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Then gathered we at last upon a fertile plain to bring
together all that we had learned from the world of men,
the world of the spirits, the Book of the Heavens and the
voices of the earth. And Behold, these are the truths that
we have learned from the stars, from the rocks, from the
hearts of men and from the minds of the spirits:
Know ye, oh my people, that all down the endless
avenues of time hath division marred all that is - for there
is division at the very heart of creation. And some have
said that this is natural and will persist until the end of
days, but it is not so. Were the division destined to be
eternal, then the purpose of creation would be to contain it.
But the stars and the spirits and the voices within the
rocks speak of the day when the division will end and all
will be made one again, for creation itself knows that the
day will come.
Know ye further, oh my people, that two spirits
contend with each other at the very center of time, and
these spirits are the two sides of that which hath divided
creation. And in a certain time shall those spirits meet
upon this world, and then will come the time of the choice.
And if THE CHOICE be not made, the spirits will pass on
to another world and confront each other there, and this
world will be abandoned, and the beloved guest of whom
the Seeress spoke will never come. For it is this which was
meant when she said unto us: 'Behold, he may not choose
ye unless ye choose him.' And the choice which we must
make is between good and evil - for there is an absolute
good and an absolute evil, and the division at the heart of
creation is the division between good and evil, and the
reality which will exist after we have made -THE CHOICE
will be a reality of good or a reality of evil, and it will
prevail so until the end of days.
Behold also this truth; the rocks of the world and of all
other worlds murmur continually of the two stones which
lie at the center of the division.
* The Orb and the Sardion.
Once these stones were
one, and they stood at the very center of all of creation,
but, like all else, they were divided, and in the instant of
division were they rent apart with a force that destroyed
whole suns. And where these stones are found, there
surely will be the next confrontation between the two
spirits. Now the day will come when all division will end
and all will be made one again - except that the division
between the two stones is so great that they can never be
rejoined. And in the day when the division ends shall one
of the stones cease forever to exist, and in that day also
shall one of the spirits forever vanish.
These then were the truths which we gathered from the
stars and from the rocks and from the hearts of men and
from the minds of the spirits. And it was our discovery of
these truths which marked the end of the First Age.
Now the Second Age of man began in thunder and
earthquake, for lo, the earth herself split apart, and the sea
rushed in to divide up the lands of men even as creation
itself is divided. And the mountains of Korim shuddered