Ancient Wisdom Reflections: The Mystic Root of All Matter

Energy, Darkness, and the Void – In Ancient Writings

Before form, there is only energy — unshaped, unseen, infinite. The ancient texts call this darkness, the void, the deep. It is also referred to as THAT – that which is and always was. Before GOD.

THAT was pure Potential – our scientists and physicists call it Energy.
The Many Waters writes:

Energy is the all-embracing power of the universe, and it cannot be destroyed. It exists and there is no other explanation for it, a mystery that will never be resolved. Our cosmos is made of matter, all of it, but there can be no matter without energy for matter is a form of energy.
–The Many Waters

The ancient writings acknowledge that before form and light there was darkness and nothing.

The most profound understandings of energy, ‘darkness’ and ‘void’ arrive in the The Book of Genesis and The Secret Book of Dzyan, and the Tao Te Ching.

The Book of Genesis (KJV):

“Without form and void.” Genesis refers to there being only emptiness and darkness upon the deep.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. — The Book of Genesis

The Secret Doctrine:

The Secret Book of Dzyan as interpretted by H.P. Blavatsky states that the Eternal Parent (Space) is the eternal and ever present cause of all – the incomprehensible DEITY whose invisible robes are the mystic root of all matter and of the Universe.

Stanza I
The eternal parent wrapped in her ever invisible robes …darkness alone filled the boundless all, for Father, Mother and Son were once more one…
–The Secret Book of Dzyan

The Tao Te Ching:

The very first verse of the Tao Te Ching represents a pre-creation story, succinctly referring to a force of energy called darkness – the first energy – before God, before creation. Perhaps it is the CREATOR of GOD.

However, the mystery and the reality
arise from the same source.
And this is called ‘darkness’.

Darkness is born of darkness.
The beginning of all understanding.

— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 1

The ‘vacuum’ is the infinite, eternal energy- the source of All – Everything.
From this Source we create the substance of life.

The void and vacuum referred to in The Book of Genesis also called the deep, the Tao Te Ching describes as like an empty vessel. A word to describe this empty vessel is ‘vacuum’. Nothing, void, infinite, eternal. The Tao is the source of ALL – and that it was here before the concept or idea of God. Never be emptied or filled is infinite and eternal.

The Tao is like an empty vessel: can never be emptied or filled.
Infinitely profound, it is the source of all things…It is hidden but always present…It is older than the concept of God.
-Chapter 4 Tao Te Ching

We work with substance, but it is the vacuum that we use.
Chapter 11 Tao Te Ching

The Many Waters succinctly defines form and void. There was nothing. Nothing, is the infinite, the darkness. It goes on to say:

Just as the first verse in the King James Bible was an all-inclusive statement that God created the heaven and the earth, the second verse states clearly that, as yet, there was no earth formed. There was no matter, no solids, no liquids and no gases. There were no tiny specks of dust, no quarks, no electrons, no quantum particles—Nothing!
–The Many Waters

That is what void means. There was nothing formed into anything. There was just this very cold and empty black hole, “and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
– The Many Waters

Modern Metaphysics

While the ancient writings offer a poetic lens on darkness as origin, modern metaphysical texts like The New Akashic Records (Cheryl Marlene) expand this understanding by framing energy as both the source and substance of all that is.

Everything is Energy.

All energy moves on a continuum between potential to form.
Therefore, all energy is either potential or form
or a part of the flow somewhere in between.

Summarizing Thoughts

We don’t know what dark energy is – except that it is ‘energy’ and we can see its effects in the universe as the force that counteracts the pull of gravity, causing the expansion of the universe.

Astronomers have discovered that the perceived emptiness of space in our universe is not empty – it is dark energy making up 68% of the universe – and together with dark matter it makes up 95 % of the total mass-energy of the universe.

I offer some notes and references for your further reading or study.

Notes:

THAT – that which is and always was. Before GOD.
the mystic root of all matter and of the Universe.
darkness – the first energy -before God, before creation
The mystery and the reality arise from the same source…the darkness.
Everything is Energy
all energy is either potential or form
The Tao is the vacuum, the void.
The vacuum is the Source, and the form is the substance.

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References:

The Many Waters, Lauretta King (Lueck), Rosetta Stone Press 2000
The Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu, Letra Minuscula 2024
The Secret Doctrine, H.P. Blavatsky, Pacific Publishing Studio 2011
The New Akashic Records, Cheryl Marlene, Soul Bright Press 2021