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Abstract: This comparative chapter by Elaine Padilla offers a model of divine creativity by which the cosmos continuously emanates from within God. It draws from the Aztec concept of teotlizing, or the process by which the primordial space begets itself and becomes tangibly as cosmos, and Karl Rahner’s understanding of the divine self-disclosure. Divine creativity is recaptured as the movement toward differentiation of all things in the divine unity, followed by the movement of interweaving by which all differences are brought together into a fragile unity. These ongoing processes tangibly make manifest the mystery of life called “flower and song” in Aztec religion. The comparison urges Rahner’s theology to embrace the creative potential and divine presence in darkness and chaos as well as in light.