"Frank Herbert - The Godmakers" - читать интересную книгу автора (Herbert Brian & Frank)

The Godmakers

Frank Herbert
1972




You must understand that peace is an internal matter. It has to be a self-
discipline for an individual or for an entire civilization. It must come from
within. If you set up an outside power to enforce peace, this outside power
will grow stronger and stronger. It has no alternative. The inevitable
outcome will be an explosion, cataclysmic and chaotic. That is the way of our
universe. When you create paired opposites, one will overwhelm the other
unless they are in delicate balance.

-- The writings of DIANA BULLONE




To become a god, a living creature must transcend the physical. The three
steps of this transcendent path are known. First, he must come upon the
awareness of secret aggression. Second, he must come upon,the discernment of
purpose within the animal shape. Third, he must experience death.

When this is done, the nascent god must find his own rebirth in a unique
ordeal by which he discovers the one who summoned him.

-- "The Making of a God," The Amel Handbook

Lewis Orne could not remember a time when he had been free of a peculiar,
repetitive dream, when he had been able to go to sleep in the sure knowledge
that the dream's wild sense of reality would not clutch at his psyche.

The dream began with music, this really hokey unseen choir, syrup in sound, a
celestial joke. Vaporous figures would come out of the music adding a visual
dimension of the same quality. Finally, a voice would override the whole
silly thing with disturbing pronouncements:

"Gods are made, not born!"

Or:

"To say you are neutral is another way of saying you accept the necessities of
war!"

To look at him, you wouldn't think him the kind of person to be plagued by
such a dream. He was a blocky human with the thick muscles of a heavy planet
native -- Chargon of Gemma was his birthplace. He possessed a face