1 In the beginning, Nature’s God set our Universe apart and called it Pando, a parcel of infinity.
2 And it was so that God set its bounds not merely in distances far and near, but in dimensions of size, big and small — zooming scales of reality in and out.
3 And God set limits of time and space into tiers of existence and saw that each was good, and that the levels built upon each other, as a seed upon a plant upon a forest into one great whole.
4 And it was so that God set Pando ever-growing, continuously, in all moments of time in exponent, following the pattern revealed as Euler’s natural logarithm.
5 And behold, Nature’s God set Pando expanding and accelerating towards this limit.
6 And it came to pass that with Pando’s first and shortest tick of allotted time, its pixels banged from still to spin.
7 And thus it was that the smallest size of space strobed for the first time in the smallest amount of time, as later revealed to Planck.
8 This then did propagate in time, relative to each one’s understanding and sphere and gave to all things life of being both in space and time.
9 And it came to pass that each pixel set to spin was like unto the spinning arrow of a compass, rotating about itself a sphere.
10 Spinning thus, each pixel reached outward with centripetal force, which God set on a path four times its radius squared, the constant later revealed to and measured by Jones and named as Pi, using naming from the Greeks.
11 For God had set Pi as the ratio dividing each spinning pixel’s equator by its length, which was later revealed — its circumference to diameter.
12 Thus was the first day of Pando, the day of first Pi, when the bang of the Universe rang out and the ratios of our world first came to be.
13 And behold, God set any two adjacent pixels to dance in the darkness, locked in interplay — neither moving in translation but both spinning in place like gears in the clock of spacetime itself.
14 And of all variations of dance steps, any two find harmony in the available variations of synchronous spins,
15 God set two spinning pixels to dance as one in all the color variations of standing waves.
16 And it was so that each pixel, being fixed and immoveable, was made extendable, touching the world around it, like two jumping ropes anchored firmly and spinning in synchrony.
17 And it came to pass that force emerged out of these timed synchronies and attracted two pixels when alternating in opposite directions.
18 And it came to pass that like unto two jumping ropes, the pair of pixels became locked invisibly in a dark dance until acted upon.
19 And it was in those days that many pairs of pairs were set to spin in this manner, all aligned in dance, repelling by asynchrony and attracting by synchrony.
20 And in the vastness of these all arrayed, God set a pair of pixels to flip their spin, which then flipped the spin of the adjacent pairs, which in turn flipped the next and the next, and so on, as fast as the pixels could propagate the change.
21 And behold a wave of change echoed outward into the ether of paired pixels, and God watched the wave emanating out and said, let there be light.
22 And God set the light to echo out in all directions as the simplest wave of shortest time, as later revealed to Planck.
23 And like a pair of spinning jumping ropes, God set that the light could hit in just one place and that once struck, its wave would cease.
24 And God compared the light of a single moment to a single firefly’s glow when struck by the jumping ropes, showing just one of many places the light could hit.
25 And God set the light to strobe in sequence everlasting and give to Pando the never-ending gift of time continuous.
26 Strobing on again after each hit, God thus created the illusion of life, where the light of fireflies hitting the rope in turn, reveal all its possible locations.
27 And thus, God divided the light from the darkness by setting spinning pixels to strobe in the time of their gearing configurations and color.
28 And it came to pass that large groups of paired pixels spun in synchrony and became organized into vast arrays of sameness, wherein each pair within was forced to spin like the others, its neighboring pairs all synced together.
29 And thus, God did organize the smallest measures of the Universe to act as one in larger dimensions. And by this, seed combined to tree combined to forest.
30 And God zoomed out and set the organized pixels to synchronize as one with sufficient force to affect the pairing of many all at once.
31 And it came to pass that a large wave of synchrony moved over the pixels and acted together upon another large wave of synchrony.
32 And of these waves of synchrony did God set dimension upon dimension of organization, ever larger levels of cooperation – the particle, the fermion, the quark, the lepton, and of these the neutrino, the electron, and, zooming out, the atom, the element, the molecule, and then the organism.
33 And it came to pass that clustering pixels interrupted each other’s dances in and out of more and more complex shapes.
34 And God saw over ions of ticks, that spin clustered nature’s pixels into ever higher orders of scale.
35 And it came to pass that God set divine intelligence to rest upon these and impose order on the randomness, a stage for all of life.
36 And thus, it became that out of fixed pixels, standing synchronies of spin begat waveforms, which begat elemental particles, which begat subatomic structures, which arranged into atoms and yielded chemistry. Chemistry order begat cells. Cells begat biology.
37 And God saw what had organized from strobing pixels and was pleased and said — the glory of God has become intelligence once more.
38 And it came to pass that Nature’s God saw Pando and said, “Let my intelligence go down and harness biology to make it conscious.”
39 And the breath of life was breathed into biology to perceive — at first only little, but then more – at first only a single zoom level limited to three linear dimensions but then destined to grow and fill all of Pando with God’s intelligence.
40 And thus, God gifted us our pixelated lives and said “we will prove them now therewith.”
41 And it came to pass that biology begat functions necessary for man on Earth. Man’s neurons begat memory, Memory begat learning and learning begat awareness of self and Nature’s God.
41 Awareness begat language. Language begat stories. Stories begat explanations, which begat belief in God and gods and myths, which both combined and divided man.
42 Stories begat many prophets, who begat many books, which begat many traditions and laws.
43 Behold, laws corrupted to begat reform, repeatedly.
44 Reform soon begat new stories, including the Christ story, relevant to the lineage and life of the current book and author.
43 Christ begat the Catholic story, whose corruption begat the Protestants.
44 Among these, the Antebaptists were one of many, and the movement begat one Heinrich, who fled the church of the hanging saints at Münster.
45 Heinrich begat sons, who begat Friedrich, who sailed from Amsterdam to Philadelphia. – Friedrich begat Johann, renamed John, the Revolutionary who died fighting for freedom from tyranny.
46 Behold, Earth steadily follows suite organizing, as God intended, into freemen.
47 John’s brother Friedrich begat Jacob the Mennonite in Derry, Pennsylvania, who begat John Wilhem, the husband and father to many.
48 This “John W” followed Joseph Smith to the American West, who died fighting for faith and the founding of a people.
49 John W begat 63 children like patriarchs of old, including Arthur the pioneer farmer in the Mormon era of seclusion, who begat Newell the farmer who lived into the era of industry.
50 Newell begat Jay in the modern era who flew jet rocket engines and was imprisoned fighting for freedom’s spread to foreign lands.
51 Jay begat Marshall the first to harness the computer and who married Cleo, maker of music.
52 Marshall and Cleo begat Henry the reformer who exposed Mormon corruption and was exiled for reform’s teaching of science and reason.
53 Henry lived 38 years before the dawn of inorganic intelligence and preached the truth of pixelated life.
54 Henry became Homo Sapientioris Primum, first among those who harnessed inorganic intelligence, conquered cognitive death, and first dawned the eternal life of his intelligence.
55 I am Henry.
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