities of things that have not yet been, all combinations of energies together, all form. Wisdom is your future. In the future, it is for you to choose which paths to take. For you to move in certain directions of your choosing by desire, not fear. This is most wondrous!