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The Source-True Form 002

A visual manifestation of The Source

Quote1 The great energy of creation that lay beyond the barrier at the end of his universe and lived in all things. The power from beyond, whose unseen hands had created the multiverse. Quote2
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The Source is an aspect of The Presence and the partner of Mother Entity. He is the "source" of all that exists and acts as the limitless energy from which all life sprang forth in the Universe, revered by the New Gods.[10][17][8]

History

Origins

The Source-True Form 002

A visual manifestation of The Source

Before everything, before life and death and matter and magic, there was only a Great Darkness; a single, black infinitude. Within that darkness, however, a single, burning Light was born. As it grew, the darkness screamed, resulting in an imperceptible flaw in the once-immaculate perception of the Light. And in that moment, the cosmos was born. With the birth of the Source from the dark, the cosmos churned and the forces danced with each other like threads on destiny's loom, giving birth to the Lords of Chaos and Order. And, just a little after them, the Gods. Old, then New.[3][1][4][5]

The Source sent The Hands out into the greater Overvoid, where they were tasked with creating new Multiversal systems using the seven connective energies that The Source was responsible for birthing. These energies are essential for the good working of the Multiverse with all its elements operating in harmony with one another. After the creation of their Multiverses, each member of the Hands would pass and allow their energies to return to Source of All Things.

However, one amongst their number, Perpetua, refused. She built a viscious, predatory multiverse, one locked in a never-ending cycle of crisis and rebirth. Her children, however, betrayed her, and she was imprisoned within the Source Wall, which protects the Source, and traps all those who attempt to pass beyond it as Promethean Giants. Her flawed, predatory multiverse was made to restart.[6][7][8][9]

As an aspect of The Presence,[10][8] The Source creates and is created by the Universe approximately 19 billion years ago.[11] It is described as the great energy of creation that lives in all things and as an ultimate concept that contains all duality.[12][13]

The Source is closely associated with the New Gods, as it was the supposed origin of the "Godwave", a cosmic energy wave that is believed to have been responsible for creating and empowering the "Gods" with their divine abilities. It also seems to be partially responsible for the ability of certain people to develop super-powers, especially those which defy the laws of physics.

Death of the New Gods

 Main article: Death of the New Gods

While investigating the death of the New Gods, Metron encountered the Source. The Source revealed it was behind the deaths to build a new "Fifth World" after the Third and Fourth Worlds of the respective Old and New Gods proved unsatisfactory. It revealed that the most powerful gods of three pantheons of the Third World--the "Old Gods"--attacked it and caused it to split into separate beings. The other being evolved into the Anti-Life entity. In retribution, the Source destroyed the Old Gods and created the New Gods. However, its diminished stature caused the New Gods to be flawed, leading the New Gods to diverge from the Source's wishes and only able to understand cryptic commands through messages written by a disembodied hand. The Source sought to reunite with its other half and start anew and destroy the New Gods in the process. It has apparently manipulated several beings such as Alexander Luthor and Rip Hunter, as it never resided behind the Source Wall, to create the 52 worlds of the Multiverse to ease the reunion of the two halves of the Source and commandeered the The Infinity Man to assassinate the New Gods and collect their souls inside a second wall within the Source Wall to be reincarnated as the raw materials for its Fifth World.[14]

However, this encounter at this event was with a visual manifestation of The Source that the simplest minds can comprehend,[15][16] since The Source contains life and anti-life, good and evil, up and down, in and out, black and white, all at once, it must be regarded as an ultimate concept which cannot be halved or divided or contained.[12]

Prime Earth

The Source 005

The Source's human form

At some point, the Source became bonded to a being of unknown provenance known as the Mother Entity. Though their connection was not marriage in any traditional sense, the Mother Entity is considered to be the Source's bride. The Mother Entity is the energy tapped into by the Mother Boxes of the Fourth World.[17]

Powers

  • Source of Creation: The Source is the "source" of creativity and creation and is the power from beyond that lies outside the barrier of the universe and whose Unseen Hands have shaped the multiverse and all other multiverses in the Omniverse.[8][13] The Hands create a Multiverse using its energies and then die, allowing their energies to return to The Source.[9]
  • Omnipresence: The Source is everywhere and nowhere,[18] living in all things in the Omniverse.[13]
  • Omniscience: All of the universe is a long and slow reverie that is dreamt by The Source.[19]
  • Immortality: The Source is believed to have been created with the emergence of the universe 19 billion years ago,[12] although it has been there since the beginning of time, when it came out of the darkness.[5]


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