May we wish all our dear readers a very happy Epiphany (or Epopeia, as it was sometimes called in the pre-Christian faith of Demeter and Her Daughter Persephone). The Showing-Forth of the Daughter is the universal, cosmic darshan or "saving view" of Dea, because it is only in Her form as the "lunar" Daughter that the brightness of the solar Mother can be looked upon by our eyes. Since it is the Daughter who makes possible the Universal Darshan, by which the cosmos is preserved in, the Epiphany Event is fundamental to existence itself. We note that (perhaps more appropriately than he knew) the Pope chose this holy day to speak about the so-called "Big Bang". We wish to commend the wisely measured nature of his comments. He did not say (as some headlines have crudely suggested) "The Big Bang happened and God did it." He very wisely and properly maintained an agnostic position on the current beliefs of modern science. Properly agnostic, because scientific theories are only ever theories and cannot correctly be spoken of on the same level as metaphysical certainties. To do so would have merely been pandering to the popular scientistic (not scientific) beliefs of the Western masses. Whether a "Big Bang" actually happened, and whether it happened in the way that "science" (i.e., a majority of academic scientists at a given snapshot in time) believes, is something we cannot know for certain as long as we are time-bound beings, and when we are not, it will not matter very much. But what we can be certain of is that if it did happen it was only a secondary or mediate cause of (a certain physical level of) material manifestation. The First Principle and the Final Cause is known to us, because She has made Herself known to us.