Time Wars (2)
Section 6
CORWYN
Some seek invasion of the human mind. Some wish to
shower alien truth upon the Earth.
ANSELIM
We work at varied levels. At this crux in human history one
method is predominant. Integrals create a focus on the Earth
itself. You are a focus of your Integral within the flesh.
CORWYN
You bring the values of your Integral to Earth. They
live within your core. Authentic life is Mission.
TARA
Let the healing deepen. Within the cosmic schemes some value
tragic grandeur. Some spare no sacrifice of self or others to
serve imagined culmination. To Us, the code of FTL is end and means.
CORWYN
We are One-and-Many. In your Integral, We and you are
intertwined. How could we bring you Home through imposition? We
are no Imperium of Light. We do not engineer your transmutation. We
do not meddle with your planet. We do not reinforce the gospel of
necessary pain. We know your pain. We do not increase it. We
yearn to feel the signal of your triumph, freely claimed.
Section 7
TARA
The pain that flares as you return to Integral is thawing of denial.
RAPHAEL
We are fierce and bright in purpose. We know the stake
in every human heart.
ANTARA
This century to us is one vast Node within event-formation. Many
Time-roads thread these years. These Roads connect to patterns
of Reality.
RAPHAEL
The Roads are sheaves of time-lines, each distinct.
CORWYN
Some lead to iridescent cultures, where the play of many-song
is celebration.
ANSALIM
Some lead to dissolution of the human form.
ANTARA
Some lead to humankind surviving at the price of retrogression.
RAPHAEL
Some lead to versions of the multiEarth in which the
human pattern is embraced by cosmic symphonies of being.
ANTARA
Some lead to tyranny.
Section 8
As you transit through this nodal time, you travel through reality selection.
CORWYN
This is always true. But multiple Intent entrains your
time. Nested patterns, restless to resolve. Let me say
it thus. Many games contend and co-exist upon the Earth. You
rush toward a climax that reveals which games and gamers
will prevail? Which Road will humankind assent to walk?
Freely, or under governance? Collective mind is fissile. Will
the human race diverge, and choose two Roads?
Divergence can be happy. In your past the race has chosen
multiple excursions. As you venture into stellar space, you
may tune to vibrant tracks created by your ancestors. They learned
to travel through the ways that vein your galaxy. Humans fare
among the distant stars, and carry multiEarth within their souls.
TARA
They are among the Watchers now. They too are yearning
for your resolution to mature.
ANTARA
Those expeditions left the planet long before invasion
took its toll. Divergence now is not a happy prospect.
Section 9
The Roads to tyranny are open still. And only you, as
species prime upon the planet, are empowered to close them
RAPHAEL
Unless you abdicate your role as species prime, your
collective choice is paramount. Some forces want to see
the human will collapse in nihilism. They urge you to
despair. They urge your abdication. Nothing can invade
unless assent and invitation signal. These forces hope
that you will cede your rights as species prime. They
await collective signaling. Thus they get their way,
without infringement of free will.
ANTARA
So far, all attempts to plant the most coercive tyrannies
have failed. You, as focal rays of Integral, have thinned the
poison-power of violation. You have not won the victory. The
suffering has been intolerable. The forces of coercion are not
vanquished.
Let this example illustrate:
You live within the echo of the Nazi Axis. Beings came to Hitler
seeking pacts of blood. They said, Make sacrifice to us - the
Reich is yours. They lied. The Reich is their Imperium. The
hecatombs and holocausts are their design.
The Axis that you know has failed. But learn the lessons of that
baleful war. Take this slowly. The Intervention, working
through the lives of many, prevented domination of the world.
COUNCIL
We speak as Integral of Integrals.
Section 10
ANTARA
In your fantasy, if you could thread the time-lines, would you go
back and murder Hitler? I tell you this. It has been
tried, but not by us. In alternate versions of your
history the murder does take place. And peace does
not return. The agents of coercion burn another trail. The Axis
moves. And nuclear chaos melts the aspiration of the race.
HELI
You move in and out of resonance with Armageddon. The
hell-roads are not closed. We may not, by our law
and nature, close them for you. Your will prevails.
ANTARA
In Birkenau and Stalingrad, London, Hiroshima, the human
incubants of FTL were present. Take this slowly. They
were present on both sides.
TARA/CORWYN
Your need for healing is enormous. We refer to beings, vast in
courage, who choose their placement in the pits of hell to
be of help. For you in whom remembrance stirs, the human sphere
is antiparadise. Vast in your courage, you selected placement
there, to be of help. We know your stories.
ANTARA
To tell the truth on Earth is hard. Compassion makes
demand. The holocausts that lacerate your soul
continue. Do you wish to understand?
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