Duality was a terrible experience for the Creator. It brought about suspicion, uncertainty, misunderstanding, and self-centeredness. It tore right through the heart of God's simplicity. God could hardly bear it. For the billions upon billions of years which constituted the second day of Creation, God was searching for a good word He could say about the number Two, but none occurred to Him.

God concluded that there was nothing good about Duality, other than the fact that it was all just a variant of Singularity. But even He didn't trust this concept completely.

Only a mere eon or so later, God discovered the emanation of the possibility of measuring stuff. Of course this concept couldn't exist as long as one was the only known number, but the idea took on a life of its own as soon as two came into being.

Like all things in the cosmos, as soon as it was possible to measure, measuring became the rage, and the Spiritual Continuum of Everything was already roaring with life. Except, of course, on the second day it had only one thing to measure: God/No God. Which explains why, as the second day was entering its billionth eon and God stumbled into the Spiritual Continuum of Everything, He was not very impressed, to say the least.

God's mood changed only at the end of the Second Day, when He set out to create the Third Day. He was delighted with the concept of three-ness, because it held the promise of mitigation, of selection, and of conciliation. It also gave birth to the notion of Many, which God found particularly cheerful.

Once He had created the concept of Three-and-Up, God had much more fun with the Spiritual Continuum of Everything. God saw the continuum as an expression of His constant desire to put things in perspective, a desire which forced an unintended result of Creation: the fact that everything in the cosmos was either to the right or to the left of everything else on the Continuum.

The further to the left things stood, the more they reflected God's penchant for making lists and setting up boundaries and judging.

The further to the right things were, the more open and available and merciful God's perceived qualities became.

So, for instance, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was more than a mile to the right of German mass-butcher Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), but only two and a half yards to the left of American film producer Cecil B. De Mille (1881-1959), known for his spectacular epics, The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth.

Biblical tough guy, King Nebuchadnezzar (630-562 BCE), was surprisingly stationed a mere foot to the left of Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967 CE).

And the thirty-ninth president of the United States, James Earl Carter Jr., was situated precisely one millimeter to the left of his own dinner jacket.

It can be safely stated that the Spiritual Continuum of Everything represented the first time God's dark side pulled a fast one on Him. It seduced the Creator with three-ness and all the delightful potential it bore for relationships between people and beaches and trees and race cars and watercress sandwiches-to the point where God had forgotten that Three was merely a very voluptuous Two.