The Chosen

“Grandpa Abyssal, what did he mean today at Synagogue, that the Jews are the chosen? Chosen for what? What were we chosen to do?”

“Ahh, Chaadrean, that is a long story. We would have to venture far, far out into the future to try to see that clearly. It is too late now. I came up here to tell you that your light was supposed to be off fifteen minutes ago. If your mother sees your light on, there will be trouble…. Now go to sleep!”

“But grandpa! Deep religious questions are torturing my mind, they will not let me sleep! I will have to turn the light back on after you leave, even if it means getting caught by mom. You have to tell me. It is God that chose us, right, but why? And what is it that we are chosen to do?”

“Now Chaadrean, you cannot bargain with this light! There is a time for the light to be on, and a time for the light to be off. Now is the time for the light to be off, and so it must be off! We will talk about this chosenness tomorrow, or, since you will probably forget, some other time. Sometime when it is a time for the light to be on.”

“No. Grandpa Abyssal, I am afraid that I must take a stand! This light must stand for my need to know the answer to this question about what it means that we are the chosen. I must know, and this light must remain on, as a symbol of my need to know the truth!”

The door opened softly and for a moment the man and the boy froze, caught red handed with the light on when it was supposed to be off, under mother’s critical gaze. She even went so far as to step into the room and cross her arms.

Grandpa Abyssal and Chaadrean broke free at the same moment and while grandpa raised his palms upward and exclaimed, “He won’t turn out the light!”, Chaadrean crossed his arms, just like his mother, and said, “I must leave this light on, Mother, until I know the truth. It is a symbol of my need to know what the Jews are chosen for. What does that mean? What are we chosen to do?”

“Chaadrean, you do this to your grandpa every time he comes to visit. You make him use his special gift, and make him take his mind into the future to bring you back the precious gift of knowledge. But then you go to bed, and you don’t see how much it takes out of him. He is exhausted, he is sick the whole next day. It takes too much out of him, we agreed that you would not do this to him this time. And now, you try to hold him hostage with the light!”

“No!” She stepped forward, and the light that was to be a symbol of the boy’s need to know was heartlessly turned off, only the dim glow from the hall illuminating the room. But then that dim glow moved and they saw that it was because father was stepping into the room. And he said, “Mother… this is an important question. The answer will mean a great deal to Chaadrean, help him on his journey. Grandpa,” father said, turning the light back on and quietly taking mother’s hand, “this is up to you. If it is too much, do not go. But we will let you decide.” And he pulled, had to pull, mother from the room. He closed the door behind him, and turned to face her crossed arms in the hallway.

“Please grandpa!!!? Pleeeease???” Chaadrean said, clasping his small hands and begging his grandpa. Grandpa tried to put up some mock resistance, but Chaadrean smiled and kept saying “Please, please,” knowing now that he had won and that his grandpa would go into his special place and come back with answers.

And so before long, with Chaadrean sitting on top of his covers in his racing pajamas - his pajamas covered with race cars - grandpa quieted him down, took a deep breath, and leaned forward and turned out the light once more. Chaadrean remained quiet and grandpa began to pray. Soon, the lamp began to put out some light again, but now a different kind of light. A light that filled the room, but would be hard to read by, and it had a swirling character, as though it were spinning around, through a spectrum of colors, around the still darkened light bulb.

Grandpa’s hands were clasped, his eyes closed to the strange light, while Chaadrean kept a watchful and protective hand on his shoulder as the old man rocked back and forth and mumbled words that Chaadrean did not understand. And then there was a dark flash and a cracking sound – a bolt of light had extended from the light bulb right to grandpa’s head, but it was not a bright yellow bolt, it was a deep purple bolt of light. And then all was quiet, the light was just off again. Grandpa kept quietly mumbling and rocking forward and back, and Chaadrean stood right up and, with his hands on grandpa’s shoulders, looked at his head, but everything seemed okay.

Then grandpa came out of his trance and he turned and looked at Chaadrean. He said slowly, in a soft voice, “I went further in… deeper than ever before. It was the question… what were we chosen for? It was the right question to ask. It was the question itself that went deeper, further in. I think, I think we better share the answer with your mother and father, what do you say? Let’s go downstairs.” This was doubly exciting to Chaadrean: first, swirling colors, purple lightening bolts, deep spiritual-magical things happening right in his room, and now the chance to stay up late and go and have a serious talk about serious matters with his grandpa and his parents! But when grandpa tried to stand up from the bed, he faltered, and needed a moment to rest. Chaadrean remembered what his mother had said and now he felt bad, but all he could do was jump down onto the floor and try to help and support Grandpa Abyssal up. He held his hand all the way down the stairs, each of them with their other hand on the railings, and did everything he could to pour his own youthful energy into his grandpa, and then slowly they came into the living room. Mother was quickly there on the other side and together they helped him to sit down on the couch. Mother bustled around some, chastising all three men in the room, and brought him some water, but father quieted her, and soon they all sat down to talk.

“The room got filled with strange colors, and they started to spin, like a galaxy!” Chaadrean said, “and then a purple lightning bolt hit him in the head from the light bulb in the lamp!”

“It… it was the right question,” grandpa said, taking another drink of water. “I said I didn’t want some ambiguous answer, I wanted a practical, real-world answer: what are the Jews chosen for? And I got the answer. It took me in, much further, much deeper than I have ever gone before. I saw more of the future, not just small things, but the way the world comes to work.”

“Tell us,” Father said quietly. “Take as much time as you need, then tell us everything.”

Grandpa took some more deep breaths, trying to slowly put it all together. Just like the light had been swirling around the room, now it was swirling around as ideas and visions in his head. Eventually he said, “I was at a point that was far forward, in the deep future, looking backwards. I saw that the world had been struggling to find its way. So many complex factors, nations and peoples and complex systems….. So many cities and problems and issues of all kinds. What do we do? What do we do with all this big mess of things, how do we organize it? Well, the answer that everyone came up with, is we organize it like a living being,” grandpa said, looking down at Chaadrean by his side and tousling his hair. “They decided, the people decided, what handles so much complexity? Living systems, that’s what! So they began to organize things around the world like a living system. China becomes like the liver, they make products for the whole world. India becomes like the kidneys, lots of recycling and reprocessing.”

Grandpa looked tired, he tried to think, tried to see it all. Mother asked, “Do you want some coffee, I have some left from dinner, it is still hot?”

“Yes… I shouldn’t drink too much, because then I won’t sleep, but I feel like a little could help.” Mother brought him a hot cup with milk in it and he took a good sip.

“Ah, that’s better.” He thought for another moment, and after another sip he said, “It is complicated. They don’t just start emulating a living system halfway, they make big changes, real changes. At some point they decide they need the forty six chromosomes, they need twenty three maternal and twenty three paternal ‘greater chromosomes’, to build a greater living human being, so that together we are built in the image of man, who is built in the image of God! So they take the American states. They join a few of them together, just in this greater genetic sense, they are still separate states but a few have to work together, so that there are a total of forty six ‘greater chromosome states’. They name twenty three states as ‘maternal chromosomes’ and twenty three as ‘paternal chromosomes’.”

“But what does Israel do, what are the Jews chosen for?” Chaadrean demanded.

“I’m getting there, I’m getting there: be patient,” Grandpa Abyssal told him, slowly taking another sip of coffee. He went on, “They began to divide up all the problems in the world, and they would pair one of these American state-chromosomes with an outside nation, to work together on that problem. A state and a nation would pair off and work on desalinizing salt water, so there would be more fresh water where needed. Every living system, even you Chaadrean, when you were still a little fetus inside your mothers belly, every living system begins to develop problems with too much carbon dioxide, just like we have with our problems with global warming. The answer is to breath, to develop greater lungs to move out the excess carbon dioxide, so a state and a nation pair off and work on that. All the fish in the oceans that are on the endangered species list-”

“There’s a hundred of them, a hundred kinds of fish that are in big trouble!” Chaadrean said.

“Right,” grandpa said, “one American state and one outside nation pair off and share the responsibility for these fish. The whole world goes to work on all of its problems. And every nation plays a role. Each shared responsibility that gets people working on it, this becomes like a gene, a greater gene. Over the years, some responsibilities get taken care of… like when they get the fish populations for those hundred species back up, they don’t need so many people working on that, so it becomes an inactive gene, and the state and nation pair-off on some new problem or challenge around the world. Everyone begins working together.”

“No, it is the British Isles. England and Ireland, they are like the greater ventricles, they put out a new economic currency, called Sun dollars. Northern Ireland and Scotland, they pull Sun dollars back into the heart, they are like the greater atria, they use taxation to pull Sun dollars back in and then join that with new Sun dollars that are created and it all flows back out to the world through England and Ireland. Enough money is created to help all the people of the world, and… the way right now a person gets a job and gets paid for doing that job? Well, it becomes like every nation, or every state in America, takes on a job – these global responsibilities – and then they get paid for doing that job. Then the nations and states pay their people who are doing the work. Lots of new jobs.

“What Israel is chosen for… well, as they go along developing this idea of a greater living human being, they realize they need a bone structure. And, they also see a practical need. They need a nation to be the middle-man between the American states and the outside nations. The two parts have to work together, American states like ‘brain systems’ and the outside nations like ‘body systems’. They choose Israel to be the middle-man, because of Ezekiel 37,1-11: the field of dry bones that comes to life. That passage says that Israel is the bones, and so they make them the bone structure. They help, they work with both the American states and the outside nations and they help manage them, help them work together, help keep them on the same page with all the big responsibilities all over the world. They form a kind of barrier, like all of America is inside of Israel, and the rest of the world is outside of Israel, and so the Jews help keep everything, all the responsibilities on the same page, all the states and nations working together on their respective projects.”

“It is like the Menorah,” Chaadrean exclaimed, “There is Israel as the candle in the middle, with, first, the American people, then all their states, and then America-as-a-whole as the three candles on that side, and then on the other side, there is all the people of the world, and then all the nations of the world, and then the whole-one-big-world as the three candles on that side!”

Mother said, “It is like the star of David, with Israel holding one triangle together with the other triangle: the Jews hold the two parts together.”

Father said, “So, we all change the world together, begin thinking about life, about being alive. Use all our scientific knowledge to design and build ourselves into a living system? All the people, all the nations, they all take part? We come together, everyone with shared meaning, every nation doing something vital and important, a brain or bone or body structure, all working together as one living system?”

They talked on into the night, but after an hour, Chaadrean was led off, against his strong protestations, by mother. Grandpa began to feel the toll, and he was sick the next day, and the day after that. But, important ideas had made their way in, into our world. Soon they would shine out as a bright light.

Skip the rest, just read the last few paragraphs:

“What Israel is chosen for… well, as they go along developing this idea of a greater living human being, they realize they need a bone structure. And, they also see a practical need. They need a nation to be the middle-man between the American states and the outside nations. The two parts have to work together, American states like ‘brain systems’ and the outside nations like ‘body systems’. They choose Israel to be the middle-man, because of Ezekiel 37,1-11: the field of dry bones that comes to life. That passage says that Israel is the bones, and so they make them the bone structure. They help, they work with both the American states and the outside nations and they help manage them, help them work together, help keep them on the same page with all the big responsibilities all over the world. They form a kind of barrier, like all of America is inside of Israel, and the rest of the world is outside of Israel, and so the Jews help keep everything, all the responsibilities on the same page, all the states and nations working together on their respective projects.”

“It is like the Menorah,” Chaadrean exclaimed, “There is Israel as the candle in the middle, with, first, the American people, then all their states, and then America-as-a-whole as the three candles on that side, and then on the other side, there is all the people of the world, and then all the nations of the world, and then the whole-one-big-world as the three candles on that side!”

Mother said, “It is like the star of David, with Israel holding one triangle together with the other triangle: the Jews hold the two parts together.”

Father said, “So, we all change the world together, begin thinking about life, about being alive. Use all our scientific knowledge to design and build ourselves into a living system? All the people, all the nations, they all take part? We come together, everyone with shared meaning, every nation doing something vital and important, a brain or bone or body structure, all working together as one living system?”

They talked on into the night, but after an hour, Chaadrean was led off, against his strong protestations, by mother. Grandpa began to feel the toll, and he was sick the next day, and the day after that. But, important ideas had made their way in, into our world. Soon they would shine out as a bright light.

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