The Cosmic Message

by Troy R. Bishop


In the time of the Great Creation, the ALLSOURCE opened the Gates of Infinity to the Two Limitless Custodians.

"I WILL BE!" thundered Change, swirling, flashing, lighting up all eternity with possibility. But since everything was yet before him, there was no time he could stop and BE.

"I AM!" rang out Form, adorned with the pattern of infinity. But since everything was inside him, there was no thing he could aspire to BECOME.

And TIME WAS NOT. For change and Form, the Two Limitless Custodians, each knew not the other. And nothing was....

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Somewhere in the star-studded creation, a sun swung out a measured segment of infinity. Around it orbited a planet, upon which two creatures sat talking: a youth and and ancient one.

"Then how is it that we are here?" asked the youth. "For you and I ARE, and we also WILL BE. What brought Change and Form together to make all things?"

The old one closed his eyes.

"Look around you," he said.

The young one contemplated the dwellers of the air, soaring on unseen currents--the dwellers of the trees, peeping from the security of their living homes. Light from the sun streamed through a cloud.

"What is this I feel?" asked the young one. "It is strange, yet familiar."

"That," said the old one, "is the uniter of Change and Form, the secret of all reality. It does not live through Change, and it does not reside in Form. It leaps from one to the other, always urging them to their next juncture. That, young one, is TRUTH."

"Old one," spoke the youth, "Change says 'I WILL BE,' and Form says 'I AM.' What is it that TRUTH says?"

"Listen," whispered the old one.

And TRUTH spoke in the young one's heart. His eyes met those of the old one. And they both were filled with joy. For Truth says: "HE LIVES"!


© 1982 Troy R. Bishop. "The Cosmic Message" may be freely duplicated electronically and transmitted across networks and the Internet if the copyright notice and this permission notice appear on all copies.