Novel of dreams

WANDERINGS
RINGS

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written by hand of
BRANE KOREN

MY FRIEND,
WHILST READING THIS NEVERENDING TALE, YOU COME TO BE ITS INDIVISIBLE
PART. YES, YOU DO. THIS BOOK HOLDS MUCH MORE THAN JUST ORDINARY
WORDS. IT REVEALS, AND LEADS THE PATH OF ASTONISHING ENERGIES.
IT IS A RITUAL.
ITS WORDS ARE WRITTEN FROM THE DEPTHS OF HEART.
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF TRUTH. WORDS OF REASON.
OVER MIND HEART GIVES AN ORDER TO MY HAND, TELLING IT HOW TO
COMPOSE THEM INTO THIS TALE-TALE WITH A REASON, A MEANING,
A PURPOSE...
THIS TALE IS A SUM OF MEMORIES, PERCEPTIONS AND DREAMS-VISIONS IN FACT.
VISIONS ABOUT PAST TIMES, AS TIMES WHICH ARE ABOUT TO COME.
FROM HENCE, THROW AWAY ALL BURDENS AND DELUSIONS OF THE PAST.
LET THEM ROT INTO OBLIVION, WHERE THEY TRULY BELONG.
OPEN YOUR EYES , FREE YOUR MIND.
ILL LEAD YOU THROUGH JOURNEY...
AND IF YOU SENSE A TOUCH IN DEPTHS OF YOUR BEING, DONT BE SURPRISED.
THAT IS THE BEAM THAT LIGHTS UPON THE SEED-COMING STRAIGHT FROM
HEAVENS. THAT VERY MOMENT FLAME BEGINS TO GROW. THE MIND DISCOVERS
THE HEART, TO PROTECT IT-AND TO FOLLOW IT.
TO OPEN THE DOOR. INTO INFINITY...
AND AS IT IS SPOKEN, THIS IS THE NEVERENDING TALE...

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V.
VI.
VII.

SPRINGTIME DREAM
TALE ABOUT WORLD AND TIME
ECLIPSE OF THE WORLD
THE CELESTIAL SIGN
AROUSAL OF A DISTANT DREAM
IN THE LAPS OF MOUNTAINS
TALE OF AUTUMN

SPRINGTIME DREAM
MAN LIVES AS RIVER FLOWS. EACH RIVER GETS BLESSED BY ITS WELL. THE
SACRED WELL OF LIFE. ONCE IT STARTS TO FLOW, RIVER BEGINS ITS JOURNEY.
IN PLACES EASY AND PEACEFUL, BUT SOMETIMES ROUGH AND MERCILESS...
RIVERS DIVERGE AND COMBINE, THEY KISS AND ENTWINE EACH OTHER. THEY
GROW AND RISE WITH TIME, GETTING MORE AND MORE WATER. THEY RUN AND
WANDER, SEARCHING FOR A WAY TO THE SEA. TOWARDS AN ENDLESS SEA,
WHERE THEY BECOME ONE... IN ETERNITY...
MANY RIVERS LOSE THEIR AIM, THEIR WAY, LOSE THEIR HEART, SOUL , SHINE.
THEY START FLOWING OVER BARREN, MUDDY GROUND. ONCE THEY STOP THEY
BECOME BLACK SLUSHES. THEIR STREAM POLLUTES MANY OTHER RIVERS.
WHEN WELL DRAINS RIVERS RUN DRY, AND NEVER REACH THE SEA. THEY NEVER
ACCOMPLISH THE PURPOSE OF THEIR SACRED SPRING.
THEY END AT THEIR BEGINNING. DISAPPEAR IN TIME.
FLASHING ARE RIVERS THAT BLAZE THE TRAIL TOWARDS SEA, AND REACH IT.
THEY FIND THE WAY, LEAVING DEEP TRACE BEHIND.
FOR SOME NEW, FORTHCOMING WATERS...
RIVER THAT REACHES THE SEA UNITES WITH IT ITS OWN WELL. SO FULFILLS ITS
PURPOSE. ON ONE DAY WELL DRAINS, BUT NEVER ITS WATER.
IT POURS INTO THE SEA. AND LIVES FOREVER...
EVERY TALE COMES REVIVED BY ITS BEGINNING. EVERY LIFE ARISES FROM ITS
SEED. EVERY RIVER STARTS RUNNING AT ITS WELL.
THE ONE AND ONLY. WRITTEN AMONG THE STARS...
SPRING OF MY LYMPH RESTS IN AN ANCIENT WINDY NIGHT, IN A DISTANT YEAR ...
THE YEAR OF A DRAGON.....

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...WINTER DECLINES. LASTING AND COLD WINTER. FROZEN FINGERS OF
NIGHT MELT AND RETREAT. FAR ON HORIZON A SCINTILLA APPEARS.
IT DAWNS. NEW DAY ARRIVES THROUGH GLORIOUS FLAMES...
SPELL FROM THE SUN LIGHTS UPON AN ENDLESS KINGDOM OF STREAMS AND
VALES, MOUNTAINS AND WOODS. WARM STRINGS OF A DAYLIGHT BURST
THROUGH CROWNS OF TREES, STARTING AN AMAZING DANCE.
ICE DISSOLVES, BROOK BEGINS TO FLOW, REVIVING THE HEARS OF AN OLD
WATERMILL. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES FORGATHER BY THE FRESH WELL.
SPIRITED HIND HALTS, CURIOUSLY LIFTING ITS LOVELY HEAD.
FORESTS ECHO WITH SYMPHONY OF WILD FOWLS. NATURE STARTS SINGING
THROUGH RHAPSODY OF RAINBOW COLOURS...
BREEZE BEGINS TO GLIDE OVER MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS, THROUGH WIDE
SPACES OF FLOWERS AND HONEY. DEWY GRASS BLADES KISS THE GROUND,
BRANCHES MILDLY WRAP IN. SILKY LEAVES QUIVER.
A SMALL CHILD STARTS RUNNING OVER BLOOMING PATHS, AND STOPS STILL
ON A MOUND. THEN CASTS A GLANCE AT BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY, ABSORBING
ITS CRYSTAL SHINE. AND THEN HE CATCHES SIGHT OF DISTANCES, TAKES A
DEEP BREATH AND STRETCHES HIS FACE INTO A SMILE. THE WIND JUST

BROUGHT HIM THE NEWS. FRESH AND SWEET. THE SMELL OF A SPRING...

GOLDEN THREADS OF MY REMEMBRANCE REACH DOWN TO THAT

BEAUTIFUL DAY, TOUCHING THE FERTILE GROUND OF ONE MAGIC PLACE.
GROUND WHERE I IMPRESSED TRAILS OF MY FIRST STEPS. PLACE WHERE IVE
BEEN ABSORBING COLOURS OF RAINBOWS. OH YES. IN THAT PLACE MY
JOURNEY HAS BEGUN... MY LYMPH STARTED FLOWING IN GREENNESS OF
VALES, IN THE LAPS OF POPLARS AND LINDENS, PINES AND BIRCH TREES.
THERE HAVE BEEN ASSEMBLING PATHS OF ADORABLE PEOPLE. LIKEWISE
FLIGHTS OF WONDERFUL GAUDY BIRDS... NEAR BY MY HOME REMARKABLE
TREE HAS BEEN STANDING. AN OLD ASTONISHING TREE WITH BRANCHES
ALIKE CASCADES OF THE PRETTIEST WORLDS RIVER. NO ONE UNDERSTOOD
OLDNESS, NOR DESCENT OF ITS SEED. HIGH ON ITS CROWN IVE SPENT
GLORIOUS DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD. DAYS OF PLAYING AND LEARNING, OF
FRIENDSHIP AND JOY... I USED TO RUN RESTLESS WITH OTHER CHILDREN,
BLISSFUL AND SMILING. WITH LAUGHS WE RULED OVER RICH CROWNS OF
TREES, SHARING THE FRESH FRUITS OF A SPRING. MANY PATHS WE WALKED
TOGETHER, WEAVING SECRET SILKY THREADS. ALL I LONGED FOR FLASHED
IN MY EYES. EVERYTHING I SAW I INGRAINED INSIDE MY HEART. IVE BEEN
A NEW CHILD ON PATHS OF FORTUNE. GRATEFUL IVE BEEN GROWING IN A
KINGDOM BENEATH THE SUN. SURROUNDED BY KIND, BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE...
AT THE END OF DAYS IVE OFTEN ISOLATED MYSELF, AND DISAPPEARED IN
DISTANCES... I USED TO STAND STILL, GAZING AT THE WEST, SILENT AND
AMAZED. FAR ON HORIZON LIGHT BROKE INTO COLOURS, SHOWING ITS
ENCHANTING SPIRIT. I FELT A STRONG, STRANGE CONNECTION. I FELT CALL
FROM DISTANCES. AND SOFT, MYSTICAL TUNE IN MY HEART. VOICE FROM
THE DEPTHS. SO BRIGHT AND TRUE. AND IT SEEMED I GAZE AT HUMAN
HEART...
MANY TIMES IVE WANTED TO KNOW, MANY TIMES IVE PEERED INTO
SAGACITY. IVE BEEN ABSORBING EVERY SOUND, FEELING EVERY TWITCH,
EVERY SIGN. MANY WORDS IVE SENT TO THE WORLD, MANY SONGS IVE
SUNG TO THE WIND. IVE BEEN SMILING, ORDINARY BOY THAT RUNS TO THE
WEST, AND SINGS THE SONGS ABOUT DREAM... AND LOVE...

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...YEARS ROLLED BY, AND DARKNESS SMOTHERED ONE LOVED, JUST
BLOOMING LIFE... DURING CLOSE OF THAT DAY I WENT AWAY, TO HEAR THE
VOICE OF MY HEART. I WAS RUNNING OVER DISTANT MEADOW, UNTIL I
FINALLY STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE WINDMILL. THOUGHTFULLY I WAS
OBSERVING ITS HANDS, HANDS THAT PLAY AN ENDLESS GAME OF TIME.
TIME AND AGAIN. IN CIRCLE. ITS SHADOW HAD WELCOMED AND CONDUCTED
SO MANY PASSENGERS. IT HAD MEASURED SO MANY HOURS, DAYS, YEARS.
COUNTED OUT SO MANY PEOPLE, SO MANY STEPS, SO MANY SIGHS.
AND IT HAS BEEN WATCHING MY SHADOW CHANGING, GROWING. WHILE ITS
SHADOW REMAINS THE SAME. STONY TOWER THAT PLAYS A GAME OF TIME.
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WINDY, ENDLESS GAME. UNTIL GAME DESTROYS IT.

AND PROCEEDS WITH ITS WAY.....
WIND DISPELLED THE CLOUDS, FOR THE ROAD OF FRIENDSHIP TO CONTINUE.
WEVE BEEN GATHERING IN THE LAPS OF OLD LINDEN. LATER DISCOVERING
NEW GAMES, WHILE PROTECTING OLD PRINCIPLES. FROM TIME TO TIME WE
HASTENED TO A GLADE BESIDE THE WESTERN WOODS. DURING SPRING EVES
WE USED TO SIT IN A CIRCLE, GATHERED AROUND WARMTH AND LIGHT OF
THE FLAME WE MADE. SURROUNDED WITH HAPPINESS, FREEDOM, FLOWERS.
MERGED THROUGH THE SONG INTO ONE.
EXACTLY LIKE THAT VERY EVENING, SCENTED AND FRESH. ON HORIZON
SANK THE LAST SIGNS OF A DAY. QUEEN OF NIGHT SENT OFF HER SILENT
TUNES. BELLS STARTED RINGING, GUITARS BEGAN TO PLAY. JUST SOME STAR
SET SAIL OVER THE SKY, JUST SOME BUTTERFLY ALIGHTED AND PRICKED ITS
EARS. FLARE THREW ITS LIGHT UPON DEAR FACES, DEAR EYES AND SMILES.
DELIGHTED BY SMELL OF SPRING AND GRASS, WE STARTED SINGING OUR
FAVOURITE SONG. ABOUT ONE FLAME, WHICH NEVER DIES...
DEEP INTO NIGHT TUNES STOPPED, GUITARS WENT SILENT. MANY KIDS
RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES, MANY TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS, AS I STAYED
BEHIND ALONE. ALONE BENEATH THE STARS. DAZED BY SHINE. FILLED WITH
WISTFULNESS. ENCHANTED...
SUDDENLY I FELT THE VOICE THAT SUMMONED ME TOWARDS A DISTANT
GLADE, WHERE I FINALLY STOPPED AND LIED DOWN, WITH EYES AIMED AT
THE SKY... I WAS STARING AT THE ENDLESS KINGDOM OF STARS, FAR INTO
PAST. AND THEN I STARTED TO MEDITATE, SEARCHING FOR A KEY OF THE
GREAT SECRET. AND THOUGHTS BECAME DEEP AND STRONG. IVE STARTED
THINKING FAR, MUCH DEEPER AND DEEPER, UNTIL I SANK DURING THE
STRANGE AGUE INTO A DREAM.
AND SOMETHING CONDUCTED ME BACK THROUGH TIME MUCH AND MUCH
DISTANTLY UP TO THE VERY BEGINNING.

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TALE ABOUT WORLD AND TIME

TIME. TIME IS ABOUT CHANGES. CHANGES IN SPACE, CHANGES OF MATTER,
MOTION OF EVEN SMALLEST PARTICLE OF MATTER. HOW WILL YOU MEASURE
TIME IF EVERYTHING, BUT EVERYTHING STOPS TO MOVE POINTER ON THE
CLOCK, SHADOWS, EARTH, MOON, SUN, PLANETS AND STARS ALL MOLECULES
AND ATOMS. IF JUST HEART STOPS BEATING, MAN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
MEASURE TIME. BECAUSE TIME FOR HIM WILL STOP. IF ONLY EARTH STOPS
ROTATING, MAN WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MEASURE TIME. CAUSE NOTHINGNESS
WILL SWALLOW HIM. AND TIME FOR MAN WILL STOP. BUT IT WILL STILL EXIST.
WELL IF EVERYTHING STOPS AND NOTHING CHANGES THERE IS NO TIME.
BEFORE THE GREAT EVENT, IT HAD BEEN SO...

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ONE IS ALL, AND ALL IS NOTHING, NOTHINGS ALL, AND ALL IS ONE.
THAT IS THE TRUTH OF DIMENSION BEFORE THE BEGINNING. WORDS THAT DO
NOT DISCLOSE A VIEW, AND ALL YOU IMAGINE DOES NOT FOLLOW THESE
WORDS. DISORDER THAT REASON CANNOT STAND, CONFUSION THAT REASON
CONTEMPTS. CHAOS IN WHICH SENSES MEAN NOTHING, BECAUSE NOTHINGS
THERE AT ALL. THERE IS NO SIGHT. NOR TIME.
NUMBERS ARE INDICATION OF QUANTITY. NUMBERS ARE DISTINCTIVE
PROPERTY OF TIME. BUT IN THAT DIMENSION NUMBERS HAVE NO MEANING.
IN IT, ABSOLUTE VALUES AMALGAMATE. IN IT NOTHING, ONE AND ALL MERGE
INTO INCONCEIVABLE MESS. INTO MESS WITH NO AIM, NOR REASON.
INTO ABSURDITY.
THAT IS DIMENSION WHICH SWALLOWS ITSELF. DIMENSION THAT DOES NOT
ALLOW CREATION. DIMENSION WITH NO SIGHT, SOUND, SMELL, TOUCH NOR
TASTE. WITH NO PRESENTIMENT. DIMENSION THAT CANNOT BE SENSED WITH
ANYTHING. FOR NOTHINGS THERE. EMPTY DIMENSION. NOTHINGNESS.
AN INFINITE VACUUM. EVIL. DEATH. THAT IS THE DARKNESS THAT YOU CANNOT
SEE. FOR IN THAT DARKNESS MAN DISAPPEARS. AND BECOMES DARKNESS.
IT QUASHES HIM. TEARS HIM APART...
HOWEVER, IMAGINE VACANCY WITH NO LIGHT, NEITHER WARMTH.
COLD OBSCURITY. BLACK SILENCE. AND THEN IMAGINE ONE SEED IN WHICH ALL
IS WRITTEN. SO SMALL, AS A SHINY DOT. SO TINY, THAT IT PIERCES THE NIGHT
AND DISAPPEARS. DOES NOT EXIST. JUST DARK. THERE IS NO SIGHT.
NEITHER SOUND. NOR TIME...
THE VERY THING THAT ANNULS MAN IN THE ABSENCE OF REASON THE KING OF
ALL SENSES, MASTER OF WORLD AND TIME.
...MISUSING THE CHAOTIC RULE OF MUDDLE REASON DECIDED TO SET ORDER
TO CREATE ITSELF. FROM NOTHING. AND TO DESTROY THE MESS.
ONCE FOR ALL... TO ENABLE THE BIRTH OF WORLD AND TIME, THAT
WONDERFUL NEVERENDING TALE. TO SET THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH SHALL
EVOLVE THE PROCESS. RULES THAT WILL BE VALID EVERYWHERE AND FOR
ALWAYS, THROUGH INFINITY... AND IT WAS SO. IN A MOMENT.
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AND MIRACULOUS EXPLOSION HAPPENED...

LIGHT, WARMTH AND MATTER SPREAD ALL OVER THE DARKNESS. TIME STARTED
RUNNING, NEVER TO STOP AGAIN. ALL COMING STORIES AND LEGENDS
ORIGINATED. ALL THAT EVER WAS, IS, AND WILL BE CAME INTO EXISTENCE.
AND NEVERENDING TALE HAS JUST BEGUN...
GREAT MOMENT SUSPENDED AN INFINITE VAINNESS. THE UNIVERSE WAS
CREATED. GLORIOUS AND ENDLESS...
GLOWING PARTS OF MATTER HAVE BEEN RUSHING THROUGH SPACE, IN DIVERSE
SIZES AND FORMS. THEYVE BEEN VIOLENTLY CRASHING, BREAKING AND STILL
PROCEEDING WITH VOYAGE. DURING LONG TRAVEL THROUGH DARKNESS MANY
STARS HAVE LOST THEIR SHINE, AND DIED. HOWEVER, LOTS OF PIECES
ATTRACTED EACH OTHER, TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY TOGETHER...
ONE PIECE IS NAMED THE SUN. IT IS FATHER, HUGE AND IGNEOUS. MOTHER
WE CALL THE EARTH HAS ARRIVED MUCH, MUCH LATER AND WAS COLD AND
STIFF, SHEATHED WITH ICE. ICE HAD ORIGINATED WITH COOLING FIERY
MATTER INTO ROCKS, AND THEN CHILLING SURFACE OF ROCKS TILL A POINT
OF GLAZING DURING UNIMAGINABLY LASTING WANDERING THROUGH
UNIMAGINABLY COLD AND DARKNESS...
THE SUN PULLED UP MOTHER BY LAWS WHICH STRETCH OUT FROM THE VERY
BEGINNING, BUT DO NOT LET RESUMED MERGING. AS ATTRACTING THE
MOTHER, THE SUN DREW UP OTHER PLANETS. FATHER BOUND THEM TO ITS
SOLAR SYSTEM TO PROTECT THEM WITH LIGHT AND WARMTH FROM THE DEATH
OF DARKNESS. THAT SYSTEM, AS MANY OTHER SYSTEMS, IS DRAWN AROUND
CELESTIAL BODY OF THE GREATEST MASS. TOGETHER THEY MAKE THE GALAXY.
IT IS AGAIN ONE OF NUMEROUS GALAXIES THAT TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE,
DEPARTING FROM THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSE FROM THE WELL OF
CREATION...
WELL, LETS RETURN TO THE EARTH. LETS GET BACK TO MOTHER WHICH IS
LOST IN SPACE, LEFT TO FRIGID DARKNESS...
AFTER LASTING SOLITARY ROAMING, THE SUN CAUGHT SIGHT OF HER,
EXTENDING ITS LONG AND STRONG, INVISIBLE PERPETUAL HAND. FATHER
SOFTLY CAUGHT MOTHERS ILLUMINATED ARM, TO SAVE HER FROM ICED
DEATH. MOTHER CHANGED HER ROUTE, BUT RUSHED BY INTO DARKNESS WITH
ENORMOUS VELOCITY...CREATORS PRINCIPLE FORBID THE SUN TO HARM HER
BY PULLING HER TOO STRONGLY, NEITHER TO CEDE HER TO DARKNESS. WITH
OUTERMOST FORCE OF ITS HAND THE SUN SLOWLY RETARDED HER, AND
STOPPED HER ON A DISTANCE OF THE FIRST WINTER SOLSTICE. THEN IT GENTLY
PULLED HER, MAKING HER ROTATE TOWARD ITS LIGHT, TO FIRMLY EMBRACE
HER AND TO PROCEED WITH JOURNEY TOGETHER...
HEART OF THE EARTH BEGAN TO MOVE AND BLAZE AFTER A LONG PERIOD OF
TIME. IN ETERNAL LOVE FATHER AND MOTHER STARTED DANCING A
WONDERFUL ELLIPTIC DANCE...
A CHILD WAS CONCEIVED IN A MOMENT WHEN FIRST BEAM FROM THE SUN
TOUCHED COLD FACE OF THE EARTH. AND THEN, FIRST DROP BEGAN TO
GLIDE, WATER STARTED FLOWING. AND ABOVE IT, THROUGH STEAM, FOR THE
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FIRST TIME APPEARED A MAGICAL SYMBOL OF LIFE RAINBOW. SO HUGE AND

BRIGHT. SO WONDERFUL...
ICE HAS DISSOLVED WITH TIME, WATER HAS COVERED THE EARTH. ON
HEIGHTENED PARTS MOTHER HAS SHOWED HER BARE ROCKY FRAME. THE SKY
WAS RED. THE SUN WAS COLOSSAL. BEFORE THE STRENGTH OF SUN WATER
STARTED BOILING. THICK HEAVY CLOUDS OF VAPOUR HAVE OVERCAST THE
EARTH, OBSCURING THE SUN. TREMENDOUS THUNDERS AND HURRICANES
BEGAN TO RUMBLE. GALEFORCE WINDS STARTED BLOWING, COMMENCING
SHAPING OF MOTHERS BODY. ENORMOUS WATERS HAVE BEEN WILDLY
SPLASHING AGAINST ROCKS, MELTING THEIR SALTISH SURFACE AND PLANING
THEM. FROM TURBULENT HEART OF THE EARTH FLAMES HAVE BEEN GUSHING
HIGH THROUGH THE SKY. ON THE BOTTOM OF CREATED SEAS LAVA STARTED
OOZING, RELEASING HISSING BUBBLES OF FORMED GASES. ON SURGING WAVES
WATERS HAVE BEEN SENDING OUT BALLOONS OF OXYGEN.
WILD INTERPLAY OF NATURES FORCES STARTED FORMING AN ATMOSPHERE...
...AND SOMEWHERE ON EARTH, DURING COMMON STORM A SEED SURVIVED.
THE SEED WHICH CREATOR HAD SOWED IN THE GREAT MOMENT OF CREATION.
SEED IN WHICH IS WRITTEN THE PRINCIPLE OF EVOLUTION OF ABSORPTION,
LEARNING, BREEDING, PROGRESSION INSTRUCTION OF CREATOR FOR THE
PROCESS TO KEEP ITS COURSE TOWARD PERFECTION, TO EMBODY GOD ITSELF.
MIRACULOUS SEED OF LIFE. A GENE...
GENE HAS MAINTAINED ITSELF ON THE BOUND OF LAND AND SEA, ON CONTACT
OF WAVES AND HEATED LAVA. ON THE PLACE WHERE ALL ELEMENTS OF LIFE
GATHERED WATER, FIRE, GROUND AND AIR. ON THAT VERY PLACE FIRE
MELTED A ROCK, WATER COOLED FORMING LAVA, CAPTURING CRYSTALS. GENE
REMAINED IN CREATED CLAY, SURROUNDED BY NUMEROUS MOLECULES OF
FORMED ACIDS AND PROTEINS. THE SEED HAS BEEN REPOSING, WAITING FOR
THE LAST TERM TO FULFILL BLESSING OF THE FIFTH ELEMENT...
AND OF A SUDDEN, LIGHTNING STRUCK, SO BLUISH AND BRIGHT. AN IMPULSE
ORIGINATED, MOLECULES MERGED WITH GENE.
THE FIRST LIVING CELL WAS CREATED. THREAD STARTED MOVING.
YES, THE LIFE WAS BORN...

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INFLUENCED BY WARMTH AND LIGHT, LIVING CELL STARTED GROWING,
SPLITTING ON TWO PARTS. EACH OF THESE PIECES ALSO SPLIT,PROCEEDING ON.
NEW PARTS WERE NOT COMPLETELY EQUAL. WITH THEM, GENE MULTIPLIED
TOO. PROCESS EVOLVED...
WITH TIME, SUBSTANCES OF DIVERSE FORMS AND SIZES STARTED MERGING,
UNITING GENES FORMING NEW SPECIES, NEW FORMATIONS. CREATED
MICROCREATURES CONTINUED WITH PROCESS, ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO
CURRENT CONDITIONS IN NATURE WITH PURPOSE TO EXIST, AND CARRY THE
GENE FORWARD. THEIR EMPIRE HAD BEEN LASTING LONG ENOUGH TO LEAVE
SEDIMENTS OF HULLS: SEDIMENTS OF FIRST STRATUMS OF SOIL. DURING THAT
EPOCH THE INSIDE OF EARTH SUBSIDED. INFLUENCED BY SUN SEAS
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RETREATED, LEAVING FERTILE SEDIMENTS OF WATER MICROCREATURES.

BUT DUE TO INTENSE HEATS GROUND DRIED UP. ABOVE WIDE SPACES OF LANDS
AND SEAS HEAVY CLOUDS OF EVAPORATED WATER OVERCAST.
TORRID RAIN BEGAN TO FALL...
...AFTER MANY YEARS RAIN STOPPED, CLOUDS DISSIPATED AND SUN
APPEARED AT LAST. IT SILENTLY SHONE THROUGH FIRST LAYERS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE. SKIES WERE PURPLE...
IN NEW TERMS, FROM WIDE SPREAD GENES FIRST PLANTS SPRANG OUT. TREES
AND GRASS, FERNS AND MUSHROOMS, SCENTED FLOWERS BEGAN TO SPROUT.
THROUGH STRATUMS OF SOIL, FROM ROCKY DEPTHS CRYSTAL BLUE STREAMS
STARTED TO RUN. TREMENDOUS WATERFALLS STARTED FALLING...
...ENDLESS FORESTS HAVE BEEN SINGING ON THE WIND, NATURE STARTED
SINGING IN A SYMPHONY. WORLD BECAME INSPIRED THROUGH RAINBOW
COLOURS. PLANET EARTH FLASHED WITH BEAUTY...
IN REALIZED CONDITIONS OF BREATHING, GENES ORDERED MICROCREATURES
TO INTEGRATE THEMSELVES TO CREATURES. MICROCREATURES OF DIVERSE
SORTS STARTED CONSTRUCTING NERVOUS SYSTEM, THEN TISSUES, BONES,
MUSCLES, ORGANS. THEN LIMBS, WINGS, FINS TO ENABLE MOVEMENT AND
SEARCHING FOR FOOD A SOURCE OF NECESSARY ENERGY.
PROCESS TOOK A PERIOD OF MILLIONS OF YEARS.....
...FINALLY, WONDERFUL CREATURES CAME TO LIFE, OF ALL SIZES AND SHAPES,
ALL STRUCTURES AND HUES. ON GROUND, IN WATER, ON TREES, IN THE AIR.
WORLD BECAME MOTTLED IN A GORGEOUS RHAPSODY...
NUMBER OF CREATURES AND SORTS WAS IN CONTINUOUS INCREASE. FIRST
CREATURES WERE FEEDING THEMSELVES ON PLANTS, NEXT ONES ON OTHER
CREATURES, WHILE PLANTS WERE FEEDING ON ALL ATROPHIED TISSUES.
STRONGER OVERWHELMED THE WEAKER ONES, WITH CORPSES FED THE PLANTS,
PLANTS FED THE WEAKER ONES AND CIRCLE OF SURVIVAL WAS CLOSED.
NATURE AND ITS CREATURES WERE BREATHING TOGETHER AND FREE, IN
PERFECT HARMONY. LIFE WAS VERY YOUNG... AND FINALLY, TO CLOSE THE
CIRCLE WITH ITSELF, REASON CHOOSE ONE SPECIE. WITH IMPULSE FROM THE
WELL OF CREATION IT INHALED INTO THAT CREATURE ITS OWN ENERGY.
IT GAVE THAT BEING AN ABLENESS TO THINK, LEARN, CREATE. AN ABILITY TO
DEVELOP ITSELF OVER MIND, INTELLECT TOWARD SHINING POINT OF
POSSIBLE PERFECTION. AND TO ACCOMPLISH THE MEANING. TO ENABLE THE
GREAT MOMENT, WHEN ETERNAL LIGHT WILL ARRIVE FROM THE SPRING OF
CREATION. TO ENLIVEN THE DREAM AND EXPEL DARKNESS ONCE FOR ALL...
THROUGH SPINE OF THAT VERY BEING DIVINE ENERGIES BEGAN TO CIRCULATE.
AND HAD BEEN HEADED BY AN OCCULT ASCENDENCY OF ONE JUST ARRIVED
CELESTIAL BODY...

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AND THERE COMES THE MAN!!! THERE HE IS, CROUCHED BELOW A TREE,
FRIGHTENED OBSERVES THE MOON, WITH STRANGE SPARK IN HIS EYES.
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*FLASH OF THE SUN*

AND THERE COMES THE MAN! STOOPING HE STANDS, WITH STONE IN HIS HAND.
READY TO DEFEND HIMSELF FROM STRONGER ANIMAL.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! TAKES A SPEAR, CARRYING PLUNDER. READY TO
SET FIRE.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! STANDING AGAPE IN FRONT OF THE WALL. READY
TO NOTE DOWN A THOUGHT.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! POINTING WITH FINGER, MUMBLING UNCLEARLY.
READY TO NAME WHAT HE SEES.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! RESPONDING ON NAME, CALLING ONES NAME.
READY TO EVOLVE A SPEECH.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! IN CLAY HE DRAWS SIGNS. READY TO REGISTER
CHANGES IN NATURE.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! MAKING TOOLS, CREATING INVENTIONS OF LIFE.
READY TO USE THEM FOR PURPOSE.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! PROUD HE STANDS ON SOIL. READY TO PICK
YIELDS OF HIS PAINS.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! GATHERING FLOCKS. READY TO GUIDE AND
GUARD THEM.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! THROUGH PIPE DISCOVERS HIS SOUL. DISCOVERS
SONG AND DANCE. READY TO REVEAL A BEAUTY AND EVOLVE HIS CONSCIENCE.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! DUE TO DROUGHT FORCED TO WALK AWAY.
READY TO FOLLOW SIGNS.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! THERE HE IS, ALONGSIDE RIVERS AND SEAS
FORGATHERING TO LARGER TRIBES. READY TO EXCHANGE AND UNITE THE
KNOWLEDGE.
*ECLIPSE OF THE SUN*
BUT THERE COMES MAN. WITH DISTORTED SMILE. BLINDED BY SHINY STONE.
.
ABANDONS HIMSELF TO GOLD. MAKES WARS WITH GOLD. IN THE NAME OF
GOLD.
.
HUNTS INNOCENT AND HELPLESS ONES. THIRSTY FOR GRABBING THE LAND AND
RULING IT OVER.
.
GREEDY AND INFLUENTIAL. IN OASIS OF A DESERT BUILDS A TEMPLE, USING
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THE KNOWLEDGE OF CAPTURED WISE MAN.

*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! CHASED BY HORDES OF GREEDY MEN. READY TO
TAME NORTHERN WOODS AND MOUNTAINS.
.
EXILED AND THOUGHTFUL. SECLUDED HE FORGES A SWORD. READY TO
PROTECT INNOCENT PEOPLE.
.
BECOMES A WARRIOR OF HEART. READY TO DEFY INJUSTICE AND EVIL.
.
WANDERS OVER COLD NORTH. READY TO CROSS OVER FROZEN SEA, AND SETTLE
IN A NEW LAND.
.
RESEARCHES WORLD AND STARS, READY TO ENTAIL LEGACIES OF WISDOM.
*ECLIPSE OF THE SUN*
BUT THERE COMES MAN. FROM WARM LAND, DECANTS GOLD TO COINAGES,
SPREADING DISCORD AND EVIL.
.
WITH COINS GATHERS MIGHTY TROOPS, SENDING THEM TO BLOODY RAIDS.
.
SUBJUGATES LANDS AND PEOPLE, COMING OVER SEA AND GROUND.
.
DISSEMINATES SEEDS OF DEATH AND HATRED ON COASTS OF THE GREAT SEA.
.
KILLS WOMEN AND CHILDREN, BURNS TEMPLES AND HOMES.
.
ABANDONED. LEANS TO WILL OF DAMNED CONQUISTADOR.
.
IN SLAVERY AGAIN. LOST...
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN!!! WITH TRUTH IN HIS EYES. READY TO ANNOUNCE
AND PREPARE THE ROAD.
*ECLIPSE OF THE SUN*
BUT THERE COMES MAN. CRUCIFIES THE CHOSEN ONE. UNREADY TO
UNDERSTAND WORDS OF GOD.
.
BEHAVES LIKE COMMON WHORE, CHEATER. DOING EVIL UNDER THE SYMBOL OF
HOLY MAN.
.
HARRIES FOREIGN LANDS AND TEMPLES. KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! STRONG AND DECIDED. SHAPING A SWORD.
READY TO LOOK FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE.
.
PROUD AND BRAVE. APPROACHES TO LIFE OF RIGHTEOUS MAN. READY TO
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SERVE THE GOOD, AND SEPARATE GOOD FROM EVIL, RIGHT FROM WRONG.
.
NOBLE AND PRUDENT. READY TO SPREAD THE GOOD, AND SET TO RIGHTS AN
EVIL.
.
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! ON THE RIGHT WAY. READY TO BUILD THE WORLD
OF TRUE BEAUTY AND WISDOM. AGE OF ART, PRIDE AND HONOUR.
.
AND THERE COMES THE MAN! CONSTRUCTS DEVICES OF SCIENCE. READY TO
SEARCH FOR SECRETS.
.
READY TO SET SAIL OVER WIDE SEA.
.
READY TO MEET AND ESTEEM DISTANT TRIBES, FOLLOWING TRAILS OF THE
PAST.
.
READY TO LEARN FROM WISE MEN.
.
READY TO LISTEN TO WORDS OF GOD.
*ECLIPSE OF THE SUN*
BUT THERE COMES MAN. GREEDY AND BLIND, KEEPS COLONIZING DISCOVERED
LANDS.
.
BRINGS GUNPOWDER. BURNS AND CONTEMNS WHAT HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND,
GRABS WHATS NOT HIS OWN.
.
ACCUMULATES HIS DULLNESS ON THE GRAVES OF SAGE MEN. SPREADS HIS
MADNESS BACK TO AN OLD WORLD.
.
MAKES UP FALSE TITLES, DISTORTS THE WORDS OF GOD.
.
STEPS ON A WRONG WAY. POISONED WITH LIES OF AN EMPTY MAN.
.
DESTROYS THE WORLD OF BEAUTY AND WISDOM, DISCONNECTING THE SHINING
THREAD OF THE KNOWLEDGE.
.
BUILDS A WORLD OF GREYNESS AND WALLS. DECANTS THE GOLD TO PIECES
OF PAPERS.
.
DRAWS FALSE BORDERS, TEARING LANDS AND PEOPLE. SOWS THE SEEDS OF
FUTURE GORY WARS.
.
CONSTRUCTS AND MULTIPLIES DEVICES OF DEATH, IN THE NAME OF DEATH
ITSELF.
.
CONSTRUCTS AND MULTIPLIES GADGETS OF STUPIDITY, IN THE NAME OF
STUPIDITY ITSELF.
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.
DROWNS HIMSELF INTO FORMLESS MASS. LEANS TO BLITHERING. EXTIRPATES
THE TRUTH.
.
NEGLECTS HIS HEART, DISTORTS HIS MIND.
.
TALKS, BUT NOTHING SAYS.
LISTENS, BUT NOTHING HEARS.
WATCHES, BUT NOTHING SEES.
BREATHES, BUT DOESNT LIVE.
.
LOST IN THE WORLD OF DELUSIONS AND LIES.
.
BLIND HE PATTERS TOWARDS A CHASM...
...DARK EPOCH EXPIRES.
*FLASH OF THE SUN*
AND THERE COMES THE MAN!!! WITH SHINE IN HIS HAND. READY TO TESTIFY
THE TRUTH.

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ALL HAD STARTED WITH THE GREAT EXPLOSION, MILLIONS OF MILLENNIUMS

BACK, IN TIMES OUT OF MIND. AT THAT VERY MOMENT, FROM THE WELL OF
CREATION WAVES OF ENERGIES BEGAN TO FLOW, WAITING FOR A DISTANT
BIRTH OF THE MAN. TO REALIZE THE INTENTION AND FULFILL THE MEANING,
CREATOR CHOOSE ONE PLANET - THE EARTH. IN THE INFINITY OF TIME AND
SPACE EARTH LINKED UP WITH THE SUN, TO ACCOMPLISH CONDITIONS OF LIFE
TOGETHER - AND TO CARRY ON WITH THE PROCESS. BY LIGHTNING FROM
HEIGHTS THE LIFE WAS BORN, STARTING ITS EVOLUTION.
WITH ITS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS PAVED THE WAY FOR THE CHOSEN BEING...
AND FINALLY. AFTER HUGE PERIOD OF TIME, THE MAN WAS BORN...
EVOLUTION OF MAN WAS PROTRACTED, HARD AND LABOURIOUS. HIS TRAIL
BEGAN IN THE LAP OF THE MOON, PROCEEDING OVER WIDE SPACES OF CHOSEN
PLANET. AT THE BEGINNING IT WAS WINDING AND OFTEN DECLINING, BUT
LATER IT MOVED TOWARD RIGHT COURSE. MANS BRAIN EVOLVED ITSELF
INFLUENCED BY ENERGIES OF THOUGHTS AND NEW COGNITIONS. TRADITION OF
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS STARTED. AND THE ROAD BECAME PASSABLE...
BUT, AT THE END OF SECOND BOOKED MILLENNIUM, OVER MANS ROAD
OVERCAST DARK CLOUDS OF HIS OWN FILTH AND BLINDNESS. DEVICES OF
HUMAN DESTRUCTION AND SELF-DESTRUCTION. DENYING AND ANNULMENT OF
HIS OWN BEING. NEGATION OF LIFE AND NATURE. NEGATION OF PAST.
OF REASON... GROUND AFORE MAN MOMENTARILY TREMBLED, AND SLID DOWN
BEFORE MUDDY FLOOD OF HIS OWN STUPIDITY. PROCESS STOPPED, FLOOD WAS
THREATENING SURVIVAL ITSELF. DARKNESS SPREAD ALL OVER...
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FOR ALL THAT, MAN DECIDED TO FRAME A BRIDGE, AND WALK FORWARD...
AND NOWADAYS, HERE STANDS THE MAN, READY TO CATCH EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING. MY FRIEND RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW...

LIFE IS A MIRACLE. IT IS A GIFT FROM HEAVENS WHICH WE GET ONLY ONCE.

LIFE IS OUR FIRST, AND LAST CHANCE. MAN IS THE ONLY BEING ABLE TO THINK,
LEARN AND SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH IS UNBREAKABLE SWORD THAT
SEPARATES GOOD FROM EVIL, LIGHT FROM DARKNESS. SWORD WHICH DOES
NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO BLEND THEM, OR TO WELD THEM. THOSE WHO DO SO,
ARE ON THE SIDE OF EVIL. AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LEARN. THE EVIL IS
HUMAN STUPIDITY. SOLDIERS OF LIGHT ARE LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE.
WHERE ONE OF THEM FAILS, DARKNESS GRABS ITS CHANCE.
PROOF TO THAT WELL FIND IN HUMAN HISTORY...
THE FATE OF MAN, HIS CHILDREN, AND ENTIRE MANKIND RESTS IN HIS HANDS.
IT DEPENDS ON HIS THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS. WITH HIS STUPIDITY, EMPTIED
MAN AIMS THE FATE TOWARD NOTHINGNESS, DARKNESS.
HE IS FORMLESS, INANE. HYENA.
COMMON MAN KEEPS HIS HEART, BUT CANNOT FIND THE STRENGTH TO FOLLOW
IT. AND THEREFORE THE EVIL OF EMPTY MAN THREATS HIM.
WITH HIS STRENGTH AND KNOWLEDGE, SHINING MAN DIRECTS THE FATE
TOWARDS LIGHT, TOWARDS BLESSING AND DREAM. IN THE NAME OF CHILDREN
AND NEW, BETTER WORLD. IN THE NAME OF HIMSELF. HE IS THE LION...
EVERY MAN IS ONE, THE ONLY AND UNIQUE. AND EQUAL TO OTHER MAN. EQUAL
BY HIS IMPORTANCE. HOWEVER, WEEK MAN ACCEPTS ABSURDITY WITH TIME.
ACCEPTS DARKNESS. AND CEASES BEING A MAN. REMAINS ONLY SHELL, A
SHADOW. THE HEART IS TO BE LOST IF WE DONT FOLLOW IT WITH MIND AND
LIVE IT WITH BLOOD AND FLESH. MAN THAT DOES NOT FOLLOW THE VOICE
REJECTS HIMSELF, AND SLOWLY DIES. HE DISAPPEARS, EVEN HIS SHADOW STILL
MOVES... BLISSFUL IS THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS HIMSELF. FOR ALTHOUGH HARD
AND RUGGED, HIS ROAD IS ENDLESS. WRITTEN AMONG STARS. HE TRULY LIVES.
FOREVER...
YES, MAN CARRIES A WONDERFUL GIFT INSIDE. HEAVENLY GIFT THAT MAKES
HIM A MAN. THE GIFT THAT LIGHTS HIM THE WAY. HEART IS HIS BEING. IT IS THE
MAN HIMSELF. IN IT ALL IS WRITTEN. HEART IS THE BOOK. AND LIFE...
REASON IS A HARMONY OF FLESH, MIND AND HEART. THEN MAN IS COMPLETE.
TRUE. AND READY TO DO A LOT...
DEEP AND STRONG THOUGHTS SOMETIMES CREATE A VISION. THEY
OVERWHELM LAWS OF TIME AND SPACE, ENTERING THE WORLD OF ECHOS
AND SECRET ENERGIES. DURING PRESENCE OF CONSCIENCE, MAN IS ABLE TO
AIM THEM, AND INFLUENCE UPON FATE.
WITH OTHER WORDS, MAN ABSORBS WORLD THROUGH HIS SENSES, OF WHICH
ONE IS NOT CORPOREAL. PEOPLE NAMED IT THE THIRD EYE. THROUGH ITS
DOORS MAN PEERS INTO DIVINE WORLD OF ENERGIES AND HUES.
THE DOOR RESTS IN HEART. MIND IS THE KEY.
SUCH A UNITY OF HEART AND MIND IS CONDITIONED BY THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN
EVOLUTION OF ONE BEINGS CONSCIOUSNESS.
AND SIMPLY, FOR OWN EXISTENCE MAN ABSORBS ENERGIES FROM DEPTHS OF
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THE UNIVERSE. THESE ARE ENERGIES OF LIFE AND CREATION, WOVEN INTO
HUMAN BEING. THEY STREAM FROM HEIGHTS, PASSING THROUGH THE MANS
INSIDE MERGING INTO HEART. IT IS PLACED ON TWO THIRDS OF HIS FIGURES
HEIGHT, IN THE CENTRAL OF SEVEN ENERGETIC FIELDS.
THIS IS WHERE LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE COME FROM.
MAN POSSESSES MIND TO REVEAL AND SPREAD THESE ENERGIES, TO FREE THEM
AND USE THEM. THE MORE AS HE KNOWS, MORE ENERGY MAN GETS.
AND THE MORE ENERGY HE ABSORBS, THE GREATER ENERGY HE EMITS...
INTENDED SUMMONING OF STRONGER ENERGIES DEMANDS A SKILL. THE SKILL
IS SKILLED USE OF THE KNOWLEDGE. SOME PEOPLE CALL IT CRAFT, SOME ART.
ART OF SUMMONING IS A RITUAL. RITUAL IS PINNACLE OF ART...
ALLMYSTICAL ENERGIES COME FROM THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSE, FROM
INEXHAUSTIBLE WELL OF CREATION. FROM THE WELL OF TRUE, AND ONLY ART.
ART WITH REASON AND PURPOSE. WITH MEANING. INTO OUR FRAME, THROUGH
SACRED PATHS OF GOD...
YET, IF MAN DOES NOT ESTEEM THEM, IF HE NEGLECTS THEM OR DENY THEM,
IN HIS MIND APPEARS A FIELD OF VACUITY DISTURBING FLOW AND HARMONY
OF ENERGIES. THEY STOP CIRCULATING FREE, AFTERWARDS THEY HALT AND
FADE. AND INSTEAD OF FORTIFY AND TRANSMIT THEM ON, MAN DERANGES
THEM, AND SMOTHERS THEM UP. CAUSING COLDNESS, DARKNESS... AFTER A
DISCORD IN A BEING, ENERGIES DIE IN A BLACK GAP. IT SUCKS THEM IN, AND
ANNULS THEM. AFTER BODY WITHERS, IT TURNS TO MICROBEINGS AGAIN, AND
THEN FINALLY BECOMES A GROUND A FOOD TO OTHER LIFE... TIME TAKES
AWAY FLESH AND MIND. BUT IF MIND ACCOMPLISHED A PURPOSE OF LIFE,
HEART REMAINS. AND GOES ON...
MAN IS NOT BORN TO TURN BLIND, ENDING UP IN DARKNESS.
MAN IS NOT BORN TO TURN STOLID, VANISHING IN EMPTINESS.
MAN IS CHOSEN TO FULFILL THE PURPOSE.
INVITED TO ACCOMPLISH THE MEANING...
SO FINALLY, THE PURPOSE OF CREATOR AND CREATION IS TO CREATE AND
IMPROVE A BEING THAT WILL UNDERSTAND IT AND LIVE IT. BEING THAT WILL
CLOSE THE CIRCLE WITH THE REASON ITSELF, AND STEP INTO INFINITY.
THAT CREATURES, MY FRIEND, ARE YOU AND I.
WITH THIS BOOK I COMPLETE THE CIRCLE...

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SHORTLY BEFORE SUNRISE I OPENED MY EYES. I STOOD UP FROM THE

GROUND, DISTRACTED AND THOUGHTFUL. I WAS STARING AT BLUE STARRY
SKY. I WAS THINKING ABOUT MY STRANGE JOURNEY. AND I REALIZED
THAT SILENT ECHOS WANDER THROUGH SPACE. ECHOS OF DISTANT, AND
GONE BY TIMES. AND THAT BLISSFUL ARE THOSE WHO CAN SENSE THEM,
AND GRASP THEM. GRATEFUL AND SMILING I RETURNED TO MY HOME.
I STARTED COMPOSING MY THOUGHTS.
THE MOON GENTLY KISSED THE HORIZON.
WHILE TIME KEEPS ON ROLLING, FOR IT MUST NOT AND WILL NEVER
STOP...

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ECLIPSE OF THE WORLD

...IN PERIOD OF MY RIPE SPRING MY PEOPLE, MY FIELDS AND RIVERS WERE
GRIPPED BY A STORM, LURID AND LEADEN. HURRICANE OF WAR BEGAN ITS
DIRTY DANCE. FROM THE EAST. PLUMBOUS MONSTERS STARTED ROOTING
OVER CHILDREN PATHS. IGNEOUS BEASTS HAVE BEEN FALLING DOWN ON
HOMES OF INNOCENTS. AND THEY ALL WERE CREATED BY MAN. THEY ALL
WERE SENT BY A MAN. AGAINST THE MAN. AGAINST NATURE. AGAINST
REASON. IDLE MAN. MAN BY NAME. GAP BY TRUTH.
CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DYING. EARTH HAS BEEN TREMBLING.
SKIES HAVE BEEN CRYING. MISERY AND DEATH...
IN TOWN WITH SOUL, AFTER LASTING MONTHS OF STARVING, MOTHERS AND
CHILDREN EMERGED FROM SHELTERS, SEARCHING FOR A FOOD. THEY ALL
GATHERED AT OLD SQUARE, STEPPING IN A LONG LINE. BUT SUDDENLY, A WHIZ
WAS HEARD, AND SECOND ONE, AND THIRD. IN A FLASH OF MOMENT, TALK OF
INNOCENT PEOPLE WAS WIPED AWAY BY FRIGHTENING EXPLOSIONS.
AFTERWARDS, GHOSTLY SILENCE TOOK ITS PLACE. AFTER SMOKE DISSIPATED, A
HORRIBLE SIGHT WAS SHOWN. SILENT MOANS OF FEW SURVIVORS.
AND HELPLESS BODIES, TURN TO PIECES...
ON FATHERS FUNERAL A CHILD ASKED HIS MOTHER TO LET HIM PICK THE
FLOWER. TEAR EYED WOMAN FONDLED YOUNG LAD, QUIETLY NODDING.
SO CHILD RAN INTO A FIELD OF FLOWERS, PICKING UP THE PRETTIEST ROSE.
BLISSFUL HE SPREAD A SMILE, STARTED RUNNING BACK BUT STEPPED ON A
GADGET OF IDLE MAN. IT WIDELY FLASHED AND THUNDERED, GROUND BEGAN
TO TREMBLE. AFTER MOMENT OF DARKNESS, MOTHER DESCRIED HER CHILD...
AND BECAME MUTE BY PAIN.
BROTHER WAS SEPARATED FROM SISTER FOR LONG EIGHT YEARS. HIGH WALLS
OF OTHERS HATE WERE SCREAMIN BETWEEN THEM. POISONED FIELDS, AND
POISONED PEOPLE. DURING NINTH SEASON SHE FINALLY RETURNED LEADING
THREE ORPHANS BY THEIR LITTLE HANDS...
IN LAP OF DARK NIGHT HYENAS BURSTED INTO HOME OF INNOCENTS.
WHILE SEARCHING WITH BLIND EYES THEY FIRED OFF BURSTS OF DEATH...
NOT KNOWING ABOUT IRE OF LIONS...
...PAINFUL YEARS ROLLED BY, THE WAR ENDED AT LAST. BEASTS WENT
SILENT, LEAVING THE SCARS BEHIND. AND EMPTY FIELDS. FIELDS OF
GRAVES. FIELDS OF POPPY. OF BLOOD... IN THE AGE OF ECLIPSE MANY
PEOPLE THATVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY FREEDOM HAVENT UNDERSTOOD
THE MEANING OF THAT WORD. THEYVE LIVED LIVES OF HYENAS, OF SHELLS
WITH NO HEART, NOR MIND. THEYVE BEEN SLAVES OF THEIR OWN
HOLLOWNESS AND FOOLISHNESS. SLAVES OF GREED AND USELESS DEVICES.
AND THEYVE BEEN CONSTRUCTING THEIR BARREN PLASTIC WORLD, TIGHT
AND SHALLOW. BLANK AND DISTORTED, AS THE REFLECTION OF
THEMSELVES. THEY MADE RULES THAT HAVE CHAINED FREEDOM AND
INTELLECT. THEY HAVE RAPED EVERYTHING THAT SHONE FROM HEART.
THEYVE RAPED LIFE. AND NATURE. THEYVE RAPED HEART. AND DARKNESS
SMOTHERED THE LIGHT. STUPIDITY SPREAD OVER THE WORLD.
PALLOR AND NOTHINGNESS...
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a a a
IN THAT EPOCH I HAVE DREAMT ONE UNCOMMON DREAM...
A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE WALK THE ROAD, AND EVERYTHING THEY NEED
THEY FIND ON THE GROUND, NEAR BY ROAD. NIGHT AND DAY CHANGE IN A
FLASH UP IN THE SKY, ONE AFTER ANOTHER. ON THE MARCH CROWD PASSES
THROUGH STORMS, BESIDE TEMPLES AND CHURCHES, ENTERING EACH OF
THEM. THEY CONTINUE JOURNEY, WHILE ROAD BECOMES CLEAN AND BRIGHT...
YET, MASS STOPS IN FRONT OF AN ODD TEMPLE, SIMILAR TO A LARGE CIRCUS.
IN FRONT OF GATES TWO STOOPING MEN YELL. ONE IS WRAPPED WITH
CELLOPHANE, AND HOPS IN A SILLY WAY, JUST LIKE COMMON JESTER. IN HIS
EYES LURKS EMPTINESS, DARKNESS. THE SECOND ONE IS PACKED IN A FANCY
CLOTHES, HOLDING LOTS OF MONEY IN HIS HAND, WHILE HOLDING JESTER
OVER CHAINS. HIS EYES ARE HIDDEN BEHIND DARK GLASSES. IN THEM LURKS
EMPTINESS, DARKNESS. TWO HUM BACKS INVITE CROWD TO ENTER.
ON ENTRANCE STANDS PUPPET IN BLACK, ASKING FROM PEOPLE TO LAY DOWN
THEIR HEARTS, AS A PAWN. DWARF NARRATES THAT IT IS A TEMPLE OF THEIR
HAPPINESS. TEMPLE OF A GREEN PAPER. BUT FAR FROM DISTANCE
GESTICULATES AN UPRIGHT MAN, TELLING THEM NOT TO ENTER. MAN INVITES
THEM TO KEEP ON WALKING, AND TO JOIN HIM. BUT RABBLE DASHES INTO
TEMPLE, TO TASTE A PROMISED PLAY.
JUST SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE REMAINED OUTSIDE.
MASS PACKED INTO A TEMPLE.
INSIDE AN AIR IS STIFLING AND DARK, JUST ONE IMITATED LIGHT FLICKERS AND
GLARES. FLOOR IS COVERED WITH STRANGE SLIME, WALLS ARE MADE OF
PLASTIC, ROOF IS KIND OF KNOBBY AND SLANTED. AS MANY PEOPLE ENTERS,
TEMPLE EXPANDS MORE...
AT THE END OF TEMPLE STANDS A CONCRETE ALTER, LARGE AND GREY. BEHIND
IT A THICK BLACK SCREEN HANGS DOWN. ALL AROUND ALTER LOTS OF PLASTIC
BOXES IS STREWN, OF ALL SHAPES AND SIZES. DWARF IN BLACK RUSHES INTO
TEMPLE, AND UNLOADS HEARTS IN FRONT OF ALTER. THEN YELLS TO PEOPLE TO
PICK THEM UP AFTER THE SHOW ENDS. THEN HE CLAPS HANDS TWICE, WHILE
DISAPPEARING BEHIND THE SCREEN. CROWD LAUGHS AT HIS SILLY WALK.
HUNCH BACK IN A COSTLY SUIT APPEARS, TAKES A MAUL, AND HITS THE GONG.
A SILENCE FILLED THE TEMPLE...
BEHIND ALTER APPEARS A MAN WITH NO EYES WEARING LOTS OF GOLDEN
ORNAMENTS WITH LONG TONGUE AND SHARP TEETH. MAN SLAPS THE ALTER,
SHOUTING ABOUT WEIGHT OF THIS TEMPLE. BLIND HE PREACHES ABOUT
GREAT PLANS. FROM DAMNED MOUTH THROWS A POISON, FOAM EMERGES
FROM HIS EARS...
BUT CROWD CONFIDED IN HIS WORDS, AND STARTED APPLAUDING...
GOSSIPER QUICKLY TURNS AWAY, CLICKS WITH FINGERS, AND VANISHES BEHIND
THE SCREEN. NOW MANY SMALL GOSSIPERS JUMP OUT FROM PLASTIC BOXES.
TWO HORNED JUGGLERS APPEAR TOO, PUSHING TATTLERS AMONGST PEOPLE.
MONOTONOUS CHAOTIC RHYTHM BEGINS BUT THERES NO SIGN OF DRUMS.
LIGHT STARTS TO FLICKER FASTER AND FASTER. IN FRONT OF PEOPLE BOUNDS
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DOWN JESTER DRESSED IN CELLOPHANE, AND CONTINUES TO HOP, WHILE

FOOLISHLY SMILING. GREEN PAPERS START FALLING DOWN FROM CEILING.
DISCORD AND MADNESS BEGIN TO REIGN... IN COMMON MESS RABBLE FORGETS
ABOUT CHILDREN, TRAMPLES DOWN AN OLD PEOPLE. BLINDED BY FUN, THEY
FAIL TO SEE SHUTTING OF CONCRETE DOORS. VOICES INVOKE THEM FROM THE
OUTSIDE. MANY OF THEM GRASP AT LAST, GRAB WHAT THEY GET, TAKE THE
CHILDREN AND RUN OUT. MANY DROP THE PLUNDER DOWN, RUSH TO PICK
HEARTS AND ESCAPE IN THE LAST MOMENT.
NOW GATES ARE CLOSED. BLACK CLOUDS OVERCAST THE TEMPLE...
FROM THE INSIDE A CHAOS OF MADMENS LAUGHTER ECHOES, OF YELLINGS
AND HOPPINGS. GABBY PEOPLE DIVIDE THE CROWD AND DISPENSE DEADLY
WEAPONS. BLOOD STARTS FLOWING. ILL COMES UPON THOSE WHO STAND NEAR
BY TEMPLE. DISORDER GOES ON AND ON...
AND SUDDENLY, ALTER TURNS TO A GIANT GRINDSTONE, TRUNDLING OVER
WEEPING HEARTS. FLOOR ON WHICH IS WRITTEN TIME OPENS WIDE
SHOWING THE DARKNESS, THE CHASM. BODIES BEGIN TO SLIP INTO DARK, ONE
BY ONE. NIGHTMARE PROCEEDS, UNTIL LAST SHADOW VANISHES INTO GAP.
DWARF LIFTS ITS HAND. RHYTHM SLOWS DOWN, BECOMES QUIET AND FINALLY
STOPS. SCREEN FALLS DOWN, REVEALING THE RULER OF DARKNESS,
SURROUNDED BY TROPHIES OF EVIL. CREATURE WITH NO FACE, GIANT AND
SLIMY.
SERVANTS BEGIN TO PERFORM CHAOTIC DANCE OF DEATH.
RULER OF DARKNESS ROARS WITH DISTORTED LAUGHTER, AND CONTENTEDLY
SCRUBS ITS HANDS. THEN GATHERS ITS SERVANTS, ORDERING TO EXPAND
TEMPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
DEFORMED CREATURES BOUND UP, AND START PUSHING THE WALLS...
BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN, EARTHQUAKE STRIKES, GROUND BEGINS TO SHAKE,
WALLS START TO CRACK. RULER OF DARKNESS BECOMES DREADFULLY
FRIGHTENED, NOT COMPREHENDING WHATS GOING ON. THE GIANT WHEEL OF
TIME ON WHICH IS WRITTEN YEAR ZERO TURNS ROUND FOR ABOUT TWENTY
FIVE TIMES. SERVANTS OF DARKNESS KNEEL DOWN, WHILE UTTERING MORTAL
SCREAMS. THROUGH CRACKS THE LIGHT BURSTS INTO A TEMPLE...
TEMPLE FALLS IN TO AN ABYSS, TOGETHER WITH THE RULER OF DARKNESS.
IT SANK, AND IT SEEMS IT HAVE NEVER EVEN EXISTED. AND THE SUN REMAINS
HIGH ON THE SKY, SO STRONG AND BRIGHT, LIKE NEVER BEFORE. AND PEOPLE
STAND IN A CIRCLE, OF ALL COLOURS AND NATIONS, OF ALL TRIBES AND RACES
GRATEFULLY STARING AT THE SKY. ON EARTH MOTLEY WONDERS, ON TREES
LEANING GUITARS. CRYSTAL LAKES AND SEAS, FLAVOURS OF HONEY, PATHS OF
FREEDOM. AND CHILDREN RUN SMILING OVER UNENDING TRACKS, COLLECTING
THE GOLDEN YIELDS OF A DREAM...

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NOT LONG AFTER WAR HAD ENDED, I STEPPED UPON THE BRIDGE. AN OLD
BRIDGE, WOODEN AND WOBBLING. I WAS GAPING AT MISTY REGIONS OF MY
AGONIZED KINGDOM. MUDDY RIVER WAS SILENTLY FONDLING BANKS OF
FORLORN LAND. BLACK CROWS WERE CROAKING FROM FRIGID HEIGHTS.
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AND FAR FROM DISTANCES GREY DOGS OF INDUSTRY WERE BARKING. AS

CLOUDS OF POISONOUS SMOKE, THAT WERE SPREADING AND THREATENING.
AIR WAS SMELLING OF MOULD AND ASHES. HEAVY BURDEN PRESSED UPON
MY CHEST. I HANGED DOWN MY HEAD. I WAS BREATHING HARD, MUCH
HARDER AND HARDER...
I CLOSED MY EYES, RECALLING THE PAST. AND SUDDENLY I CAUGHT
GLIMPSE OF SHINE. I SAW LUCID RIVER. I SAW COLOURS OF RAINBOW, AND
CHILDREN RUNNING OVER GREEN GREEN MEADOWS. I SAW TREES AND
PETALS OF PERFUMED FLOWERS. I SAW SMILES AND HUGS OF HAPPINESS.
I SAW LIVING TRAILS AND HOMES, AND BELOVED PEOPLE. DRESSED IN
SMILES. I SAW A HARMONY BETWEEN MAN AND MAN. BETWEEN MAN AND
NATURE. I SAW SWEET RHAPSODY OF LIFE. THE SYMPHONY OF BLISS...
ROAR OF THUNDER RETURNED ME BACK TO REALITY. I OPENED MY EYES
WIDE. DUN CLOUDS FLOATED DOWN OVER FORLORN PATHS OF MY
CHILDHOOD. SKIES GREW DARK. WHILE RAIN STARTED FALLING.
DOWN ON MY STONY FACE. JUST LIKE TEARS...
I TURNED AWAY, IN SILENT PAIN. I STARTED WALKING TOWARD DISTANCES.
COLD, HAZY DISTANCES...

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IVE SEEN OBSCURATION OF HUMAN MIND. IVE SEEN AGONY AND CALAMITY
OF INNOCENT PEOPLE. IVE SEEN APATHY OF PLASTIC WORLD. IVE SEEN A
SLUSH OF MONEY AND UNCHASTITY. IVE SEEN GREED.
AND INJUSTICE. AND STUPIDITY.
IVE SEEN PRAYERS OF POOR ONES. IVE SEEN SENSELESSNESS OF RICH MOB.
IVE SEEN TEARS OF AN OLD ABANDONED MAN.
IVE SEEN BLOOD ON THE FACE OF A CHILD...
WITH EYES HARMED BY PAIN, I STOOD IN FRONT OF SKIES, SO COLD AND
DARK. I TOOK ONE MORE LOOK BEHIND, WHILE TEARS WERE GLIDING DOWN
MY FACE. I RAISED MY ARMS, WISHING TO RETURN THE LIGHT. WARMTH.
REASON. I CRAVED FOR THAT. MORE THAN FOR ANYTHING ELSE.
SO I OPENED MY ARMS. PALMS TURNED AGAINST THE SKY.
AND TOOK AN OATH...

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THE CELESTIAL SIGN

...ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND DESTINY BROUGHT ME TO A LARGE TOWN.
THERE IVE SPENT TURBULENT PART OF MY JOURNEY. OVER GUITAR AND
SONG I WAS SPREADING THE VOICE, MEETING MANY PEOPLE. IVE BEEN
GATHERING A GREAT NUMBER OF SHINING SPIRITS. AND FELT A FAITH IN A
DREAM... BUT SONG WAS DEAFENED WITH TIME BY BUSTLE OF CONCRETE
MESS. CHAOS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY. SELFISH WORLD OF POLITICS AND
MONEY. WORLD WITH NO HEART. MONOTONOUS INSANITY...
I WANTED TO LEAVE, BUT WAS TIED BY FEELINGS OF OTHER PEOPLE. SO I
STAYED IN TOWN, LIKE A BIRD WITH FOLDED WINGS. I CARRIED ON WITH THE
SONG, TRUE AND PROUD. IVE NEVER ACCEPTED RULES OF COLD WORLD,
BUT REMAINED LOYAL TO MY OWN WAY. DURING THAT PERIOD IVE
ACCOMPLISHED MANY CRAFTS, MANY SKILLS. BUT LATER IVE TASTED
INJUSTICE OF THOSE WHOVE BEEN PREACHING A LIE. PERFIDY OF THOSE
WHO OWNED TITLES, AND WERE BUYING THEIR SWAY.
AND THEN I SAW THE FATE OF THE WORLD LYING IN THE HANDS OF FOOLS.
IN THE CLAWS OF HYENAS. SO I STEPPED ON THEIR WAY. FACE TO FACE.
I WAS STANDING LONELY AND SILENT. DECIDED...
...AND I FOUND MYSELF CHAINED IN A DUNGEON OF THEIR DRIVEL. IVE BEEN
ENCLOSED BY COLDNESS AND DARK FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
WITH WOUNDED HEART. WITH BROKEN WINGS. ENTANGLED...
AT NIGHT, IVE OFTEN LISTENED TO CRIES OF SCENTED WINDS, THAT WERE
ARRIVING OVER DISTANT FORLORN PATHS. IVE BEEN ABSORBING WEEPING
CALL OF DISTANCES. SMELL OF A FREEDOM. AN ETERNAL CALL OF NATURE.
SOON THE VOICE WENT SILENT, AND I THOUGHT THAT FLAME IN MY HEART
DIES...

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T WAS DARK NIGHT, THE DARKEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE. THE LAST RAY OF
LIGHT VANISHED TOGETHER WITH HER EYES. THE LAST LINKS CRACKED
UNDER THE CLASH OF THE FINAL WRATH. CHAIN BROKE TO PIECES.
AND WIND LED ME AWAY. FAR, FAR AWAY...
I WAS TREADING THROUGH THE NIGHT, LEAVING BEHIND COLD GREY WALLS
OF A CITY. AND I SENSED LONELINESS, AND DARKNESS THAT WAS
SWALLOWING MY WAY. I WAS OBSERVING STARS, CAPTURED UP IN AN
ENDLESS EXPANSES OF UNIVERSE. I COULDNT FEEL THE SIGN, NEITHER
VOICE. JUST DARKNESS. AND PAIN.
WITH HEAD LIFTED I FELL DOWN ON MY KNEES, ASKING FROM SKIES TO
RESTORE MY STRENGTH. BUT IN VAIN. I RAISED MY ARMS. STILL NOTHING...
WHEN I FINALLY LOST MY HOPE, THE WIND UTTERED A SOUND.
NATURE QUIVERED. THE SKY SMILED.
ONE STAR FLASHED, AND SHOWED ME THE WAY...

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THE STAR SET SAIL AND DISAPPEARED, REMAINED ONLY THE MOON THAT
ROSE UPON THE HORIZON. I WAS WALKING TO DISTANCES, CONDUCTED BY
REMARKABLE STRENGTH. THE VOICE THAT WAS MUFFLED ONCE BY MESS
BECAME STRONG AND BRIGHT. BECAME KEEN. CRYSTAL CLEAR...
...SHADOWS TRIED TO KILL THE DREAM. BEAUTIFUL DREAM, THAT HAD BEEN
DREAMT BY NOBLE PEOPLE... THROUGH LONG HISTORY OF THE WORLD...
BUT DREAM NEVER DIES. IT REMAINS IN SHINY DEPTHS OF HUMAN HEART.
AND DREAMS. DREAMS LIKE THE SEED THAT WAITS FOR THE LIGHT TO
TOUCH A FERTILE GROUND. WAITS FOR RAY TO OPEN THE HEARTS, FOR MEN
TO UNDERSTAND. FOR REASON TO ARRIVE. AND TO FINALLY COME TO LIFE.
ONCE FOR ALL...

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AROUSAL OF A DISTANT DREAM

...IVE BEEN WANDERING OVER DISTANT VALES AND MOUNTAINS, RIVERS
AND FORESTS, CRAGS AND SEAS, ABSORBING WARMTH OF THE SUN AND
BREATH OF THE MOON. IVE LISTENED TO VOICE, IVE RED SIGNS, IVE BEEN
SEARCHING FOR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. FOR THE KEY TOWARDS DREAM.
IVE BEEN RAMBLING FAR FROM GREY OF FRIGID WORLD.
AND IVE MET MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE, THAT HAVE BEEN LIVING PURE
LIFE, SO SIMPLE AND DEEP. LOVELY PEOPLE, THAT HELP STRANGER IN
DISTRESS. PEOPLE WHO TALK AND LIVE FROM HEART. SHINING PEOPLE.
I FOUND THAT NOBLE WORLD, IN DISTANT SPACES, HIDDEN FROM THE ILL
AND GREED OF CORRUPTED MEN. CLEAN WORLD, AS A JEWEL.
WARM, LIKE THE SUN. BEAUTIFUL, CORDIAL WORLD.
AND IVE TOLD THEM ABOUT MISDEEDS THAT FAR MEN DO. STUNNED
THEYVE REMAINED SPEECHLESS OVER PAINFUL TRUTH. AND THEN THEY
OFFERED ME HELP. I SILENTLY SMILED, WITHHELD THEM, AND THANKED FOR
WHO THEY ALREADY ARE.
I WALKED AWAY ALONE, FOR THESE ARE ALREADY BLISSFUL PEOPLE...
...IVE BEEN HEADING FOR DISTANCES, CONDUCTED BY PRIMAL STRENGTH.
GAUDY FIELDS WERE EXHALING WITH FRESHNESS, RIVERS WERE BRACING
ME WITH CRYSTAL BLUE SHINE. GREEN FORESTS WERE SPREADING THEIR
INTOXICATING SMELL. BLESSINGS OF THE SUMMER.
SWEET FRUITS, DEW AND HONEY...
ON ONE SCENTED MORNING, WHILE WALKING THROUGH WOODS I CAME
ACROSS A STREAM, FRESH AND BRIGHT. FROM THE DISTANCE WELCOMED ME
A CLATTER OF AN OLD WATERMILL. WHEN I REACHED DOWN TO SOOTHE MY
THIRST, SUDDENLY I NOTICED A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, GLEAMING UPSTREAM.
FLOWERS REST IN HER HAIR, A JUG IN HER HAND. AS SHE TURNED ROUND,
IT SEEMED I HAD ALREADY SEEN HER, SOMEWHERE BEFORE. WHILE I WAS
DRINKING FIRST DRAUGHT, SHE LOOKED INTO MY EYES, LIGHTENING ME UP
WITH A SMILE. AND I THOUGHT THAT WATER SPRING FROM HER POT.
I THOUGHT THAT SHE IS THE WELL. AND THAT WATER IS LOVE...
I RETURNED HER A SMILE, BUT WAS SUMMONED BY VOICE. I WALKED AWAY,
AFORE MY SOUL STARTED CRYING OVER BEAUTY I LEFT BEHIND...
IVE BEEN WANDERING NIGHTS AND DAYS, ALONGSIDE MISTY LOCHS AND
MOUNTAINS, BESIDE WASTE HAMLETS AND CASTLES, OLD TOWERS AND
MILLS. IVE BEEN ROAMING OVER FORLORN PATHS, OVER INTACT GRASS
FIELDS AND WOODEN BRIDGES. IVE SENSED THE WISDOM AND KINDNESS OF
THAT DYING WORLD; THOSE DAYS GRIEF FILLED MY HEART. AND I FOUND
MYSELF ON THE CROSSROAD. ALONE AND SAD. IN SILENCE I AIMED MY EYES
AT THE SUN, SO ROUND AND RED. I WAS WATCHING IT SINKING, AND LOSING
ITS SHINE. I WAS WRAPPED IN THOUGHTS OF TIME THAT RESTLESSLY SLIPS
AWAY. AND RECALLED TO MIND MY OATH...

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...ON ONE EVENING HEART BROUGHT ME TO ONE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.

ASTOUNDED BY FAIRNESS I WAS WALKING BY THE RIVER, OVER VALE
AMONG TWO GIANT WHITE ROCKS. AMAZED I WAS BREATHING FRESH
FLAVOURS OF HONEY. IN THE LAP OF NIGHT I ARRIVED AT WARM WINDY
SHORE, ILLUMINATED BY A SPELL FROM THE MOON. I STOPPED WALKING.
THE SEA SPUMED, DEEPLY INHALED, AND EMBRACED MY FEET. I LIED DOWN
ON SAND, OBSERVING THE ASTONISHING LIGHT THAT CROWNED THE WHITE
MOUNTAIN. I WAS SINKING TOWARD DREAM... WHILE LISTENING TO THE SEA
WHISPERING.... BREATHING..... IN A PERFECT HARMONY........
...NIGHT SLOWLY FADED AHEAD OF MESSENGERS OF A DIVINE DAY. THE
DAWN ARRIVED ON CHARMING WINGS OF THE SUN. HORIZON WOKE UP
THROUGH THOUSAND COLOURS. THE SUN AROSE AND TOUCHED ME WITH ITS
MILDNESS. WARM STRING OF MORNING LIGHT WAS FONDLING MY WOUNDED
FACE. GENTLY, LIKE KISS. SWEETNESS WOKE ME UP. INTO A DREAM...
I OPENED MY EYES WIDE AND CAUGHT SIGHT OF BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL SKY.
MARVELLOUS BIRDS WERE GREETING FROM THE SHINING HEIGHTS. THE
WIND SOAKED MY HAIR WITH SMELLS OF FRESH. WARM NOTES FILLED MY
HEART. AND I FELT PAIN IN MY HEART DISAPPEARING.
THE SEA HEALED THEM WITH ITS WAVES...
I ROSE WITH A WIDE SMILE ON MY FACE. THEN I SPREAD MY ARMS, SALUTING
THE SUN, AND SKY, AND SEA. AND WHEN I TOOK A LOOK AT LUCID
DISTANCES, I HEARD THE VOICE. IT TOLD ME I AM ON THE RIGHT WAY. IT
WHISPERED ME THAT THIS IS THE WAY THAT NONE HAS LATELY WALKED ON.
ON A CLIFF THAT STANDS HIGH UPON THE SEA I LEFT THE TRAIL.
ENGRAVED THE SIGN. TO BE A TESTIMONY... FOR ALL AGES ...

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IVE BEEN TRAVELLING OVER VALES AND MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND
FORESTS, CRAGS AND SEAS, ABSORBING WARMTH OF THE SUN AND BREATH
OF THE MOON. IVE LISTENED TO VOICE, IVE RED SIGNS, IVE BEEN
SEARCHING FOR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. IVE DECANTED LEARNED TO
WORDS AND GESTURES, SENSED TO VERSES AND NOTES.
IVE TRAVELLED AS WITH MY BODY, SO WITH MY SPIRIT AND THOUGHTS...
IVE BEEN FURTHER AND FURTHER, LEAVING FRESH TRAILS ON THAT
NEVERENDING ROAD, WALKING THERE WHERE NONE EVER STEPPED BEFORE.
THE SKY ADORNED ME WITH SMILE AND STRENGTH. I FELT GLORIOUS MIGHT.
THROUGH THE RITUALS IVE SUMMONED ENERGIES FROM HEIGHTS,
TO REVIVE THEIR WONDERFUL WORLD...

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...LONELY JOURNEY CHISELLED MY FACE, AND WATERED MY SOUL WITH

FORTUNE. I COMPLETED A PIPE. AND SWORD.
YEARS ROLLED BY. AND ONE DAY I DECIDED TO RETURN...
...IVE VISITED MANY PLACES, FINISHED MANY BATTLES, CARRIED FORWARD
THE MESSAGE OF HEART, TO THOSE WHO SEARCHED FOR IT. IVE REMINDED
THOSE WHO HAVENT FOLLOWED IT, AND SHOWED THEM A WAY. BUT THOSE
WHO KEPT ON TEARING IT, THOSE WHOVE BEEN SPREADING GREED,
INJUSTICE AND FOOLISHNESS IVE STOPPED WITH SWORD OF TRUTH.
IN THE NAME OF THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND. AND THOSE WHO SUFFER.
IN THE NAME OF PEOPLE WHO WARD AND FOLLOW THE SPIRIT.
IN THE NAME OF PEOPLE I ENDLESSLY LOVED AND ADMIRED.
TIME OBEYED ME. AND IVE SEEN THE DREAM WAKING...
BUT ON ONE NIGHT, SO WINDY AND COLD, IN THE GLOOM OF GREY TOWN
EVIL CAUGHT ME NAPPING. FRIGHTENED HYENAS ATTACKED ME FROM
BEHIND, CUTTING ME WITH STROKES, SHARP AND BLUNT, PAINFUL INDEED.
I TUMBLED DOWN ON THE GROUND. MY BODY EXTINGUISHED, WHILE BLOOD
STARTED POURING OUT FROM MY MOUTH...I LOST THE CONSCIENCE...
...SHORTLY BEFORE SUNRISE I CAME TO MY SENSES, BROKEN AND ALONE.
I STOOD UP SLOWLY, WITH GLASS IN MY CHESTS. I TURNED BACK, GAPING AT
COLD WALLS. I SAW GREY. AND WALLS IN HEADS OF INSENSIBLE ONES.
I SAW WASTE, BARREN GROUND...
TIRED LEGS BARELY OBEYED THE CRY OF MY HEART.
AND IT GUIDED THEM TOWARD A DISTANT, ENDLESSLY LOVED MOUNTAIN...
I LEFT ALL MY DEEDS BEHIND, ALL VERSES, NOTES AND THESE WORDS
FOR NEW GENERATIONS. FOR COMING AGES. FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL SEE THE
WAY. AND LIVE THE DREAM...

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IN THE LAPS OF MOUNTAINS

...AND HERE I WAS WITH WOUNDED HEART, LIMPING TOWARDS NORTHERN
MOUNTAIN, DISTANT AND SCENTED. THE SUN ALREADY REACHED ITS
SUMMIT, SLITTING WESTERN SKIES. MY LEG WAS KNEELING DOWN WITH
EVERY FOLLOWING STEP...
AFTER HALF OF A DAY, ON WIDE MEADOW I NOTICED A BLACK HORSE. HE
LOOKED AT ME WITH HIS LARGE EYES, NOD WITH HEAD, PULLING THE LEG
UPON THE GROUND. I APPROACHED HIM SLOWLY, DISCERNING THAT HES
NOT FRIGHTENED AT ALL. SO I JUMPED ON HIS BACK, FEELING GROUND
SHAKING WHEN HE REARED HIGH THROUGH THE SKY. AND WE SET SAIL
TOWARDS THE NORTH. SAILING. WILDLY, LIKE THE WIND. CROWNED WITH
LONG GOLDEN HAIR, THAT WAVE THROUGH THE AIR. JUST LIKE FLAGS. LIKE
TWO WILD FIRE. THROUGH THE WOODS, OVER PLAINS, MEADOWS, RIVERS...
AT SUNSET WE SLACKENED. I GOT DOWN FROM HORSE, ENCHANTED BY
MAGIC KINGDOM. WHEN I SET HIM FREE, HE CHEERFULLY NOD WITH HEAD,
AND GALLOPED AWAY. MY HEART SWELLED. LEAVES QUIVERED.
SKY SMILED. AND WIND WHISPERED THAT HERE IS MY HOME...

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COTTAGE AROSE IN THE LAPS OF MOUNTAINS, IN ETERNAL KINGDOM OF
FERTILE WOODS AND WATERS. IVE BUILT A HOME, AND SKIES ENDOWED ME
WITH THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT. A GENTLE ROSE, THAT ONCE I HAD LEFT
BEHIND. DESTINY BROUGHT US TOGETHER AGAIN. INTO ONE...
...AND NEW LIVES SPRINGED UP, JUST LIKE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN
SPRINGTIME. FORESTS BEGAN TO SING THROUGH MERRY VOICES OF
CHILDREN. THE SUN STARTED GLOWING WITH INFINITE SPIRIT, NATURE
STARTED EXHALING INDESCRIBABLE BEAUTY. EVEN SMILE RETURNED ON
MY FACE. AS ON MY LIPS SONG...
AND WHEN EVER I RETURNED FROM HARVEST, AWARDS WERE THERE,
WAITING FOR ME. AWARDS WORTH OF EVERY, EVEN HARDEST PAINS.
AWARDS WORTH OF EVERY, EVEN GREATEST SACRIFICE. HOME, FAMILY,
AND FREEDOM.
I USED TO FIND HER STANDING IN A BROOK, WASHING OUT CHILDRENS
CLOTHES. AND SINGING, TOGETHER WITH BIRDS. MY ROSE, WHITE AND
PROUD. AND PRETTY, LIKE THE PRETTIEST SONG BIRD. AND CHILDREN USED
TO SENSE ME FAR FROM DISTANCES, RUSHING INTO MY ARMS. LAUGHS AND
KISSES. THEN HEARTH AND CHEERFUL, WEALTHY FEAST...
SO MANY SHINING SMILES, SO MANY CORDIAL WORDS, SO MANY SONGS AND
AWAKENINGS WITH TWINKLE IN EYES. AND THEN TRAVELS. LONG TRAVELS
TO FAR PLACES. AND SAILS OVER SEAS, FAR SEAS. AND VISITS TO CHERISHED
PEOPLE AND LANDS...
DURING ONE LONG JOURNEY WE VISITED DISTANT PLACE OF MY SPRING.
MANY PATHS I COULD NOT RECOGNIZE. COLD WALLS OF CONCRETE WERE
STANDING ON PLAINS. SOME OTHER PEOPLE HAVE LIVED THERE, SOME
OTHER CHILDREN WERE SITTING ON IMITATED FOOTWAYS. I COULD NOT SEE
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A SHINE IN THEIR EYES. BUT SILENT AGONY. SORROW AND HELPLESSNESS.

ANXIOUS I WAS STOPPING PEOPLE. I WAS ASKING ABOUT MEANING OF THIS
FOOLISH POLITICS, AND NONE COULD GIVE ME AN ANSWER. THEN I WENT
SEARCHING FOR CREATURES IN A THINNED FOREST, BUT FOUND NOTHING
BUT GRIEF. EVERYTHING WAS DISTURBED. ONLY MY AMAZING TREE WAS
STILL DREAMING, ISOLATED. I FELT IT CRYING...AS WELL AS MY SOUL...
ON JOURNEYS WEVE BEEN LOOKING AFTER BEAUTIES OF THIS WORLD.
WEVE BEEN DISCOVERING GRACE OF REMOTE LANDSCAPES, PEOPLE,
CUSTOMS. MANY PEOPLE HAD ALREADY KNOWN US, MANY HAVE WELCOMED
US WITH SMILE AND SONG. WEVE BEEN GUESTS OF ADMIRABLE PEOPLE.
WEVE BEEN BLESSING WATERS OF MYRIAD WELLS. WEVE SEEN FAR COASTS
AND SEAS, AND BEEN LINKING BOATS AND BEACONS, DISCOVERING NEW
TRACKS AND MOUNTAINS. WEVE BEEN SEARCHING AND TRAVELLING,
UNTIL CRAVING FILLED OUR HEARTS...
AND THEN RETURN TO HOME. AND SCENT OF BELOVED FORESTS. AND
PLEASANT MURMUR OF A GLITTERING BROOK. AND SINGING OF SPIRITED
NIGHTINGALES. AND WARMTH OF A HOME. AND TALES BESIDE FIREPLACE.
DEEP, DEEP INTO NIGHT...
SORCERIES OF LONG WINTER NIGHTS USED TO TOUCH US. SORCERIES
SUMMONED BY FAIRY DANCE OF BLIZZARDS. MAGICAL DANCES ON GLINTS
OF MOONLIT ICE. THEN LONG, LONG STROLLS DURING FRESH SPRINGTIME
EVES, OVER PERFUMED MEADOWS, THROUGH BLOOMING WOODS. AND THEN
VISITS TO THE WELL BENEATH AN OLD OAK TREE.
A TREE BY THE BROOK WERE WE TOOK AN OATH ON ETERNAL LOVE.
AND REVEALINGS OF SECRETS BELOW THE SUMMER SKY, DURING WARM
STARRY NIGHTS. NIGHTS OF CRYSTAL BRIGHTNESS...
...KINGDOM OF MY DREAM...
ON ONE FLORAL EVE, WHILE WALKING TO SUNSET, THE YOUNGEST CHILD
TURNED ROUND, SAYING HES BLISSFUL, FOR WELL WALK THESE PATHS
TOGETHER FOREVER. I STOPPED IN A MOMENT OF PAIN, LIFTED HIM GENTLY
INTO MY ARMS, AND SILENTLY POINTED AT THE WEST.
AND MOTHER THOUGHTFULLY SMILED, FONDLED HIS LOVELY FACE AND
SHED ONE SILVER TEAR...

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...THE EARTH HAD ROUNDED THE SUN FOR SO MANY TIMES, MANY YEARS
VANISHED INTO PAST, AND SUMMER CLOSED TO ITS END. THE TIME ARRIVED
WHEN CHILDREN WENT THEIR OWN ROADS. FAR AWAY.
IVE SEEN AN ENDLESS LIFE IN THEM, AS ENDLESS STRENGTH.
AND DEEP INSIDE MY HEART I FELT THEY WILL FOLLOW MY WAY...
TIME CARRIED ON WITH ITS GAME.

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AND THEN, A GLOOMY DAY DAWNED. IT TOOK AWAY MY BEAUTIFUL ONE,

AND ONLY ROSE. SHE WAS MOWN DOWN BY MALADY, THAT SHADOWS HAD
CAUSED HER LONG AGO, IN YOUTH. AND SHE WITHERED. I CARRIED HER ON
MY ARMS, IN ENDLESS PAIN. I KISSED HER FOR THE LAST TIME.
AND BURIED THE GREATEST PART OF MY DREAM...
THE SUN LOST ITS SHINE, FLAVOURS OF NATURE BECAME PALE. HAPPINESS
CEDED ITS PLACE TO SADNESS. TO LONELINESS. THOSE DAYS I FACED THE
WINDMILL FOR ONE MORE TIME. AND I FELT ITS OLD HANDS, THAT RUSHED
BY WITH ALL OF THEIR FORCE. AND I FELT THEIR FREEZING BREATH. IN MY
HEART. LIKE A STROKE. MY LEG KNEELED DOWN...ARM EXTINGUISHED...
TOUCH OF OLDNESS...
TIME STEALS AWAY, BUT MEMORIES REMAIN. IN THE HEARTS OF LIVING.
AND AMONG THE STARS...

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TALE OF AUTUMN
RIGHTED HIGH ON A ROCK WITH HANDS LEANING ON CANE, I INHALE THE
LAST BREATH OF GLOAMING, SOFT AND DEEP. WARM COLOURS OF SINKING
RAINBOW FONDLE MY HEART, MERGING INTO MYSTERIOUS, INDESCRIBABLE
AFFECTION. EMOTION OF A PLEASANT PAIN.
GLORIOUS SIGHT STIRS UP A SPARK OF WISTFULNESS. OF REMEMBRANCE.
THE SACRED FLAME OF LIFE. OH, WILL I EVER SEE THEM AGAIN?-I WHISPER,
BY HEAVING A SIGH. WET FINGERS OF BREEZE UNRAVEL MY GRIZZLED HAIR,
CARRYING BITTER FLAVOURS OF MELLOW FORESTS...
AND WHILE I STARE AT THE DISTANCE, NIGHT SILENTLY CONQUERS THE
DAY, UNFOLDING ITS VEIL OVER MOTTLED MOUNTAIN.
FAR ON HORIZON FLAME DIES...
PRESAGE...SILENCE...DARK...
MELLOW HANDS OF MOTHER NATURE CLASP IN A PRAYER FOR A WOUNDED
SON...

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WHILE SITTING CLOSE TO FIREPLACE WITH EYES AIMED AT BLAZE, I DRINK
THE LAST EWER OF VINE. WARM CRACKLING SOUND DISTURBS THE SILENCE.
I APPROACH THE TABLE, RESTRAINING THE TIME WITH A GESTURE OF HAND.
CANDLE LIGHTS UPON LETTERS THAT FORM WORDS, WORDS THOUGHTS,
AND THOUGHTS A MAN, ONCE THEY BECOME A DEED. AND SO IN CIRCLE.
MAGIC CIRCLE...
AND WHILE I DEEPLY MEDITATE, IN DARK CORNER OF ROOM APPEARS A
FLASH. DAZZLED EYES DISCERN SHAPE OF A SWORD. MY SHINING SWORD...
AND I REMEMBER...
I REMEMBER DAYS OF WANDERINGS; I REMEMBER A REBEL IN A WORLD OF
INJUSTICE AND FAKE TITLES. I REMEMBER A STONY ROAD THAT I WAS
OBLIGED TO WALK ON. REMEMBER THE SIGN WHICH I ENGRAVED IN STONE,
SO LONG AGO. I ALSO REMEMBER HER MELTING TOUCH. AND LAST WORDS.
AND TEARS.....
SMELL OF WAX RESTRAINS ME BACK FROM STRAYED THOUGHTS. CANDLE
MELTS AWAY... LONELINESS...SORROW...
I TAKE A PIPE WITH WOUNDED HAND, RECALLING THE SONG OF YOUTH.
I SENSE A TOUCH OF CORDIAL TUNES. AND NOW I SEE DISTANT SIGHTS OF
PAST I SEE ALL BELOVED PLACES, AND BELOVED PEOPLE. FAR, FAR AWAY...
COLD BREATH SLITS THROUGH MY CHEST. FLUTE SLIPS DOWN FROM MY
HAND. THE PAIN TIRES OUT MY BODY...I DESIST.....
AND OF A SUDDEN, GENTLE SOUNDS UNFOLD OVER FORLORN PATHS OF MY
GOLDEN KINGDOM. SILENT AND ENCHANTING. IN DISBELIEF I PRICK MY
EARS. MYSTICAL TUNE WOOS MY HEART...I COLLECT MY STRENGTH...
AND AS IM UNDER A SPELL, IM THROWING MY WORDS INTO FIRE, TAKING
THE COAT AND STEPPING OUTSIDE; THE WIND SALUTES ME WITH SMELL OF
WINTER. ROUNDISH FACE OF THE MOON SILENTLY SMILES ON THE SKY...
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WHILE I FOLLOW SOFT MELODY, IM TAKING ONE MORE LOOK BEHIND:

IN THE DISTANCE MY HOME GRIEVES. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF WINDOW LIGHT
DISAPPEARS. FLAME BURNS OUT. WHILE SMOKE ABOVE HOVEL DISPELS.
REMAIN DARKNESS AND COLD...MOUNTAIN AND STARS...AND MIST...
THOUGHTFUL I ENTER THE WORLD OF ENCHANTED WOODS. VEILS OF SMOKE
FLOAT AMONGST TREES. TEARS FALL DOWN FROM CROWNS. ALL AROUND.
SOUND BECOMES LOUDER...I HALT...
WITH BLURRED EYES I EAVESDROP THE DEPTHS. I SINK AND SEARCH...
THROUGH A PALE WHITENESS OF HAZE THE SECRET APPEARS.
SMOULDERING. AND FINALLY I REALIZE... TIME TO GO...
I LOSE MY BREATH...TIREDNESS...PAIN...
AND WHILE COLD WIND EMBRACES MY SOUL, IM TOUCHING AN OAK TREE
FOR THE LAST TIME: FAREWELL MY FRIEND...MAYBE SOMEWHERE...
SOMEDAY..... I SHED THE TEAR. I CLOSE MY EYES.
AND I...FEEL....LIFE.....BREATHES..........OUT......................
GONE WITH THE WIND.
FOR AYE.
...AND FAR AWAY- BEYOND MOUNTAINS, BEYOND SEAS - THE SIGN REMAINS...

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...DISTANT IS YEAR. THE YEAR OF WHITE DRAGON. LASTING WINTER DRAWS

TO ITS END. AT LAST. EVIL TONGUES OF ADDERS RETREAT AND DISAPPEAR
FOREVER. THE LAST BEAST OF DARKNESS KNUCKLES DOWN BEFORE
STRENGTH OF THE GRANDIOSE SUN...
THE SYMPHONY OF LIGHT CASTS SORCERY UPON BLANCHED FIELDS AND
RIVERS, WOODS AND VALES. FOREST WELL COMES TO LIFE, WATER STARTS
BABBLING, BROOK BEGINS TO FLOW. ABOVE WATERFALL LIGHT SNAPS AND
MANIFESTS ITS MIRACULOUS SPIRIT. RAINBOW APPEARS...
SACRED WATERS OF NATURE BEGIN TO RUN. THESE SWEET SAPS OF LIFE...
FIRST HERALDS OF SPRING SPROUT FROM THE GROUND, TO BID WELCOME TO
THE SUN, AND TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW AGE. FROM GLEAMING CROWNS OF
TREES MERRY SONG OF BIRDS IS DEPUTED. WONDERFUL CREATURES WAKE
UP, EMERGING FROM DARK SHELTERS. SMILING CHILDREN RUN OUT FROM
THEIR WARM HOMES, INTO THE LIGHT OF A GREAT DAY. DAY WITHOUT FEAR.
WITHOUT SADNESS. WITHOUT PAIN.
STUNG INTO A STONE SWORD FLASHES. HIGH ON THE SKY THE SIGN FLARES...
IN THE ECHO OF TIME SHINING BEING READS THE LAST CHAPTER OF
NEVERENDING TALE. AWARE THAT BECOMES ITS PART. FOR GOOD.
AND ASSISTS ON THE GREAT DAY...
...AND WHILST SNOWED TOPS OF MOUNTAINS MELT, SOMEWHERE IN
DISTANCES THE WHITE WOLF HOWLS. HE CARRIES THROUGH BLITHE NEWS
ABOUT TRIUMPH OF THE MAN OVER DARKNESS. OVER EVIL. OVER DEATH.
NEWS ABOUT NOVEL SPRING OF WORLD AND MAN.
ABOUT ARRIVING OF THE REASON. OF CREATOR.
AND AS THOUGH HE FEELS A DISTANT SCREAM OF MOTHER, AND CRYING OF
A CHILD. NO, THESE ARE NOT TEARS OF SORROW.
THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF A DREAM.
THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF NEW LIFE...

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PASTORAL POEM
BEYOND MOUNTAINS, BEYOND SEAS
THERE IS A SIGN
WEEPING IN THE STONE
ECHO FROM THE PAST
EPITAPH
IN FAR TIME.

WHILE THE SUN SILENTLY LOSES ITS SHINE

THE WIND CRIES FOR IT
THE MAGIC DAY IS DONE:
FAREWELL MOTHER EARTH
GOODBYE THOU LIFE
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME
ONCE UPON A TIME
IVE BEEN RUNNING ON YOUR HILLS
IVE BEEN READING ALL YOUR SIGNS
IVE ADMIRED ALL YOUR GIFTS
IVE BEEN WATCHING THROUGH YOUR EYES;
NOW I WANT YOU TO KNOW
I WILL ALWAYS BE YOURS
AS YOULL ALWAYS BE MINE

ONE EPITAPH CRUMBLES

AT THE END
...OF ITS TIME...

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REASON, KING OF ALL SENSES, MASTER OF WORLD AND TIME.

CREATOR.

MCMXCIX