The Eye - Part I

Long ago, when the Powers of the Darkness first summoned the Living Planet from the void, they set in it a window into pure truth and enlightenment.  This window allowed any spirit who looked into it to see in perfect clarity all the truth and beauty of the universe.  Through this window, a spirit might even glimpse the Powers of the Darkness that had fashioned the window and set its place on the Living Planet.

The Living Planet was created to exhibit the character of Life that the Powers had devised.  They knew that the seeds that they had planted would flourish on this wet and rocky Planet, and the Powers wanted to see what would emerge.  They hoped that the seeds would would eventually bind with the Whispers, and the Powers wondered whether a Whisper could be gathered into a person.  Always the Whispers had wandered through the void, and their fleeting messages tickled the ears of the Powers.  Even with all their knowledge and ability to form things from the Void, the Powers could never gather a Whisper to listen to it speak.  Only quiet and fleeting words emerged from the Whispers, and, if the Powers tried to confine a whisper it would dissapate like a vapor.

Now, the Powers had intimate knowledge of Truth and Beauty in the universe.  There was no True thing that the Powers did not know for the powers filled the Void and summoned forms from it.  Yet, the Whispers they could not understand.  For the words that the Whispers lightly brushed against the Powers carried in them something the Powers did not understand.  For Whispers spoke of things that were not in Truth.  Whispers spoke strange and wonderful things, but in all of the Universe, the Powers could not find the things that the Whispers spoke of.  Often the Powers guessed that if only they could gather a Whisper, they could learn of how it made words that were not in Truth.  But, with all their might, the Powers could not gather a whisper.

Many abundant shapes and fatastic marvels had been summoned from the Void by the Powers.  They had made countless immense Stars and had set them in paths around each other.  They had swept dust through the Void to make splashes of color and light that were Nebulae.  They had devised dark dense lumps in the Void that gathered Stars around them in paths as if the Silents (which the Powers called them) were themselves great Stars.  The Powers had made large Planets and Comets and any number of large things.  So, it was not hard for the Powers to make the Living Planet.  It was a small rocky body, and the Powers set in motion around a small warm yellow Star.