“From the Void that was everything and nothing, the Cosmos unfolded and oneness was given form. And in the unfolding, the Astral plane was created, and the Astral Beings became aware of their oneness with the Cosmos. Again, the Cosmos unfolded and the Psychic planes were born. And many Beings became self-conscious and lamented at their loss of being one. Again, the Cosmos unfolded, creating the Mental planes, where many were driven and wailed at the limitations of the minds they had been given. And again, the Cosmos unfolded. And the planet Gaia, amid all the other planets and stars, was spun into the elemental rift that split the planes asunder and held them firmly apart. And into this Physical plane many were driven and given bodies so that they could feel, and still they cried at their loss until their prior selves had been forgotten. And the Psychic Beings beheld in envy what they could not possess. Thus it was in the beginning.”