Science Rendition

The progressively expansive, elevating power complex first exteriorizes, as the foundational principle of a self-generative creation, a dynamic polarity: an expansive, ascending, en-lightening power and a compressive, descending, densifying power.

KJV:In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Key Words: BRASHYTH ALHYM^⁠  BRA SHMYM^⁠ ARTZ^⁠

[B]-R-A-SH-Y-TH – ‘self-generating foundational principle at the head of creation’

RSH – The sign of movement proper, united to that of relative movement, constitutes a root which is hieroglyphically symbolized by a point at the middle of a circle: it is the centre unfolding the circumference: the fundamental principle. …(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 455)

RASH – Every acting principle, good or bad; a venomous poison, a very bitter, gall: that which is primary, initial; the origin, summit, top; the culminating point of all things; the head of man or of anything whatsoever; the leader of a people, a captain, a prince, a king. …(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 455)

SHTH – This root, composed of the signs of relative and reciprocal movement, indicates the place toward which things irresistibly incline, and the things themselves which incline toward this place: The depths, the foundations, literally as well as figuratively; the place where the sea is gathered; the sea itself; every kind of depth; every kind of beverage. …(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 465)

See also BRA below.

A-L-H-Y-M – ‘progressively expansive, elevating power complex’

This is the first term for the supernatural power behind Creation, אלהים. It is derived from the root AL or אל, “which depicts elevation, strength and expansive power” but is “only the relative pronoun he employed in an absolute manner. Nearly all of the Asiatic peoples have used this bold metaphor. הוא (hoa), that is to say, HE, is in Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Ethiopic and Arabic, one of the sacred names of the Divinity; it is evident that the Persian word Goda, God, which is found in all the tongues of the North, is derived also from the absolute pronoun, HIM-Self. It is known that the Greek philosophers and Plato particularly, designated the Intelligent Cause of the Universe in no other way than by the absolute pronoun…composed of the pronoun and the absolute verb היה, to be-being…The verb itself, united to the pronoun אל, produces אלוה (Eloah), that-He-who-is, the plural of which Elohim, signifies exactly HE-they-who-are…(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 28)

Total process through which timeless Aleph becomes Yod which is of time. This process sets in motion the organic functions of living beings. Existence is projected into the passive multitudes of resistance. These allow themselves to or do not allow themselves to be fertilized after the manner of the living and the dead waters…The problem, reduced to its essential equation is: pulsation of life and cosmic resistance. (The Cipher of Genesis, Carlos Suares, p. 78-79)

B-R-A – ‘(self) generative creation’

1254. bara, baw-raw´; a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):—choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). (Strong’s Concordance)

BR …first, every active production with power, every conception, every potential emanation; second, every innate movement tending to manifest exteriorly the creative force of being. Hieroglyphically, it is the radius of the circle which produces the circumference and of which it is the measure: figuratively, a potential creation: that is to say a fruit of some sort whose germ contains in potentiality the same being which has carried it: in the literal sense, a son. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 308)

RA The sign of movement proper united to that of power, forms a root characterized hieroglyphically by the geometric radius; that is to say, by that kind of straight line which departing from the centre converges at any point whatsoever of the circumference: it is, in a very restricted sense, a streak, in a broader sense, a ray, and metaphorically, the visual ray, visibility. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 446)

SH-M-Y-M – ‘expansive, ascending, en-lightening power’

The root מה, מו or מי, contains the idea of passive relation, or plastic and creative movement…The Hebrews…as well as the Chaldeans and Syrians, employed the verb מוט to express the mutation of things, and their relative movement…

I am taking up here, the etymology of the word שמים heavens, because it is attached to the one I have been explaining in this article, and because it signifies literally, the waters, raised, brilliant, and glorified; being formed from the word מים, waters, and from the root שמ, which is united to it. This root contains the idea of that which rises and shines in space, that which is distinguished and noticeable by its elevation and splendour. The Hebrew and Chaldaic שמה means happy, transported with joy… (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 41-42)

A-R-TZ – ‘compressive, descending, densifying power’

…The primitive root אר, contains the united signs, almost always violent, of stable power and of continued movement proper…one adds the sign… צ, which expresses the term and end of all substance, one finds equally earth, that is to say, the element which is limited, figured, tactile, compressive, plastic, etc. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 40-41)

…the set which tends more to manifest and to call forth an outer effect, and the set which is inwardly active, tending to remain as an inner experience. Then we have the essence of hashamayim and ha’aretz.” (Genesis, Rudolf Steiner, p. 10)

Note: Thus, we have in verse 1, the beginning of Being as potential, the two tendencies of powers: that of an outwardly manifesting or expanding power and one of an inwardly developing or concentrating power, which we tend to call heaven and earth.