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Part IV: The Sea of Dreams and the Song of Life

• B NOTE: This entire section had withheld publication of the overall work while royal censors tried to decide whether the Entity was "God," or if the language could be reworked to make it appear in line with religious tenets. I believe Melchior's philosophising here already smacks of religion, but nor did it satisfy the era's prevailing sensibilities. The question would never be resolved and the work never officially published, because the Ocean Palace Incident transpired before the censors could decide.

The origin of life on our planet naturally occupies the mind of a Guru of Life. Unfortunately this document sheds little light on the greatest mystery of all; in fact, the Body/Spirit/Soul logical framework would seem to suggest that Souls appeared as a response to the rise of life capable of conscious thought, and not the other way around.

On the other hand, the logical framework does provide an explanation for the origin of Dreams, that is, the birth of conscious thought. Without delving too deeply into how the concept of an Entity and its meaning came about, the present discourse found its genesis in Her Royal Highness Schala Zeal's contact with the Object. During several attempts to communicate with the consciousness residing inside the Object, Her Royal Highness reported encountering a figure resembling one of Shikar's renowned Bards. This Bard seemed separate from the Object's consciousness, and furthermore a "Song of Life" issued from the Bard. Schala - despite having significant voice training in her own right - was unable to remember or reproduce the Bard's song. Let us now examine the possible significance of the song and the role it played in creating a "Sea of Dreams."

In the beginning, our planet was infused with a sentient Entity -- perhaps a Shadow Realm counterpart to the physical matter composing the planet itself. The Entity, resting in utter solitude and unable to interact with the physical world for aeons, thirsted for one thing: community. To grow and learn by communicating with others of its kind, and still others not of its kind. To add to the Entity's feeling of solitude, it saw the rise of life forms on the planet capable of interacting with each other in simple ways, but like the asylum resident who looks upon the world through a high-story window, the Entity could not reach out to them.

Somewhere along the line this Entity divined that the Aura could create the very connection to the physical world it needed, and it burst through the divide, taking on the visage of a Bard. For a time the Entity felt satisfied as it wandered the world, but it soon grew bored. It realized that the mosses and simple-brained organisms it tried to interact with were still not aware of it, because they were not consciously aware of the very world around them. The life forms were, in short, ignorant, and therefore the Entity could not learn and grow as it had hoped.

Fearing that it had dreamed in vain, the Entity's Bard guise lifted its arms and sang, perhaps the vocalization of its great dispair. Little did the Entity know that the eight notes it issued in fact corresponded to the resonant frequencies of various materials composing the central nervous systems of life forms that possessed such sensory structures. The subsequent vibrations within the brains of certain lifeforms stimulated the first instances of Astral Induction, and brain-possessing creatures became aware of the Bard's existence.

Now the Entity could interact directly with living creatures, but still its hunger for community grew stronger. It felt a desire to become one with the creatures, to experience their sensations and their own sense of community for itself. Knowing that the creatures' Auras provided a point of connection between the physical world and its own habitat, the Entity fissioned from itself a number of pieces corresponding to however many creatures existed on the planet, and communed with them via their Auras. While each creature lived, its corresponding fragment of the Entity - its Soul - accumulated its life experiences, enriching the Entity as a whole. The number of creatures propagated upon the planet at an astounding rate, allowing the Entity to acquire ever more experiences and feel satiated once and for all. In this way, the Auras of all conscious creatures give rise to a "Sea of Dreams" in the aggregate, and the mark of these dreams upon the Entity has become its identity. In this way, our experiences are the Entity's dream and the Entity is our collective dream. The process continues to this day, and will continue for all eternity.

That is my belief. At least for now.

Ahqz.

-Melchior, Guru of Life and PhD. (c) 2009 of the Zealian Solar Calendar.

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