NB: this was written for Everything Quest: the PC Bible
Malkuth(Earth)
1:1 In the beginning, Being came into existence. 1:2 We cannot say where Being came into existence, because without Being there is no space. 1:3 We cannot say when Being came into existence, because without Being there is no time. 1:4 With Being, came time and space, and only then could events happen. 1:5 There was very little space and time in the beginning, so there was no room for things as know them to exist, and events happened very quickly. 1:6 At first, things were so close together that the primordial matter and energy were formless. 1:7 Very quickly, however, matter and energy took form. 1:8 Energy took the form of Electromagnetic Radiation, the Weak Nuclear Force, the Strong Nuclear Force, and Gravity. 1:9 Matter took form as fundamental particles: bosons, hadrons and leptons.
Yesod(Foundation)
2:1 As soon as there was room enough, and time enough, the fundamental particles arranged themselves into elements: hydrogen and helium. 2:2 hydrogen and helium gathered, fused and gave off energy, and thus became stars. 2:3 Inside the stars, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and
all the other elements were formed. 2:4 After the elements were formed, they were thrown out of the stars. 2:5 Where the elements collected together outside the stars, they became planets, including the Earth.
Hod (Splendor, Emergence)
3:1 The elements combined to form compounds such as water and and organic molecules. 3:2 Organic molecules were constantly changing and reforming, but conditions on Earth favored some kinds of molecules over others. 3:3 The organic compounds needed for metabolism thus emerged. 3:4 When gathered in a particular structure, a protein could reproduce itself with a persistent identity, despite the motion and change and destruction around it. 3:5 The protein was now no longer merely a constantly changing organic material but a living thing. 3:6 Life thus emerged. 3:7 Life had the properties of continuity and identity, despite change, through the cooperation of the structures of constituent materials of the first living things.
Netzach (Victory)
4:1 Now there were living materials, which abided through time and despite change, and there was life. 4:2 Some of the first living things randomly formed new structures. 4:3 A randomly formed structure is called a mutation. 4:4 Some mutations gave living things a better chance to survive and reproduce and increase and multiply. 4:5 When mutation results in an enhanced capability of some living things to increase and multiply, while others suffered stagnation and dwindle, this is called natural selection. 4.6 For the first living things, natural selection was good, and the first good thing was a favorable mutation.
Tephireth (Beauty)
5:1 Through natural selection, structures emerged which allowed living things to help each other live and increase and multiply. 5:2 Though the living materials remained separate and different, through the cooperation of their new structures they could form a cell, a community of living materials performing different functions. 5:3 One material surrounded and protected the cell, another thing ate the nonliving materials and produced energy, another absorbed energy and combined materials, another thing gathered together materials for replication. 5:4 While the living materials remained different, they now had an affinity for one another, which allowed to live together as a community, called an organism. 5:6 Life for a community was more abundant, and things in a community could live, increase and multiply better than living material with no affinity for one another.
Geburah (Strength)
6:1 The affinity of different living materials allowed them to form a organism, but since the conditions of living on Earth are not identical everywhere, different organisms thrived in different ways. 6:2 Some organisms were became very complex while others remained single-cell organisms: the Protista. 6:3 Some absorbed electromagnetic radiation and created nutrients through a process called photosynthesis: the Plants. 6:4 Some organisms developed to absorb nutrients from the Plants: the Fungi. 6:5 Other organisms developed the ability to move around and seek nutrients and gather them into themselves: the Animals. 6:6 Now there was diversity: many kinds of good, each appropriate to the manner or niche in which an organism lived and thrived.
Chesed (Mercy)
7:1 Out of diversity, organisms emerged which could engage one another in interdependent systems such as predation, parasitism and symbiosis. 7:3 Fungi and Animals depended on Plants for food; Plants depended on the Fungi for decomposition of dead Plants; and the other organisms depended on Animals for mobility. 7.4 With diversity, living things were able to spread all over the Earth, and when changes in environmental conditions led to Death for some, Life continued.
Binah (Understanding)
8:1 Animals living in this diversity evolved sensation to seek out food and shelter and avoid being eaten by other animals. 8:2 Sensations could remembered and associated and thus formed into models used to predict the result of an action. 8:3 Thus the animal had gained perception, and through perception could participate not only in the presence of Being, but also the past and future of Being.
Chokmah (Wisdom)
9:1 Perception could be communicated to other animals, like a bee communicates the location of nectar by dancing, and thus animals gained language. 9:2 Through perception and language the presence of Being reaches out to Being's past and future, and an individual animal reaches out to other individuals, with intentions and purposes, all for the greater Good.
Kether (Crown)
10:1 Now in the fullness of time, human beings emerged. 10:2 Like some other animals, human beings worked together and used language to share their perceptions, but unlike the other animals, human beings were not content with things as they were. 10:3. Human beings found ways to change their relationship to the world, to use clothing and shelter and tools to make up for the defects of their bodies and expand beyond their original niche. 10:4 To be sure, other animals had done these things before: birds and bees built shelters, and hermit crabs appropriated armor, and so forth. 10:5 Human beings, however, tried new things, and compounded one discovery on top of another to create technology. 10:6 With this new-found creativity, a myriad of new possible ways of living opened up for human beings. 10:7 Along with blessings of creativity, however, came its curse: while human beings could more readily seek out what was good for themselves, they could also more readily find what was bad: death, disintegration, stagnation, poverty, and extinction.