"My spirituality is best described, rather defined, as a sublime
ignorance. I don't know, none of
us do. I just embrace it." he said.
"The Divine entity that we call "God" is, what I like to
think, a being who is the highest exponent of Humanity. The end. Human to the Nth power. In order to come close to understanding the Divine, Humans
would have to be truly great in all their actions - for generations. After
that, who knows? It's something
Humans may never fully understand."
Chars sighed. He looked
down, stroked his white beard and began pacing slowly. Chars was halfway down his bookshelf
when he straightened and raised a fist above his head.
"But even if there were no "understanding", there'd still
be peace and harmony, goodwill, and love for eternity. I mean, isn't that what everyone thinks
the Divine is? Does it need to be
more complicated than that? I
don't think so. That's why I've
decided to understand the Divine's existence through love and by being great. After all, in the Divine's grace there
are still moments of weakness, are there not?" Chars was slightly out of
breath, but pleased with himself.
However, his confidence wore off quickly as he began to sink inside
himself. He broke eye contact as
his eyes darted. His lip began to
tremble "However, my
weakness is greater." Chars
turned away and continued down his bookshelf. He looked at the floor as he passed his books. He cleared his throat.
A glowing light emerged from within the bookshelf, as if a doorway were
there. It glided through the
bookshelf, from behind, and into the room. It paused right behind Chars and began moving in the
opposite direction. The outline of
a face and body could barely be discerned inside the radiance. They were like dueling gentlemen who
counted their paces before turning and firing. The being of light stopped and stared hard, straight
ahead.
"Weakness is an acceptable variable in a sea of endless data."
it said. "What motivates
those weaknesses, and how one overcomes them, is what affects the evolution of
Humanity. The underlying problem
with Humans is their inability to remember their past, their unwillingness to
see themselves in the present, all while constantly day-dreaming of their
future." The being hovered as
it shimmered with a golden and blinding white aura. It was more of a glowing mass than a humanoid. However, appendages could be seen in
brief glimpses as the light rippled.
It was like a condensed star or sun. "If we could have made changes at an earlier place in
time, in an other universe, we would have. That is our weakness." it said.
Chars stopped walking and spoke without turning around. "In my elongated lifetime, I
corrected almost every error in the Human DNA strand. What has always eluded me is the programming of Ego. I have never found a way to eliminate
Ego so that it may be controlled." he said quietly with conviction.
The being, who was watching Chars' back, returned his gaze
forward. "That's what you
have consistently neglected all this time. The reason why Ego has never been corrected in your
experiments is because you never corrected it in yourselves first. You have no perspective in that regard,
Chars." the light said condescendingly. "And that is why we have been forced to
intervene."
Chars scoffed "Nonsense. Crossing into other dimensions or universes doesn't make you
superior. We still destroyed you
in the end."
"Is that so, Chars?
You may want to re-think your idea of time." it responded. Slowly the being drifted back through
and behind the bookshelf. Chars
remained standing with his head down as the room faded to black, then woke up
sweating and cold.
© Christopher Robert Dawson 2000-2013
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