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

Over the coming months Volky and the other great men of the Aidersen felt the need to stop once and for all the “mass exodus” that followed, because they found themselves in front of hundreds and then thousands of cases of people whose motive for life had subsided and what had now replaced it was a new impulse, that of “desertion” and “escape”, which most often manifested itself in people as a consequence of the Nibelvirch.

This new impulse had emerged together with the incredible feelings of happiness, spiritual peace, a kind of divine joy and a nearly “Socratic” conciliation with death but it had also brought with it a disregard for all worldly things, which now felt insignificant to people, foreign and unworthy peoples’ concern.

What they could not handle was not the daily routine, the realities and the small joys and sorrows of life; it was that all their dreams, loves, loved ones that were no longer by their side, the happiest moments of their lives, things that they used to think of as mere memories, had now been condensed into an incredible force that had come back to haunt them.

There came days in 986 and 987 (3382 and 3383 AD)

when the spiritual leadership of the planet was seriously concerned whether this “early psychological and spiritual maturity”, this leap in biological evolution and spiritual progress, had come at a good time, and whether the Valley’s centuries-long project would have unpleasant consequences as well. Almost everyone had proven far from being prepared, even the Ilectors, with the only exception of a few hundred imperturbable elders, followers of Volky.

Creation, with wise foresight, had successfully hidden its secrets from man, with great zeal and for thousands of years. They recalled that the first two centuries of the Valley many of them were against this enormous spiritual task and strongly insisted on putting an end to the special effort to achieve an advanced spiritual culture and create an intellectually superior man. In short, they wanted to say: This is how things are and they are fine the way they are; let them evolve at their own pace and don’t rush them because God knows what any action that accelerates the natural process may awaken…

The solution they came up with in order to stop the “mass exodus” was to highlight the purposefulness and necessity of every stage in human life on earth, including the one they were going through at the time. They convinced people that even that tough phase was a small but essential part of the Samith and it was their duty to go through that too. They told them that “we all come to this life with a purpose: to love much and give a piece of ourselves to others, even if that causes us pain, to be thirsty for the beautiful and the true, to get to know the worldly wonders of nature and help the weakest creatures, and to leave this life when our time comes and not before like deserters.

They stressed that what they saw should in no case be linked to the termination of life on earth. On the contrary. They told them that the purpose is for life to go on and take an upward course, each time getting one step closer to perfection, to the truth! “If we become extinct, how is this upward course going to continue? Will you deprive the next generations of your own species of the chance to one day compare themselves to our generation and feel as proud of their progress as we feel today, compared to our ancestors? We are the indispensable link between the past and the future. We are the present and we must not be lost!”

Alongside this argument, commands were given by the Valley for immediate plans that would result in an even better organisation of society, a society that would give its members new life incentives. Major infrastructural projects were initiated, research for new inventions was announced, new institutions were established and better associations were created almost in all areas of social life. Even pan-European music festivals were organised, which served as a distraction, stimulating people’s interest in life again. 10-VI

All this persistent campaign resulted in a considerable mitigation of the aforementioned escape impulse and in a decrease in the numbers of such incidents. As it was expected, they failed to completely eliminate them during the first year. In fact the Aidersen later said: “It is very difficult to keep those who are dying of thirst from running straight towards a well when one appears before them.”