Chapter 1 

The Earth was now sliced into layers and I saw that men and women occupy different layers of the Earth. This is as it was in my day and now when the new thing arose out of the destruction of what I knew. In the now, however, they were conscious of the layers of Earth, each layers had its sea and land mass, its unique fauna and flora. Each slice rotated at a different speed and for the longest time one layer hardly recognized any other layer. They could only tell this configuration with leisured intelligence that their driving sprits would never allow.

Earth, the home I hardly knew! Had I known the fate of things I would have spent more time loving the Earth and immersing myself in its variety of beauties. I would have made its textures my textures, its forms my forms. I would have welcomed the oceans into me and delighted in the fishes that swam there. Her mountains would have plunged down into my eyes and my spirit would have climbed them with an inner eye looking for that secret passage way into the mountains secret.

Had I only known that the Earth possessed everything necessary to leap clear of her and never with the need to return! The hanging skies of dread were never permanent. God was eary of us all and it was a shame. And God was never what you thought it was. It spoke so an outline would form and the natural desire of the mind unleashed to discover the nature of that outline. It was all code and key.

David Eide
January 24, 2014