CREATION

Creation, in the Christian context, is seen to be a splitting of the Primordial Word into thousands of different voices, melodies, cacophonies, etc. God speaks only once, but we hear it twice: the Logos and the world. Creation is in the Word in time. It is the business of creatures, first of all, to listen to the varied rhythms of multiplicity, and to reconstruct the word.

(Raimon Panikkar, Invisible Harmony, p. 42; photo: vayful, march 22, 2010)