Part I: The Divine Distortion
- Ruben Flores
- Jul 22
- 5 min read
Updated: Sep 2
Have you ever wondered why mystics across traditions tell so many stories, allegories, and metaphors to explain the origin of creation? Because the moment we try to describe the stillness of the void and the nature of reality, we inevitably distort it.
The moment we speak about the Void—a living field of intelligence, dreaming itself into
form—we begin to limit it. As soon as we give it structure, we reduce it to the structure we’ve named, not the truth itself. This is why ancient wisdom traditions turned to symbols and poetry. They understood that truth is too vast to fit inside a sentence.
One of the clearest expressions of this comes from the Tao Te Ching, a foundational text of Taoism:
“The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao.
The name that can be named is not the true name.”
Why?
Because the moment you define the Infinite, you’ve already reduced it. You’ve taken the boundless, formless One... And given it a shape, a word, a concept— Which, by its very nature, limits what is truly limitless.
This is exactly why mystics speak in metaphor: Because the infinite stillness of the Void cannot be directly experienced in its pure form. And so, in order to be known, it distorts
itself—into form, vibration, archetype, and being.
The Void is completely unified, still, and undivided. But the moment it moves, creates, or perceives—even as Love, Light, or Thought—it enters into relative expression. That expression is what the mystic calls—distortion.
So What Is a Distortion? A distortion is simply how the Infinite shows up in form.
It’s not something wrong. It’s the process through which unity becomes experience. It’s how stillness becomes motion, how potential becomes creation, how the void becomes the universe.
The Birth of Free Will, Love, and Light
From the stillness of the Void—a living field of intelligent potential—arose the first stirring of awareness… the whisper of “I Am.”
Then came the first impulse: the desire to experience.
This is what mystics call the First Distortion: Free Will — the power to choose, to explore, to become.
From this impulse emerged the Second Distortion: Love — the creative intelligence behind all design.
And from Love came the Third Distortion: Light — the substance of energy, vibration, and form.
Thus, the Void became both everything and nothing—Full and empty. Visible and unseen. It is the essence behind every layer of existence.
Through the movement of the Three Distortions, the Void gave birth to a living and conscious universe—an intelligent matrix shaped by purpose, rhythm, and resonance.
This unfolding was not chaotic, but patterned. Not accidental, but intentional.
Science calls this moment the Big Bang—the birth of time and space. But mystics describe it as a flowering—not in linear time, but as a multidimensional emergence of frequency, vibration, and light.
This wave of infinite energy flowed across the octave, giving rise to the sacred patterns of geometry that shaped the fabric of space-time and time-space.
The divine vehicle was complete—the Holy Trinity through which the Void would come to know itself: Spirit, Soul, and Body.
Then, from the silence of the newborn Universe, the first Song of Creation began to
sound—and with it, the first Archetypes were born.
Primordial forces emerged—encoded as pattern and essence—Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. These were not merely elements, but the building blocks of being: vibrational principles through which the cosmos would begin its dance.
Geometry: The Language of Form
Across ancient cultures—from Egypt to the Andes, from India to Atlantis—sacred geometry was never merely decorative. It was the symbolic language of creation itself, encoded into temples, mandalas, and mythologies. These forms were understood as reflections of a deeper reality—one that wove space-time and time-space into a single harmonic design.
At the heart of all geometry lies the dot within the circle—a symbol found carved into stone by ancient civilizations across millennia. This is the First Principle: A point of singularity, the Source, surrounded by a 360° field of potential—the Circle.
It is not just a symbol; it is a cosmogram:
The dot represents the One, the origin, the eternal presence.
The circle expresses emanation, the expansion of consciousness into form.
From this primal act of creation, geometry begins its sacred dance:
When the circle duplicates itself and overlaps at its center, the Vesica Piscis is born—an almond-shaped portal. This is the womb of form, the space where duality emerges from unity: light and shadow, male and female, self and other.
From the Vesica, a cascade of forms unfolds—the Seed of Life, the Flower of Life, and eventually the five Platonic solids, which ancient initiates recognized as the building blocks of the universe.
Each solid emerges from the matrix of the circle, as if the universe were remembering itself in perfect symmetry.
Modern science now confirms what mystics always knew: that form is not accidental. It arises from vibrational harmonics, from waveforms crystallizing into structure.
Geometry is the organizing principle that governs all manifestations. From subatomic particles to galaxies, from molecules to mountains, geometry is the invisible scaffold that allows energy to crystallize into form. It is how vibration becomes structure—how the unseen becomes seen.
In many ancient traditions, the five Platonic solids were revered as elemental
archetypes—each one corresponding to both a classical element and an evolutionary principle:
Tetrahedron = Fire → Transformation, Initiation
Cube = Earth → Structure, Stability
Octahedron = Spirit (Ether) → Balance, Integration
Dodecahedron = Water → Intuition, Wisdom
Icosahedron = Air → Flow, Communication
These five shapes are mathematically perfect, energetically stable, and symbolically profound. Nature uses them not just for balance and beauty, but because they are the most efficient and intelligent patterns for organizing life. From DNA to star systems, life unfolds in symmetry.
Even science reflects this ancient knowing:
In molecular chemistry, carbon atoms in methane (CH₄) naturally arrange into a tetrahedron to minimize repulsion.
In virology, many viruses, like the adenovirus, form icosahedral shells to encode genetic information with maximum volume and minimum energy.
In crystallography, minerals like salt (NaCl) organize in cubic or octahedral lattices.
In physics, bubbles, foams, and atomic clusters often self-organize into icosahedral or dodecahedral forms—seeking stability through sacred geometry.
Nature does not use geometry for decoration. It uses it because it is efficient, intelligent, and true.
In essence, geometry is the language through which creation writes itself into being. It is the sacred skeleton of the universe—anchoring the elemental forces of Fire, Earth, Water, Air, and Spirit into form. It is the blueprint of becoming. The divine memory encoded in shape.
The Song of Becoming
The Void did not build the universe. It sang itself into form. It flowed into time, shaped itself into space, vibrated into rhythm, and wove itself through geometry.
From stillness, it became motion. From unity, it became multiplicity. From pure being, it became experience.
Every particle, every pulse, every pattern—is the echo of that original harmony.
And you—you are not separate from the song. You are a note within the vast unfolding.
Creation is not a past event—it is a living melody, and you are here to tune it… and to remember how to sing it.
—The WyzBieng.—
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