E mpyrean, vacant and vast, created by the Word, who lived outside; external, in transcendent reality incomprehensible and in preternatural dimension unimaginable. Into this created expanse, he placed all it now contains, a womb; a tangible place of nourishment for that which he would create in his own image, a marvelous place, a place prepared as a home fit for the Imago Dei.

From an infinite array of assembled specks of brilliance, he selected one. From its sea sand of luminous bodies, he selected the light that rules earth by day. From that light’s orbs, he selected one. From the soil of the orb, he formed a man.

In the Image of God created he him.

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