My god never made any revelations to ancient mankind, never spoke in words.
What a pity for mankind. If only my god had given this revelation to somebody literate and civilised five thousand years ago, how differently human history would have unfolded.
[i]IN THE BEGINNING there was light: light so hot nothing else could exist. But the void grew faster than the light, and that was good. And out of the light came the tiny heralds of what was to come, as small to an apple as an apple is to your spherical world. For I tell you, light can become solid, and the solid can become light. Take heed, for I tell you what no man yet knows.
And the heralds waited in the light for their time, and four hundred millennia later when it could be so, so it was, and these things I will call atoms fell together. And I tell you, Children of the Light, in the void great clouds of atoms formed, called by mutual attraction, forced to become one, growing in size, gaining mass until, at the centre of the great clouds there came a new light as atoms of the first and simplest kind were forced together to become atoms of the second kind, and behold! The first star was born.
Soon there were many stars, swirling by the hundreds of thousands of millions. Floating in islands like discs, each island separate and racing apart. And the islands themselves shall be numbered in the hundreds of thousands of millions. And some of the stars were small and burned slow and dim and long. And some were giant and burned bright blue and fast, making atoms of the second, third, fourth, up to the twenty-sixth kind, until they could burn no more.
And then they died a powerful death, building up atoms to the ninety-second kind and beyond, which they spread along with abundant blinding light, like seeds back into the void, disturbing the stillness of the surrounding atomic clouds, giving birth to countless stars in their wake. But these new stars drew around them distinct cloaks the ninety-two types of atoms, the ashes and the seeds of the first giant stars. And the heavier elements fell towards the new stars and over millions of years there formed worlds of rock and metal to encircle the Sun, and away from the star, worlds of vapour and ice were formed, circling more slowly in accord with their greater distance from the Sun.
And nine thousand million years later after the beginning, around one star on one rocky metallic world, ninety-two types of atoms danced to the tune of the light and the lightning, while mountains fell from the sky. This place would be called EARTH.
And for half a billion years the dance went on, atoms joining in ways forbidden by the heat inside the stars where they were made, but inevitable where the magnet is mightier than the fire. And by the laws of the magnet and the lodestone, one chain of many atoms begat other chains of identical form. And the chains spread through the waters, filling them, growing in size and complexity, taking unto them the poisonous clouds and vapours that hung over the world, and giving back the air. And the sky above the earth, now clear of falling mountains, turned blue.
And four thousand million years later still you stand here, yearning to know how you came to be, but if you have the mind to ask the question, you have the mind to find the answer. Look to the light and the world, see how they dance. From this and only from this will you find the answers that will lead you to the knowing. And one day you will make better eyes from the sand, and look out into the night, and you will see wonders: things hidden until then.
But keep looking and thinking, with better eyes and clearer thoughts, and knowledge will come to you. You will see the island discs of countless millions of suns, stretching back into infinity, but be not afraid. See my creation: jewels of millions of suns, stars of blinding light, holes of darkness that hold back the light, the clouds of atoms from which you came.
And it is all yours if you can work as one.
I can give you no more than all that is.[/i]
