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In the Norse cosmogony it is again the same. “ In the beginning was a great abyss (Chaos), neither day nor night existed ; the abyss was Ginnungagap, the yawning gulf, without beginning, without end. {{Style S-Small capitals|All Father}}, the Uncreated, the Unseen, dwelt in the depth of the ‘ Abyss ’ ({{Style S-Small capitals|Space}}) and ''willed'', and what was willed came into being.” (See “ ''Asgard and the Gods.''”) As in the Hindu cosmogony, the evolution of the universe is divided into two acts : called in India the ''Prakriti ''and ''Padma ''Creations. Before the warm rays pouring from the “ Home of Brightness ” awake life in the Great Waters of Space, the Elements of the first creation come into view, and from them is formed the Giant Ymir (also Orgelmir) — primordial matter differentiated from Chaos (literally ''seething clay''). Then comes the cow Audumla, the nourisher, * from whom is born Buri (the Producer) who, by Bestla, the daughter of the “ Frost-Giants ” (the sons of Ymir) had three sons, ''Odin'', ''Willi ''and ''We'', or “ Spirit,” “ Will,” and “ Holiness.” (''Compare the Genesis of the Primordial Races'', ''in this work.'') This was when Darkness still reigned throughout Space, when the ''Ases'', the creative Powers (Dhyan Chohans) were not yet evolved, and the Yggdrasil, the ''tree ''of the universe of Time and of Life, had not yet grown, and there was, as yet, no Walhalla, or Hall of Heroes. The Scandinavian legends of creation, of our earth and world, begin with ''time ''and human life. All that precedes it is for them “ Darkness,” wherein All-Father, the cause of all, dwells. As observed by the editor of “ Asgard and the Gods,” though these legends have in them the idea of that {{Style S-Small capitals|All-Father}}, the original cause of all, “ he is scarcely more than mentioned in the poems,” not because, as he thinks, before the preaching of the gospel, the idea “ could not rise to distinct conceptions of the Eternal,” but on account of its great esoteric character. Therefore, all the creative gods, or ''personal ''Deities, begin at the secondary stage of Cosmic evolution. Zeus is born ''in'', and ''out ''of ''Kronos'' — Time. So is Brahmâ the production and emanation of ''Kala'', “ eternity and time,” Kala being one of the names of Vishnu. Hence we find Odin, the father ''of the gods and of the Ases'', as Brahmâ is the father of ''the gods and of the Asuras'', and hence also the androgyne character of all the chief creative gods, from the second {{Style S-Small capitals|Monad}} of the Greeks down to the Sephiroth Adam Kadmon, the Brahmâ or Prajâpati-Vâch of the Vedas, and the androgyne of Plato, which is but another version of the Indian symbol.