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

The incredible impact that the Arena of Arlington has on the foreign spectator is mainly owed to the superb coordination between the actors and the technical means used also by the Reigen-Swage. And that technical capability makes it possible for plays that were initially made for the Reigen-Swage, to be performed here as well, using the same sequences of alternating scenes and without losing any of their magic!

As for the name of the amazing director who won the audience’s applause in the end of the play, it’s Helmut Krotiner.

The great majority of the population of Blomsterfor originates from the north. I heard people say that, apart from the millions of descendants of the Teutons and the Germans, there are also numerous distant descendants of the Finns, Swedes and Norwegians here, who had been asked by the leaders of the era of Trodalsen, Verhin, Vohlbach, Delaroche and Baldini, 15 centuries ago, to descend to the Rhine, to the Danube and all the way down to the Mediterranean. And they obeyed, without initially wanting to, in order to prevent further conflict.

The great disaster of -87 was still relatively recent at that time and so this conscientious migration to the South, which was triggered by the South itself, coincided with the enactment of the Magna Carta of Altekirchen when hope for a better life, politically, socially and demographically speaking, was reborn from the ashes. At the same time, the unions and the independent, self-reliant cooperative organisations of all kinds of partners, precursors of the glothners, had started to become institutionalised.

CEREMONIES AND THE USE OF RELIGIONBlomsterfor, 1-VII

It’s the first day of the month today and here in Blomsterfor they have the custom to celebrate it as a Christian holiday, like Christmas and Easter.

I have noticed that they have no icons or statues, but thanks to their magical technical means, the scene of the Annunciation appeared today, in the first morning hours, in the crystal clear sky, outshining the nearest stars…

Lost as I was in the huge crowd, I couldn’t even see the main body of the procession, but Stefan told me afterwards that the procession was led by the VIPs in snow-white robes and representatives of the Valley of the Roses by their side and by several unge, as they call them here, from the Order of Mary-Lea, dressed in their official uniforms and wearing their traditional silk scarves. Beside them, children dressed in white with golden belts around their waists carried wreaths of light-coloured flowers.

Despite the luxury of the uniforms and the flowers, the solemnity of the atmosphere was undeniable. From the prayers that they chanted, I recognised Ave Regina Caelorum

and later they sang “Sancta Dei genitrix, ora pro nobis”. During the latter, thousands of people sang along “Pra pro nobis... Miserere nobis…”

Never in my life had I been a part of such an evocative, such a solemn ceremony, until now. And what makes me draw this conclusion is the incredible devotion and consistency of the crowd during the procession. What gave rise to this feeling of uniqueness was not the spectacle itself or the wealth of the procession, but the fact that they experienced it so sincerely and deeply!

Once again, I realised that religion is, above all, an experience and an emotional attraction to the Divine and to the ideal of Sanctity. It is a question of “heart and intuition” rather than rationalism in this sacred “bond” between man and Spirit.

If you asked Stefan whether there is anything truly rational underlying, say, the “Virgin Mary”, or if it corresponds to something real, my friend would have the answer ready: “I don’t want to hear anything about rationality when it comes to these things.”

But this time I insisted. I asked him if what he and Jaeger had told me was true, namely that after the Volkic Revelation, religions, or at least their dogmatic aspect, turned out to be something like children’s fairy tales.

“Yes,” he replied patiently, trying to make me understand. “What you say is true, but don’t forget that the substantive content of the Samith, its true texture and structure, still escapes us entirely. So long as we’re still humans, it is inaccessible to us. In other words, we use religions as a substitute; they serve to comfort us and alleviate this deprivation of ours…”

I felt for him because he was clearly struggling to express himself in the way he wished. It hurt him to try and put all these beliefs and ideas he had in his head into a logical sequence of thoughts. Every attempt to rationalise those “great things” made him sad and agitated, because for him such things can only be perceived through faith and intuition. Annelud, 2-VII