The Nautiloids
Page 69
1937 — 2018
Yes, we had one and all left our native planets in order to discover whether, regarding the cosmos as a whole, the spirit which we all in our hearts obscurely knew and haltingly prized, the spirit which on Earth we sometimes call humane, was Lord of the Universe, or outlaw; almighty, or crucified. And now it was becoming clear to us that if the cosmos had any lord at all, he was not that spirit but some other, whose purpose in creating the endless fountain of worlds was not fatherly toward the beings that he had made, but alien, inhuman, dark.
Chapter VI
Intimations of the Star Maker
Chapter VII
More Worlds — A Symbiotic Race
More Worlds — A Symbiotic Race
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.