NB: this was written long before Everything Quest: the PC Bible, but the noding of it was inspired by the Quest. If it is acceptable I do not know. I only know that it is Truth, for it was delivered to me by a Man in Grey Jeans...
Book I: Of What Is...
- For all is tied together, and all is One, and One is The Nameless One, and One is forever at Conflict with Itself.
The Nameless One is, has always been, and will always be.
The Nameless One is
All and
Nothing,
The Nameless One is
Never and
Forever.
The Nameless One has no form, and yet is everywhere.
The Nameless One is not Our Friend, and does not wish us well.
Where
The Nameless One belongs, there is no
Matter, no
Time.
The Nameless One is infinite Ruler of non-existence.
The Nameless One dominates the Empty and the Silent.
The Nameless One was never Born and will never Die, for
The Nameless One is beyond
Time and
Matter. Without
Matter,
The Nameless One has no form. Without
Time,
The Nameless One has no
Beginning or
End.
The Nameless One is
All and
Nothing.
The Nameless One is
Never and
Forever.
The Nameless One defies all
Human Understanding and
Reason, and stretches beyond even
Faith,
Fear, and
Hope. Without form or age,
The Nameless One is to a
Human mind nothing but
Unlimited Power and
The One Desire.
From Destruction Born!
The Nameless One has always and will always dominate
Nothingness. But
The One Desire of
The Nameless One is to expand that Dominance. For this purpose,
The Nameless One has worlds born and destroyed, forever seeking to fulfill
The One Desire. At The
End of a world, it is reborn, a new approach on its existence. As it ends,
Time relinquishes its grip on it, and
The Nameless One lets
The End become
The Beginning, every world forever being made of itself. There was created no True Beginning; in the absence of
Time,
Beginning and
End become meaningless phrases, nothing more than a testimony to the limited minds of
Humans. Nothing
Ends but our perception of it; nothing begins but our awareness of it.
Many are the worlds of
The Nameless One, for with no restrictions in
Time or
Matter, all is in
The Nameless One's power. Each world is its own, of its own Laws or none, its own existence, and its own circumstances. To those who understand this, such a world is known as a '
Taham', and together, all worlds are the '
Mouham'. United, the
Mouham,
Time and
Matter are
The Nameless One.
The Nameless One is All and Nothing.
The Nameless One is Never and Forever.
And so too was our
Taham born of its own Destruction. The point of its Destruction is not for
Human Knowledge, but
The Society of Seekers of Sacred Secrets know its birth: August 2, 1712.
The Failed Creation
Every
Taham is born a horrid
Chaos. Ours is no exception.
The Nameless One ensures this, to pave the way for Things Beyond Control. Only when such things exist, can
The Nameless One apply Dominance. Once all is
Dominated, all is destroyed, for at that point,
The One Desire has been fulfilled, and the
Taham is no longer needed. It is destroyed and reborn for
The Nameless One to Dominate again, in an
Endless cycle, that has no Beginning and no
End, because
Time seizes to matter at the Destruction of the
Taham.
In the Chaos of our newborn
Taham,
The Nameless One refused control, refused possession, of anything created. There was little then, only a darkened, writhing mass of
Time and
Matter trying to know its own birth. There were no
Humans, no trees, no sky. Only
Time and
Matter existed, together forming the ability of Change, which gave birth to
The Divine, and
The Divine gave Change purpose.
But
The Divine was aware of itself and its circumstance. In its very Nature, it was determined to alter it, to apply the Change which had created
The Divine. And imbued with all Power of the
Taham,
The Divine did just that.
The Divine made the world around it a place of coherence and meaning, at first monotonous and stale. But
The Divine saw possibilities, and to handle these possibilities,
The Divine ultimately changed itself, becoming the
Deiham.
The
Deiham were all the ultimate incarnations of
The Divine, the ultimate incarnations of
Change. All Powerful, the
Deiham knew they were able to define the world to their best liking. Being One and yet Many, all of them an expression of the
Ultimate Change, all of them an expression of
The Divine, the
Deiham knew to expand their domain, and make more of the world, the
Taham in which they roamed. They created
Life, and in it nestled
Spirit, the ultimate
Agent of Change, and they divided it amongst themselves. And to make
Life strong, they gave it
Past, a memory of its development. Thus a multitude of Histories were born, many
Deiham or
Congregations of
Deiham creating their own pasts for their
Life. As they had used their
Power of
Matter to create
Life, they used their
Power of
Time to make each
Past a
True Past, its events real and of consequence, so that
Life would know from where it came, and for what purpose it existed. And each of those
Deiham became the
True Creator of the World, for each
Deiham had created the
Past, and all
Pasts were True, their contents the True Creations of the
Deiham that created each of them. To this day, many
Deiham are called
Gods, and they truly are, for their
Power is infinite, and lives are owed to their
Will. They are the Source and Purpose of all
Spirit, they are
The Divine.
The Shape of Life
The
Deiham had made
Life, had shaped
Matter and designed
Time. But their greatest deeds were yet to come.
With
Past created, the
Deiham set out to form
Future. As they had ensured that
Life played a role in
Past, they would ensure that it played a role in
Future. With each being having a sense of its
Past locked in
Memory, each being created its own sense of its
Future in
Imagination. And
Life had
Powers, gained from the
Memory of
Past, and
Life had reached into
Matter, and its
Powers focused on it. Given
Time,
Life would have the
Power of taking bodies of
Matter from the smallest specks to form the greatest of
Creatures. When it felt all was done,
Life would relinquish
Matter and return to
Spirit. Some
Life would take to shape new
Matter into new bodies, while some would stay as
Spirit. And some
Life preferred
Spirit entirely, taking only a bystander's interest in
Matter.
And in the creation of
Past, many
Deiham had found chosen templates of
Life to be particularly interesting. One such template was the
Human form, which was imitated by many
Deiham, some with variations of their own. For all the many other forms of
Life that were imitated between
Deiham,
Humans were a Creation all unto its own.
And through
Human runs
Life, and
Life binds
Human together,
Life takes from
The Divine and from
Spirit, and
Life takes from
Matter and makes
Body, in which
Life makes
Mind, and
Mind is bound again to
Spirit. Thus, the Great Chain of
Life exists, reaching from
The Divine through
Spirit,
Mind,
Body and into
Matter. Thus through the Great Chain of
Life,
The Divine touches
Matter, and through all the steps,
Human sees itself, as
Human by the way of
Spirit,
Mind and
Body forms the link between
The Divine and
Matter. And through the Passages of
Time,
Human becomes the Agent of Change, letting
The Divine affect
Matter.
The Betrayal of Life
In its independence,
Life clearly inherited the Control of its
Taham. This allowed
The Nameless One a target for
The One Desire. Thus with
Life created and holding both the
Memory of a
Past and the
Vision of the
Future,
The Nameless One had something to Dominate,
Ending the circle of purpose with the
Taham.
But
Life betrayed
The Nameless One, and did not succumb to
Domination. Guided by the
Deiham,
Spirits without
Body infused select forms of
Life with a resistance to
Domination, and fought back
The Nameless One. All the Power of
The Nameless One could not undo this, because
The Nameless One had created the
Taham with the specific dictate that it was not to be under the unlimited control of
The Nameless One, lest there be nothing to
Dominate!
In the quest to fulfill
The One Desire,
The Nameless One had relinquished control to the Creation, and the Creation did not want to give it back. Given Pasts and Futures, and serving under the protection of
The Divine, as well as its own existence,
Life rebelled.
To this day,
Life is free. And to this day,
The One Desire continues to drive
The Nameless One to fight
Life and its Independence. When
The Nameless One wins,
Life will seize to control this
Taham, and
The Nameless One will have
Life destroyed and then destroy the
Taham, thus destroying
Time and
Matter. It is the Purpose of
The One Desire to be victorious, and in Victory, remove the Battleground from Existence. In the absence of
Time,
The End becomes
The Beginning, and the Conflict becomes its own birth. So it is for our
Taham, and so it is for all.
To follow: The Society of Seekers of Sacred Secrets