The epigenesis of any idea is born of personal experience, the genetic impulses hidden deep within us, and the mystery of life itself. This work is unique and yet absolutely ordinary, etched in time, and retold.

Deep within our essence, sitting perhaps, as a seed primed and yet waiting, lies our thirst for emergence. This emergence, just like a seed, waits for the moment when all the conditions are right; even if spring hasn't come through the eyes of the calendar, or the ground has not yet completely thawed. As we know from our botany the driving force of the germinating seed is to seek light, as it bursts through the ground, emergent, looking for its life giving source.

We too have this moment; for some of us it is life long, for others it is temporary, as our winter of discontent becomes too intense and our nights grow too long. For many this awakening comes by seeming accident, by chance, htrough perhaps a strange encounter, a gentle smile from a stranger, a unknown element that entered their life and touched that seed that lay waiting. For many, in these contemporary technological dominant times, the emptiness within prompts a deep expression to find the Source. Put off by established models of worhsip, of knowing, thousands seek the path back to their Source. They seek to tiune into a signal of unparalleled strength, a clear tune, a cadence of beauty,a tonal range that spans everything. This is the starting point.

Emanation theory purports or suggests that we start from The Primary principle (The Absolute), which overflows and drips out (Latin emanare), sending Itself outward to know Itself (The Word or Logos), and these aspects of the Divine, flow through time and space until it metaphorically and literally, in our case, falls onto and into matter. This essence figuratively turns around and emerges slowly through time back to its Source, evolving or emanating back through successive layers of being towards its ascension. This philosophical emanation model is found in almost all religious and philosophical beliefs, but which often gets rejected later, after their inclusion, as polytheistic or unacceptable 'imported' beliefs.

However the journey is written and discussed as the Great Chain of Being, or Emanation Theory. It can be found back in Mesopatamian writings, espoused by Plato, his pupil Plotinus, brought into Christianity by St Augustine and the Eastern Orthodox Church by ..., incorporated into both Qaballah and Islamic and Sufi knowledge in the end of the first millenia, struggled with through the teaching and writings of St Therese and Tomas Aquinus, brought into this Century by Ernst Schumacher, and developed and reorganised through the luminous works of Graves and Ken Wilber in the last thirty years, and in parallel, with this work, by Solihin and Alicia Thom.

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