Chapter 12: The End of the Beginning
It was two thousand years after the coming of the being that
called itself God and the return of the dead of all time. We were preparing to
celebrate the anniversary of the return of the dead of the past when death
returned.
It clutched us like an icy hand from the past. Without any
explanation, life all over the Mega-Universe started to drop dead. This time,
it was unlike the death of the past. Their deaths were not the total deaths
that had been known before. Their physical forms, in fact, died; however, those
who had died continued to speak to us. These spirits, which were part of their
entities, continued to exist. This was unheard of throughout the Mega-Universe,
except in one case, which was known to have happened. That was, of course, the
being that called itself God. Unlike the rest of us in the Mega-Universe, it
had no body. So we watched as quickly as all the life in the Mega-Universe
died.
I sat there powerless, holding Kak in my arms. It was the
saddest day of my life. I felt like I would never be loved by my beautiful Kak
again, and then I died.
All life died except our machines, which we had made. They
were as terror-stricken as we were. None of us understood what was going on.
We called on the being that called itself God, since it was
the only being that we knew of that existed in this form. We hoped that it
could shed some light on the tragedy that was occurring.
God spoke to us, “After billions of years of evolution, you
are now taking the final step in the evolutionary process. Billions upon
billions of years ago, when I knew that I was dying of the loneliness that I
felt, I decided to start in motion a process by which gods would be made. You
are those gods. Deep in you, you feel a great loneliness and a need to be with
certain minds. You must seek out and find them now, like you did when you were
the basics of life, when you needed to create life, love, and a meaning for
your own being.”
I sought out one group, and Kak went with me. This was joy,
for now we would live forever as one in ways we could never have known when we
had two bodies intermingling as one life.
In our group, we started to move as one quickly. We found
that we were thinking as one life form, acting as one life form, and loving as
one life form. I realized that I was no longer a reporter. I was many life
forms. I had many other lives, all making up one life form — a god.
Kak and I were now in every sense one with billions of
others. To this day, I cannot tell the difference between what I was then and
what I am now. Today I have far greater power.
When we found that we were thinking together, we found that
we had crossed that threshold from living beings to God. We were now part of a
world of gods, and we met our father.
At first, we respected him as a parent, but he did not want
us to look at him as a parent. God said, “I am not your parent, I am your
friend and lover.”
Today, we live with God like that. We watch over our
children, the technology that we had formed while we were mortal beings. They
will grow through us. We hope for the day when their beginning will end, and
they will start their eternity.
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