Tibetan Buddhism speaks about the journey into the truth of existence, wherein wrathful deities are encountered, fearful aspects of emptiness. They are a necessary aspect of the journey, like a tunnel.
These wrathful deities are known as the anger of God, his monotheistic mania in other religions. Sometimes Samael, the Demiurge and his hosts.
The problem with the religions is they tend to do one of the following to these hosts: deify them, render them a unity, fear them, obey them, fear them, consider them satanic, reject them, or turn them into a duality of good/evil, or a multiplicity of holy names, each balancing the other in modality.
When the point is obvious: these deities are you, your voices, your good, your evil. In motion, back to the womb. And what are you? Emptiness in motion, emptiness reading itself, the perturbation folding in upon itself. In motion, back to genesis.
So when the Gnostics tell their genesis stories: each word is a tunnel, a wrathful deity, a copulating totem, wormholes to be travelled through, emptiness as God.
David Whyte’s Faces of Braga below seems to already be in dialogue with your post.
The Faces of Braga
In monastery darkness
by the light of one flashlight
the old shrine room waits in silence.
While above the door
we see the terrible figure,
fierce eyes demanding, “Will you step through?”
And the old monk leads us,
bent back nudging blackness
prayer beads in the hand that beckons.
We light the butter lamps
and bow, eyes blinking in the
pungent smoke, look up without a word,
See faces in meditation,
a hundred faces carved above,
eye lines wrinkled in the hand held light.
Such love in solid wood!
Taken from the hillsides and carved in silence
they have the vibrant stillness of those who made them.
Engulfed by the past
they have been neglected, but through
smoke and darkness they are like the flowers
We have seen growing
through the dust of eroded slopes,
their slowly opening faces turned toward the mountains.
Cared in devotion
their eyes have softened through age
and their mouths curve through delight of the carver’s hand.
If only our own faces
would allow the invisible carver’s hand
to bring the deep grain of love to the surface.
If only we knew
as the carver knew, how the flaws
in the wood led his searching chisel to the very core.
We would smile too
and not need faces immobilized
by fear and the weight of things undone.
When we fight with our failing
we ignore the entrance to the shrine itself
and wrestle with the guardian, fierce figure on the side of good.
And as we fight
our eyes are hooded with grief
and our mouths are dry with pain.
If only we could give ourselves
to the blows of the carvers hands,
the lines in our faces would be the trace lines of rivers
Feeding the sea
where voices meet, praising the features
of the mountain and the cloud and the sky.
Our faces would fall away
until we, growing younger toward death
every day, would gather all our flaws in celebration
To merge with them perfectly,
impossibly, wedded to our essence,
full of silence from the carver’s hands.
Good post and true. Ultimately the demons, deities and demiurges are contained in that emptiness which, as you say, is “you”. And what can arise from emptiness but emptiness? Emptiness in motion is ultimately just emptiness. And all genesis stories are just that: stories.