Shadow, p.2
Shadow, page 2
– Really! Why keep it inside me? I can just let it go outside, let it come true, but also continue to enjoy its endless power! – thought the heroine.
And so! From the bottom of the stomach, it slid upward, into the chest with a warm, tiny tingling miracle, light, life-giving tenderness.
The lower dantian shrank, the eyes and mouth closed in tear, feeling the finish and the powerlessness to hold the “little miracle” inside, the heroine’s arms stretched out to the sides, revealing the closed third eye and illuminating the darkness of the universe. It is strange why the closed third eye opened at the moment when the heroine released into the world the energy of creation that was accumulated by her.
A clump of bright light flew in different directions from our little, but no less beloved heroine. No, there was no blast wave, all the action resembled the opening of a bottle of shaken soda, just as a cork the brightest light jumped out.
And after a couple of seconds, Shadow and a small light shining with a light passively considered each other at a distance, each had a genuine interest to each other, although they looked with apprehension at each other.
The heroine became unusually easy and at the same time sad. It was easy for her to realize that her torment was over, she was no longer torn, and sad because warmth had left her inner world, she felt exhausted, insecure, as if all the joy of that and this world had left.
On the contrary, a light was burning, it covered only a small space of the original world, but that was enough to make our heroine seek shelter, she could not live watching this clot of energy. The rays of his light pierced her and made her weak. To protect herself, Shadow built a wall of dust from behind which she hid from the “luminary” she had born.
With a loud exhaling, she allowed herself to relax a little and listen to what was happening behind the wall that she had built.
“Mom, Mom, Mommy! I’m here where you had left me, are you playing with me or are you afraid of me? Do not you love me?” said the light.
“I? Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me or what? What kind of mother am I? Oh and really, what kind of mother, if the child was not recognized, if I can’t get to him if I can’t embrace him?”
“You are good, you are kind, you are my mother, I know everything, I know who you are and where I come from, I know all your way and desires,” continued the light, slowly swam to the wall behind which Shadow was hidden.
With gentle movements he stroked the wall built between them with the rays, he knew that he could hurt her, but the feeling of their connection, their love for each other was stronger.
It is strange, of course, why being inside her, possessing such power, he did not destroy her. The fact was that the closer the light approached the wall, the easier it was for Shadow, it became more spacious beyond the wall, but as soon as the light disappeared from the wall, the Shadow’s space again decreased.
“Mom, Mom, MOMMY! Are you listening to me? Do you still remember what you have dreamed of? And I remember!”
“And do you know who I am? I’m love, I’m warm, I’m knowledge, I’m life,” Light repeated cheerfully and fervently.
“You gave birth to me with love for this world, not for the one you thought up, but for the one you wanted to fix, because you did not want to destroy it, but wanted to improve it. By accepting it as it is, you loved it, and the irresistible inner intention to bring things to the end and gave me the life, gave me the right to be. I will help you!”
And so! Born in the darkness and mirk of the universe, a clot of pure heat began to tell! He told her about love, about the kindness and beauty of those worlds that she had created. His whole essence was imbued with love and affection. His inner world was naive and honest, young and beautiful. He still did not know the lies and deceit, treachery and betrayal since these are all the ideas of lazy people.
No matter how much I want to hide the following information from you and continue the story about our beautiful couple, but at the very moment when Cresset (which is exactly how he introduced himself to his mother later, having determined not only his name but his destiny) came to this world. The darkness shuddered, it ceased to be all-encompassing and all-consuming as before.
Just a second!
Do you feel? The space of the universe tense and gave us the opportunity to contemplate the process, which at that time had no analogues. We are witnessing the formation of a primary confrontation, the emergence of duality, the formation of a universal complementarity of Light and Darkness.
It is only now we understand that if there is Darkness, then sooner or later we’re going to see the Light, but if there is Light, it has already shone in the Darkness. Without Darkness we wouldn’t need Light, and what would be Darkness without Light?
A small digression. I’ll bring you up to speed. Darkness is neither evil nor another manifestation of universal anarchy and chaos, the Darkness is not an act! It is utter inaction, she absorbs all with her soft power and does not violate your boundaries, she just takes and hugs you, wraps in her blurry verge. And if you can’t escape from her power at once, you’ll be wandering in it till the end of time. Darkness is a latent form of existence that fills the empty space! And as we have learned, if we do not have love, knowledge, and light, it is not possible to escape from her. Love gives impetus to the movements, knowledge determines the way and the light only confirms the correctness of the chosen way.
So, our little glowing friend was a fire of love and knowledge, he dispelled the darkness even though he was still very weak. Cresset gave the Universe hope for something more, something that nobody has seen and known.
But how true! Light in the darkness! Why! It was so dark and quiet in this universal swamp. For what this world would have love, warmth, and knowledge which have come into this world with Cresset, why change, why it was necessary to change the old world? For what and for whom is all this?
Actually, this is the whole essence of love and knowledge! As soon as they appear in our lives, we want to share them, to give them to all around!
As I said earlier, Darkness ceased to be profound and pervasive. Without knowing it, she gradually began to take her positions to the light. It was not clear and unusual for her, she did not want to change, and she didn’t need the Light. Actually, for her at that moment the Light was like a fungus on the big toe of the left foot: it doesn’t threaten to her life, but it spoils her life considerably. Such was the attitude of Darkness towards our new hero.
Now! Due to the lack of reliable information about the plans of Shadow and Light, feeling the violation of its borders, Darkness was preparing a response! Yes, it was an impulsive and ill-considered decision.
Darkness wanted to implement her idea by proxy, as she doesn’t have her own hands.
And do you know what? In an incredibly short period of time, the flocks of hoki began to appear one by one near little Sun and the lovely Shadow, there was the unrealistically large amount of them! After some time they completely surrounded our heroes, formed an impenetrable barrier around them. Hoki did not come close, they watched from the sidelines, circling the deadly dance around our heroes like dragons as if waiting for the death of the wounded beast!
Shadow didn’t understand what was going on, she was scared, and Cresset was happy to meet new guests and he was shining stronger and stronger, and gave his energy to hungry bunches of chaos.
Intoxicated with unfamiliar energy, the hoki felt might and power, which they did not understand. The mind arose in each of them, each realized itself, but without its own history, having no knowledge of the world and the way, based on instinctive feelings, they rushed in a frenzied fit to suck out all the energy to the last drop from Cresset.
They instantly clothed the only light in the universe, they sucked his energy drop by drop.
Cresset gave them his love and knowledge with joy, he was completely giving himself. He knew exactly how the whole thing would end. He knew that this was the only way, without which it would not be possible to create and preserve a new world.
Every second the light shone less, but love for everything gave him support, and as long as he continued to love, nothing could destroy him.
One by one, the hoki began to turn to stone, they began to burst to pieces from an overabundance of energy. This sight was epic! Few of them survived, and who survived, rushed away from what they had seen.
The splinters flew apart, and those that touched the Shadow passed through it, and those that fell into the Light – burned. If I understood correctly, then, the hoki moved into the material world and exploded from the surplus of energy.
“Mom! I know how to implement what you have planned; I know how to create worlds that were invented by you!” Cresset pronounced with a dithering-vibrating, powerful voice (for the sake of significance of the moment).
“As you wanted.” We will not change our world! We will create a new one in it! We will make it what it should be! We will make him free, we will give him the chance to develop his own way”.
The silence of Shadow did not stop Cresset; he knew that his mother was ready for action.
“Mother! Understand me, your creation! I was born in the darkness of the universe, from total non-being, and emptiness. You gave me respect for everything. And I, having accepted this, I tell you, mother, that no matter who inhabits the new world, they should have the right to choose, they must decide their own destiny, and it is their choice how they will build their world. We can only give them the right to this by creating them and the world in which they will live. Otherwise, we will take away the opportunity to rejoice in their world, good and love will be ordinary for them, and after a while, this concept will cease to exist! Love will not be in the format in which we know it. Take it for granted, the ideal world is latent, it is flawed by its nature. We can only create the world in the way we want it, but we can’t impose our will on others, we can give knowledge, but let them decide how to dispose of the knowledge. You must let go the one you love, and the universal harmony will direct it in the right direction”. Words broke from the lips of Cresset.
Shadow understood and accepted every word of Cresset. She realized that only her fear of what she had seen in the early days made her focus on pain rather than love, and the creation of the worlds at some point turned into a means of avoiding reality.
And Shadow could not do otherwise, because she was an idealist in the true sense of the word. And let it be said in our world that idealists are a class of people who are not fit for life, that it is hard for them to live. I’ll tell you that this is not so. Idealism is one of the real engines of personal and social growth, only a person endowed with ideals can live a beautiful, full and rich life, only he will change the world for the better, only he will build and create, give and receive, and the whole world will answer him the same.
It wasn’t any long deliberation and planning anymore! While the firmament from the torn of the hoki was still hot, it was impossible to miss the moment, this was the very chance. And so they started to create!
It is difficult to describe what was happening, but it is possible.
You could, of course, say that they worked day and night, or maybe seven days and seven nights, but it was not so.
By combining the energy of love and the knowledge of Cresset and the ability of Shadow to be filled with energy (the skill that has been left since when she was a hoka), they created an energetically endless process in which worlds of any configuration could be created. Without pondering, they took as a basis one of the worlds, previously played out in the mind of the First-realized.
The world was built very dynamically, all the dust and remnants of the bursted Hoki were gathered into one immensely great sediment, it spun and rumbled like a huge piece of mud. It was ugly and formless. Every second the sediment became more and more vigorous. The dust turned out to be particles of water, which melted the burnt remains of the hoki. With giant effort, our cute demiurges separated the moisture from the land.
The universe shrank into an unusually small space, in which the action described by me occurred.
Everyone was involved in the mystery which was organized by Cresset. There were 4 elements in its center: Cresset himself was fire, the Fluid-water, the Land – the ground, Shadow – the spirit-ether. They were surrounded by Darkness in a ring, tightened by the facets of the universe, dotted with sparse inclusions of surviving hoki.
The unity of the elements was supposed to give life to new worlds, Darkness had to envelop them with its veil, giving time for sleep and rest, and the hoki that remained in this world had to look after it, since now they were a little smarter and wiser.
Our heroes have already known that they would not survive in the last act, and were fully aware of the miraculous consequences that would happen. Yes, in fact, why the new world had to keep the demiurges, who will constantly interfere in the affairs of their inhabitants.
Realizing that this action is a logical continuation of their way and the true goal of their acquired life, they accepted their destiny.
And so they began to circle their deadly dance for peace, for life, for love.
The land began to sound, the thunder of lightning struck, the water turned into steam, cooling the rays of the primordial sun. The shadow clung to the Land, the Land absorbed moisture, Cresset evaporated the moisture and burned Shadow through the burning rocks and so on in a circle. They were circling in the dance for a long time, more and more gaining speed. Noise, crackling, whistling. Explosion.
Cresset put an end to this action.
At first there was light, then there was sound, after the sound, the Universe felt the birth of matter (according to the last three words of Cresset: “Mother and I”).
Silence came after the explosion – an inarticulate, so quiet that was cutting an ear.
Splinters of the great dance scattered in different directions. It was not stones, but drops.
Some of them flared red, some blue, there were those that shone white (like a disco-ball), while the other droplets hardened and invisibly attracted to the glowing fragments, later they were called the stars.
Just as Shadow was basking in the rays of Cresset, so the newly born planets rushed to the light of the stars, they surrounded them exactly so as not to touch each other, taking their places according to their needs.
Over time, their flight speed subsided, the stars were overgrown with new companions, the universe recovered from the incident.
As it turned out during the great dance, it is impossible to unite the four elements evenly into one whole, this was the reason for such a miraculous development of events. Instead of one world conceived by Shadow, the Universe received them all, but only on a much smaller scale.
It so happened that each splinter had a unique set of elements. Those who had more fire became stars, those who had more land, found themselves as lifeless planets, fragments with only moisture, became gas planets, and only those who had a shaky balance could become living planets. Their flames ignited the volcanoes and gave life to the land of the planet, the moisture cooled the earth, not letting it burn, and the ability of Shadow to store energy allowed keeping the inner fire in balance.
Literally, after a short period everything calmed down, went out into its orbits, and the universe came to harmony.
Years passed, the movement continued, the stars were still shining in the darkness, and the planets were circling round in their dances. Imperceptibly, secretly from all one planet blossomed, bloomed and revived. Having absorbed the energy of its heating star, it gave life to plants and animals.
Only the knowledge and love received by such great difficulty did not manifest itself for a long time. They were not visible in any galaxy, nor in one cluster.
But suddenly, on this very planet, from the mountains of dust men began to emerge – beings of the third order. They appeared as snowdrops, unexpected, born of difficult conditions. The spirit of our heroine was in each of them, or rather, behind each of them, and, if more precisely, for every person from the side opposite from the sun. As before Shadow was hiding from the Sun behind the artificial wall, and now she was hiding behind her new creations, finding herself in them, giving them life.
The little men got up, shook themselves and went to finish the world, invented by the consciousness of Shadow.
Someone planted flowers and trees, someone was engaged in landscape design, releasing endless fields from boulders and boulders (in fact, the mountains were formed during this process, because the stones had to be disposed of somewhere), someone draining marshes and clean the ocean, and, someone had to look after animals and birds.
In order not to get confused by what to do, each group of people was given their own skin color. So the blacks were engaged in rough work of formation of a landscape of a planet. Bright-skinned cleaned the ocean. People with a yellow tinge of the face were engaged in the cultivation of plants, and in order to examine the seeds more closely, they were given narrowed eyes. People, whose complexion was similar to the red sun, were engaged in the upbringing of animals.
When all the works were finished: the plains were cleaned, the plants were grown, the beasts were brought up, and the oceans became clean and the surface became like a mirror, the black interstellar sky became like a blue veil that reliably sheltered this new world from the universal fuss.
The new sky became a veil separating the children from the pristine world, from the bustle of coming and going.
During the day, people were watched by the Sun, but, as the planet was still spinning after the chaos of creation, it was necessary to pull the moon into the orbit of the planet to look after them at night.
So we lived, generations changed. Shadow was no longer spoken about as Shadow, she became only a shadow of herself. She exchanged the former Greatness for the common good.
