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IMANI AND SACONI LIVED IN A LIGHTHOUSE, ON AN ISLAND
CALLED INFINITY, BY THE EDGE OF A SEA CALLED ETERNITY.
SACONI WAS A MASTER LIGHT HOUSE MAKER AND CLOCK
KEEPER. IMANI WAS SACONI'S ONLY SON.
THE RULERS ON THE ISLAND OF INFINITY WERE RICH
AND POWERFUL AND BY EXAMPLE, THEY TAUGHT THE ISLAND'S INHABITANTS
THE WAYS AND METHODS TO SEEK AFTER GOLD, BY ENLISTING THE SPIRIT
OF COMPETITION.
THE RULERS SHARED THEIR TEACHINGS WILLINGLY BUT
THEY MAINTAINED A TENACIOUS HOLD ON THE WEALTH AND POWER THEY HAD,
FOR THIS WAS ONE OF THEIR TEACHINGS.
THE RULERS OF THE ISLAND TRULY BELIEVED IN THE
SPIRIT OF COMPETITION BECAUSE THEY SAW AND WANTED THEIR REWARDS
OF GOLD AND POWER. BY EXAMPLE THEY TAUGHT, TO WANT WHAT CAN BE SEEN,
AND WANT NOT WHAT CANNOT BE SEEN.
AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY TAUGHT THAT THE GIVING OF
MATERIAL WEALTH WAS WRONG AND THAT THE SHARING OF POWER WAS WRONG;
EXCEPT THAT THEY SHOULD DO SO AMONG THEMSELVES, THERE-BY ENCOURAGING
THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION IN OTHERS.
BUT THERE WERE THOSE AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY
THAT HELD TO THE SPIRIT OF COMPASSION AND FREE GIVING, A GIFT GIVEN
BY BIRTH AT THE LIGHTHOUSE. THEY GAVE FREELY OF THEIR WEALTH AND
POWER.
YET AMONG THEM, WERE THE GREEDY, AND EVENTUALLY,
THEY HAD LITTLE POWER AND FEW RICHES. ADDITIONALLY, BEING UNWILLING
TO DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THE AGGRESSORS BY ADOPTING THE SPIRIT
OF COMPETITION, THEY WERE JUDGED UNWILLING AND UNFIT BY THE RULERS
OF THE ISLAND AND WERE CONFINED TO THE SEA OF ETERNITY.
WHAT THE RULERS AND MOST OF THE INHABITANTS ON THE
ISLAND OF INFINITY DID NOT SEE (IT COULD NOT BE SEEN SINCE THEY
DID NOT LOOK) WAS THE LIGHTHOUSE, MANNED BY SACONI AND HIS SON IMANI.
THE LIGHTHOUSE, HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO GREET THE ARRIVAL OF THE ISLAND'S
CURRENT INHABITANTS AND WAS MADE BY SACONI OUT OF COMPASSION FOR
THOSE THAT WERE AS HE, ...YET MANY WERE NOW BLIND TO IT.
IT'S BEACON WAS AS A WORD THAT HELD BACK ETERNITY'S
SEA AND THUS, WAS THE PROTECTOR FOR THE ISLAND OF INFINITY.
IMANI, THE YOUNG SON OF AN AGED SACONI, WOULD STAND
FOR HOURS AND OBSERVE THE JUDGMENTS BEING APPLIED TO THE INNOCENT
FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT ON THE LIGHT HOUSE. IMANI KNEW NOTHING OF
THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION, SINCE IT HAD BEEN DEVISED BY THE ISLAND
INHABITANTS.
IMANI WAS TAUGHT BY SACONI'S EXAMPLE AS HE MAINTAINED
THE LIGHTHOUSE OF WORD AND COMPASSION ... NEITHER OF GOLD NOR COMPETITION.
IMANI WAS FILLED WITH YOUTH'S COMPASSION AND SAW
MANY OF THOSE TOSSED INTO THE SEA AS NO DIFFERENT THAN HE. FOR THIS
REASON, THE TIME CAME WHEN IMANI COULD WATCH NO LONGER AND HE WENT
TO HIS FATHER TO PROCLAIM THE INJUSTICE ON THE FACE OF THE ISLAND
OF INFINITY.
IMANI PLEADED THAT THE LIGHT HOUSE BE TURNED OFF
AND THAT THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY BE MADE SUBJECT AGAIN TO THE
SEA OF ETERNITY. "MAYBE THAT WILL WAKE 'EM UP" HE SAID.
SACONI LOVED THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY BUT HE
KNEW THEY HAD SACRIFICED THEIR INNOCENCE TO THE COMPETITION OF SEEKING
FOR GOLD.
SACONI LOVED HIS SON AND KNEW OF HIS INNOCENCE SO
HE AGREED TO DO AS INANI HAD ASKED. SACONI, BEING A FATHER
OF INFINITE LOVE AND COMPASSION IN THE FORM OF THE LIGHT HOUSE WITH
A BEACON OF WORD, TOLD IMANI THAT HE WOULD LET THE LIGHT HOUSE BURN
FOR SOME TIME TO GIVE THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY THE OPPORTUNITY
TO CHANGE AND RETRIEVE THOSE THEY HAD FORCED INTO THE SEA OF ETERNITY.
SACONI PROMISED HIS SON, THAT IF THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY CONTINUED
THE INJUSTICES AND DIDN'T RECOVER THE INNOCENT, HE WOULD CREATE
A NEW LIGHT HOUSE AND A NEW INFINITY AMIDST THE INNOCENT, REJECTED,
AND MEEK. SACONI SENT THE WORD OUT TO INFINITY INFORMING THE INHABITANTS
OF HIS PLANS.
THAT WORD DIRECTED THE INHABITANTS TO RECOVER THE
INNOCENT AND REJECTED FROM THE SEA OF ETERNITY AND WITH COMPASSION,
MAKE ROOM FOR THEM ON THE ISLAND OF INFINITY. IMANI KNEW THE
SUFFERING AND THE BLOOD WOULD CONTINUE IN THE SEA OF ETERNITY UNTIL
THE MEEK AND THE INNOCENT WERE, EITHER RECOVERED BY THE INFINITY'S
INHABITANTS OR UNTIL HIS FATHER, THE MASTER CLOCK MAKER AND LIGHT
HOUSE KEEPER, CREATED THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE AMONG THEM. KNOWING THIS,
IMANI DECIDED TO ENTER THE SEA OF ETERNITY HIMSELF.
IMANI HAD FAITH IN HIS FATHER'S PROMISE AND HE WANTED
TO SHARE THAT PROMICE WITH THE INNOCENT SO THEY MIGHT HAVE HOPE.
IMANI INFORMED HIS FATHER OF THE DECISION HE HAD MADE, TO ENTER
THE SEA OF ETERNITY IN ORDER TO IMPART THE MESSAGE OF PROMISE AND
HOPE, BECAUSE HE KNEW HIS FATHER WOULD BE TRUE TO HIS WORD.
SACONI WAS WELL AWARE OF THE NATURE OF THE SEA OF
ETERNITY AND WAS GREATLY SADDENED, BUT HE ALSO KNEW OF HIS SON'S
INNOCENCE AND TRUSTED HIS JUDGMENTS, FOR THEY WERE AS HIS OWN, WHEN
HE HAD CREATED THE LIGHT HOUSE, IN THE BEGINNING. SACONI TOLD HIS
SON, THAT BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM, HE WOULD LET HIM GO, BUT THAT IF
HE WERE NOT BACK BY NOON, HE WOULD MEET WITH HIM ON THE SEA OF ETERNITY
AND TOGETHER THEY WOULD CREATE A NEW LIGHT HOUSE AMIDST THE INNOCENT.
IMANI ASSURED HIS FATHER THAT IF HE SAW THAT THE
INNOCENT AND THE MEEK WERE REMOVED FROM THE SEA OF ETERNITY, BY
THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY, HE WOULD KNOW THE WAY OF THE ISLAND
HAD CHANGED, AND HE WOULD RETURN BEFORE NOON.
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SO, BECAUSE IMANI HAD SUCH A LOVE FOR THE INNOCENT,
HE ENTERED THE SEA OF ETERNITY ON DECEMBER 6, 0000, AND BECAUSE
HIS FATHER LOVED HIM SO, HE ALLOWED HIS SON TO GO.
IMANI ENTERED THE SEA TO RIDE THE WAVES OF TIME
AND THOUGH HE WAS THE LIGHT HOUSE KEEPERS SON, THE PRIDE OF INFINITYS
MASTER CLOCK MAKER, HIS BLOOD MIXED WITH THE BLOOD OF OTHERS IN
ETERNITY'S SEA, AND OTHERS BLOOD WITH HIS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
HE AND THEY WAS THAT HE HAD GONE OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, WHILE THEY
HAD BEEN FORCED THERE, BY THE INJUSTICES THAT EXISTED ON THE ISLAND
OF INFINITY.
AS IMANI SEARCHED THE SEA, HE MET WITH INNOCENCE
AMONG THE WAVES. SOME OF THOSE HE MET WERE STRONG BUT HARD AND WEARY
FROM THEIR RELENTLESS BATTLE WITH THE WAVES. OTHERS HE MET HAD LEARNED
TO FLOAT ON THE SEA AND WERE LESS HARDENED, BUT THEY TOO WERE WEARY.
OTHERS COULD BARELY KEEP THEIR HEADS ABOVE WATER. TO ALL HE MET,
HE CONVEYED THE MESSAGE OF FAITH, "BELIEVE ME ... MY FATHER
WILL SAVE US." THE INNOCENT AMONG THOSE IN THE SEA OF ETERNITY
BELIEVED HIM, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO FLOAT TO THE SURFACE OF THE
WAVES AND THEY WENT OUT ONTO THE WATERS TO TELL OTHERS OF THE GOOD
NEWS IMANI HAD GIVEN THEN.
"THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO, EXCEPT TO HAVE
FAITH", INANI WOULD SAY AS HE SHOWED THEM HOW TO FLOAT ON THE
BLOODY WATERS OF ETERNITY'S SEA. THEY BELIEVED IN IMANI AND WERE
BUOYED BY THE HOPE IN HIS PROMISE.
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IMANI AND HIS FOLLOWERS WENT DEEP BENEATH THE SURFACE
IN SEARCH OF INNOCENCE, AND LIKE FISHERMAN, BROUGHT IT TO THE SURFACE
TO FLOAT AND AWAIT RESCUE. BACK ON THE ISLAND OF INFINITY THE WORD
HAD GONE OUT THAT THE LIGHTHOUSE WOULD BE TURNED OFF AT NOON UNLESS
THE INJUSTICES WERE CORRECTED, BUT MOST FEARED NOT, AND THE INNOCENT
CONTINUED TO FACE INJUSTICE AND THE MEEK CONTINUED TO BE REJECTED
THE INHABITANTS OF INFINITY HAD HEARD THAT THE LIGHT HOUSE KEEPER'S
SON HAD ENTERED THE SEA OF ETERNITY TO GIVE BLOOD AND HOPE, IN AN
EFFORT TO SAVE THE INNOCENTS, BUT BLINDED BY THEIR GOLD SEEKING
AND COMPETITIVE SPIRIT, THEY NEITHER HEEDED THE WORD SENT OUT BY
SACONI NOR UNDERSTOOD THE EXAMPLE SET BY IMANI. THEY NEITHER DID
AS THEY WERE TOLD NOR FOLLOWED AS THEY WERE INSTRUCTED.
FINALLY, SEEING THAT THE WORD HE HAD SENT OUT WAS
BEING REJECTED, AND THAT THE EXAMPLE SET FORTH BY IMANI HAD BEEN
TWISTED BY THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION FOR THE SAKE OF GOLD SEEKING,
SACONI SENT A NEW WORD OUT TO THE ISLAND OF INFINITY TELLING ALL
OF THOSE WHO HAD EARS, THAT THE LIGHT HOUSE WOULD BE TURNED OFF
AT NOON, AND THAT THEY WERE TO ENTER THE SEA OF ETERNITY OF THEIR
OWN WILL, WHERE THEY TOO WOULD BE SAVED. OTHER WISE, THEY WOULD
HAVE TO SHARE IN THE TERRORS, AS THE SEA OF ETERNITY RETURNED TO
COVER OVER THE OLD INFINITY ISLAND.
THOSE THAT ENTERED THE SEA OF ETERNITY IN RESPONSE
TO SACONI'S LATER WORD, JOINED THE INNOCENT, AND THEY TOO GAVE BLOOD
IN THE SEA OF ETERNITY BEFORE BEING TAUGHT HOW TO FLOAT WITH IMANI
AND HIS FRIENDS ... ALL SHARED IN THE BLOOD.
IT WAS EARLY IN THE MORNING WHEN IMANI CAME UPON
HIS FATHER SACONI, WHO WAS ALREADY BUSY DOING SOMETHING OR ANOTHER.
HE HAD A SEVEN FIGMENT LONG STICK, LAID HORIZONTALLY ON THE WATERS
OF ETERNITY'S SEA, POINTING NORTH AND SOUTH.
AT THE CENTER OF THE STICK SACONI HAD PLACED A LARGE
CORNER STONE MINED FROM INFINITY GRANITE. THE DATE, JUNE 1980 DAY
3, WAS INSCRIBED ON THE STONE. NEATLY
STACKED ON TOP THE CORNER STONE WERE A NUMBER OF BRIGHTLY PAINTED
LITTLE WOODEN BOXES. SOME OF THE BOXES WERE TRIMMED WITH GOLD LACE
AND OTHERS HAD SHINY COLORED STONESEMBEDDED IN THE WOOD. ALL WERE
VERY INTERESTING' JUST LIKE SACONI HIMSELF.
SACONI MOVED LIKE THE MASTER TICKING CLOCK HE WAS,
FIRST HERE ... TICK ....THAN THERE... TOCK, WITH EACH MOVEMENT MEASURED
AND PRECISE AS WITH GREAT PURPOSE. "WHAT TO THE SEA ARE YOU
DOING?", IMANI ASKED SACONI.
"YOURE RIGHT ON TIME IMANI", HE REPLIED,
"WAIT A MINUTE ... JUST A MINUTE ... ONE MORE MINUTE",
HE MEASUREDLY TICKED BACK IN IMANI'S DIRECTION WITHOUT SO MUCH AS
A GLANCE.THE WHOLE TIME HE FIDDLED WITH THE LITTLE BOXES AND THE
STICK.
SACONI WAS TURNING HIS HEAD FOR INSTANTS TO LOOK
UPWARD, AS IF CHECKING TO MAKE SURE FOREVER WAS STILL THERE. WHEN
SACONI FINALLY DID LOOK IN IMANI'S DIRECTION, IMANI COULD SEE THAT
HIS EYES WERE FILLED WITH SOME SERIOUS PURPOSE NOT UNLIKE A CLOCKMAKER
ABOUT TO MISS A TRAIN UNLESS HE GETS HIS TICKET AND A COLLEGE EDUCATION
IN THE NEXT SECOND OR SO. "QUICK
... COME HERE ... QUICK!", HE CALLED TO IMANI AS HE LOOKED
AT HIS WATCHES ... ALL SEVEN OF THEM. HE HAD THREE ON EACH WRIST
AND ONE LARGE ONE AROUND HIS NECK.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, IMANI'S CURIOSITY WAS BEGINNING
TO PEAK, SO HE JOINED SACONI AT THE FIGMENTED STICK WHERE SACONI
WAS PUTTING A MEASURE HURRIEDLY BACK INTO HIS HIP POCKET. HE APPARENTLY
HAD JUST MEASURED THE FIGMENTED STICK AND HE HAD A LOOK OF TREMENDOUS
SATISFACTION PROTRUDING FROM HIS FACE.
"SEVEN FIGMENTS EXACTLY ... NO A SECOND LONGER...
NOT AN INSTANT SHORTER ... SEVEN FIGMENTS ON THE NOSE",SACONI
TICKED AND TOCKED.
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"IMANI ... HERE TAKE THESE", SACONI SAID
AS HE HANDED IMANI ONE OF THE LITTLE WOODEN BOXES."JUST A BOX
OF ANTI-MATTERS", HE SAID. "WHAT ARE ANTI-MATTERS?",
IMANI ASKED.
SACONI ANSWERED SAYING, "THINGS THAT WERE".IMANI
LOOKED AT THE BOX AND ON THE FRONT, THE WORD ALPHA WAS BURNED INTO
THE WOOD. WHEN HE OPENED THE BOX, IMANI SAW INSIDE SIX LITTLE ROUND
MARBLE TYPE OBJECTS THAT WERE BLACK AS DARKNESS WITH A SMALL RED
DOT, THE COLOR OF BLOOD, ON EACH ONE. SACONI, STANDING AT THE CORNER
STONE, POINTED TOWARDSTHE EAST. HE TOLD IMANI TO PACE OFF SIX EQUAL
FIGMENTS AND TO LAY AN ANTI-MATTER AT THE END OF EACH FIGMENT.
SACONI FURTHER INSTRUCTED IMANI THAT, ONCE HE STARTED,
IMANI SHOULD LAY DOWN ALL SIX MATTERS AT THEIR PRECISE SPOT WITHIN
THE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A SINGLE IN BREATH. IMANI TRIED TO
ASK SACONI HOW THE LIGHT HOUSE WAS TO WORK BUT BEFORE HE COULD FINISH
ASKING THE QUESTION, SACONI INJECTED WITH, "JUST WAIT ... JUST
WAIT ... YOU'LL SEE ... YOU'LL SEE IN HIS USUAL RATCHETED, THOUGH
KIND, MANNER. SO, AFTER MAKING THE PRECISE MEASUREMENTS, MONITORED
BY MOMENTARY GLANCES FROM SACONI, IMANI STARTED HIS IN-BREATH AND
PROCEEDED TO PLACE THE MARBLES OF ANTI-MATTERS A THEIR SINGLE FIGMENT
INTERVALS. BY THE TIME IMANI HAD PLACED THE LAST MARBLE AT THE LAST
FIGMENT, HE COULD TAKE IN NO MORE AIR. STANDING UP, OHMMMMMMPH IMANI
LEFT THE AIR OUT.
"THAT'S GOOD ... THAT'S GREAT ... THAT'S REAL
GOOD", SACONI STATED WHEN HE HEARD INANI'S OUT-BREATH. IMANI
FELT A DEEP SENSE OF SADNESS AS HE LOOKED DOWN AT THE ANTI-MATTERS,
BECAUSE THEY REMINDED HIM OF ETERNITIES SEA AND THE SUFFERING AND
THE DARKNESS AND THE EVER PRESENT BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT AND REJECTED.
"NO TIME FOR THAT NOW ... HERE", SACONI
SAID HANDING IMANI A VERTICAL HALF OF ANOTHER CORNER STONE WHICH
HAD THE DATE DECEMBER 6, 0000 DAY 1, INSCRIBED ON IT. "PUT
THIS OUT ON THE EASTERN END ... AT THE LAST FIGMENT", SACONI
SAID. IMANI DID AS HE WAS TOLD AND WHEN HE RETURNED, THE SEA WAS
DARKER THAN EVER AND A STORM THREATENED. HE ASKED HIS FATHER IF
THEY COULD CONTINUE LATER. SACONI REPLIED BY TELLING HIM, "NOW
IS THE RIGHT TIME!".
KNOWING HIS FATHER, IMANI, AGREED TO CONTINUE IN
SPITEOF THE ADDED THREAT BEING POSED BY THE APPROACHING STORM.SACONI
INSTRUCTED HIM, THAT IT WAS FOR JUST THAT REASON THEY HAD TO WORK
ALL THE FASTER. IMANI BELIEVED IN HIS FATHER AND ASK WHAT HE WANTED
HIM TO DO NEXT
"OOPS ... WHAT TIME IS IT?",
SACONI ASK, AS IF HE FORGOT THAT IT WAS HE WHO HAD THE SEVEN WATCHES
"HERE PUT THIS AT THE THIRD ANTI-MATTER IN THE EAST ... DO IT
Quick ... IT'S 9 O'CLOCK", HE SAID LOOKING AT HIS WATCHES AS
HE HANDED IMANI A CORNER STONE INSCRIBED WITH THE DATE ... MARCH 9,
990 DAY 2. SACONI THAN INSTRUCTED IMANI TO PLACE THIS CORNER STONE
AT THE END OF THE THIRD FIGMENT WHERE HE HAD PUT THE THIRD MARBLE
OF ANTI-MATTER, IN THE EAST.
WHEN IMANI HAD DONE WHAT SACONI REQUESTED OF HIM,
IMANI RETURNED TO THE CORNER STONE ON TOP THE FIGNENTED STICK. "HERE
TAKE THESE ... DO THE SAME THING ... OUT THAT WAY", HE SAIDHOLDING
ANOTHER BOX IN ONE HAND AND POINTING TOWARD THE WEST WHILE, AT THE
SAME TIME, LOOKING UP. IMANI TOOK THE BOX HE WAS HANDED AND NOTICED
ON THE FRONT OF THIS ONE, THE WORD OMEGA. IMANI OPENED IT AND INSIDE
WERE SIX MARBLE SHAPED OBJECTS THE SAME SIZE AS THE ANTI-MATTERS,
BUT THESE WERE SNOW WHITE WITH LITTLE SKY BLUE DOTS.
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"THOSE ARE MATTERS", SACONI SAID AS HE
NOTICED IMANI LOOKING AT ONE. "WHAT ARE MATTERS?", IMANI
ASK. SACONI REPLIED, "THINGS THAT WILL BE". THAN SACONI
PROCEEDED TO INSTRUCT IMANI AS TO THEIR PLACEMENT, WHICH WAS IN
THE SAME MANNER AS IMANI HAD DONE WITH THE ANTI-MATTERS, EXCEPT
THIS TIME HE WAS TO INHALE DEEPLY BEFORE HE STARTED TO PLACE THE
MATTERS AND TO EXHALE SLOWLY AS HE PERFORMED THE TASK.
AFTER MAKING THE PROPER MEASUREMENTS, IN THE DIRECTION
TOWARD THE WEST, IMANI TOOK A DEEP BREATH, STARTED HIS OUT-BREATH,
AND BEGAN TO PLACE THE MATTERS AT ONE FIGMENT INTERVALS.AS IMANI
PUT THE LAST MATTER IN PLACE, HE COULD HARDLYWAIT TO TAKE A BREATH.
STANDING UP, HE WENT "OHHHHHH", TAKING IN A BIG BREATH
OF THE MORNING AIR.
"THAT'S GOOD ... THAT'S GREAT ... THAT'S REAL
GOOD", SACONI BRISSLED AS IMANI DREW AIR IN. SACONI HANDED
IMANI ANOTHER CORNER STONE AND TOLD HIM TO PLACE IT AT THE THIRD
MATTER TO THE EAST. THIS CORNER STONE HAD THE DATE SEPTEMBER 3,
2970, DAY 4, INSCRIBED ON IT. "IS THAT IT SACONI?"IMANI
ASK AFTER RETURNING FROM HIS LATEST TASK. "NO ... JUST A LITTLE
LONGER ... JUST A WHILE YET", SACONI REPLIED HANDING IMANI
ONE VERTICAL HALF OF ANOTHER CORNER STONE WITH THE DATE DECEMBER
6, 3960, DAY 5, INSCRIBED ON IT. HE TOLD IMANI TO PUT IT AT THE
FURTHERERS MATTER FIGMENT TOWARD THE WEST.
IMANI DID WHAT HE WAS ASKED TO DO AND WHEN HE RETURNED,
SACONI HANDED HIM ANOTHER BOX WHICH WAS JUST A BIT LARGER THAN THE
PREVIOUS TWO. IMANI NOTICED ON THE FRONT OF THIS BOX, THE WORDS,
"PERFECT LIFE UNITS". IMANI LOOKED INSIDE THE BOX AND
THERE SAW SOME INTRIGUING LOOKING, PERFECTLY CLEAR, LITTLE, MARBLE
SHAPED OBJECTS THAT SEEMED TO HOLD ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW
WITHIN THEM. THEY HAD AN ALMOST HYPNOTIZING NATURE AND IMANI COULD
HARDLY TAKE HIS EYES OFF OF THEM.
AS IMANI STOOD STARING AT THOSE MOST GORGEOUS "PURE
LIFE UNITS", SACONI REACHED INTO THE BOX AND REMOVED ONE SAYING,
"NO 0NE HAS MADE A THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEAR UNIT YET ...
THESE SINGLE THIRTY THREE YEAR UNITS SHOULD WORK FINE". SACONI
WENT ON TO TELL IMANI TO TAKE TEN "PERFECT LIFE UNITS"
AND SPACE THEM EVENLY WITHIN EACH SINGLE FIGMENT THAT IMANI HAD
MARKED WITH THE MATTERS AND THE ANTI-MATTERS.
WHEN IMANI ASKED HOW HE SHOULD BREATH, SACONI TOLD
HIMNOT TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT IT, THAT HE SHOULD BE MORE INTERESTED
IN MAKING SURE HE GOT THE TEN "PERFECT LIFE UNITS" IN
EACH FIGMENT, SO EACH FIGMENT WOULD BE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
YEARS LONG. WHEN IMANI HAD FINISHED PLACING THE THREE HUNDRED AND
SIXTY "PERFECT LIFE UNITS" WITHIN THE TWELVE FIGMENTS,
HE SAID, "DONE!". "THAT'S GOOD ... THAT'S GREAT ...
THAT'S REAL GOOD!", SACONI SAID.
"THAT SHOULD BE ... I THINK .. THAT’S
ABOUT IT", SACONI SAID SLOWLY LIKE A TEXAN SURVEYING HIS SPREAD.
"LET'S SEE", SACONI SAID WHILE LOOKING TOWARD THE EAST.
"TEN LIFE UNITS PER FIGMENT ... THAT'S TEN TIMES THIRTY THREE
YEARS ... THAT'S THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS PER FIGMENT ...
AND SIX FIGMENTS ..THAT'S NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY YEARS ...
ON THE ANTI-MATTER SIDE OF THINGS. THAN SACONI TURNED HIS ATTENTION
IN THE OTHER DIRECTION AND LOOKING WEST, HE MADE THE SAME SLOW PURPOSEFUL
CALCULATIONS CONCLUDING/ "THAT'S NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
YEARS ... ON THE MATTER SIDE OF THINGS ...YEP ... THAT'S THREE THOUSAND
NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS TOTAL ... THAT'S GOOD ... THAT'S GREAT
.... THAT'S REAL GOOD", HE ENDED.
IMANI TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK HIS FATHER IF
THIS LIGHT HOUSE WAS GOING TO BE THE SANE AS THE OLD LIGHT HOUSE.
SACONI REPLIED SAYING, "NO, THIS ONE WILL BE A LIGHT HOUSE
WITH A CLOCK!". IMANI WAS SURPRISED AND IMPRESSED, HE KNEW
SACONI WAS CREATING A LIGHT HOUSE BUT IT NEVER EVER OCCURRED TO
HIM THAT IT WOULD BE A CLOCK TOO. "WHAT WE ARE DOING IMANI",
HE SAID, "IS MAKING A CLOCK THAT HAS A FACE THREE THOUSAND
NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS ROUND AND A LIGHT HOUSE LARGE ENOUGH
SO THAT THE NEW INFINITY NEVER FORGETS HOW IT WAS CREATED AND THE
INNOCENT WILL REMEMBER THE LESSONS OF INNOCENCE. IMANI WAS VERY
IMPRESSED AND WANTED TO PRAISE HIS FATHER, BUT SACONI SUDDENLY STARTED
LOOKING AT ALL OF HIS WATCHES AND SEEMED ABOUT TO STRANGLE HIMSELF
TRYING TO GET A LOOK AT THE CLOCK HE HAD HANGING AROUND HIS NECK
"IMANI CALL THE INNOCENT .. CALL THE MEEK ... CALL THE REJECTED!
CALL THE POOR AND THE DOWN TRODDEN!", SACONI SHOUTED WITH THE
JOY OF A MAN RELEASED FROM PRISON ON EASTER.
ALL OF THOSE IN THE SEA OF ETERNITY, WHO BELIEVED,
GATHERED AROUND. "DO YOU SEE IT .. LOOK ... LOOK ... LOOK",
HE RATCHETED HIS OVER ACTIVE MAIN SPRING. "THE SUN OF GOOD
REASON!" THE AIR WAS PUNCTUATED BY SACONI'S FINGER POINTING
AT THE CORNER STONE HE HAD PLACED AT THE CENTER OF THE FIGMENTED
STICK. "GREET THE NOON!!", SACONI OFFERED WITH EXCITEMENT!
NOON ... THE CLIMB TO MAJOR CHANGE, THE TIME TO
REARRANGE.
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THE CORNER ATOP THE
STAIRS. THE PLACE TO TEST THE PAIRS. THE REST THAT MEETS THE CHASE.
THE NEWS TO FILL THE PLACE. THE CREST OF HEART TO SEE. THE END OF
USED TO BE. THE WILLING PLACE TO STOP. THE PROM ICE AT THE TOP.
THE MEANS TO FEED THE PEOPLE. THE BUTTRESS, AND THE STEEPLE. THE
REASON SEASONS SMILE. THE LOTUS OF THE ISLE. THE MOUNTAIN OF THE
HEART. THE BOOK THE CENTER'S PART. THE LOVE AS POINTED TO. THE GRANDEST
POINT OF VIEW. THE END TO SEEM TO BE. THE START THAT FITS THE KEY.
THE FLEDGLING PUT TO WING. THE REASON HOPE DOES SING. THE SIGHT
TO HUG THE SKY. THE SONG TO DRY THE EYE. THE HOURS MOST FRAGRANT
WHIFF. THE NOW AND NOT THE IF. THE CEILING FOR THE FLOOR. THE POWER
THAT BREAKS THE DOOR. THE SMILE THAT RIDES THE FACE. THE FEEL TO
LOVE THE PLACE. THE RHYME TO BUILD THE TUNE. THE NOW TO FILL THE
SOON. THE SPOKE THAT SAID A WORD. THE EAR THAT SAID IT HEARD. THE
ROCK THAT FLOAT IN SPACE. THE START THAT ENDS THE RACE. THE HOPE
SO BORN TO ALL. THE ROOM TO GREET THE HALL. THE "V" THAT
CHEATS THE DEATH. THE LIFE THAT LIVES BY BREATH. THE END OF TIME
AS KNOWN. THE ALTERED PITCH AND TONE. THE CALL TO SHEER DEVOTION.
THE MEANS TO CLEAR THE POTION. THE WORTH THAT'S MORE THAN GOLD.
THE SOUL THAT'S NEVER SOLD! THE DOVE OF SUMMER NOON. THE DAY THAT
CAME IN JUNE.
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SURE ENOUGH, THE SEA AROUND THE CORNER STONE WITH
THE DATE OF JUNE 6, 1980, DAY 3, INSCRIBED ON IT, BEGAN TO CHANGE
FROM its DARK MURKY BLOOD RED TO A SKY BLUE, AND LIGHT BEGAN TO
STREAM FROM BENEATH THE STONE AND IT SLOWLY BEGAN RISING OFF OF
THE HORIZONTAL FIGMENTED STICK. IMANI AND THE FAITHFUL STOOD WITH
SACONI AT THE BASE OF THE STICK IN THE SOUTH AND WATCHED AS THE
CORNER STONE WAS RAISED HIGHER ABOVE THE WATERS AND THEFIGMENTED
STICK. IMANI AND THE OTHERS COULD SEE THAT IT WAS THE STONE THAT
WAS GIVING OFF THE LIGHT,THE STONE WAS GLOWING LIKE A SUN. AS THE
CORNER STONE MOVED UPWARD THE HORIZONTAL FIGMENTE~ STICK BEGAN TO
MOVE INTO A VERTICAL POSITION.
EVERYTHING WAS HAPPENING AT ONCE AND AS THE CORNERSTONE
WENT HIGHER THE LIGHT FROM IT SHONE ON THE EAST AND THE WEST. THE
ANTI-MATTERS IN THE EAST BEGAN TO QUAKE SLOWLY, CREATING A RUMBLE
OF DEEP RICH BASS AND THE MATTERS IN THE WEST BEGAN TO SPIN, CREATING
A PURE SOPRANO NOTE AND THE FIGMENTED STICK THAT WAS RISING TO THE
VERTICAL BEGAN TO VIBRATE WITH A MELLOW ALTO NOTE AND THE COMBINATION
OF THE THREE MADE THE SOUNDS OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY.
AS THE GLOWING DAY 3 STONE MOVED HIGHER, THE DAY
2, AND THE DAY 4 CORNER STONES BEGAN TO GLOW AND START THEIR ASCENT
INTO THE AIR WHI~E THE VIBRATING FIGMENTED STICK MOVED CLOSER TO
VERTICAL AND THE QUAKING ANTI-MATTERS AND THE SPINNING MATTERS AND
THE "PURE LIFE UNITS" MAINTAINED THEIR POSITIONS BETWEEN
THE CORNER STONES, AS THEY TOO, ASCENDED INTO THE AIR. THE SOUNDS
OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY CONTINUED. IN
A SHORT TIME, THE FIGMENTED HORIZONTAL, WAS STANDING
ABSOLUTELY CORNER STONE INSCRIBED WITH JUNE 6, ON THE FIGMENTED
STICK'S HEAVENWARD DAY 4 CORNER STONES, HAD ASCENDED TOO.
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FIGMENT, OUTWARD FROM EITHER SIDE OF THE FIGMENTED
STICK. THE ONE HALF VERTICAL CORNER STONE INSCRIBED WITH DECEMBER
6, 0000, DAY 1, AND THE ONE HALF VERTICAL CORNER STONE INSCRIBED
WITH DECEMBER 6, 3960, DAY 5, STARTED GLOWING AND MOVED FROM THE
EAST AND THE WEST RESPECTIVELY. THE TWO, ONE HALF VERTICAL CORNER
STONE?, JOINED AS ONE AT THE BASE OF THE VIBRATING VERTICAL FIGMENTED
STICK.
THE QUAKING MATTERS AND THE SPINNING. ANTI-MATTERS
MAINTAINED THEIR POSITIONS BETWEEN THE CORNER STONES AS THEY TOO
ASCENDED INTO THE AIR. THE COMBINED SOUNDS OF MAJESTIC BEAUTY CONTINUED.
EVERYTHING HAD ASCENDED AND WAS SUSPENDED ABOVE THE WATER. THE CORNER
STONES WERE GLOWING WITH A LIGHT BRIGHTER THAN A SUN, AND THE VERTICAL
FIGMENTED STICK VIBRATED WITH A MELLOW ALTO NOTE, AND THE ANTI-MATTERS
QUAKED WITH A DEEP BASE NOTE, AND THE MATTERS WERE SPINNING IN A
RICH SOPRANO NOTE. THE SOUNDS OF MAJESTY AND BEAUTY TURNED THE WATERS
OF THE ETERNAL SEA FROM A MURKY DARK BLOOD RED INTO A CLEAR SKY
BLUE. IMANI AND THE OTHER BELIEVERS COULD NOT IMAGINE ANYTHING GREATER
THAN WHAT THEY WERE SEEING, BUT THEY WERE WRONG!
IN THE NEXT INSTANT IMANI AND THE
BELIEVERS SAW THE VIBRATING VERTICAL FIGMENTED STICK BEING TRANSFORMED
INTO A FIGURE, AS THAT OF A MAN, WITH THE CORNER STONE INSCRIBED WITH
JUNE 6, 1980, DAY 3, RESTING, LIKE A CROWN, UPON HIS HEAD. HIS ARMS
OUT STRETCHED WITH A CORNER STONE ON THE PALM OF EACH HAND. ON HIS
LEFT PALM WAS THE STONE INSCRIBED WITH MARCH 9, 990, DAY 2, AND ON
HIS RIGHT PALM THE STONE INSCRIBED WITH SEPTEMBER 3, 2970, DAY 4.
THE FIGURE THAT WAS AS A MAN WAS STANDING ON
THE TWO JOINED ONE HALF VERTICAL CORNER STONES.
HIS RIGHT FOOT, WAS UPON THE ONE INSCRIBED DECEMBER 6, 3960, DAY
5, AND HIS LEFT FOOT, UPON THE ONE INSCRIBED DECEMBER 6,0000, DAY1.
HE WAS AS IF ON FIRE, SMILING GREAT WARMTH UPON THE INNOCENT IN
THE SEA OF ETERNITY.
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IN THE NEXT INSTANT THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
"PURE LIFE UNITS" BEGAN TO RELEASE THE PURE COLORS THAT
HAD BEEN CONTAINED WITHIN THEM, AND AS THE SOUND OF BEAUTY CONTINUED,
THE COLORS RELEASED FROM THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY "PURE
LIFE UNITS" COMBINED, AND RECOMBINED. THE WARMTH OF THE FIGURE'S
SMILE AND THE MAJESTIC INDESCRIBABLE BEAUTY, OF THE DIVINE SIGHTS
AND SOUNDS, REACHED NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY YEARS TO THE NORTH AND
NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY YEARS TO THE SOUTH AND NINE HUNDRED AND
NINETY YEARS TO THE EAST AND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY YEARS TO THE
WEST FROM THE FIGURE'S WAIST, AND IN AN INSTANT, FOR THE SAKE OF
INN09ENCE, THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY YEARS AROUND, THE
SEA OF ETERNITY WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A NEW ISLAND OF INFINITY.
AS IMANI AND THE BELIEVERS WATCHED, THEY SAW A DOVE
APPROACHING FROM THE OLD ISLAND OF INFINITY, NOW NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY YEARS IN THE DISTANCE. AS THEY WATCHED, THE DOVE PREPARED
TO SIT ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER OF THE BLAZING FIGURE. IMANI AND THE
BELIEVERS, BEING COMPASSIONATE, FEARED FOR THE LIFE OF THE DOVE
THAT SURELY WOULD BE CONSUMED WITHIN THE BLAZE AND GLORY OF SUCH
A POWERFULLY MAJESTIC FIGURE, AS THE ONE THAT HAD ASCENDED. THIS
FIGURE LIKE THAT OF A MAN WHO, THROUGH THE POWER OF BUT A SMILE,
HAD REMOVED A SEA FOR A FULL THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY
YEARS. SURELY A FIGURE OF SUCH POWER WOULD HAVE LITTLE CONCERN FOR
THE DOVE ABOUT TO LAND ON HIS BLAZING RIGHT SHOULDER. BUT IN AN
INSTANT, THIS MOST MAJESTIC BLAZING FIGURE, THAT WAS AS A MAN, TURNED
IT'S SMILE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE DOVE AND WITH AN OUT-BREATH "AHHHHHHH",
CREATED A WIND LIKE NONE THAT IMANI HAD EVER SEEN IN ALL OF HIS
YEARS AT SEA.
THE WIND WAS SO GREAT, THAT IT EXTINGUISHED THE
LIGHT HOUSE ON THE OLD ISLAND OF INFINITY. THE WIND WAS SO GREAT,
THAT IT PROPELLED THE CORNER STONE INSCRIBED WITH DAY 3, INTO THE
NEVER, AND THE CORNER STONES INSCRIBED WITH DAY 2, AND DAY 4, WERE
THROWN INTO THE NEVER, AND THE TWO, ONE HALF VERTICAL CORNER STONES
INSCRIBED WITH DAY 1, AND DAY 5, WERE CAST INTO THE NEVER, AND THE
ANTI-MATTERS OF YESTERDAY'S AND THE MATTERS OF TOMORROW'S, WERE
HURLED INTO THE NEVER. THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY "PURE LIFE
UNITS", WERE TOSSED INTO THE NEVER. EVEN THE BLAZING FIGURE,
THAT WAS AS A MAN, WAS FLUNG INTO THE NEVER. ALL THE SIXES ... EVERYTHING,
WAS JETTISONED INTO THE NEVER, BY THE GREAT WIND. ALL THAT REMAINED
AFTER THE GREAT WIND WAS THE "NOW", AS THE DOVE LANDED,
UNHARMED, ONTO IMANI'S RIGHT SHOULDER, WHERE HE SAT WITH HIS FRIENDS,
IN A FIELD, NEAR A STREAM, 'NEATH A SUN, IN THE SKY, ON A DAY, JUST
LIKE "NOW".
SACONI SAT AMONG THE FAITHFUL WHERE IMANI NOTICED
THAT SACONI WAS WEARING NO WATCHES. "WHERE ARE YOUR WATCHES?",
IMANI ASKED. "WHO NEEDS A WATCH NOW?", WAS SACONI'S, NOW
CASUAL, REPLY.
"BUT, WHAT ABOUT THAT MAJESTIC BLAZING CLOCK
AND THE SOUNDS AND THE BEAUTIFUL COLORS?", IMANI QUIZED. "HAVE
YOU EVER LOOKED CLOSELY AT A DOVE?", SACONI RESPONDED. "BESIDES",
SACONI CONTINUED, "YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CLOCK TO BREAK A CLOCK!".
"WHAT'S NEXT?", IMANI ASKED HIS FATHER LOVINGLY.
SACONI REPLIED, IN A VOICE OF PASSIONATE COMPASSION,
"I AM GIVING YOU A NEW NAME IMANI. FROM NOW ON YOU WILL BE
CALLED LALEPOP',THIS ISLANDS NEW LIGHT HOUSE, WITH A CROWNING BEACON
OF THE "NOW" .
NOW ALL CAN KNOW, WHERE THERE IS THE CROWN OF "NOW",
THERE IS COMPASSION AND LIFE. WHERE THERE IS THE CROWN OF "NOW"
THERE IS UNDERSTANDING AND WHERE THERE IS UNDERSTANDING, THERE IS LOVE
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