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WHICH TEMPLE SHALL GOD BE IN
WHICH TEMPLE SHALL GOD BE IN
From the book by Vladimir Megre "The Family Book"
(translated by Marian Schwartz)
The people in one of the many settlements on Earth were living happily.
There were ninety-nine families in this settlement. Each of the families had
a beautiful house decorated with fanciful carving. The garden around the
house bore fruit every year. It raised the vegetables and berries itself. People
greeted the spring joyfully and took pleasure in the summer. The sequence
of cheerful, friendly holidays gave birth to songs and dances. In winter,
people rested from the daily rejoicing, and contemplating the heavens, they
tried to decide whether the stars and moon could be woven into better pat-
terns than they now had.
Once every three years, in July, these people gathered together in a glade
at the edge of their settlement. Once every three years, God answered their
questions in an ordinary voice. Invisible to the gaze of ordinary eyes, God
was tangible to each and every person. Together with each resident of the
settlement, he would decide how best to arrange life for the days to come.
The conversation between the people and God was philosophical, but some-
times quite simple and jocular.
For example, a middle-aged man said to God, “What were you doing,
God, at our holiday this summer, when we all gathered at dawn and you star-
ted soaking everyone with rain? The rain poured until dinnertime like a
heavenly waterfall, and the sun began to shine only at dinnertime. What
were you doing before dinnertime, sleeping?”
