Mesopotamia - The Redeemer (10 page)

"Doesn't it seem strange to you
that you don’t remember a thing?" Thales asked sarcastically.

"The station's doctor says it's a
known phenomenon," the stranger defended himself.

"Doesn't it seem strange to you
that your aircraft has no identifying features"?

"I don't know".

"Why are you so interested in
hiding your identity? Maybe because your intentions are less than
pure"? Thales continued.

The stranger did not know if he
should be afraid or angry. He guessed Thales provocation would not
be acceptable to Sophia, but she might also have good reasons to
doubt his trustworthiness. "Maybe because I have a reason to be
afraid? I don't know".

"Of the Pythagoreans?" Laughed
Thales, "Since when do we hurt anyone"?

"If I knew who I was and who you
were, I might be able to answer you." His patience was about to run
out; he was getting tired of Thales accusations.

They were silent for a moment and
then the stranger asked: "Who do you think I am"?

Thales turned off the simulator and
said seriously, looking straight into the stranger's eyes: "It's
possible that you're impersonating no one".

"You think I'm a Gnostic spy!" the
stranger declared again, incensed.

"And you can't contradict that,"
said Thales, rising to exit the simulator.

Left alone, the stranger restrained
himself and was quiet. He sat anxiously, worried by the fact that
his aircraft bore no identifying features. 'Maybe I am Gnostic?
Maybe they pressured me or extorted me so that I would serve them?'
He wondered. Then he became angry with Thales, and even with
Sophia, for not protecting him from Thales, and especially from
himself. He took out his anger on the bug that was buzzing around
him, and knocked it with a blow to the ground. He didn't even pay
attention to the fact that a bug could be found in such a sterile
place.

At the time of awakening

Properly examine

Your plans for the day to come!

Before you sleep

Close your eyes!

Ponder the events of the day:

What is good,

What is not,

And what remains to be
completed.

She played the words of the evening
ceremony to the sounds of Samos turning on its axis, dancing with
slow, stylized and amazingly precise movements. Her back was to the
entrance, and thus she failed to notice the stranger taking in the
feminine beauty of her body. The light that emerged from the walls
was dim and softened, in sunset shades of oranges and purples. When
she finished the dance in a kneeling position, the stranger turned
his gaze aside and embarrassed, rearranged the bulge that had
awakened in his loins. Without intending to, he cleared his throat.
Sophia froze in her place for several moments, and then
straightened, welcoming him with a smile.

"How are you?" She asked.

"Good. More optimistic". He lied.
He was confused, but managed to gather enough strength to keep his
sanity in a situation which was becoming more and more complex. He
was aware of his desire to be in her company, of the fact that he
was attracted to her like a bee to a flower. "What are you
doing"?

"It's the prayer of the Golden Rule
that Pythagoras himself wrote in the year five hundred BCE. We
repeat it every morning and every night. What do you think"?

"It's charming".

"The prayer expresses everything we
hold dear: order preciseness, harmony, and beauty".

"Yes," replied the stranger,
although he knew in his heart that the dance had hypnotized him not
just for the reasons she mentioned.

"I must apologize to you for
Thales's actions," she grasped his hand.

The stranger did not respond.

"I must explain. Come." She put her
arm in his and led him through the curved corridors of the station.
To start with they walked in silence. Afterwards she said: "We
believe that it is worthwhile to draw strangers close to us in
order to share our point of view with them, the viewpoint of the
beauty of creation".

"So then why is Thales so
hostile"?

"Because bringing people closer to
us is not the only thing that stands before us. The Pythagorean
culture is a pacifistic culture. Because we don't fight, we have
only one way of surviving – to be aloof. The Pythagoreans,
especially the leaders on Octavia, but also the leaders of Samos,
live in constant suspense between one thing, spreading Pythagoras's
views, and another - protecting the Pythagoreans' lives from
enemies. Thales would also have greeted you properly, if he hadn't
suspected you were a Gnostic spy".

"I've noticed." He pulled his arm
away angrily and stopped.

"I apologize again." She continued
walking, and he followed her. "As the head scout, he is responsible
for the security of Samos and he wanted to be sure you don't pose a
danger".

"And his conclusion"?

"I'm convinced you're not a spy."
Sophia avoided a direct answer.

"Why not? It could be that my loved
ones are being held hostage, that I was sent to spy, and my
memories were taken away from me so that I wouldn't even know that
and couldn't be interrogated about it".

"So then what would be the point of
sending you"?

"To gather information, information
that you are sharing with me with no hesitation, and in the future,
when I remember who I am and what my mission is, I'll release the
information to them in return for the lives of my loved ones".

"Is that what you think?" Sophia
asked.

"I really don't know. Maybe Thales
is right?! Why are you so convinced it's not true"?

She looked at him calmly, radiating
confidence, but did not add any further claims that he could hold
onto. They were silent for the rest of the way to the simulator
room. The stranger sank into one of the silver silken cocoons.

"What spurred such loathing between
the Gnostics and the Pythagoreans?" asked the stranger.

Sophia walked to and fro, choosing
her words carefully. "The Atheists released Earth from
anthropotheism, from the worship of the Human Gods that imposed
human instincts on Earth. They united many of Earth's inhabitants
around the belief that there was no God, and lead a rebellion that
caused the final collapse of the empires. But they only partially
got what they wanted. Regional wars continued to rage for the
control of natural resources, but the larger wars around the Human
Gods stopped. In the year 2148, a colony based on atheistic purity
was founded on the planet Dust."

"Why did they leave"?

"They saved humanity from
annihilation, from the death-grip of religion built around the
image of man, but they knew they could not create a completely
atheistic culture on Earth. Religion was no longer so destructive,
but it still prevented them from building a culture based on purely
atheistic principles".

"Wait," he had trouble following
the flow of information. "Let's go back. You said that belief in
God caused the destruction of humanity on Earth, and so the
Atheists, who spread the belief that God did not exist, saved it?
Don't you believe in God"?

"Earth was destroyed because of a
belief in a Human God and because of the competition between
populations who had differing images of the human figures who were
supposed to represent him. The Atheists stopped the competition
over God, but almost completely erased him from Earth. God, or the
belief in him did not cause the wars, but rather the ridiculous
anthropomorphism of God, and all the aggressive human instincts
attributed to the Gods because of that. The Atheistic government
tried to eradicate not just the Human God, but God in general, and
is still paying a high price for that".

"What's that"?

"A materialistic culture. A culture
based on competition, on the contrast between rich and poor, a
culture that sacrifices people to the Gods of poverty in order to
appease the Gods of wealth. They don't call it a God, but they
worship a meaningless God no less than any culture that considers
itself religious".

"And your God isn't human like that
of the anthropomorphic God in the Human-Gods' Wars, and isn't
materialistic like the Gods of the Atheists"?

"Of course," Sophia said
confidently. "The fading of the Human-Gods stopped a significant
part of the violence, but without a God to give meaning to life,
humanity was struck by a plague of depression and suicide,
especially on the Atheistic planet Dust. Cultural creativity was
halted, and scientific discoveries dwindled".

Something flickered in his brain,
but it evaporated before he could try and figure out what trace of
memory it was. "What's the connection between God's fading and a
lack of meaning?" he asked, curiously.

"Throughout history, God comprised
a primary reason for everything. The eternal answer to the question
'what's the point?' was because it was God's wish. Without God as a
supreme reason for all missions, there was no point in missions.
Life became bland, devoid of meaning".

"So God died"?

"No".

"Who saved him"?

"The Pythagoreans." She gave a
satisfied smile. "Orpheus released God from the clutches of the
Atheists".

"Ah, the genius you mentioned"?

"Yes," Sophia's face shone. The
stranger listened with rapt attention. "In the year 2174, the
cosmologist Orpheus discovered the holocratic, fractalic, infinite
structure of the universe, and thus confirmed theories of multiple
universes from the beginning of the third millennium. With the help
of a group of mathematicians, particle physicists, and
astrophysicists, he discovered deep within the tiniest strings, a
minute particle built exactly the same way as our universe. This
was in fact, a miniscule universe with clusters, galaxies, black
holes, and lots and lots of dust and vacuum. By his observations,
Orpheus penetrated a universe inside a universe inside a universe.
He discovered that each of these universes is smaller than the
universe that contains it by exactly the same proportion. He called
this constant scaled proportion An.

"An"?

"Yes. An is the ancient Sumerian
God, the God of the heavens and mathematics".

"So then Orpheus discovered the
non-human God"?

"Rediscovered, yes." Sophia relaxed
in her place, and it was clear that she was satisfied with how her
words had been understood. "But the discovery of An – the constant
of creation – had two main ramifications, which were contradictory
to one another. The first ramification was that the set of
universes is probably infinite. This idea supports the atheistic
metaphysics that states that the world has always existed, there
was never an act of creation, and thus there is no God as a creator
who predated Creation. The second ramification of the discovery
pointed to the exact opposite. The perfect order that exists in the
world points to the existence of mathematic principles that only
God could have created. Pythagoras was the first to discover the
Gods of Mathematics, Astronomy and Music, using constants such as
Phi and Pi. As such, Orpheus identified himself as a Pythagorean
and renewed Pythagoreanism".

"How can a universe with at least
three dimensions exist inside of a particle that has two dimensions
or maybe even only one"?

"Therein stands the greatness of
the discovery. He also discovered that dimensions are like matter
in the hand of the creator, the Gods of Mathematics. Even the
matter that dimensions are made of is flexible, and can change
shape and change from one dimension to more than one dimension.
Superstring theory made it clear that in a world that has ten
dimensions of space and one dimension of time, all the phenomena
drain into one unified phenomenon – strings. Orpheus discovered
that the ten dimensions are also different expressions of the same
basic phenomenon. That's why in a one-dimensional grain there can
be an infinite number of folded dimensions. Because of this, the
original expansion after the Big Bang was not just an expansion of
basic matter into its different forms, but also an expansion of one
dimension into an infinite number of dimensions. Is that clear so
far"?

"What you're saying is clear. I
understand what a dimension is – like matter, it is also made of
basic building blocks; but I still can't paint the image in my
mind." The effort he was making to concentrate on what she was
saying was hindered by his enjoyment of the sound of her voice.

"I can't either. Even Orpheus said
that he understood it mathematically, but not visually. Let's take
a step backwards." She was also having trouble concentrating.
Something about him fascinated her, made her curious.

"Please".

"String Theory discovered what the
Pythagoreans knew even back in the days of Pythagoras".

"Which is"…

"That our universe is nothing but
music. Everything that exists is different frequencies. Our whole
wonderful universe is a great symphony of multi-nuanced energy in
different shapes. It's not just the principle that is the same; the
mathematical data are also the same. Just as shortening the string
of a harp raises its vibration speed, minutely shortening a
two-dimensional string raises its vibration speed and the energy
stored in it".

"Has anyone seen the strings or do
they exist in dimensions that we can't comprehend"?

"Very few have seen them, but you
will be one of them".

"Me"?

"Yes. The strings that surround
Samos, webs of light in an abundance of different colors, the
external light spheres, they are interwoven braids of cosmic
strings. They are one-dimensional strings that constitute an
inseparable part of the work of the processor. Admittedly the
processor lies at the core of Samos, but actually, the whole of
Samos is the processor, and the strings are an intermediate stage
in turning stardust into objects. That is Samos's designation. In
the whole of our universe you won't find any other cosmic strings
made by man".