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

I remember Lain saying yesterday that in every era young men and women are thirsty for ideals because the young soul is made that way. While speaking to the youngsters, he made a distinction between the “ideals of a people” and their personal ideals. For the former he said that their objective is the maintenance and improvement of the historical course of humanity and spiritual civilisation. He added that culture, as an ideal, doesn’t have a beginning or an end and is not limited to our planet.

Now, as far as their personal ideals are concerned, I recall him saying that the highest personal ideal one can have is the ideal of freedom, namely the attempt for everyone to become a free, moral and spiritual personality, to the maximum possible degree. And also that true education is not necessarily defined by knowledge as much as it is by the inner cultivation of the person and the mental urge to act based on and led by high moral standards.

“Get rid of your passions, the vices, all things vulgar and base. Free yourselves from the shackles of the material human nature. Be free, moral personalities and try to enlighten your lives with all that is beautiful and meaningful.”

These last words of his reminded me of several of our religious sermons. But then he spoke about how, after the youth is over, people drift away from the reflections of the Samith and how this ends in moral pain and anguish, causing a type of depression that often touches post-teenage souls.

“But you,” he said, “won’t let your youthful enthusiasm fade away. You won’t be brought abruptly back down to earth like older generations. You won’t become “knowledgeable” no matter how many years go by. Because for us, the people of Nojere, the Aidersen has fortunately preceded us…”

Indeed, he stressed that thanks to the Aidersen, it has been proven that the mood and state of mind of people during puberty has always been far wiser than the state of mind of those of a more mature age! The young antennas proved more powerful in capturing the world of today.

“Look at me,” he said, getting their undivided attention. “You young people have always been more capable receivers of the beauty and importance of the spring, a full moon, love or true freedom!”

He also added that the people of the Eldere thought that “letting go of your dreams” was a result and a sign of life experience and wisdom, and if they saw today's wise men they would consider them and treat them as “overgrown children”.

“But our wise men are still capable receivers and much wiser than the ones of past generations because they never let go of their dreams and never forsook their ideals in the face of a belief of dubious origin.”

He then spoke of all the different forms of “local states”—namely our nations”—before the Eldere

, and briefly looked back on the entire period of their own prehistory: our present and immediate future that is, up until the end of the 24th century. If I’m conveying his words correctly, he said that in terms of state organisation, in conjunction with the corresponding social realities of each time, three were the big turning points of “prehistory”: the period of the Athenian democracy, the end of the 18th century (with the North American and French types of states) and the mid-20th century (with the emergence of the welfare states of the North Europeans and the states of social peace, insurance and prosperity of the Scandinavians). He added that while the Athenians had their own type of political institutions, they also had a Plato and a Socrates to complete them.

He also said, however, that our ancestors thought that the answer to every social problem was the ensuring and safeguarding of a high standard of living, in the material sense of the word, that is the abolishment of poverty, unemployment, and insecurity of tomorrow. But such a mentality and tactics ignored the human factor and its internal texture completely because you do more harm to people if you provide solutions to all their economic problems and relieve them of any concern and responsibility regarding living from day-to-day if their souls lack faith in eternal values and ideals and if central moral values and orientation in life are non-existent. The internal balance of these people is more at risk then.

He repeated once again that the distinction between good and evil, right and wrong, is not man-made; instead it has an eternal meaning that goes much deeper than we think and reflects and responds to greater realities, which we now know to exist. This distinction would still exist and remain unaffected even if life stopped occurring or had never occurred on our planet. There would be life on other planets. The so-called innate morality in a worthy man, he says, has incredible depth of origin: it is not accidental or hereditary.