Ultimate Symmetry

At the beginning of Chapter I in Volume II, we gave a brief outline of some archaic cosmologies, so we only want to mention in this introduction the main creation theories that developed in various ancient civilizations, and we shall notice that most of them share the same original view of splitting between Heavens and Earth, and that there are seven skies and seven earths, with some other spheres and orbs. In most of these myths, however, these spheres are often associated with many gods and deities, who ruled and governed the different parts of the World, and they are always fighting each other in ceaseless wars, as often depicted in various constellation names and pictures. Likewise, in the Islamic view of creation, there are also Seven Heavens and Earths, and also some other higher spheres, which are also divided into twelve zodiac zones and twenty-eight lunar mansions that are associated with ruling angels, rather than gods. It is needless to stress that Islam is absolutely monotheistic religion that is firmly based the absolute oneness of God, Who is Allah, though He is described by many relative Names and Attributes without implying any divine multiplicity or any other form of polytheism. We shall discuss the Islamic view of creation in the following section, and we shall devote Chapter IV to discuss the ultimate level of symmetry that describes the divine presence of God and His Beautiful Names and Attributes.