Cosmic Mythology
🔱 The Cosmic Journey of Michael
A Cosmic Mythology by Simon Raphael
📖 Introduction to the Story of Michael
What follows is not history, but myth. Within Similarity Theory, the story of Michael is a symbolic narrative that carries the heart of the philosophy.
This myth is not presented as literal fact, but as a vessel for meaning. The characters, events, and symbols echo the principles of Similarity Theory — consciousness awakening, dimensional ascent, the cycles of creation, and the pull of similarity itself.
To grasp this story is to grasp much of the theory. If you follow its images closely, you will already understand half — perhaps even three-quarters — of the framework. The rest of the theory expands on what the myth unveils.
🌌 1. The Arrival of the Mysterious Beings
On a winter’s night, Michael lay awake as storms swept across the sky. Rain drummed upon his window, thunder flashed through the darkness, and the world seemed restless.
Then—silence. A presence filled his room. Three luminous beings emerged from nothing, neither shadow nor substance, yet undeniably real. Fear rose within him, only to be replaced by an overwhelming calm.
They touched his bed. With that gesture, it lifted from the earth. Michael’s house, his city, his world fell away beneath him. He ascended into the vastness beyond.
✨ 2. The Ultimate Mission
The beings spoke in unison:
“Michael, we have watched you, your parents, your ancestors—all the way back through time. You are chosen for a great mission. Our leader has departed. You shall take his place.”
Michael protested:
“I am but a man. I have never led, not even a team. How could I guide beings such as you?”
The beings smiled.
“You are not merely to lead us. You are to become the ruler of the universe.”
And Michael saw hosts of radiant intelligences—Seraphim, Cherubim, entities long described in ancient texts. The truth struck him: he was not chosen to rule a people, but to stand at the threshold of godhood.
🔮 3. The Transcendence of Knowledge
They placed him within a living machine. In an instant, knowledge cascaded through him like fire and water combined. The mysteries of stars, the secrets of time, the language of atoms—his mind overflowed.
His body dissolved. He became a traveller of worlds, able to move between galaxies with thought alone. He ruled as one enthralled by infinity.
Yet after millennia, he noticed a flaw. A fracture in the fabric of his cosmos.
Even with boundless wisdom, he could not comprehend it.
🌀 4. The Crack in the Universe
At first, he turned away. He continued to reign, shaping civilisations, guiding planets. But the crack whispered to him, like a hidden door awaiting his hand.
At last, he summoned his followers:
“If I do not return, raise up my successor. For I must enter the unknown.”
With resolve, he stepped into the fracture.
🌠 5. The Revelation Beyond Reality
Within the crack lay not void, but greater awareness—consciousness beyond his own. From swirling cosmic dust a figure emerged, radiant and terrible in its vastness.
“Welcome, Michael. I have awaited you.”
Michael asked, trembling, “Who are you?”
The being replied:
“I am the god before you. Once I too ruled a universe. When I stepped through, I discovered the truth: your universe is but an atom in this greater reality. The first who crossed here sparked your Big Bang. Each who enters expands creation further. Soon, your successor will follow.”
Michael realised he had not reached the end, but a beginning.
🌱 6. The Endless Cycle of Intelligence
He would start anew. Not as a god, but as seed and soil, plant and insect, creature and man. Again he would climb the ladder of consciousness.
In his first cosmos, he rose from 0 to 9. In this greater one, he must rise from 10 to 999, upon a scale vaster than he could yet imagine (1).
🔭 7. The Eternal Expansion of Reality
And so the cycle continued. Every intelligence ascends to its limit, only to step beyond and find itself at the dawn of a greater order.
Reality is eternal expansion, an endless fractal. Each universe a frame, each frame a step, each step a new beginning.
Michael’s journey was not an end—it was the map of becoming itself.
📖 References
See Similarity Theory: Cycles of Consciousness (0–9, 10–999) for detailed framework.
See Dimensions: Nested Universes for the structure of reality across scales.
See Time: Frames and Flow for the relationship between choice, expansion, and eternal recurrence.
