This book opens The Kolbrin as it exists today. It is, it states: An account of the beginning of things and why they are as we find them. All well and good, but who are these Sons of Fire? The short answer, which becomes apparent as The Kolbrin unfolds, is that they are a sect of Egyptian origin who have been inducted into, and practise, what later on in the book is called The Good Religion. This, then, is their version of creation:
Basically, the single Divine Source of all things became frustrated, lonely, and bored, and decided to go into ‘create’ mode to express Himself (I need to point out here that The Kolbrin does not genderise ‘God’ – I think the masculine pronouns are used simply because that was the convention at the time the scrolls were compiled) and to spread the love. Like many other religions it all started with a WORD; that is, a command to activate the generative purpose of the Supreme Being, which we are intended to understand as a perpetual energy wave that had been split into two streams from its Source. This energy wave contains properties – blueprints if you like – that contain The Law. In other words, the Divine Source sent out a never-ending, standing wave of potential building material that contained with it full instruction sets for how things should work according to the Grand Design. So, this wave started to organise the chaos and established what The Kolbrin calls Eternal Spheres, which, at this stage in the narrative, I think are meant to represent ‘levels of existence’.
One of the first casualties of all this good and energetic stuff going on was inertia. Because things were coming into being, change, hitherto absent from the multiverses, started to occur. It’s worth mentioning right here that The Kolbrin sees Time not as an everyday, clock-watching activity by which many lives are governed and predicted, but simply for what it really is – the leading and ever-moving edge of the most recent state of things as they continually change at a sub-atomic level (those are not the actual words that The Kolbrin uses, but it’s certainly what they imply).
The building materials and blue prints of the Divine Source’s wave now kicked in to create separate ‘objects’ using the catalysts of heat, substance, and life. Although not explicitly stated at this point, my take on the account is that it suggests all things are built from microcosmic building blocks of the whole, and that to each thing, its span of existence is commensurate with its own purpose – very much the ‘as above, so below’ maxim of a bucket load of other philosophies, religions, and scientific theories (to the extent that the three are mutually distinguishable) like that of Hermes Trismegistus, and even modern quantum physics. The downside of all this creation effort was that as the energy wave of potential things collapsed all over the place into actual objects, those objects were no longer pure components of the Divine Wave, and became, in a way, removed from it, so that their vantage point back to The Source became obscured. It was almost as if the things that went into creating them from the Divine Wave became, in the act of making something, some kind of barrier. I suppose it’s a bit like a wave crashing onto the shore and leaving a trail of bubbly spume at the tide mark. The spume, although it was born of all the material and power of the sea, is now left stranded and can no longer directly experience its oneness with the ocean. Or something like that, anyway.
Now, The Kolbrin claims that all things – that’s everything that comes into being, animate, inanimate, and everything else besides – must have a beginning, middle, and end. The idea behind this, it says, is that without an end, nothing can have a purpose, and if nothing has a purpose, well then, what’s the point of anything? The message here, I guess, is that the purpose of our lives is to fulfill the ‘purpose’ of the Divine Source, whatever that is, and who/which, remember, started the ball rolling because he/she/it was lonely and frustrated. I know that makes it all sound a bit pointless from everyone’s point of view, but The Kolbrin does later go on to describe the pay-off for doing our bit in the grand purpose, so you’ll just have to bear with me on this one and keep revisiting this site. For now, I’ll just say that our reward, if we play our part well, is one huge rush of love and well-being, and, considering, that’s pretty much what we all aim for here on Earth anyway – a gratifying of our senses on every level, physical and/or spiritual – I suppose I get where these guys are coming from.
Anyway, to get back to the narrative, the perpetual Divine Wave next made the Sun (a male power) hot to warm the Earth (the Sun’s sister) – the cosmology aspects leave a bit to be desired around this part of the creation story – so that the waters receded and dry land appeared. Then the Spirit of Life (another female power) got interested in the whole carry-on but she needed first of all to be subdued by the male Sun and then offered to his sister Earth as a gift. This, of course, is one aspect of the Law of Threes, so common in ancient systems, where two opposite or contradictory forces are reconciled by an active and volatile third force to achieve a particular result. In this case it was life on Earth, and, at this point, The Kolbrin diverges away from the cosmologies of most major religions and gets decidedly ‘scientific’.
‘Mud eggs’ of life were formed in swamps super-heated by the Sun until life crawled out of the waters. Now what does that remind you of? The Kolbrin then goes on to catalogue a timeline that sounds remarkably like that of the accepted evolution of today: fish, followed by wriggling things, followed by serpents and ‘beasts of terrible aspect’, ‘dragons in hideous form clothed with terror, whose great bones may still be seen’, followed by the beasts of field and forest. So, the flora and fauna were in place and the metals were either hidden in rocks or secreted around waiting to be found. Everything, says the narrative, was ready for the coming of man.
