Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 301, Sunday
October 28th, 2018
Chapter Seven: Universalism
Every person desired to see their lives as meaningful. Even those whose
station in life was fixed in drudgery. The cognitive impulse, to ascribe
meaning onto even the most ordinary and mundane activities was instinctual, a
genetic imperative.
The mode by which the person shaped the narrative of their experience
was simple, it involved the projection of everything they did outward, toward
the universal, reshaping the context of even the simplest and most routine
tasks.
This was a categorical imperative.
The Imperial cult, ensured that every vestige of the religious rites that
the people engaged in, every movement, every word they uttered, conditioned
them to believe that individual fulfillment came through the great chain of
being, through a series of incarnations, and re-incarnations in which each
person experienced life at every station, rising or falling in rank according
to the merits by which they lived out each life.
The journey of the individual entity, was depicted in the sacred text
like the revolution of a galaxy, billions of stars turning around a massive
gravity well, around the fixed singularity of a black hole.
It was a cosmic dance. Planets and stars, turning around the center,
until one by one, each was consumed by it, drawn by it to the point of no return,
merging with it, passing across the event horizon, becoming one with the
singularity itself.
This example, drawn from nature, was especially poignant to the people.
The common end which it proclaimed, the final calculus of all existence, spoke
of equal justice for all.
The singularity was depicted not as the end in itself, but as the entry
point to another state of being, a gateway to another dimension.
The Continuum was depicted as an apt analogy of this fixed point in
nature, a black hole, the material end, and the of the soul’s journey, both
located in the same terminus.
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