The Timeless Philosophies of the Origin of the Universe

The scene is set by the first speaker, Xenophanes, who laments:

“No human being will ever know the Truth,
for even if they happened to say it by chance,
they would not know they had done so.”

Plato then makes the point:

“Discovering the Father and Creator of the universe is a supremely difficult task; and having found Him it would be impossible to tell anyone about Him.”

My following statement proves them both right:

“Our universe was created exclusively from neutron stars, the sole remnants of
the previous universe, this being the prime matter created by the Oneness.”

Pythagorus casts a sagely smile in response to my almost inaudible and seemingly meaningless statement, politely clears his throat, and says:

“On the one side is God, the active principle, who acts.
On the other side is matter, the passive principle, that undergoes.”








Einstein lights his pipe stuffed with tobacco stolen from Niels Bohr, blows a huge smoke ring into the crowd, and announces in a strange accent:

“Mass equals energy divided by the speed of light squared.”

Pythagorus glances up suspiciously and a few genuine coughs erupt within the crowd, so Empedocles stands up to calm matters down, and says:

“There are two sides to this tale. On the one hand the many unite to become the Oneness, and on the other hand the Oneness divides to become the many. Things continually shift between being united by love and divided by strife.”

Decorum is restored and then it is remembered that the oracle of Orpheus posed the following question:

“How can all things be One, yet each thing is separate?”

With deep insight Anaxagoras presents the following:

“Appearances are a glimpse of what is hidden.”

Again Empedocles sums it up beautifully:

“God is the unity of Oneness in which I dwelt myself before I was snatched away by the conflicts of opposites and born into the world of plurality organized by strife.”

Cicero boldly concurs by asking the following question to mankind in general on behalf of the group:

“Why will you not admit that the universe is a conscious intelligence since conscious intelligences are born from it?”

Plato announces:

“The universe is a single whole, comprised of many parts that are also whole.”

To which Heraclitus proclaimed:

“The One is all things. All things are One.”





Cicero humbly claims:

“Human beings were created to contemplate and reflect the universe,
They are not themselves this great perfection, but are particles of perfection.”


Hermes Trismegistus passionately eloquated:

“He is too great to be called by the name ‘God.’
He is hidden, yet obvious everywhere.
He is bodiless, yet embodied in everything.
There is nothing that he is not.
He has no name, because all names are his name.
He is the unity in all things, so we must know him by all names
and call everything ‘God’.”

Plotinus concludes by summarizing as follows:

“Man as he now is has ceased to be the All.
But when he ceases to be a separate individual,
He raises himself again and permeates the universe.”

Needless to say, I staggered out from this gathering speechless and I tacitly lauded all participants posthumously with awards far greater than the Nobel.
All the above quotes are the words actually uttered by these fathers of metaphysics.