old dream

Chapter 100: The Symmetrical Universe Inside and Out

On the night he returned to his uncle's mansion from the poor apartment, Colin read all the letters he brought back.

He found a blank calendar, and whenever he saw a new event mentioned by the respondent, he marked it under the corresponding date.But most of them were trivial incidents, such as overtime pay, my finger was injured by a wooden saw, some wooden statues were carved with a small knife, and so on.

After sorting out these trivial matters, Colin had to admire "Horst" as a brilliant liar.Because there is little contradiction between these scattered events, and even the life of the lieutenant is very convincingly shown.

But even so, there are still a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers.The lieutenant depicted in each reply letter is slightly different.

What Colin has to do is not to restore the real lieutenant, but to cater to other people's impressions.

Because the fictional Heinrich could not actually meet people, there is no mention of any social activities he participated in in any of the replies.He even refused several parties invited by the recipients, which invisibly provided convenience for Colin.

If there is an opportunity in the future, I need to investigate relevant materials to make up for the life of the lieutenant before he retired from the army.

Colin closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair, rubbing the bridge of his nose with his fingers habitually.Finally, I have a general impression of this fictional lieutenant.Then, start writing a new reply letter.At present, he still has two letters that were just written by "Horst" and were not sent in time.Their existence has solved many problems for Colin.

After all, while living in Cincily, he had learned how to fake handwriting and grammar from forgery experts.It can be said that with these two samples, Colin can forge the reply letter seamlessly.

…………

After writing four replies, it was already one o'clock in the morning.It's Sunday, and tomorrow morning it's time to go to work at the seminary.

Colin was used to this extreme lack of sleep.

While sticking the envelope with glue, Colin once again began to think about the way to go in the future.Because before the ban on the five hands was lifted, the status of a member of the Chestalo family seemed to only bring obstacles, and he even once considered whether it was possible to leave the family by feigning death.

However, many people in the Five Hands knew about their relationship with Uncle Craigie and the seminary.So I can't "die" easily.

Uncle still needs someone to take care of him, and the monitoring of the seminary cannot be given up for the time being.So this seemingly ingenious technique actually has no room for manipulation.

He sank into his own consciousness again, and the stars made up of the abundance of life were still shining.At this time, the object-finding ceremony placed in Ji Lian's home has expired, but all the results obtained have been recorded in this starry sky.

The decision not to startle the snake was correct, and the wine crate with the tracking device installed was shipped from the distribution center of the northern farm and scattered to nine locations in the city.Perhaps because of the poor quality of this batch of wine, only three tokens were transported to the Old City, and the remaining six landed in South Stadt.Colin took out another pen and drew six circles on the map, each with a bright red cross.

Then he compared the mailing addresses on those envelopes, and marked them respectively.Dots of black writing fell on the map.Just counting correspondence, there are more than 150 people living in Stade, and most of those addresses are concentrated in the south of the city.

They are basically Anhe people, but they can only live in immigrant settlements.

Through this map, Colin seemed to see the embryonic form of a new empire.

Then he closed his eyes, erased the traces of the object-finding ritual in his consciousness, and returned the stars to their places.

After completing these mundane and trivial affairs, Colin took out the "The Slave King's Wedding Ring" that he hadn't read carefully before

Hurry up to improve your strength is the first priority.

…………

"The Wedding Ring" mentions that the hearth was built in "the place where the soul dwells", which is an old loose name.What we used to refer to in the past is actually consciousness.

But if the soul lives in the consciousness, then who is the person who manipulates the consciousness?

Hands cannot lift themselves.The eye cannot see itself without looking through a mirror.

So "I" can't control my own soul, at least not all of it.

Consciousness is by no means the dwelling place of the soul. It may be the appearance of some kind of soul, like the radiance of a fire that is constantly radiating outward, but it is not the flame itself.

The "intention" of the soul's outburst is at the heart of all ancient rituals.But no one knows where and in what form the intent springs.

It has an effect just by focusing out of nowhere, the medium and process are unknown.

As early as decades ago, someone in the League discovered and published theories about EEG phenomena.

The League was enthusiastic about this serendipitous discovery because of its potential to explain the mystery of "intent."Baidu, under the throne of the Holy King, built a huge one-piece instrument tens of meters wide and long at that time. Today, people still call it "the tower of copper and aluminum". The authorities claim that it is an alchemy factory.But the real purpose of its construction is to measure and simulate the brain activity of a Red Star wizard in conjunction with thousands of large-scale ceremonies.

Similar to the science and technology of the [-]th century, combined with specially designed rituals, the complete human brain map was successfully simulated.Those rituals drained the etheric field within a two-kilometer radius of the "Tower of Copper and Aluminum", but in the end, they failed to activate even the lowest level of spells.

This matter was ridiculed by various religious orders, saying that "soul" never exists on the physical level.

Just as the "unspeakable" would not be located in the physical plane.

In the eyes of mystics, the human microcosm and the world macrocosm not only have the same layers, but also have a perfect symmetrical relationship.

The human body corresponds to the material world.The ether of the human body corresponds to the ether.

The deep consciousness is the deep sea of ​​the subconscious, corresponding to the imaginary world.

And the soul that emits intentions, or the source and divinity, corresponds to the source of everything in the universe: the "unspeakable narrator".

But "heart shell" and "consciousness" are not in these groups of correspondences.Because they are a mutable scope.At first, only part of the ether is covered, but it can continue to expand and spread.

Later, the Ankh referred to consciousness as "a collection of ego".The shell of the heart is the boundary to maintain the self.

They are the domains of the "self".

Objects that are not accepted by it are "things outside the body", and the consciousness that is not accepted by it is hidden into "subconsciousness".

At this point, the path to ascension also has two divergences:
Whether the "self" wants to expand to the outside world, or to dive into the deep consciousness.

At the end of the first path, the subset of "self" will overlap with the collection of the entire universe.Perhaps at that time, the objective world will be completely converted into the inner world, so the "unspeakable" will be integrated and restored, and everything will return to the origin of radiation.

The other one is to face the turbulent unconsciousness under the consciousness, and keep approaching the soul, so as to recall the fact that you are the "unspeakable one", and escape from the eternal division and degradation.This is the so-called gradual "awakening of the inner god".

The "heart shell" that imprisoned the conscious mind blocked the two paths.

And the unquenchable intention is the common beacon of these two paths.

Although at the time of departure, the light of "intent" bursting out from the soul can already be seen through the fog...but perhaps only when we go to the end can we understand its truth.

　There is a schematic diagram of the settings in the chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)