CASSELL'S

English dictionary 1974 Edition.

Page 213

"cluster (klus ter) [A.-S. clyster (prob. From the same root as clot)], n Anumber of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a bunch; a number of persons or things gathered into or situated in a close body; a group, a crowd. v.i.To come or to grow into clusters. v.t. To bring or cause to come into a cluster or clusters."

 

The FULCANELLI phenomenon

Kenneth Rayner Johnson

1980

Page 115

" Many writers have said Philalethes was born in 1612, mainly because in his most famous work, An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King, published in 1645, he says: " I am a philosopher, An Adept, who call myself by no other name than Philalethes, an anonymous name signifying lover of truth. In / Page 116 / the year of the redemption of the world,1645, being then thirty-three years of age…"

…" If thirty-three, it might, since the author was known to be a Christian mystic, be an initiatory figure symbolizing his attainment, in the same way that Christ can be said to have achieved perfection in the fulfillment of his earthly mission at the age of 33. This speculation becomes even more acceptable when it is known that Philalethes' philosophical outlook, contained in his writings, is very similar to that of the Rosicrucians who like the freemasons, had a system of degrees signifying the advancement of the Brethren. And both these semi-secret, mystical fraternities, remember have been shown to have derived from the Sufi Order of the Builders with its numerologically significant interpretation of 33.

 
11

THIRTYTHREE

156

66

3

 

3

TEN

39

12

3

9

TWENTYTWO

165

39

3

11

TWENTYEIGHT

156

57

3

11

THIRTYTHREE

156

66

3

11

THIRTYSEVEN

165

57

3

5

FORTY

84

30

3

5

FIFTY

66

30

3

10

NINETYFOUR

147

57

3

10

NINETYFIVE

129

57

3

10

NINETYNINE

129

57

3

11

THIRTYTHREE

156

66

3

 

IN SEARCH OF SCHRODINGERS CAT

JohnGribbin1984

Page

33

CHAPTER

THREE

"LIGHT AND ATOMS"

 

5
T
H
R
E
E

20
8
18
5
5

+
=
56
5+6
=
11
1+1
=
2

2+0

1+8

2

9

8

5
5

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

2
8
9
5
5

+
=
29
2+9
=
11
1+1
=
2
TWO
2

5
T
H
R
E
E

20
8
18
5
5

+
=
56
5+6
=
11
1+1
=
2

2
8
9
5
5

+
=
29
2+9
=
11
1+1
=
2
TWO
2

 

QUEST FOR A THEORY OF EVERYTHING

Stephen Hawking

Kitty Ferguson

1991

Page 103

"The square root of 9 is 3. So we know that the third side"

33rd line down of page 103

 

MACBETH1 [iii]

Shakespeare,

" THRICE TO THINE

AND

THRICE TO MINE

AND

THRICE AGAIN TO MAKE UP

NINE

 

6
T
H
R
I
C
E

20
8
18
9
3
5

+
=
63
6+3
=
9

2
8
9
9
3
5

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

 
T
H
R
I
C
E

8

9

+
=
17
1+7
=
8

6
T
H
R
I
C
E

20
8
18
9
3
5

+
=
63
6+3
=
9

2+0

1+8

2

9

+
=
11

1+1
=
2

8

9
3
5

+
=
25
2+5
=
7

2
8
9
9
3
5

+
=
36
3+6
=
9
NINE
9

 

NUMBER

9

THE SEARCH FOR THE SIGMA CODE

Cecil Balmond

1998

Page 45

"Three times three, the trinity of trinities, gains select status then as the doubling and resourcing of special power 3 x 3 = 9

From ancient times number nine was seen as a full complement; it was the cup of special promise that brimmed over. "

Page 46 "Allah is blessed with 99 names and the Feast of Rama-dan is on the 9th month of the lunar year "

 

HOLY BIBLE

Schofield Reference

Genesis B.C. 1911. Chapter 17

Page 26

Verse 1

"And when Abram was

NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE

the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."

 

Genesis B.C. 1898

Page 27

Verse 24

"And Abraham was

NINETY YEARS OLD AND NINE

when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."

 

 

 

CIRCUMCISION

SEE I R SEE UM SEE I S I O N

 

SEE

I

SEE

9

SEE R SEE 18 SEE U SEE 21 SEE M SEE 13 SEE I SEE 9 SEE S SEE 19

SEE

I

SEE

9

SEE O SEE 15 SEE N SEE 14

SEE 99 SEE 34 SEE 30

SEE 9 SEE 7 SEE 3

973

CIRCUMCISION

973 + 863

ISISIS

1836

 

BELIEVE

THAT

BELIEVE ANYTHING

 

 

THE STONE OF THE PLOUGH

The Search For The Secret of Giza

Ann Walker 1997

Page 250

'1. 4 . 94 written between 3.50 pm and 4.40 pm'

" A number of ONE HUNDRED and ONE and that symbolises

the character that plays the CREED, the COLOUR,and all

pointing to the WHITE ARROW,and if we decrease the

First Word and the Last Word so that it comes to

NINETY NINE

and this is a number that can easily be divided by

THREE

and that is the Pyramid form, and the Triads of the

Ancient:

PTAH, SEKHEM and NEFERTUM

ISIS, OSIRIS, HORUS

AMUN, UTKHUNS

The FATHER and SON and HOLY GHOST

Translated into English by Abbel Hakim Awayan "

' The

99

titles of God'

 

 

THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT

Translated By Mardrus and Mathers

Quote omitted

10001

1000 - 1

ISISIS

999

 

 

At this point the ZedAlizZed, laughing cried, "tha's gorra laugh scribe" the very far yonder scribe getting the point didn't.

And the Zed AlizZed died a death.

 

 

OF

TIME AND STARS

Arthur C. Clarke,1972

Page 15

The Nine Billion names of God

 

'This is a slightly unusual request,'said Dr Wagner, with what he hoped was commendable restraints.' As far as I know,

it's the first time anyone's been asked to supply a Tibetan monastery with an Automatic Sequence Computer.

I don't wish to be inquisitive, but I should hardly have thought that your - ah - establishment had much use

for such a ma-chine.Could you explain just what you intend to do with it?'

'Gladly,' replied the lama, readjusting his silk robes and carefully putting away the slide rule he had been

using for currency conversions. 'Your Mark V Computer can carry out any routine mathematical operation

involving up to ten digits. However, for our work we are interested in letters, not numbers. As we wish you

to modify the output circuits,the machine will be printing words not columns of figures.'

'I dont quite understand…'

This is a project on which we have been working for the last three centuries - since the lamasery was

founded, in fact. It is somewhat alien to your way of thought, so I hope you will listen with an open mind while

I explain it

'Naturally.'

'It is really quite simple.We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible names of God'

'I beg your pardon?' /

Page16 / 'We have reason to believe' continued the lama imper-turbably, ' that all such names can be written

with not more than nine letters in an alphabet we have devised,'

'And you have been doing this for three centuries?

'Yes: we expected it would take us about fifteen thousand years to complete the task.'

'Oh, Dr Wagner looked a little dazed. 'Now I see why you wanted to hire one of our machines. But what

exactly is the purpose of this project ?

'The lama hesitated for a fraction of a second, and Wagner wondered if he had offended him. If so there

was no trace of annoyance in the reply.

'Call it ritual, if you like, but it's a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of

the Supreme Being - God , Jehova , Allah , and so on - they are only man made labels. There is a

philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the

possible combinations of letters that can occur are what

one may cal the real names of God. By systematic per-mutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all'

'I see. You've been starting at AAAAAAA… and work-ing up to ZZZZZZZZ …'

 

 FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

G Hancock

1995

Page 287

"What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language, the kind of language that would be comprehensible to any technologically advanced society in any epoch, even a thousand or ten thousand years into the future. Such languages are few and far between, but mathematics is one of them - and the city of Teotihuacan may be the calling-card of a lost civilization written in the eternal language of mathematics."

 "Of all the other stupendous inventions,' Galileo once remarked,

what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of men.3"

 

"And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangements of two dozen little signs on paper?"

 "What one would look for, therefore, would be a universal language"

"mathematics is one of them"

 

 

THE

MAGIKALALPHABET

 

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

1+0

1+1

1+2

1+3

1+4

1+5

1+6
1+7
1+8

1+9

2+0

2+1
2+2

2+3
2+4
2+5

2+6
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

 

LUCKY FOR SOME

 

8
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

20
8
9
18
20
5
5
14

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

 
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

8
9

+
=
17
1+7
=
8

T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

5

T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

8
9

5
+
=
22
2+2
=
4

1+4

8
9

14
+
=
31
3+1
=
4

8
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

20
8
9
18
20
5
5
14
+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9
NINE
9

2+0

1+8
2+0

1+4

2

9
2

5
+
=
18
1+8
=
9

8
9

5
5

+
=
27
2+7
=
9

2
8
9
9
2
5
5
5
+
=
45
4+5
=
9

NINE
9

8
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

20
8
9
18
20
5
5
14

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

2
8
9
9
2
5
5
5

+
=
45
4+5
=
9

NINE
9

 

8
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

20
8
9
18
20
5
5
14

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

2
8
9
9
2
5
5
5

+
=
45
4+5
=
9

NINE
9

T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

2

2

+
=
4

4

5
5
5

+
=
15

1+5
=
6

8

8

8

9
9

+
=
18
1+8
=
9

T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

 THIRTEEN

 

8
T
H
I
R
T
E
E
N

20
8
9
18
20
5
5
14

+
=
99
9+9
=
18
1+8
=
9

 
4

THIR
55

28

1

4

TEEN
44

17

8

8

99

45

9

9+9

4+5

18

1+8

8

9

9

9

 

 

JEHOVAHS WITNESS

 

Page 1-5

The Devil's Number?

"Many features of Bible numerics are calculated by adding the numerical values of individual words together. This is possible because the letters of the Greek alphabet had a numerical meaning as well as being used in writing words. For example. the Greek word for "dragon" is "drakon," and we can add its numeric value as follows:

D = 4

R = 100

A =1

K =20

O = 800

N = 50

. . . 975 = 13 x 75.

Thus we see 1hat this numeric value is a multiple of 13. but let us examine some other names by which the Bible refers to the devil:

The Adversary 364 = 13 x 28

The Antichrist 1.911 = 13 x 147

Belial 78 = 13 x 6

Serpent 780 = 13 x 60

The Demon 975 = 13 x 75

Tempter 1,053 = 13 x 81

There are innumerable instances where the num-ber 13 is woven into the Bible pattern. Here is another remarkable instance:

In Genesis 10 the names of Canaan and his descendants are given. They have a numeric value of 3,211. or 13 x 13 x 19. In the 13th genera-tion from Shem were two brothers. Peleg and Joktan. and we are told that the later rebelled. The numerical: value of Joktan is 169, or 13 x 13. He had 13 sons, and the numeric value of their names totals 2.756. or 13 x 212. The verses recording their history have a numeric value of 13 x 13 x 63.

 

 

CONNECTIONS

James Burke

1978

Introduction

" Man has lived in close contact with change since he first appeared on Earth. During everyone of the thirty-six million minutes of his life, his own body alters imperceptibly as it moves from birth to maturity to death. Around him, the physical world too is in constant change, as the seasons pass: each day brings visible evidence of the annual cycle of growth, fertility and decay.

These fundamental changes have a rhythm with which mankind has become familiar over the ages. Each generation the population is replenished, each year nature is renewed, each day the sun rises and sets, and although the new plants and animals and children differ from their predecessors, they are recognizably of the same family. When a new species appears, or the constellations shift in the heavens, the change occurs over immeasurably long periods during which man can gradually adapt to it.

But the moment man first picked up a stone or a branch to use as a tool, he altered irrevocably the balance between him and his environ ment. From this point on, the way in which the world around him changed was different. It was no longer regular or predictable. New objects appeared that were not recognizable as a mutation of some- thing that had existed before, and as each one emerged it altered the environment not for a season, but for ever. While the number of these tools remained small, their effect took a long time to spread and to cause change. But as they increased, so did their effects: the more the tools, the faster the rate of change.

It is with that aspect of change that this book is concerned. Today the rate of change has reached a point where it is questionable whether the environment can sustain it. My purpose is to acquaint the reader with some of the forces that have caused change in the past, looking in particular at eight recent innovations which may be most influential in structuring our own futures and in causing a further increase in the rate of change to which we may have to adapt. These are the atomic bomb, the telephone, the computer, the production-line system of manufacture, the aircraft, plastics, the guided rocket and television.

Each one of these is part of a family of similar devices, and is the result of a sequence of closely connected events extending from the ancient world until the present day: Each has enormous potential for man's benefit-or his destruction."

 

 

FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Graham Hancock

1995

Page 273

"The precessional numbers highlighted by Sellers in the Osiris myth are 360, 72, 30 and 12."

"These he joined to the 360 days of which the year then consisted (emphasis added)."

"Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360 - day year consists of "12 months of 30 days each".

And in general,as Sellers observes , "phrases are used which prompt simple mental calculations and an attention to numbers ".

"Elsewhere the myth informs us that the 360-day year consists of '12 months of 30 days each'.

Thus far we have been provided with three of Seller's precessional: 360, 12 and 30. The fourth number,which occurs later in the text, is by far the most important. As we saw in Chapter Nine, the evil deity known as Set led a group of conspirators in a plot to kill Osiris. The number of these conspirators was 72."

 

CONNECTIONS

James Burke

Introduction

" Man has lived in close contact with change since he first appeared on Earth. During everyone of the

thirty-six

million minutes of his life,"

 

 

THE HOLY SINNER

Thomas Mann

1951

Page 6 (number omitted)

WHO RINGS

"By no means do I assert that I possess all the tongues; but they run all together in my writing and become one - in other words, language. For the thing is so, that the spirit of narration is free to the point of abstraction, whose medium is language in and for itself, language itself, which sets itself as absolute and does not greatly care about idioms and national linguistic gods. That indeed would be poly-theistic and pagan. God is spirit, and above languages is language."

"God is spirit, and above languages is language"

GOD IS SPIRIT AND ABOVE LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE

 

 

Z
E
R
O

26
5
18
15
+
=
64
6+4
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

8
5
9
6
+
=

28
2+8
=

10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

Z
E
R
O

Z
E
R
O

26
5
18
15
+
=
64
6+4
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

Z
E
R
O

 

FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Graham Hancock

1995

Page 382

Helipolitan theology rested on a creation-myth distinguished by a number of unique and curious features.

It taught that in the beginning the universe had been filled with a dark watery nothingness, called the Nun. Out of this inert cosmic ocean (describedas 'shapeless, black with the blackness of the blackest night') rose a mound of dry land on which Ra , the Sun God, materialized in his self created form as Atum (sometimes depicted as an old bearded man resting on a staff ): " note 5

The sky had not been created, the earth had not been created, the children of the earth and the reptiles had

not been fashioned in that place…I Atum, was one by myself…There existed no other who worked with me" … note 6

 

I

A T U M

ISISIS

9

1234

 

I

4
A
T
U
M

1
2
3
4
+
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

A
T
U
M

 

4
A
T
U
M

1
20
21
13
+
=
55
5+5
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

1
2
3
4
+
=
10
1+0
=
1

ONE
1

A
T
U
M

 

4
A
T
U
M

1
20
21
13
+
=
55
5+5
=
10
1+0
=
1
ONE
1

2+0
2+1
1+3

2
3
4
+
=
9

9
NINE
9

1

+
=
1

1
ONE
1

1
2
3
4
+
=
10
1+0
=
1

1
ONE
1

A
T
U
M

 

 ADD TO REDUCE REDUCE TO DEDUCE

 

4
A
T
O
M

1
20
15
13
+
=
49
4+9
=
13
1+3
4
FOUR
4

1
2
6
4
+
=
13
1+3
=
4

4
FOUR
4

 
A
T
O
M

6

6
SIX
6

1+5

15

+
=
15
1+5
=
6

6
SIX
6
4
A
T
O
M

1
20
15
13
+
=
49
4+9
=
13
1+3

4
FOUR
4

2+0
1+5
1+3

2
6
4

12

1+2
=
3

3
THREE
3

1

+
=
1

1
2
6
4
+
=
13
1+3
=
4

4
FOUR
4

A
T
O
M

4
A
T
O
M

1
20
15
13
+
=
49
4+9
=
13
1+3
=
4

4

1
2
6
4
+
=
13
1+3
=
4

4
FOUR
4

A
T
O
M

 

CASSELL'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY

1974

Page 67

atom (at om) [Gr. atomos, indivisible], n The smallest conceivable portion of anything; a mite, a pigmy; (Phys.Sc.) a body originally thought to be incapable of further division; (Chem.) the smallest particle taking part in chemical action, the smallest particle of matter possessing the properties of an element.

Page 949

ray (1) (ra) [O.F. rai, ray,nom. rais, L. RADIUS],N.]

A line or beam of light proceeding from a radiant point; (Phys.) a straight line along which radiant energy, esp. light or heat, is propagated; (fig.) a gleam, a vestige, or slight manifestation (of hope,enlightenment, etc); one of a series of radiating lines or parts; (Bot) the outer whorl of florets in a composite flower;(Zool.) one of the bony rods supporting the fin of a fish, one of the radial parts of a starfish or other radials. v.t. To shoot out (rays),to radiate.v.i To issue or shine forth in rays.

ray (3) (ra),n.(Mus.) The second note in the tonic sol-fa notation.

re (1) (ra) [It.,see GAMUT],n (Mus)The second note of a major scale;the second note of the scale of C major, D.

re (2) (re)[L.,abl.of,res,thing matter,affair], prep.(Legal) In the matter of;(colloq.) as regards,about.

re- [., back, again],pref. Back, backwards, back again; after, behind; un; in return, mutually; again, again and again, afresh, anew, repeatedly; against in opposition; off, away, down

Page 943 …

the Ram: The constellation or zodiacal sign of Aries.

Ramadan (ram a dan)[Arab.(cp. Pers. And Turk.Ramazzan), from ramada ,to be hot] n The ninth month of the mohammedan year, the time of the great annual fast.

 

THE

KORAN

EVERYMAN

SURA

1

"PRAISE BE TO GOD, LORD OF THE WORLDS!

THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL!

KING ON THE DAY OF RECKONING

THEE ONLYDO WE WORSHIP, AND TO THEE DO WE CRY FOR HELP.

GUIDE THOU US ON THE STRAIGHT PATH,

THE PATH OF THOSE TO WHOM THOU HAST BEEN GRACIOUS; - WITH

WHOM THOU ART ANGRY, AND WHO GO NOT ASTRAY."

 

SURA 2

"GOD! THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE: THE LIVING, THE ETERNAL: NOR SLUMBER SEIZETH HIM, NOR SLEEP; HIS, WHATSOEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND WHATSOVER IS IN THE EARTH! WHO IS HE THAT CAN INTERCEDE WITH HIM BUT BY HIS OWN PERMISSION? HE KNOWETH WHAT HATH BEEN BEFORE THEM AND WHAT SHALL BE AFTER THEM; YET NOUGHT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE SHALL THEY GRASP, SAVE WHAT HE WILLETH. HIS THRONE REACHETH OVER THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND THE UPHOLDING OF BOTH BURDENETH HIM NOT; AND HE IS THE HIGH, THE GREAT!

 

LET THERE BE NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION. NOW IS THE RIGHT WAY MADE DISTINCT FROM ERROR. WHOEVER THEREFORE SHALL DENY THAGOUT AND BELIEVE IN GOD - HE WILL HAVE TAKEN HOLD ON A STRONG HANDLE THAT SHALL NOT BE BROKEN: AND GOD IS HE WHO HEARETH, KNOWETH.

 

GOD

IS THE PATRON OF BELIEVERS: HE SHALL BRING THEM OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT:"

 

 

LET THERE NE NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION.

 

NOW IS THE RIGHT WAY MADE DISTINCT FROM ERROR.

 

5
A
L
L
A
H

1
12
12
1
8

+
=
34
3+4
=
7

 

5
A
L
L
A
H

1
12
12
1
8

+
=
34
3+4
=
7

1
3
3
1
8

+
=
16
1+6
=
7
SEVEN
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PEACE BE UPON HIM

 

 

THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001 

Arthur C. Clarke,1972

Page 239

EPILOGUE

"And so at last, after many adventures, Odysseus returned home, transformed by tbe experiences he had undergone. . , .

What. lies beyond the end of 2001, when the Star Child waits, "marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers," 1 do not know. Many readers have interpreted the final. paragraph to mean that he destroyed Earth, perhaps in order to create a new Heaven. This idea never occurred to me; it seems clear that he triggered the orbiting nuclear bombs harmlessly, because "he preferred a cleaner sky."

But now, 1 am not so sure. When Odysseus returned to Ithaca, and identified himself in the banqueting hall by stringing the great bow that he alone could wield, he slew the parasitical suitors who for years had been wasting his estate.

We have wasted and defiled our own estate, the beautiful planet Earth. Why should we expect any mercy from a returning Star Child? He might judge all of us as ruthlessly as Odysseus judged Leiodes, whose "head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking"-and despite his timeless, ineffectual plea, "I tried to stop the others." Few indeed of us would have a better answer, if we had to face judgment from the stars. And such a Dies 1rae may be closer than we dream; for consider these facts.

It is now some twenty years since our first super-powered radars began announcing to the Universe that a technological culture has arisen on Earth. By this time, therefore, those signals will have passed stars twenty light years away, and they will still be detectable when they have traveled much greater distances.

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2001

How many civilizations already know of our existence? How many feel concerned-and are prepared to take sotne action? One can only guess.

Yet we know that the electronic birthcries of our culture have already reached at least a hundred suns, all the way out to giant Vega. By the year 2001, there will have been ample time for many replies, from many directions.

And there will have been time for more than that. Despite assertions to the contrary, from scientists who should have learned better by now, an advanced technology should be able to build ships capable of reaching at least a quarter of the speed of light. By the turn of the millennium, therefore, emissaries could be arrivng from Alpha Centauri, Sirius, Procyon. . . .

And so I repeat the words I wrote in 1948:

I do not think we will have to wait for long.

Colombo

December 31, 1970"

 

 

THE LOST WORLDS OF 2001

Arthur C. Clarke,1972

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REUNION

Page 192

" Of the Clindar who had walked on Earth, in another dawn, three million years ago, not a single atom now remained; yet though the body had been worn away and rebuilt times beyond number, it was no more than a temporary garment for the questing intelligence that it housed. It had been remodeled into many strange forms, for unusual missions, but always it had reverted to the basic humanoid design.

As for the memories and emotions of those three million years, spent on more than a thousand worlds, not even the most efficient storage system could hold them all in one brain. But they were available at a moment's notice, filed away in the immense memory vault that ringed the planet. Whenever he wished, Clindar could relive any portion of his past, in total recall. He could look again upon a flower or an insect that had fleetingly caught his eye ten thousand years before, hear the voice of creatures that had been extinct for ages, smell the winds of worlds that had long since perished in the funeral pyres of their own suns. Nothing was lost to him-if he wished to recall it.

So when the signal had come in, and while the golden ship was being prepared for its journey, he had gone to the Palace of the Past and let his ancient memories flow back into his brain. Now it seemed that only yesterday - not three million years ago - he had hunted with the ape-men and shown Moon-Watcher how to find the stones that could be used as knives and clubs.

"They are awake," said a quiet voice in the depths of his brain. "They are moving around inside their ship."

That was good; at .least they were alive. The robot's / Page 193 / first report had indicated a ship of the dead, and it had been some time before the truth was realized. They were going to have a surprise, thought Clindar, when they woke so far from home, and he hoped they would appreciate it. There were few things that an immortal welcomed and valued more greatly than surprise; when there was none left in the universe, it would be time to die

 

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He walked slowly across the varying landscape of his little world, savoring this- moment-for each of these en-counters was unique, and each contributed something new to the pattern and the purpose of his life. Though he was alone upon this floating rock, unknown myriads of others were looking through his eyes and sharing his sensations, and myriads more would do so in the ages yet to come.

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This sky-rock was not Clindar's only home, but it was the one he loved the best, for it was full of memories that needed no revival in the Palace of the Past. He had shared it thirty thousand years ago with a mating group long since dispersed through the Galaxy, and the radiance of those days still lingered, like the soft caress of the eternal dawn.

And because it was far from the shattering impact of the great centers of civilization, it was a perfect place to greet and reassure startled or nervous visitors. They were awed, but not overwhelmed; puzzled, but not alarmed. Seeing only Clindar, they were unaware of the forces and poten-tialities focused within him; they would know of these things when the time was ripe, or not at all.

The upper surface of the great rock was divided into three levels, with the villa at the highest end, and the flat apron of the landing stage at the lowest. Between them, and occupying more than half the total area, were the lawns and pools and courtyards and groves of trees among which Clindar had scattered the souvenirs of a thousand worlds and a hundred civilizations. The labor force to maintain all this skyborne beauty in immaculate condition , was nowhere in sight; the simple animals and the more / Page 194 / complex machines that supervised them had been ordered to remain in concealment until the meeting was over. The Eater of Grass and the Trimmer of Trees, utterly harm-less though they were, could cause great terror to other beings who met them without adequate preparation. The only animals now visible on the surface of the rock were two brightly colored creatures, for all the world like flying carpets, that flapped around and around Clindar emitting a faint, musical hum. Presently he waved them away, and they undulated out of sight into the trees.

Clindar never hurried, except when it was absolutely essential, for haste was a sign of immaturity-and mortal-ity. He paused for a long time beside the pool at the heart of his world, staring into the liquid mirror which reflected the sky above, and echoed the ocean far below. He was rather proud of that little lake, for it was the result of an experiment that had taken several thousand years to com-plete. Six varieties of fish from six different planets shared it, and looked at each other hungrily, but had learned from bitter experience that their biochemistries were high-ly incompatible.

 

XIS ME QUICK AND CHASE ME ROUND THE MAYPOLE

 

He was still staring into the pool when he saw the reflection of the golden ship pass across it, as it settled down toward the landing stage at the far end 'of the rock, Raising his eyes, he watched while the ship came to rest in midair, dematerialized its center section, and extruded the cargo it had carried across the light-years."

 

 

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"The shining artifact of metal and plastic descending at the barely visible focus of the traction field seemed no cruder than most first-generation spacecraft. It touched the surface of the rock, the field supporting it flickered off, and the golden ship departed-to be ready again in a hundred years, or a thousand, as the case might be.

The first ship from Earth had arrived. Why, he won-dred, had they taken so long?

Clindar stood in full view at the top of the wide stairway leading down to the landing place. It was hard, he thought, to imagine a greater contrast than that be-tween the two ships lying there. The newcomer was huge and clumsy, covered with crude pieces of equipment that seemed to have been bolted on as an afterthought. His own vehicle, resting a hundred feet away, was only a fraction of the size, and its slim, fluted projectile shape / Page 195 / was the very embodiment of speed and power. Even in repose, it seemed about to hurl itself into stars.

The visitors could not fail to observe it, and to wonder in vain at the powers that drove it through the sky. To any inquisitive spacefarers, it was at once a challenge- and a bait.

They had seen him. Through the windows of their ship, they were pointing and gesturing; very vividly, Clindar could imagine their surprise. They had come all this way- by now they must realize that they were in another solar system-and would be expecting -to meet the fantastic creatures of an alien evolution. Something as apparently human as himself might be the very last thing they would anticipate.

Well, they would have their full of strangeness in due course, if their minds could face it. There was a preview here, in the line of -cyclopean heads flanking the stairway. Though no two were alike, all were approximately human, and all were based upon reality. Some had no eyes, some had four; some had mouths or nostrils, some did not; some had wide-band radiation sensors, others were blind except to ordinary light. There had been a time when many had seemed ugly and even repellent to Clindar, but now they were all so perfectly familiar to him that he sometimes found it hard to recall which had once seemed hideous. After a thousand worlds, nothing alien was inhu-man to him.

He began to walk slowly down the steps, past the graven heads of his still and silent friends. The figures framed in the window of the ship were equally motionless, staring towards him. They could not guess how many thousands of times they were outnumbered, and how many eyes were looking through his.

He reached the foot of the stairway, and began to move across the multihued tapestry-of the wire-moss that cov-ered the landing stage. With every step, little shock waves of color went rippling out over the sensitive living carpet, mingling and merging in complex interference patterns that slowly faded out into the distance.

Clindar walked through the dancing wave patterns created by his own footsteps, until he was within forty feet of the ship; now its occupants could see him as clearly as he could see them. He stopped, and held out his hands in the gesture which, throughout the universe, proclaimed: "I have no weapons-I come in friendship." Then he waited."

Page 196

He did not think he would have to wait for long- probably a few hours, certainly no more than a few days. They would be excited and inquisitive, and though they would be cautious, they would be intelligent enough to realize that they were completely in his power. If he wished to harm them, the flimsy walls of their vehicle could give no protection whatsoever.

Already-so soon!,-one of them had disappeared from the window, heading into the interior of the ship. The oth-ers continued to watch, while adjusting controls and speak-ing into instruments. They had some kind of recording device focused upon him; he could not remember a single race that had omitted to do this.

A door was opening in the side of the ship. Clumsy and awkward in its protective suit, a figure was stauding in the entrance, clutching a large, flat package. Doubtless these creatures knew that they could breathe the atmosphere, but they would also be aware of the dangers of contami-nation. They were proceeding with care, and Clindar ap-proved.

The figure stepped down onto the moss, and was mo-mentarily distracted by the beauty of the shock waves that went flowing out from its feet. Then it looked up at Clindar, and held the package toward him. After a mo-ment's hesitation. it started to walk.

Slowly, cautiously, the hominid was coming toward him, leaving the shelter of its metal cave. Clindar re-mained motionless, relaxed yet observant, remembering many meetings, on many worlds.

Now only a few feet away, the creature came to rest and slowly stretched out one opened and. So this, thought Clindar, is how they greet each other; the gesture was a common one among bipeds. and he had met it often before. He stretched out his own hand in return.

Slim, nailless fingers closed around flexible glove, meet-ing across the light-years and the ages. Eyes locked to- gether, as if the minds they mirrored would bypass the medium of speech. Then the hominid dropped its gaze, and handed the package to Clindar.

It consisted of dozens of very thin sheets of some light, stiff material, covered with illustrations and drawings. The first was a simple astronomical diagram, obviously of the planetary system from which the creature came. Arrows pointed prominently to the third planet outwards from the sun.

Clinder turned the page. There, beautifully executed in / Page 197 / an apparently three-dimensional color technique, were:: views of a globe as seen from space; and he recognized the continents at once.

He pointed to himself, then to the heart of Africa. Was the visitor startled? It was impossible to judge the reactions of another hominid until one had grown to know him intimately; the expression of even such basic emotions as fear or hostility was almost entirely arbitrary, differing from species to species.

Almost forgetting his visitor for the moment, Clindar stared at that familiar blunt triangle, whose shape had changed so little in a mere three million years. But every-thing in that triangle-all the beasts and plants that he had once known, and probably the climate and the detailed topography of the land-would have changed almost be-yond recognition.

As these creatures were changed from the starveling savages who were their ancestors. Who could have dreamed that the children of Moon-Watcher would have climbed so far? Though he had watched this happen so many times before, it always seemed a miracle.

Some races were incredibly ignorant of their own past;

Clindar wondered if they had any conception of the journey they had made from cave to spaceship. It was certain that they could not guess at the journey that still lay ahead.

They had made their first stumbling steps toward the stars-but the freedom of space was only a symbol, and, not always an accurate one, of a certain level of under-standing. There were many peoples who had stood thus upon the threshold of the universe, only to be destroyed by the sight of treasures too great for their self-control, and mysteries too deep for their minds. Some had survived, at the cost of turning their backs upon the stars, and encap-sulating themselves behind barriers of ignorance in their own private worlds. Others had been so shattered in spirit that they had lost the will to live, and their planets had reverted to the mindless beasts.

For there were some gifts too heavy to be born; and for many races, those included the gift of truth, and the gift of time. As he turned the leaves of the book which he had been handed, pausing to look at tliagrams and photo-graphs crammed with visual information, Clindar wondered. if these newcomers were ready to face the infinite promise of either time or truth. The garnered art and knowledge of a thousand worlds / Page 198 / would be showered upon them, if they wished to receive it. Stored in the memory banks of this very planet were the answers to the questions that had haunted them, as well as the cures of all illnesses, the solutions to all problems of materials and power and distribution.- problems that Clin-dar's race had solved so long ago that they now found it hard to believe that they had ever existed.

They could be shown the mastery of their minds and bodies, so that they could achieve the full expression of their powers, not spend, heir lives like ineffectual ghosts trapped in a marvelous machine beyond their skill to operate. They could break the domination of pain, so that it became a sentinel and.. not a ttrant, sending messages which the rational mind could accept or ignore as it pleased.

Above all, they could choose to die oriIy when they wished; they would be shown the many paths that led beyond the grave; and the price that must be paid for immortality in all its forms. A vista of infinite time would open up before them, with all its terror and promise. Some minds could face this, some could not; here was the dividing line between those who would inherit the uni-verse, and those who were only quick-witted animals. There was no way of telling into which category any race would fall, until it came to its moment of truth-the moment which this race was now, in total ignorance, so swiftly approaching.

Now, for better or worse; they must leave behind the toys and the illusions of their childhood. Because they would look into the minds and survey the histories of a myriad races, they would discover that they were not unique-that they were indeed low on the ladder of cos-mic achievement. And if, like many primitive societies, their culture still believed in gods and spirits, they must abandon these fantasies and face the awesome truths. It would not be for centuries yet. but one day they too might look across the fifty thousand light-years to the core of the Galaxy, glimpse the titanic forces flickering there among the most ancient of the stars - and marvel at the mentali-ties that must control them.

Meanwhile, there was work to be done; and a world was waiting to meet his guests.

The rock began to move, rotating on its axis so that the shining rainbow of the rings marched around its sky. With / Page 199 / steadily increasing speed, the aerial island was driving toward the waterfall that spanned the entire horizon, and the twin towers that flanked it dropped below the edge of the world.

Now the sky ahead was a sheet of veined and mottled whiteness, drifting down forever from the stars. In shock-ing silence, the island crashed into the wall of cloud, and the golden sunlight faded to a rose-tinged dusk.

The darkness deepened into night, but in that night the island now glowed faintly with a pale luminescence from the sensitive moss and the trees. Beyond that glow nothing was visible, except tendrils of mist and vapor flickering past at an unguessable speed. The rock might have been moving through the chaos that existed before Creation, or crossing the ill-marked frontier between life and death.

At last, the mist began to thin; hazy patterns of light were shimmering in the sky ahead. And suddenly, the rock was through the wall of cloud.

Below it still was that endless sea, lit softly by the pearly white radiance pouring down from the crystal rain-bows beyond the sky. Scattered across the ocean in count-less thousands, from wave level up to the uttermost heights of the stratosphere, were airbone islands of all possible shapes and sizes and designs. Some were brilliant-ly illuminated, others mere silhouettes against the sky; the majority were motionless, but some were moving with swift purpose like liners catching the midnight tide from some great harbor, the buoys and beacons flashing around them. It was as if a whole galaxy had been captured and brought down to earth; and at its upper edges it merged im-perceptibly into the glowing dust of the Milky Way.

After three million years in the wilderness, the children of the apes had reached the first encampment of the Star-Born.

 

 

THE

RAINBOW MAN