Act of Creation

In the beginning was space and darkness and stillness, older than time and
forgotten by the gods. Movement arose in space: that was the beginning.
This sea of infinite space was the source of all being; life arose therein as a
tide in the soundless sea.

Because of the inertia of space ere movement arose as a tide, She is called
by the Wise the "Passive Principal in Nature" and thought of as water, or
space that flows. But there is no flowing in space till the power stirs; and this
power is the Active Principle of creation.