"Eddings, David - Malloreon 05 - The Seeress Of Kell" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

the dead, and our diviners sought advice from the earth. But lo, none of these knew
more than we.
Page 1
EDDINGS, David - Malloreon 5 - The Seeress Of Kell.txt
Then gathered we at last upon a fertile plain to bring together all that we had
learned. And these are the truths that we have learned from the stars, from the
rocks, from the hearts of men and from the minds of the spirits:
Know ye that all adown the endless avenues of time hath division marred all that
is—for there is division at the very heart of creation. And some have said that this
is natural and will persist until the end of days, but it is not so. Were the
division destined to be eternal, then the purpose of creation would be to contain
it. But the stars and the spirits and the voices within the rocks speak of the day
when the division will end and all will be made one again, for creation itself knows
that the day will come.
Know ye further that two spirits contend with each other at the very center of time,
and these spirits are the two sides of that which hath divided creation. And in a
certain time shall those spirits meet upon this world, and then will come the time
of the Choice. And if the Choice be not made, then shall this world vanish, and the
Beloved Guest of whom the seeress spoke will never come. For it is this which she
meant when she said to us: "Behold, He may not choose ye unless ye choose Him." And
the Choice that we must make is the choice between good and evil, and the division
between good and evil, and the reality that will exist after we have made the choice
will be a reality of good or a reality of evil, and it will prevail so untU the end
of
Behold also this truth: the rocks of this world and of all other worlds murmur
continually of the two stones that lie at the center of the division. Once these
stones were one, and they stood at the very center of all of creation, but, like all
else, they were divided, and in the instant of division they were rent apart with a
force that destroyed whole suns. And where these stones come into the presence of
each other again, there surely will be the fast confrontation between the two
spirits. Now the day will come when all will be made one again, except that the
division between the two stones is so great that they can never be rejoined. And in
the day when the division ends shall one of the Atones cease forever to exist, and
in that day also shall one of Ij&C spirits forever vanish. --"fliese then were the
truths that we had gathered, and it was
4 SEERESS OF KELL
our discovery of these truths that marked the end of the First Age.
Now the Second Age of man began hi thunder and earthquake, for lo, the earth herself
split apart, and the sea rushed in to divide the lands of men even as creation
itself is divided. And the mountains of Korim shuddered and groaned and heaved as
the sea swallowed them. And we knew that this would come to pass, for our seers had
warned us that it would be so. We went our way, therefore, and found safety before
the world was cracked and the sea first rushed away and then rushed back and never
departed more.
And in the days that followed the rushing in of the sea, the children of the Dragon
God fled from the waters, and they abode to the north of us beyond the mountains.
Now our seers told us that the children of the Dragon God would one day come among
us as conquerors. And we took counsel with each other and considered how we might
least offend the children of the Dragon God when they should come so that they would
not interrupt our studies. In the end we concluded that our warlike neighbors would