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The trance-state of prophecy is like no other visionary
experience. It is not a retreat from the raw exposure of the
senses (as are many trance-states) but an immersion in a
multitude of new movements. Things move. It is an ultimate
pragmatism in the midst of infinity, a demanding consciousness
where you come at last into the unbroken awareness that the
universe moves of itself, that it changes, that its rules change,
that nothing remains permanent or absolute throughout all
such movement, that mechanical explanations for anything can
work only within precise confinements and, once the walls are
broken down, the old explanations shatter and dissolve, blown
away by new movements. The things you see in this trance are
sobering, often shattering. They demand your utmost ef ort to
remain whole and, even so, you emerge from that state
profoundly changed.
When I set out to lead humankind along my Golden Path, I
promised them a lesson their bones would remember. I know a
profound pattern which humans deny with their words even
while their actions af irm it. They say they seek security and
quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they
create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet
security they squirm in it. How boring they find it. Look at them
now. Look at what they do while I record these words. Hah! I
give them enduring eons of enforced tranquillity which plods
on and on despite their every ef ort to escape into chaos.
Believe me, the memory of Leto’s Peace shall abide with them
forever. They will seek their quiet security thereafter only with
extreme caution and steadfast preparation.
As each day passes, you become increasingly unreal, more
alien and remote from what I find myself to be on that new day.
I am the only reality and, as you dif er from me, you lose
reality. The more curious I become the less curious are those
who worship me. Religion suppresses curiosity. What I do
subtracts from the worshipper. Thus it is that eventually I will
do nothing, giving it all back to frightened people who will find
themselves on that day alone and forced to act for themselves.