The Immortal Child
Jean Hudon
CHAPTER VII
Power of the Infinite Within
"In times past, when human beings were still living on the ancient planet of the origins, they had a very limited awareness of the creative potential and infinite abilities that Life had placed within them. Very few human beings even suspected the existence of all these possibilities that we now know. Some, however, working in the field of what was then called the artificial intelligence, had begun to discover some of the prodigious capacities of the human brain that they were trying to imitate. None of these researchers, however, were aware of what they were about to discover.
The brain, that marvelous instrument that Life has created over billions of years of evolution, was, all things considered, just an intermediary between the worlds of matter and the consciousness of the being of Light. It is only when they tried to understand where the ideas and thoughts they were literally seeing circulating in cerebral matter were coming from, that they crossed the Threshold of Awakening and made the leap into a new era of consciousness. What thousands of solitary monks and spiritual ascetics had known for thousands of years was at last discovered by science.
There is only one thought in the Universe... and it is Universal Consciousness. All the others, as infinitely numerous and as different from one another they may be, are just by-products of this one and only Original Thought... Like the rays of a star, which are all stemming from one single source whose light contains every imaginable color and shade, the consciousness manifesting itself at the level of the most inert matter as well as at that of the most evolved being of creation, always comes from the same source... Universal Consciousness. Therefore an atom, a grain of sand, the plant, the insect, the animal, the human being, as well as all the beings inhabiting the worlds of Light, reveal the journey of the Universal Consciousness through the various stages of its manifestation. And each of these manifestations of Life is constantly linked by the thread of its inner consciousness with the whole field of consciousness pervading the Universe and well beyond, ad infinitum. This is what these researchers, and a few centuries later all Humanity, discovered... and what is totally familiar to us.
Therefore I am not telling you anything new when I say that everything which has just been mentioned was and always will be only the dawn of what awaits us. The level we have reached of manifestation of the Universal Consciousness is obviously just one more step, one among so many others, on an eternal journey towards ever more Light. Even if we have the possibility today of instantaneously perceiving all that happens in the galaxy of our birth, even if we have explored to its innermost recesses every world, every star of the huge whirling star field surrounding us, this is but little compared to what remains to be explored and discovered in the Universe. In fact, we are only a minute spark before the Infinite, nothing more...»
Gaia, after leaving a long time ago the world which had given it* Life, had wandered aimlessly, travelling across parsecs and parsecs at the speed of thought, exploring like a child the new world which had just opened up before it. The myriads of facets of the Universe Gaia was discovering and the growing mastery it had over the millions of new possibilities of experience that were offered to it fascinated Gaia beyond description. In its joy, its boundless happiness, this collective being made up of billions of sparks of consciousness which had become one in the Great Mutation, was nearly forgetting its responsibility towards this very Life which had given birth to it. For, as it is for all that lives, Life must again beget Life so as to perpetuate itself forever.
(* The form "it" is used because Gaia is now a collective being of Light.)
Gaia had therefore eventually felt the Call and tempered its enthusiasm to explore everything in order to undertake the same process which, aeons ago, had led to its own emergence from the worlds of matter. Already, Gaia had located many worlds favorable to the appearance of Life and decided which one it would sow with Life.
Although apparently facing the immensely complex and nearly never-ending task alone, Gaia nevertheless had direct access to the inexhaustible pool of accumulated experience of the Universal Consciousness. Thus it was constantly aware of a precise Plan that was guiding it according to the present need and helping it to accomplish its work of creation, in perfect cooperation with the forces of Life. Of course, Gaia was always absolutely free in all things. Indeed, its will was so closely united with the will of Life that every opportunity of intervention that occurred to it could only be in perfect resonance with the laws of natural harmony of the Universe.
Soon, thousands of worlds, lifeless until then, began to teem with Life and to start their long ascent towards the liberation of new collective entities of consciousness born from the womb of primordial matter, the fertile silt from which all Life emerges. As the collective being who had begotten Life upon Terra Gaia had done long before, Gaia split up into a multitude of sparks of consciousness that were assigned to each of the worlds where it had brought Life so as to watch over the slow maturation process and intervene directly as needed to bring about the necessary correctives. Then they would take on physical form in order to be perceived by the beings of that world and thus stimulate the awakening of consciousness according to the specific needs of each situation.
All of this activity, of course, was going on in parallel to the activity of thousands of other collective beings of Light who were also participating in the Great Work of Creation. And at this level, as at other levels, there existed a hierarchy of increasingly evolved beings who came together on certain occasions to assess the evolution of the Plan of Life of the galaxy. It is precisely one of these beings who had just expressed before one of those rare Councils of the Elders, taking the Earth as an example, the collective thought of all the beings gathered in the heart of the galaxy, where the stellar light is densest. Like huge globes of Light with barely visible blurred outlines, they were all assembled in an immense sphere through which powerful currents of thoughts were running.
"If I have taken your native planet as an example, Gaia, it is because everything seems to indicate that the quite particular path you followed to achieve your Mutation marks you out as the best prepared amongst us to open the way to a new step in our collective evolution. Your consent is necessary, however, in order that we may entrust you with this very special mission that one of us must now carry out. And, as you know, the Universal Memory cannot help us foretell what awaits you in what you are about to undertake... if you are willing to do so."
Gaia, like all the beings present, knew it was confronted with the most total unknown. And this was fundamentally new, for never before had such an expedition been organized. The absence of any reference to this subject in the Memory of the Universal Consciousness had long been known by all, and only a mission of exploration could lead to the solution of this enigma.
Moreover, there was no guarantee that Gaia would be able to come back to continue its creative work. But, as it had been long ago, the same insatiable fervor to go higher, ever higher, was irresistibly urging Gaia to push back the limits of the unknown and try to find a Meaning to this infinite Universe that was the context of their evolution.
Indeed, at the same time, in all the galaxies colonized by Life, similar Councils were held to choose a representative of galactic Life to join a super collective being that was soon going to be formed in an attempt to unravel the mystery. In fact, the decision had been made at the last Great Universal Council to create this special Unit of consciousness to send an expeditionary body far beyond the borders of the colonized Universe to find out at last whether there is Life elsewhere in the Universe... However, the risk was great of never seeing this expeditionary body again, for never before had such an attempt been made, the Universal Memory could be relied upon for that.
"What will happen to the worlds under my responsibility?" asked Gaia, who was thus implicitly consenting to embark upon this new cosmic quest."
"Exceptional situations require exceptional measures. If everyone agrees to it, I believe that we shall easily be able to share a part of your task and take charge of the evolution of the worlds on which you have sown Life, until you come back."
"Then you can count on my full collaboration!" concluded Gaia. Immediately, as if this decision was the signal everyone was waiting for, all the beings present disappeared and each of the sparks of consciousness composing them instantaneously returned towards the world attributed to it. The only one left was the being who, on behalf of all, had asked Gaia to represent them within the expeditionary body.
"As agreed, you are to go immediately to the center of the Universe where, according to the legend lost in the mists of time, the first spark of Life from which we all come appeared. It is from this point that the most prodigious expedition the Universe has ever known will set off. How I would like to be in your place, Gaia. Who knows what you are going to discover... But at all events, we will all simultaneously perceive through you what you discover, and perhaps we will all know at last why we exist... Go! May Peace and Love guide you."
Gaia projected itself instantaneously to the place where, like all the others, it had gone to meditate on many occasions, to find again in the depths of its consciousness the thread connecting it to the first Spark of Life. There were already billions of them awaiting the moment when the representatives of all the countless galaxies would be there, and thousands of others were arriving every second in a continuous flow. It was extraordinary to behold this constellation of marvelous globes of Life, all quivering with joy and serenity, in anticipation of the exciting adventure they were about to embark upon together.
Soon the rate of new arrivals slowed down and the last representatives arrived from the farthest galaxies, at the fringe of the explored and colonized Universe, where innumerable other galaxies could be observed in all directions, waiting their turn to be sown with Life. At times, collective beings of Light had already ventured into this endless maze of stars and nebulae without seeing any sign of Life. They had all returned quickly, hesitating to venture too far from the galaxy where they were born and thus lose contact with the universe which was familiar to them. In most cases, they were the ones chosen to be part of the expeditionary body and thus contribute their precious experience, however limited, to the huge aggregate of Life which was going to set off very shortly.
These formed a nucleus in the center of the mass of globes of Light assembled in the heart of the known Universe, and consulted together in an attempt to find a plan of action which would receive everyone's assent. Finally, when it seemed that no agreement could be reached, Gaia, who had been observing the unfolding exchange of views in silence, suddenly got an idea which at least had the merit of being simple and direct. It can be summed up as follows... Instead of all of them setting off together in the same direction, he suggested that all the beings disperse simultaneously in all directions as in a controlled explosion, thus spreading in every direction at once to the known limits, while remaining connected through their thoughts, which would give them all a global perception of the Universe. Gaia suggested that the density of consciousness present at the start was probably sufficient to prevent too great a weakening of the thought contact when they would be scattered far from one another.
All the beings present quickly agreed to give this idea a try. A great silence then fell within the vast assembly, while the whole Universe, witnessing through all these beings of Light what was about to be attempted, united in thought, aware of the imminent historic moment. Perhaps the reason for the existence of the Universe was going to be known at last...
Then the unexpected happened... From within this ineffable silence, at the same time humility before the infinite and pinnacle of consciousness stemming from this same infinite, the Primordial Vibration rose louder and louder, in a long crescendo causing all Life to vibrate in phase as one single and immense Cosmic Being.
Like a butterfly hatching from its cocoon of eternity, the myriads of beings assembled at the very place where in times past Life had begun its expansion, suddenly radiated outward, simultaneously, in every direction. Gaia, who like all the others had felt a Force greater than anything he had known propelling them towards infinity, became aware of a gigantic field of consciousness expanding like a balloon, and at the same time remaining united through thought to all the living beings of the Universe.
In a second, in an eternity - everything is so relative - the Universe discovered it was nothing more than a tiny speck of dust in an infinity even greater than anything that was possible to conceive. The boundless assembly of galaxies and clusters of galaxies lost amidst the endless night of space had just appeared in its true light to the expanding bubble of consciousness which, like a huge eye, now contemplated itself in the appallingly immense emptiness surrounding it on all sides. Emptiness?
No... Wait!... No it is not empty!... There, far away... And there... And there again... Other Universes... In profusion!... To infinity...
It is as if... As if... Yes!... As if the whole Universe were just a minute atom, an infinitesimal particle on the scale of another infinite Universe of which we are part!...
But then... All this journey of the evolution of consciousness from the first spark to this apotheosis...
All this would be only one and the same cycle endlessly repeating itself... And the end of one would just be the beginning of another...
Is that the entire History of Life?... The History of an eternal new beginning...
"A long, long time ago, on an island lost amidst oceans of stars, in a place where neither foot nor eye had ever been set, a spark of Life slowly began to form and shine more and more strongly until it beamed with an almost unbearable intensity. For the first time - but was there ever a first time... - Life, at a precise point in space-time, was able to manifest its Presence, diffused throughout the visible universe..."
