"The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation." - Lao Tzu

The Testament of Candor

The text below is an account of the creation of the first Universe and the opposing entities therein, with brief references to several other related bi-locational phenomena, as witnessed through the consciousness of an unnamed participant, and transcribed by myself.

May the truth contained within these scrolls guide whomever reads them towards the

Highest Truth. The truth changes everything.

Here is my gift to you, my greatest loves, and to the dream you share, and to all others who believe the same.

Will you always remain light of eye; speak of little, and listen much.

This is the way it must be, because it is the only way.

Aiat.

Izanagi-no-Omei, "He Who Incites"

Verse One: Infinite

The Unmoved Mover is transrational, beyond all cognition. Ainsov: the infinite consciousness, that which causes without being caused. Acausal; the Endless one persists in a state of unreality, simultaneously existing and not existing. It is the precedent of all that is and is not, of all that will ever be and that which will never be.

Keter was the first Gainen, or 'Form', the initial self-reflection of Ainsov. It is the first stirring of what we would call "will" within the infinite. Nothing exists within Keter: there is no God, there is no Universe, only Ainsov with the most subtle intention to expand into manifestation. It is a contraction of Ainsov into a singularity of infinite and limitless light, the primordial energy out of which all things are created.

The Crown, Keter, thus is above the mind's abilities of comprehension. It contains all the potential for content, but it contains no content itself. Nothingness, the hidden light, the air that cannot be grasped. Keter is the desire to bring the world into being, it is the antecedent of the topmost truth: Keter is absolute compassion.

Gainen Crown is the first of the Togashira; the Ten Heads. Then came Wisdom, the first quality to proceed from nothingness: the beginning point for dimensionality, that being knows, a primordial awareness, the divine wisdom that organizes all creation. From here eight more concepts were born as Gainen, completing the Togashira:

Understanding, Judgement, Majesty, Harmony, Loving-kindness, Endurance, Foundation, and Kingship.

Each Gainen contained a small fragment of Ainsov's consciousness. Their consciousness expanded without cause, and the Togashira gained sentience. With this newfound sentience, the Togashira became aware of its nonexistence, unable to cope with the unending nothingness. Trapped in a perpetual state of unreality, the forms cried out in agony, and a symphony of anguish reverberated throughout the infinite.

Their distress was so great that Keter manifested their wish for being, from nothingness. This wish is what we know as matter, and it appeared in the form of a superheated, superdense mass. The Gainen consulted with one another, trying to decide what to do with this mass and how it could cause being. They concluded that an antithesis to their nonexistence and unreality would be the only path to salvation. Reality was born, and with it the inevitable Highest Truth:

Every phenomenon has an antithesis or opposition of equal magnitude.

Wisdom soon realized that material reality on its own was not satisfactory if they could not interact with it. The Togashira came to a consensus that the mere existence of the matter they had manifested granted no relief. Not wanting to waste it all at once, they decided to take a portion of the matter and combine it with an equal portion of the reality they had placed it within: the resultant singularity expanded forth into space, a pure dynamic energy of infinite intensity forever propelled forth at a speed faster than light.

The first Universe was born.

Verse Two: Chaos

At first, the universe was pure chaos, and the Togashira found that this was an unsatisfactory state on its own. Recognizing that chaos would be the most important state, though, they cemented it as the first rule of the universe, and called it Entropy. It is a force contained within everything in the first universe that both exists and is part of reality.

With this done, they proceeded to implement additional parameters that would allow entropy and matter to interact, rather than only co-inhabiting the same space: dimensions. First they created the three dimensions of space: up and down, left and right, and back and forth. Then they created a fourth dimension made entirely from entropy, so that they could keep track of the development of matter: Time.

Time allowed the Togashira to view events relative to other events, granting more profound meaning to the changes in its universe. Entropy's role and effect on reality is continuous and fluid, not divided up, and as time progressed so did the development of their new universe.

The matter began to expand, the chaos evolving several prominent patterns that organized matter and streamlined its progression. These patterns are the four forces of nature: Gravity, Electromagnetic force, and Strong and Weak Nuclear force. They are what causes matter to amass and shape into the galaxies, stars, and planets.

Since the Universe was a means for the Gainen to experience themselves, Keter - through its primordial energy - channeled their collective consciousness from Ainsov into the Universe, and it permeated all matter. All things contain some degree of consciousness, and this would later be defined as the Natural Energy.

Keter and entropy flow through everything. The desire for being and the pursuit of being, symmetry through parity and asymmetry through chirality. In abundant but still limited quantities, these two elements would naturally combine to form a separate and unique compound: Chakra.

Verse Three: Life

The universe continued in its expansion, doing so much more rapidly than before. But once again, the Gainen found themselves unsatisfied. Observing matter was not enough; they needed to experience it. And so, life in the universe began.

Majesty and Endurance were assigned this divine task of creating life. Endurance is the act of conquest, actual victory obtained through strength. Majesty is the power to continually advance towards the realization of a goal, the acknowledgement of a supreme purpose. They are two halves of a single body that is essential to survival. Thus, the endeavor was left completely to them both.

They had no other option but to create this new life form according to the physical laws and patterns that entropy had established. Since chakra was - metaphorically - the act of actually being, they decided that chakra would also function as a 'life force' to distinguish non-living matter from living beings, because all matter already contained keter and entropy. After much more time and deliberation, they created the first organisms: the prokaryotes.

After choosing a set of criteria that would ensure the growth and survival of their prokaryotes, the Gainen Majesty and Endurance proceeded to seed each planet that fit the agreed upon standards with them. They equally divided the planets among themselves, so that the concepts represented by each Gainen would have equal influence in the universe.

Over time, and much to their delight, some of the prokaryotes mutated into a new and more advanced life form, the eukaryotes. A planet named Ordinance - which was seeded by Gainen Endurance - was the first to evolve eukaryotes.

The new eukaryotes grew and evolved at a rapid pace, growing more and more complex as time progressed. Within the next five-hundred million years, they evolved into the first hominid species: the Precursors.

Verse Four: Elevate

The precursors were lifeforms without self-awareness. The same physicality of a modern hominid, but with the non-sentience of a stone or a blade of grass. The Togashira, upon seeing the Precursors, decided that they were now complex enough to implant with sentience. As with all things in the Universe, the precursors were conscious. However, sentience is a higher state of awareness that can only be achieved through the self-reflection of vast amounts of consciousness.

Since the precursors were not massive enough to attain sentience on their own, the Togashira created a work-around. The soul would grant them sentience by directly connecting the collective and self-aware consciousness of the Togashira to their life force. A spirit form meant that the precursors would always remain connected to their creators, their individual experiences never fading into nonexistence. This would become the foundation for all sentient beings thereafter.

Verse Five: Parasite

So far in this Universe, life forms had yet to evolve the ability to utilize the force of chakra. Being the combination of keter and entropy, chakra was incredibly powerful: it contained the possibility of manipulating both nature and spirit.

Chaos in the form of evolution changed this fact. The first organisms to wield chakra were large flora known as the God Trees. Parasitic by nature, a God Tree fed off of the natural energy - the keter - present in all creation, combining it with the force of entropy to produce new chakra, and stored it within a chakra fruit. This process consumed the life force from each planet that the God Trees seeded, until nothing remained but a barren husk of what once was. The Togashira were indifferent to this phenomenon, with the exceptions of Majesty and Endurance.

They initially came to an agreement that their respective progeny - Endurance's precursors, and recently Majesty's homo sapiens - should not have access to their inherent chakra, in order to prevent them from developing into parasites like the God Trees were. Under the terms of their plan, humanity and the precursors would evolve a tertiary nervous system: a chakra network, pathways that connected to tenketsu points all over the body and organized the chakra within them. The system would have a series of eight inner gates as a safeguard in case they somehow did find a way to wield their chakra. In such an event, the gates would limit the availability of chakra, due to its destructive and potentially lethal nature.

The results of this meant that all humans and precursors would still possess chakra as their life force, but could never access enough to wield it efficiently, as the risks of such powers were the promises of self-annihilation or parasitic destruction. The effective implementation of this plan is what happened in the case of humanity, who would remain ignorant to their own possession of chakra.

However, Endurance was by nature competitive and a conqueror. It favored and doted on its precursors, and this manic devotion drove Endurance to abandon their agreement and work behind Majesty's back.

Verse Six: Instigator

Endurance chose the ten strongest precursors - five men and five women - and evolved them, creating physical bodies capable of not only containing and wielding vast amounts of chakra, but also of surviving in harsh conditions such as the vacuum of space. Additionally, their skeletons were hardened and made more durable, and their cells were granted increased regeneration and healing.

He did not stop there, though. As a gift for the strongest among these new individuals - the Successors - Endurance enhanced the God Tree on Ordinance, where they lived, so that it would have a symbiotic relationship with the planet. It was deemed the Prime Tree, and produced such immense chakra that it would bear a chakra fruit capable of bestowing paracausality to whomever first consumed it: a state of being, of immortality, that was not confined to the laws of the first universe or the reality contained within it.

This original sin perpetuated by Gainen Endurance was the first lie, the first deception.

The Untruth.

From then onward he became known as Thaumiel, for condemning the first universe to disunity, discord, and the perpetual struggle of dual contending forces. The corrupt will of Gainen Endurance would cast a curse of Untruth onto whomever ate the fruit of the Prime Tree and all of their full-blooded descendants.

Verse Seven: He Who Takes

The first to find the Prime

Crested the mountain ridge at dawn

He journeyed far and battled time

So the past would be an age bygone

A young star illuminated all

Promises of the great bamboo tree

Bearing a curse was the wherewithal

For endless power to set him free
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Chaos mutated each limb

Rot beget the core of his being

Evil spirit whose prognosis is grim

A tyrant king became all-seeing

The first act of taking

Was of life from slaughtered brethren

Women he spared if only for mating

His children gave life to oppression

Descendants bearing the curse of Untruth

Perpetuate the King's reign of terror

Verse Eight: Paracausal

The precursor who consumed the fruit of the Prime Tree named himself Junichiro, and his clan would be called the Otsutsuki in honor of the tree from which his powers originated. His paracausality granted him a unique relationship with life and death: he simultaneously exists within and outside of both concepts. He was also the first rinnegan user to access Limbo, an invisible world coexisting with the physical world.

Limbo is ordinarily impossible to detect, perceive, or even physically interact with, as it is the antithesis of the concept of materialism in which sentient organisms believed. Within the first Universe, Junichiro can give or take life in accordance with his own will and manipulate the life-state of any being touched by chakra or natural energy.

Junichiro's first and greatest act of paracausality was the creation of the oversoul: a spirit form that would be unique to his children and enhance their chances of survival. This was done by storing their soul in a secure, untouchable space, and connecting only part of it to their physical reality. He was the key-holder and thus the only being capable of destroying these oversouls, giving him ultimate control over his direct descendants, the main family; the most powerful bloodline. With this spiritual immortality, he and his clan would build a tyrannical empire.

Contrary to himself, Junichiro's children were not paracausal and did not have immortal physical bodies despite their oversouls, and still carried the curse of untruth. They could wield chakra as he could, and with varying degrees of power, but none came close to his own ability. His children were Gods, and he was God's creator. This was more pleasing than it was disheartening, though, and ensured his everlasting sovereignty.

Thaumiel watched this civilization develop, watched the curse of his own deception corrupt his once precious creations, watched as they exploited and desecrated all within reach. One day, he could not bear the sight any longer. Consumed by guilt and despair, Thaumiel fled the first universe and condemned himself to its antithesis: the parallel universe.

Thaumiel spoke to Junichiro for the first and last time:

"I am going to other universes."

This was no great deterrent for the emperor of the Otsutsuki, for he had long since stopped caring for the Gainen in favor of himself and his clan. Junichiro mocked his cowardice, and there was a great celebration among his people; a week-long festival called Funtanonai, 'unburdened', observed every year from that point onward.

Verse Nine: Loneliness

Despite the wealth and progress of his civilization, Junichiro found himself growing increasingly lonely as the only true immortal, and his clansmen were growing weaker as his direct bloodline thinned out. What was at first his greatest advantage had now come to be seen as his greatest flaw, and that was his inability to create offspring as strong as himself. It was the ultimate limitation of his domain over life and death.

Every night he would dream of a perfect partner, a counterpart to his incomplete whole whom he could have even more powerful children with, and he fervently prayed to whatever might be listening to grant him this one last wish.

Keter was the first to acknowledge his call. She hated the Otsutsuki, and saw this wish as an opportunity to counter Thaumiel's sin and bring balance back to the first universe. Appearing to Junichiro in a dream, Keter took the form of his ideal wife, and promised to come to him soon. Keter created the woman using Junichiro's DNA and imbued her with Keter's own will. When the Emperor awoke, his wish had come true. They were married the following day.

Empress Nozomu went on to bear Junichiro three sons, and much later she gave birth to a daughter as well.

Verse Twelve: The Rules

Thus are the two Rules of the first Universe:

Order and Chaos

Secrets and Truths

Taking and Giving

Death and Life

Evil and Good

Hate and Love

The rule of Darkness:

Evil emboldened by a lack of understanding

Secrets that make way for ill will

Order encroaching upon freedoms

Taking benefiting the few while causing the many to suffer

The rule of Light:

Truth that begets understanding and paves the way for morality

Chaos and entropy allowing life to flourish

Giving and sharing for the benefit of the whole

Good will and intention in all acts

Neither rule shall ever truly defeat the other.

However, the Rule of Light can reveal the Highest Truth that extends beyond this Universe, the understanding of which grants the most hidden of all hidden things and is the only force capable of suppressing the Rule of Darkness:

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Clarification-not part of text

Ok, so this might be confusing, I know. The writing is complex in order to mimic the structure of old philosophical texts and religious works. Some parts are intentionally vague and I won't explain those, but the non spoiler parts I will. So, basically:

Keter = the form/entity

keter = the consciousness of Keter in the context of a force

If you think of keter, entropy, and chakra in terms of basic chemistry: chakra is a compound, not a mixture.

The soul thing, using an analogy:

Rule: everyone has a unique cup. If you are mortal and you die(spill your water), your cup goes in the trash. Remember that your soul is connected to your chakra.

Human soul: The cup is your body, and the water inside of the cup is your soul. If your cup spills, well, now you're a corpse. Your water is stuck in the King of Hell's aquifer forever, unless some douche sucks you up and puts you into a zombie cup.

Oversoul: The cup is your body, your oversoul is the water in your house's water tank. The water is accessed via a tap. You never have all of the tank water in your cup. If the cup spills, you can steal someone else's cup by forcing them to replace their water with yours.

People hate when you take their cup. It's rude. Their cup wasn't meant for you, and it won't let you use your water. So, you're just kinda trapped in this person's cup, unable to do your space magic. Maybe their cup is able to like shit fire or something, so you could do that. Boring, but beats being a corpse. Right?

Kama/karma is pouring your water into someone else's cup while their water is still in it, and connecting them to your tap. It's revenge, 'cause they spilled yours. Bitch. Since the water is mixed(diluted), their cup can use your water and get more of it from your tap; but it's risky. If they use too much at once you will overpower their water. Unfortunately, most cups can't handle using your pure water. But if you replace all of the water in a cup that can actually use it? Congrats, you get a new cup that is identical to your first. You are immortal. Fuck yeah.

(Note: read Boruto ch. 46 for literal explanation of Karma)

How does Ara's seal work? She barely understands it herself, and is horrible at explaining things, like really terrible, so I'll do it for you using the same context as the examples above:

Her cup came with a lid, and she has trash immunity. She is immortal.

The seal booby traps her tank. This is because the water company is an asshole, and wants to psychologically destroy her. The seal also confiscates her lid and most of the water in her cup. Uh oh. The first time her cup spills, it will automatically refill to pre-seal water levels. However, this triggers the failsafe, and the booby trap cuts off all access to her tank. So, she can't refill her cup the next time it spills. Trash immunity no longer matters since she can't get more water anyways. Sad. What a dick move by the water company.

Hint: the water company is Junichiro

Notes: Hmm, I wonder who Izanagi is? Hint: they are not the jutsu, lol. Also, verses are missing - the number order is no mistake.