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Olam came down to Krag Island on an evening in late May. He came down from the spheres of the living Aeons, spheres as much superior to this world as any living person is superior to his or her image.
His descent was difficult. The Archons intervened against him several times. Knowing they could not stop Olam, they determined to hinder him. But what appeared to be the craft that transported him slipped through the storms that the world-making principalities raised against it. When it emerged from the gateway of a black hole, Olam woke up from a long sleep. For a few moments he did not know where he was, and his yellow eyes blinked uncertainly in the inner darkness out of which he stared. He had been dreaming the living book of his everlasting life as an Aeon, and in the moment of awakening he held that entire book together in a single mental image.