Planet B-17: The Beginnings

Chapter 30: Temple of Knowledge

"Our visitor, Mé Khn, comes to us from a dimension below," Thynna revealed to him, "and would like to learn about dimensions and their entwinement."

"Ah," said the old Master. "Do follow me, young Mé," he said and, turning, made his way into an aisle, shelves on each side stacked with age-old tomes. They walked and walked through the dome, the air fresh and pleasantly warm, and then they turned right. Windows were on the left side, while on the right were the ends of the shelves. The Master touched the railing of a stairway going down and, without turning, he said, "To look up, one must also look below."

It made sense to Mé, thus she followed him, accompanied by her three guides.

"It may seem that answers are elusive," the Master then said, as he'd climbed the few steps and reached a wooden door on the left, walls all around. He passed through it as though he'd combed through air with his will and he held it free for the passage, enabling them all to enter as well. "True Knowledge is sound and is clear." He bowed as if to the answer he'd given, as if in salutation to the essence of what he had said.

Mé listened keenly, but she decided to remain quiet, so to pay more attention.

"A relaxed spirit knows more than an overly-burdened mind," the Master advised, and Mé felt as if his knowledge encompassed knowing her as well.

In the space they had entered, Mé could discern a model of a planetary system: gold loops around an epicentre, but she wasn't sure that was what it was. It felt that the sky and the earth had combined into one, and that her perception was shifting in between the two planes, thus it was a chamber in the ground and in the sky, both up and below; but more than their presence and the vision she'd had, she could not discern.

"To seek knowledge of any kind," the Master then said, "one is advised to look keenly, with fresh new eyes and a desire to understand, for the foundation of Knowledge is understanding. One cannot see what one does not know. Now the Truth is being revealed to you. Look keenly."

Mé could only hope to observe the Truth in the answers she was being told.

"For to seek is to know before you can find," said the Master. "That way, when you do, you know you have found it. Look with fresh new eyes," his advice returned.

Mé watched the system model more carefully. The gold rings around the sphere at the centre appeared to be moving. How many there were, she could not discern, for the farther away from the sphere that they got, the more subtle the material that formed them would become.

"How many are there?" she dared ask.

"How many can you see?" came the Master's reply.

She waited a long moment to focus better and re-check, then she said, "Clearly, I can see only one. This one," she added, pointing at it, and she sensed her companions stir, as though in warning not to touch them and disturb their flow. She drew back her hand. "I apologize."

"No need," said the Master. "Carry on. One you see clearly. What about the others?"

"I can faintly see one – two more," she answered. "The one in between, more clearly, whereas the other is barely perceptible to my sight."

"That is the 5th dimension that you barely discern," said the Master, elucidating the mystery of what the loops in the system were. "It shows your ability to see into dimensions as it is at this moment in time. The clearest represents the dimension you have the most practice observing, most of the time. The model expands well beyond these, but since I'm a firm believer that Knowledge is best acquired at a slow, steady pace, so that which you find can be thoroughly processed, to further your quest qualitatively rather than acquire an information clutter with hardly any essence grasped, I shall not reveal to you how far this model goes."