And Then There Was Light (and Algae)

Decrypting Genesis: Day One

In my previous article, I wrote about a restored Genesis, with all of the system’s life forms in their proper days. While doing so, I made a rather fantastic declaration. I wrote that there should be one or two life forms for each day, but several of these lifeforms had been left out of the Genesis narrative.

This article will focus on my claim that the life form associated with the first day, the day that saw the creation of light, was photosynthetic algae. That doesn’t sound so controversial, except that I maintain that this is not my idea but rather that of the ancient authors.

Each of the seven days of Genesis is associated with one of the seven heavenly orbs known by the ancients.

The first day is Sun-day. In astrology, the Sun rules the sign, Leo. The next day is Moon-day when the Moon rules Cancer or aquatic arthropods. And so on, with the various zodiac signs matching up, more or less, with proper life forms for each day.

Except for Leo, the lion. Lions did not arise in response to the creation of light. We can’t just put what we want the text to say. There has to be some justification.

Allow me to introduce the Gospel of Thomas. It is a collection of 114 secret sayings of Jesus as told to and collected by Judas Thomas.

(11) Jesus said, “This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. And the dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you used to ingest dead, you made them alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day that you were one, you became two. And when you are two, what will you do?”

Let’s take this saying sentence by sentence.

He talks about our heaven as well as the one above it ceasing to exist. This might seem to refer to the End Times. The Gospel of Thomas, however has this to say about looking to the end:

(18) The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be. Jesus said: Since you have discovered the beginning, why do you seek the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who shall stand at the beginning (in the beginning), and he shall know the end, and shall not taste death.

And then there is this:

(4) Jesus said: The man aged in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of life, and he shall live; for there are many first who shall be last, and they will become a single one.

The child of seven days is a probable reference to the seven days of Genesis. Rather than describing the End Times, saying 11 is likely describing events from the beginning of creation.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, (Gen 1:16–17 KJV)

Notice that in the text above, from the fourth day, the various lights are set in the firmament of heaven. Now consider how the firmament is described below.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. (Gen 1:6–8 KJV)

The firmament is basically empty space. On day two, an empty space is created between liquid water and water vapor. This empty space has its name changed from firmament to heaven. Then on day four, lights are placed in the firmament of heaven. Or, to use the terminology of day two, the heaven of heaven.

Our sky is the division between the waters below and those above. Yet beyond our sky is a second sky. There are the clouds in the sky, and still, there are the stars in the heavens that exist in a higher plane.

It also appears that the text from Thomas is describing the events of the second day of creation in reverse.

On day two, in verse six, a division takes place in the steamy atmosphere. Beneath the division, water changes to a liquid state, while above the separation, water vapor remains in its gaseous state. In verse five, God utters the command, but as we are reading the verses in reverse order, there now ceases to be empty space between the waters below and those above. Just an atmosphere of blistering steam.

The sky is gone but so too are the heavens above the sky. If there is no heaven, then there is no firmament of heaven.

We have returned to day one.

The following sentence is:

And the dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

The first part is another sign that the saying is not referring to the End Times. There has been no resurrection of the dead. The second half of the sentence refers to the life form of the first day. It is essentially immortal.

In the days when you used to ingest dead, you made them alive.

This is describing humans and that we eat dead things to keep us alive.

When you are in the light, what will you do?

Now the text is returning to the first day. It is asking us to experience being in the light as a life form that existed during that time, on day one. What does a photosynthetic alga do when in the light?

On the day that you were one, you became two.

It divides.

And when you are two, what will you do?

And it divides again. Two becomes four, four becomes eight, and so on and so forth.

Concerning the immortality of photosynthetic algae, the earliest forms of algae use asexual binary fission. This results in two genetically identical organisms. Each is both the clone and the original. This means that genetically as long as a single photosynthetic alga survives it is impossible to say that it isn’t the original 3,500 million years old organism.

and the living will not die.

A special shout out to David Gamble, Jonathan Poletti, Martin Cabina, PierreJean Duchaine, Graham Pemberton, Lorko, and Dave Volek.