Chapter 3 – Traversa
Page 47
“In fear, people of mortal status often grasp for the older and supposedly more-reliable ways or religions, rather than to accept an espousal that suddenly breaks free from the fetters of their well-learned doctrines. There is some wisdom in that, as every new proclamation may not always be a superior mode of truth. But an unfounded fear of being wrong tends to stifle those who might, otherwise, be adventurous enough to test the new principles and find out for themselves the values and integrity; the real truth, of any newly revealed message. It is human to suspect. It is evolutionary to pride oneself in one’s religion or philosophy and decline to ‘stray’ into something new and less established. The religionist, with his excessive and exaggerated or pretended zeal, is much different than the true spiritual person who is devout and conscientious in his genuine growth. In the realization of the highest truth he can perceive and put it to use. Sincerity is the key, while precepts come and go.”
Chapter 5 – The Alter
Page 81
“They are the crop the Mighty Gardener has planted for Himself. He will not let them die easily, or go unchecked for very long. He is always observing and cultivating, thrilled with their progress. Here are roses, there are gardenias. Here are duel-hemisphere brains; there are single brains and triple-lobe brains. Here are air-breathers; there are water-breathers, non-breathers and even a few heavy gas types known as fire-breathers! His garden is nearly complete and a wonder to behold, I have no doubt. He is equally interested in each and every single individual, and His spark is implanted like a pilot light in each. Every individual has an actual fragment of God within them.
Chapter 10 – Breakup
Page 155
Though their technology was obviously there and highly refined, it was not blaringly boisterous. Traversa was a small planet. Its greatest advancement was unity. It was a peaceful world with very little technical sensory overload, that had become such a vexation to the spirit on younger orbs. Perhaps every plan for every inhabited sphere ran a bit differently throughout their individual ages. But some factors, such as civilization, material culture, technology, refinement, the arts and unity levels of some sort, on into spiritual expansion, doubtlessly, remained the same.
These people were more spiritually oriented than any others he had seen. They positively knew that the catastrophes about them were but re-directive cataclysms, wrecking temporal creations only to lead to the discovery of new and sublime levels of universal attainment. Many were excited and thrilled about that and many could calmly stand by while great dreams and ambitions, relating to their crumbling world, were about to crash!
Page 158
“Yes!” agreed Edwren. “No wonder your people have achieved planetary unity and war-like strife has ended. You have realized that vainglorious nationalism is transparent and discovered that all races are, really, one planetary family. Long ago, your people have raised their sights from international borders to planetary. Now they are fast discovering that even those borders are dissolving. Your concept of brotherhood is spreading everywhere. I read in a treatise of great value back home,” he continued, “that there are even other universes. Ah, if only the people on my own world could realize that we are all brothers and sisters, that no matter what, we are all beloved children of the One Great Parent, there would be an end to all the strife among them. But, alas, too many of the leading sects think their brothers and sisters are only those who adhere to their own prescribed system of beliefs. Some even teach that it is the will of the One. What a heinous delusion!”
Page 158-159
Dusk had deepened and the birth of nighttime had rendered the sky an iridescent kind of light. Color radials fanned out from over the low horizon, flickering and shimmering in electrical-like displays, truly a glorious light show, against the infinitely black depths of the grand beyond. The tones played upon the faces of the mortal array of waiting citizens, each an individual with individual hopes, fears and private lives, yet all kin and all reaching out together in the sublime hope of survival, all interacting in resplendent and powerful cooperation in these final times. Thus did the eve of destruction bid final pulsations and fiery farewells to those who would awake on a glorious morning far, far away, somewhere in space and somewhere in time, to the golden glimmerings of a new and different orb of light.
Chapter 15 – Down Rush
Page 229
A tremor overtook them and threatened to throw them off the narrow course. Then a wild booming hurled out of the bottom blackness, suddenly and loudly, as if a massive club were slamming against the great rock walls, to set up a din of echoes that would surely reverberate throughout all of eternity. As monstrous soundings, the concussions hit the stone stair like smashing breakers from a giant sea.
Chapter 16 – The Pit
Page 243
Far below the singing hosts on the Plain of Requisite, now, Edwren and Jod traveled through the dark recesses of the concealed domains. The lengthy, hand-carved tunnel showed all the signs of a painstaking labor that had occurred long ago. It was small and close for them and it felt a great way down, undeterminable depths below the open spaces of the hot atmospheric flickerings and grand solar pulsations. Urgency pressed in tightly upon them. They must not fear or lose their auspicious poise, but neither must they linger.
The tiny tunnel ran at exactly a ninety-degree angle from the water-formed course. It continued straight and level for quite a portentous way, so long that Jod sensed her tall alien companion’s back must be beginning to ache unmercifully from hurrying along while all hunched over. Hers certainly was. And, even though they were stooped as low as possible, they barely cleared the rough-chiseled ceiling. A crawl would have been, perhaps, easier, but, of course, much slower.
Chapter 17 – Darkening Light
Page 266
So much, now, of the pool and the surrounding cavern was newly illuminated, as the range of collective light grew with its parting sources. Progress of the listing raft and the strange crew could be easily observed, as it crossed the still water, duly expanding in a diffused wash. Edwren and Jod easily saw that the distance to the far steps was much shorter than previously imagined, when it had been experienced in a much dimmer light. When it felt as though they had been cast adrift upon an endless sea, or that mystical, old water-crossing between life and death. Now, it wasn’t that at all! Everything was quite different in the new and greater light. A menacing shroud had lifted. And the hidden beauty of the natural cavern burst forth. Death had been played as the fool again, and true life abounded. The hoax was seen in all its impotence and eternity became self-evident.
Chapter 20 – E-ghat
Page 306
Thus it was that the steady drone wound out through the song of the cosmos, ever-increasing and all-encompassing. Never ending, it was eternally present. Joy, sure ecstasy and sublime peace prevailed. He was riding high, relaxed and remitted, the very atoms of his body dispersing upon billions of tiny light-beams, yet all contained within whatever the substance of that mighty Transporter. He allowed it to happen.
It was even exhilarating when large parts of himself dissolved rapidly into ultimate pre-particles. He became as a tiny droplet in an endless sea of fine light. That sea was very old and calm, its surface like that of glass. Enveloping, warm depths overtook him completely, and time was not.
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