"Ardath Mayhar - Khi to Freedom" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mayhar Ardath)

reading monitors, checking readouts on the survival-scopes, and hoping.
Then we hit, that sturdy little boat and I, and it wasnтАЩt a clean landing at
all.



II.

The Hril Who Watches
Amid the long work of watching physical suns and planets, energies and
material things, living and almost-living things, there came a spark of
unusual interest. I focused my thought upon that phase of time and space
and held myself ready. The one we waited for was moving within his own
skein of time toward the point at which we must take part in his life and
education.
Some among the Hril have asked why we trouble ourselves concerning
the happenings among those who are, after all, only figments of our
thoughts. That is not asked by those of us who watch, for we can see the
shadow of ourselves in these creatures we have made. They, too, in their
small ways, are groping toward enlightenment. Only the fact that we have
been far longer upon the road has given us the power to make and unmake
their kind.
And we know dangers. Such a peril is there, in its spot in the weft of
time that is in the future of this one for whom we wait. We, in our present
forms, would be unable to control it and to return it to its own place. It
would devour us and our nearest servants, for we are, as it is, energies
focused into purposes.
Nearer at hand there is the problem of the Ginli. One who had not
scanned that physical future carefully enough conceived of them. Now all
must quease at their doings among their fellows in that small corner of all
that is. They must be taught or unmade. There is no third alternative. This
task, too, awaits our pupil.
Outside time, we can see all possibilities. If this one who even now
approaches Khi-Ash is able enough, strong enough, he may make the
correct decisions at the proper times. We do notтАФperhaps
cannotтАФcompel him or any of our creations along the ways we would have
them go. Chance and individual choice seem inextricably woven into the
weft of all that is. As we grow nearer and nearer to the Total
Enlightenment, we see even more clearly that only through free choice is
any good thing made or done.
That has been made clear to us, with many other matters that were
obscure, by those who instructed us upon our way. For we are not the last
nor the ultimate dwellers along the interdimensional layering.
Beyond us, there are still greater Others.



III.

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