Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

I think that when the people of our time reach maturity, they get trapped in a routine and slowly become enslaved by it. They become seemingly “knowledgeable” and “down to earth” and start walking with their heads bowed down from the pressure and the stress of everyday life, losing any interest in the colour of an autumn sky, like the one I’m looking at right now. No, Mother, it’s not a lie! Believe my words: “The great state with the trees with golden leaves” did not only exist in the dreams of a simple, naive and gullible child’s heart... 9-I

It’s the third morning that I go to hear Lain. This man has his way not only to convey knowledge, but also to speak directly to your heart. And how nicely he explains and simplifies everything! There is not a thing I didn’t understand any of these three days.

This afternoon I went to the big boulevard that runs along the central park. I didn’t look for its name but it’s parallel to the middle road of the Roads of Jasmine and, in my opinion, it’s the most beautiful part of this entire state. On my right-hand side, I had that enormous park with the artificial lake I’ve mentioned before, and on my left-hand side, on the other side of the boulevard, I had the 130-meter long row of palaces, which looked as if inhabited by Titans.

The light drizzle was falling on me and bouncing off my shoes and I remember that I thought that in my previous life I would have already fallen into melancholy with such weather. But now I’m happy! I know I repeat it all the time, but this psychological contrast of mine surprises me and I can’t help pointing it out over and over again.

THEIR MONTHS AND FESTIVE DAYS

Teachings by Lain

9–II

It’s the ninth again, but the ninth of the next month. I didn’t write a single word for thirty whole days this time. I’m so absorbed in Lain’s lessons in the mornings, in my endless walks around the city in the evenings and on the Reigen-Swage at night that I haven’t had time to write.

Nowadays, each month has exactly thirty days. They now mark them in Roman numerals instead of the old names we used to distinguish them. The start of each New Year is marked by the autumn equinox. It has been that way since the top scientists took the political authority in their hands and obtained the power to legislate and handle all political matters of everyday life.

Each year consists of five intercalary holidays: New Year, Christmas, one dedicated to human altruism and two of anniversaries. The first is to mark March 5th 2396 (according to our calendar), the Aarsdag of the Retsstat, which is the anniversary of the day that the whole world was united into a Universal Commonwealth governed by law and order. The second is commemorate of September 6th 3382, the Aarsdag of the Gretvirch

, the day of gaining access to direct knowledge from Alexis Volky, who led the human species to the next stage of evolution.

They have a sixth holiday every four years, which had occurred the year before last, the MDVIII (3904 of our chronology). The ancient division of the week is not used anymore, perhaps because the two-year service, without any exceptions or days off, putting an end to the distinction between working days and Sundays. As for the citizens, the Cives, such as Stefan and the rest of the people, they adjust their individual timetable depending on their mood and the work to which they have dedicated themselves, if they have any...

Now on the subject of Lain and his lessons. In the classroom you hear things that aren’t just for children. Even adults could complete their education there. He teaches almost everything, from philosophy and history to social sciences and their own, mainly spiritual, sciences: a breadth of fields though not in so much depth, but still, something like that would never happen in our time during our years of basic education. And so these mature sixteen- and seventeen-year-old adolescents have perfect knowledge of at least the basics of each field of study when they graduate and therefore can, after completing their two-year service in the glothners, choose to specialise or just receive training in any field they feel they are inclined towards.

Nowadays they truly appreciate and honour the spiritual sciences, not the ones designed to describe and interpret the external world and life, but the ones that pay special attention to inner depth, the ones that penetrate into the deeper meaning of existing things. And they argue that these sciences are not so much connected with the abilities of the human intellect, but mainly with feelings and emotions. And what they use as “means to capture and interpret” that part of the human existence is nothing else than the experiences and delights that shake the human soul to its core.