About a certain return

Part 20

All those people, wrapped up in large cloaks that only allowed guessing their skeletal shape, were gathering in groups around some leaders. The leaders looked a bit different, they were arrogant, stiffy. Then, a voice sounded through the mist:

– Hey, you, the one wrapped up in mantel! If you want the Truth be revealed to you, come here!

I honestly didn't want to be the one in the lime light from all those chaps. Needless to say that my mind wasn't working properly, and besides, I couldn't speak without stammering and had some crisis of leper or another unknown malady and I tried to refuse...

Then I spotted Gramon's First arcount sitting on the pyramid's top. His magnificence left me speechless. He was weightless, he was simply floating, surrounded completely by a bluish aura, dressed in extraordinary golden armour, his face seemed carved in shining white rock, and his helmet, absolutely incredible, a cylinder of columns, with a cupola on top wrapping up perfectly his head or whatever it was. He resemble to a bird, I believe, not a man and not to the ugly common gramons that I saw and identified myself with, he has a splendor that left me enraptured! Oh!

– Come on you idiot! Whatever made Gramon unveil to you the Truth, for free, in forty-nine lessons? To enrich you and your descendants until the fifty-second generation? The thought that you may become my boss gives me shudders! I don't understand, mumbled the arcount, why do I need to enlighten you, can't you read the textbook as everybody else does? I need to consult you personal file!

And some sort of staircase appeared in that direction...

– Where do you want to go, you wretched? You are heading towards your perdition, towards self-oblivion and lawlessness. How can you still believe in vain promises after I've trained you to stand out temptations? Do you want too? Stay in range to be disappointed!...

I turned my antennas astonished to the sly old man that seemed to be picking on me. His sight, that of a billy goat standing up on two feet was rather funny, so I hesitated to grab him with my hook.

– Why are you afraid to look in the eye the Very Great from beyond this darkness, there where the grain of light is spread from? Shake off you evil fate! Refuse the illusive gifts. You, that still carry the future's heart in your chests, don't listen to those without future. Go to the light! It is your salvation!

– Reject the old age in the name of freedom. Destroy the laws of the ancients that got hold of all the vital energy resources. I, Gramon, I declare opened all the sources! You, those light in spirit or penniless, have now, in front of you, all the wealth and all the wisdom of the world. Dive into it because it's your time! I am Gramon, The One that opens the sources! These old blighters have inoculated in your minds the beauty myths, a feature of perfection in human words! If those ugly creatures present The Beauty, well, that means Beauty is dead! Let's adore the Dead Beauty because the Death is immortal! Old age doesn't exist anymore!

– You do not exist, you miserable ones! You take pleasure in this sweet ignorance and go on with your lives, sinful and unreal. I know each one of you. I am an unerring god, while you are some empty skulls, some lost souls...

– The Revolution, the Revolution has started!

– Seven knights will come, in the name of light; they will come to announce a new salvation. The city will collapse swallowed by its own mother the Great Goddess and the survivors will scatter beyond the waters. And only those who will be purified can rebuild the city, after burning the plague's root...

– Enough! Eliminate him! He reached old age and didn't understand anything of this life. Who or what are those "Seven knights, seven stars, seven stones, after seven years or seven days"! Only Gramon's prophesy became true. The evil still amidst us will be uproot! Nothing can come back.

– We proclaim "The way out from Gramon", I heard this in my head, if was not even me who said it?

And I saw a man like a woman, or the other way around, fancy dressed, complying with the procession and the solemnity required. But what would a woman do next to me?

– Come here you virgins, you pure beings, you angels lost in this devilish world...

I gave her a deadly punch with my invincible hook. She was representing the evil in Gramon's spirit. My deed wake up the arcount and I felt him creeping inside my most intimate senses: "This is Gramon's book", he told me showing something that already started to wonder inside my head and suddenly I stood up and had been engulfed in Gramon's splendor...

Oh, Gramon's splendor cannot be expressed in words. Pleasure, ecstasy... More that pleasure... more that ecstasy... More that I exist... Oh... touch me! Fell me! Swallow me! Digest me! Dive me! Your Name is...! So much sadness uttering Your Name... Your Name... Far away... I was running towards Him full of love and yearning... Can You hear me uttering Your Name? I will not reach You... I will never get there... I was running, a mounted procession, towards Him, but was unable to touch Him, ever... Something was pulling me out of my adoration, a thought, a remainder, how did it still remained in my mind? "I need a spirit able to reach my life, I need a voice to tell me the truth, to show me the way, I need someone like you... I need a heart to offer it..."

– I am the Conqueror, The Winner of the great battles... Come to know the Glory on the Battle Field, let's prey in the Knighthood Masters Temple...

That moment I felt like stroked by lightening. And with me all thatworld was tumbling down... Arms, legs, heads, were splitting as if they havenever been bound together! The city was... overturning... I had seen the knights ofthe Apocalypse, the old billy-goat has prophesied, and one of them told me: Icannot understand where we got to. What must I do from now on?