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TALES FROMTHE FUTURE
and wonder. And there came a time when all the people of the Earth began
to live on their beautiful homesteads. And there came a day when… Look.
I’ll show you a hologram. You’ll see two people in it.”
In the space in front of the audience arose an earth landscape. Two eld-
erly people, a man and a woman, were walking hand in hand along a path
that led from their homestead to the forest. They were clearly more than a
hundred years old. Evening was falling and stars, as yet barely visible, were
appearing in the sky. The people walked up to a cedar tree, and the elderly
woman leaned her back against it.
“I’m a grandmother and a great-grandmother, and you still keep asking
me to walk beneath the starry sky, just like when we were young,” the wo-
man said, tenderly addressing her companion.
“But don’t you want to do that, too?”
“Of course I do, my love.”
He took hold of her shoulders, embraced her impulsively, and kissed her
on the lips.
Then, pulling the shoulder strap of her dress to the side, he revealed her
shoulder. In the moonlight, three moles, all in a row, were clearly visible on
the woman’s left shoulder. The man kissed each one of them.
“You’re just the same as you were, my love, and I don’t want to part from
you.”
“And we won’t part. We’ll die and be born anew.”
“We can’t be reborn,” she said sadly. “Look, there’s less and less open
land on Earth all the time, there are gardens and homesteads all around, and
there may not be enough room for our grandchildren. Most likely, the
Creator miscalculated somehow when he was creating our Earth.”
“I don’t think so. There’s some way out. We just don’t know what it is yet.
But I’m certain, that our love cannot be severed. You and I will die so that
we can be born anew.”
“But where?”
“Look, my love, on that star. May our thought create life that resembles
life here on earth, on a new planet. Think about it – why did it occur to Him
to create so many planets? It wasn’t for no reason. Our thought is material,
