Energy Cannot Be Created or Destroyed: Cosmogenesis, the Spiral of Becoming
“All things are one, and all is becoming.”
– Heraclitus (Echoed by every cosmology, in every age)
There is a law, etched not only into science but into the bones of myth itself:
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
It can only transform.
This truth - the first law of thermodynamics - is not just scientific. It is sacred.
It is the heartbeat of the universe, the rhythm behind every myth, every god, every spiral of becoming.
All the energy that ever was, ever will be, already exists.
The moment of the so-called Big Bang was not creation from nothing, but a bursting forth of all potential, collapsing and unfolding into form, frequency, life.
And that energy?
It is you.
It is the gods.
It is time folding into itself, over and over.
The Womb of the Beginning: Kemet and the Ogdoad
In the oldest cosmologies of Kemet, the world begins not with an act of violence or division; but with the Nun, the dark waters of potential.
From these waters rise the Ogdoad; eight primordial forces, paired masculine and feminine. They represent the unformed, the invisible, the deep mystery before light.
And from this mystery, Ra is born.
Not alone, but through an act of union with the feminine principle.
Sometimes, it is said that Hathor, the hand of the god, brings the spark of life into being; guiding the divine seed into creation.
This is not a passive myth. It is cosmic physics in sacred language.
Before matter, there is vibration.
Before form, there is frequency.
Before the god, there is the womb.
The Cosmic Egg: From Greece to Vedic India
In Greek Orphic tradition, the beginning is not a man or a god, but a Cosmic Egg, birthed from Chaos.
This Egg hatches Phanes (also called Protogonos) - the shining one, who brings order, light, and love into being.
In Vedic cosmology, the Hiranyagarbha, the "golden womb" or "cosmic egg," floats in the primordial waters before creation. From it, all of manifest reality emerges; just like in Kemet, just like in Orphic myth, just like in astrophysics.
And what is an egg but a contained singularity?
It holds all possibility inside it.
Until the pressure of becoming causes it to crack.
Creation is not always violent; it is often inevitable.
The Titans & the Fall Into Form
The Greek Titans often seen as violent, were not villains.
They were forces of nature, primordial embodiments of earth (Gaia), sky (Uranus), time (Chronos), light (Theia), and deep flow (Oceanus).
Before the Olympians, before gods of the city and the state, there were gods of raw element - gods who were the world, not just rulers of it.
Like the Neteru of Kemet, the Titans remind us:
We are not separate from the divine.
We are its next iteration.
When Chronos swallowed his children, while from a "human perspective" is barbaric, but when viewed "energetically" we can see he wasn’t being cruel; he was trying to hold time still, to prevent change. But change, like energy, cannot be stopped.
It spirals on.
Spiral Logic: The Science of Sacred Pattern
Across cultures, across mythologies, the spiral appears.
DNA spirals. Galaxies spiral. Water spirals down the drain.
The Fibonacci sequence, found in pinecones, seashells, hurricanes, and sunflowers, is the same pattern that can be found in ancient temple design.
This spiral is not decorative. It is descriptive.
It tells the story of returning to the centre; but never in the same place.
We come back around, again and again, changed each time by the journey.
This is Cosmogenesis.
Not creation once, long ago.
But ongoing becoming.
Transformation as the divine act.
We Are the Gods Remembering Themselves
The gods are not separate from us.
They are frequencies, born from the first energy, the same as us.
Ra and Hathor. Phanes and Nyx. Vishnu and Shakti. They are names for energetic functions - cosmic intelligences that vibrate through matter and myth.
In physics, we learn:
🔸 Energy = Mass x the Speed of Light²
Which means: matter is energy. You, your thoughts, your body, are vibrating patterns of condensed light.
We are not becoming gods.
We are gods, becoming aware.
Each of us a fractal of that original light; remembering, spiralling, healing the gap between forgetting and truth.
The Divine Is Not Outside You; It’s Transforming Through You
“You do not become the light. You remember you were never not it.”
You are made of stardust. This is not metaphor.
Every atom in your body was once inside a star.
The same spark that burst forth from the singularity, from Nun, from the Cosmic Egg; that energy still pulses in your breath, in your choices, in your grief, in your joy.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
But it can remember itself.
And when it does, it sings through the voice of the Sibyl.
It shines in the eyes of Sekhmet.
It burns in the sunrise of Ra.
It spirals through your own becoming - again, and again, and again.