[UA] The Unknown Truth version 1

[Tim Akers]

What follows is a bit of cosmology that I've been working on for a series of
short stories and maybe a novel. It's obviously been adapted to the
UnAverse.

Mystical power, or energy, was once very free flowing. It was an omnipresent
force on the world, like a blanket that covered the earth. With time, it
settled down, pooled into certain places, and began to take solid form.
Where it manifested, unusual events would occur, and things would happen
that were outside of normal reality. From this initial settling, we get our
stories of mages, monsters and the like. The old schools tapped into these
places and things, harnessing the power for their own purposes. At this
time, power was centered in the earth, in its places and things, and magick
was symbolically tied to the earth. All this fell apart with the
organization of religion and the spread of ideas that placed the emphasis on
man and his works. Supernatural acts were no longer attributed to god/earth
and shifted to god/man. Religion stepped in, and power was wrested from the
earth gods, where the mystical energy had settled, and redistributed to the
instituions of man. Mysticism focused on culture, secret societies and the
like.

Then this, also, fell apart. WIth the advent of the new powers, the new
schools, the institutions were robbed of their power. Mystical energy was
shifted to the individual. Now, individuals determine the bounds of their
power. This has manifested as the archetypes, where individuals assumed the
godhoods, and the schools of magick, where individual meaning provides the
power. This is all one big cosmic circle. Power was aloof, then it became
matter. From matter, it flowed into society. From society, if flowed into
man. The next step is the rarification of power. We've shaken loose the
power from its moorings, dissettled it from it anchorholds in the earth, and
taken on the responsibility ourselves. We, of course, will fail to hold on
to it. It shall once again rise into the air, only to eventually resettle
into the earth.

I don't know. It works alot better in the stories, where the gods manifest
as men, and eventually devolve back into the earth. Anyway, it's a thought.

timmer



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