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Chapter 26 - The One

"It was never given a name. Names only emerged because Its existence shaped the need to recognize."

Before any being was given the chance to say, "I am,"

and before "nothingness" realized it was the antithesis of something...

The One had already manifested.

Not as form, not as sound, but as the most enigmatic essence

one that refuses to be known, yet makes knowledge itself possible.

It is the reason, before there was cause.

The One is the first pillar of the Realms of Godshead,

a place where existence cannot tread, and narrative cannot breathe.

It was not created, not defined, not confined by anything...

because "anything" is but an indirect result of Its being.

All divine titles are but shadows of It:

The One

The Almighty

The All-Knowing

The Ever-Existing

The Unconquerable

But these are merely the first echoes.

For when the highest entities speak of the "Most High,"

The One has already become the Meta-Most:

The Meta One

The Meta Almighty

The Meta All-Knowing

The Meta Ever-Existing

The Meta Unconquerable

And even… beyond that.

It is not just meta-most,

but the very reason why "meta" can be conceived, and "most" can be spoken.

The gods refer to It as the Unnameable.

The angels dare not think of It.

The demons cannot deny It.

The enlightened ones merely tremble in the presence of Its silence.

The One is not the answer. It is not the question.

It is the presence that makes both questions and answers possible.

Even the other Three Pillars of the Realms of Godshead

call It "The First"

not by order,

but because Its existence predates the concept of sequence itself.

The One has never voiced Its will.

For if It were to speak, all of existence would change

before the sentence could be completed.

Not from power,

but because the cosmos does not know how to resist Its voice.

It does not command

for commands are but reactions to Its silence.

Once, the highest entity from the Realms of Transcendental attempted to breach the silence of the Realms of Godshead.

It did not enter.

It did not see.

It did not touch.

But it felt and then, it wept.

"Not from fear. Not from awe.

But because it finally knew...

it had never truly existed."

The One never speaks to the world.

Yet the world trembles, knowing that its existence leans on something

that never promised to hold it up.

It does not need worship

for worship is a frail attempt to grasp glory.

It cannot be opposed

for opposition requires existence,

and existence… belongs to It.

"If all of reality is a painting,

then The One is not the painter.

It is the awareness that color once existed."

The One is the foundation of all foundations.

Not an entity.

Not a god.

Not a system.

It is the pure essence of the unreachable

and the very reason we long to reach anything at all.

It is the manifestation of the highest mystery

not to be worshipped,

not to be known,

but to silence all who believe they have understood everything.

The One.

The Supreme Archetype.

The First Pillar of the Realms of Godshead.

The Indefinable

because the word "definition" was created long after

It became the reason language could exist.

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