In principle G!d created the heaven and earth

It has long been an axiom of the Perennial Tradition, indeed of metaphysics generally, that the 'beginning' is commonly assumed to infer the start of a temporal process, whereas the language of Scripture, both in the Hebrew and moreso the Greek, the terms deployed more accurately signify the principial and consequently hierarchical, not the temporal.

The Latin text moreover uses 'principio' for both Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1, whereas if a temporal meaning was inferred a better word would have been 'inceptium' or 'initium'.

Likewise 'protista' would be a better term in Greek, as in Hesiod's Theogony: 'Verily at the first (protista), Chaos came to be' (116)

Cyril of Jerusalem, for example, in his Catechetical Lectures, refers to God the Son as Arche (the Logos or Principle), and God the Father as Arche anarchos: Principle without principle.
 
Nasadiya Sukta (Hindu Creation Hymn - RigVeda, Book 10, Hymn 129)


1 THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?
2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider.
That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.
All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit.
4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit.
Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it?
There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder
6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?
The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?
7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.

What do you make out of it? I think just the "wonder/awe of the universe".
 
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