Crystals I

The strange light-1

The strange light

Anna and Adonis were sitting under the old plane tree in the half-dark twilight of the coming night. As they were expressing their love with tender caresses, soft kisses and warm looks of love and adoration, they were also talking about their future, their eyes wandering, aimlessly observing the surrounding scenery. Suddenly however, they noticed that the bottom of the small fall, right on the spot where the waters came down splashing and foaming was lit by a strange faint bluish-white light that was becoming more intense. They were quite surprised and they might even got a bit scared. Still surprised, they started looking around, unconsciously searching for the source of the light of that strange phenomenon. Amidst that magical scenery, with the twilight of the coming night and the shadows cast by the last rays of the already set sun, it was really a surreal and metaphysical phenomenon. Yet, it could very well be nothing but an accidental occurrence. That is why, the young couple started exploring carefully, with their inquisitive attention oriented towards the external surroundings that could possibly have caused this strange phenomenon. Yet, they could not observe anything or come to any conclusion. The bluish-white light however was continuously flickering, sometimes glowing strongly, only to get dimmer afterwards.

Mesmerized and as if enchanted by the eerie light, the couple’s eyes fixed on the strange sight. Moving themselves around, they approached the strange light from different angles to have a better and closer look. They could understand that the strange light maintained a steady glow locally, but its intensity varied visibly. As they came closer to it, it was getting clearly brighter but as they stepped away from it, it was becoming definitely dimmer. It was as if it was ‘glad’ when approached by them and ‘sorry’ when distanced from them. They felt as if it was ‘calling’ them.

Time had already passed and the twilight had given gradually way to the dark of the night that was spreading through the trees and on the water. Other couples showed up since that was the time they usually met, following each one’s daily routines. The cool oasis of the waters of St Barbara was the most convenient spot, since it combined coolness and isolation from prying eyes. So, Anna and Adonis realised that as other couples crossed into the adjacent wooden causeway, the light became more intense. In fact, the greater the number of couples that took the wooden path at the same time, the greater the intensity of the emitted light. It was only rarely that the opposite occurred, i.e., when particular couples passed by, the strange light not only did not become any stronger but it actually dimmed almost completely.

The most probable cause, as was later proven, was that when couples in love, that i.e., possessing feeling of ‘mutual love’, passed by, the light got stronger, while in the opposite case, it went dim. Yet, Anna and Adonis assumed that the passing couples, perhaps through their intervention, could possibly affect the emitted light of some unknown external light source, which could be the full moon or some other reflection of light from some other unknown source, and that was why they were searching to locate that source, but in vain. No matter how systematically they searched, they failed to locate the source of that strange light. Of course, searching was the right way to go about it. The search that everyone should engage in for whatever phenomenon one comes across, is necessary before any rush conclusion is drawn. The opposite is typically the case, i.e., people effortlessly and superficially derive conclusions about anything, since they dislike pushing their thoughts too much. That is the reason why we ended up with a society of ‘opinion’, ‘stance’, or ‘conjecture’ and not of ‘knowledge’. Yet, Anna and Adonis seemed to have been exploring every possibility carefully.

But the couple eventually decided that they had to come up with an explanation of all those inexplicable phenomena. Thus, Adonis decided to dive down to the bottom of the fall, from the adjacent, possibly tricky stone wall that protected the artificial fall. But before trying this out, he decided to experiment a little more. So, he stepped into different positions around the fall to convince himself that the light did not vary as a result of the effect of an external factor. He wanted, in other words, to see if his movement could cut momentarily the beam of the possible external light source so that he could home in on its direction. He did not believe very much he would find anything, as the light was reacting as if it had a soul of its own, but he gave it a try, nevertheless. He knew that it was easy for the senses to send out false signals and that the mind was easily ‘trapped’ into fallacious conjectures. Anyway, as they kept moving around the periphery of the fall’s basin, keeping a constant distance from the light, they could see no change. They observed that nothing else affected the intensity of the light, save when Anna or both of them stepped away, in which case it got dimmer or when they both approached it or each other, in which case the light intensified. It was really a strange, lively bluish-white light that seemed to react as if it had some sort of soul of intellect.

Just at that moment, another known to them couple was passing by, Kostas and Malama. Kostas Keskinoglou was a good childhood friend of Adonis and was characterised by innocence and kindness but mainly his love for his parents and Malama. Adonis had grown up with Kostas since early childhood and they used to play together in the same dry river bed that separated their houses. Together they played the same games, sang the carols and did their first mischief. Many times during their common childhood, they had to share the same bed, when beat from the day adventures, slept over in one or the other’s family house that they happened to be at the end of the day. When Kostas’ parents had taken him with them to Germany, Adonis was forlorn and miserable for many days. Who could understand the pain of having to part with a beloved person for the first time? Among his friends, Adonis loved Kostas most. Malama, on the other hand, was characterised by politeness, kindness, condescension and particular intelligence. She was an honest, assertive and true to herself girl. She induced everyone around her to like, respect and appreciate her.

After greeting one another and exchanging the usual little talk, Adonis did not miss the chance to ask for their help. He asked them to approach the strange light all together and explore it, in the hope of getting somewhere. The light became brighter, almost doubled in intensity, but nothing more than that. So, following that trial, Kostas and Malama left them to go on with their walk, ignoring the strange light. ‘Some reflection’, they said, and walked away. Ignoring the strange light, they walked further away to the opposite side of the small fall, lay down on the grass and started talking about their own issues.

Being unable to find some logical explanation about the strange light, Adonis decided to get to the bottom of the fall and explore it systematically. Submerging himself carefully, he sought the source of the strange light, but he could see nothing amidst the foam of the water. But he was sure that the source of the strange light was at the bottom of the fall. It was as if there was some hidden light bulb right in the basin of the falling water.

Experiencing Intuitive vision

When Adonis neared the source of the strange light, he realized that amidst the foam and at the spot where the light source should be, there protruded the tip of a strange object that looked like a piece of a washed out and peeled off tree root or, at least some sort of a shiny metal thing. But when he came nearer, he observed that the object looked more like a glass rod with a uniform multifaceted surface, which could hardly be discerned, its largest part buried into the sand and pebbles of the basin of the fall. He reached for the object with both hands, touching the white rod carefully while subconsciously looking at Anna, with greater affection than ever, seeing how beautiful she was. The moment he touched the glass rod, a rainbow in spherical form appeared, followed by a milky light that gave him the impression that he had been cut off from his environment and the effect of the earth’s gravity on him. He then saw Anna being surrounded by an imperceptible white aura of milky light, her face rosy-red as in in ecstasy, and next to her, a faint apparition that looked like a hardly perceptible male form, who performed strange moves of a plain dance, embracing Anna’s body. That apparition strongly reminded of himself.

He pushed himself back abruptly, as if stunned by electric current, pulling his hands away from the rod, more surprised than frightened. Now he could see Anna in the normal manner who was beaming in beauty more than ever. He remained speechless for a while, wondering whether he actually perceived all that rather than simply imagining them. Besides, he knew that he had this tendency to escape reality to find himself in dreamland.

Adonis, touched the rod again but more cautiously and with greater control, with all his senses sharpened, only to see the same scene. He saw Anna again as an apparition of immaculate beauty, just as she appeared in his heart, while the faint male hologram was himself embracing her, while dancing a mysterious ceremonial dance. But this time Anna, too, was seeing similar things. She let out a sudden cry, not of fear but of surprise and awe. She also could see Adonis more handsome than ever, along with her hardly perceptible hologram-like apparition of hers that danced around and engaged with him in an exotic embrace. They both realized that they were being wrapped up in a faint bluish-white, love-textured light which was gradually turning into a milky light. Adonis kept holding the White Rod, mesmerized by this wonderful experience of intuitive vision. They were both seeing, or better, sensing and living, in a surreal manner, in just the same experience, as if cut-off from their natural environment, immersed into a supernatural, transcendental happening: rosy-red faces, wrapped by an imperceptible aura of an opaque, faint milky light that was slowly turning back into the original bluish-white glow. Gradually, the strange bluish-white light disappeared and they both returned to reality, with Adonis trying to pull out the White Rod while Anna was looking at him. The duration of all that experience must have been just a few seconds, although they both felt that they lasted several minutes. Adonis kept holding the White Rod, moving it right and left to dislodge it from the silt and sand of the basin.

At a certain point, he felt the rod becoming loose in the ground, but almost losing his balance for a while risking splashing himself right into the fall. But he finally managed to maintain his balance, by leaning on the hand that was holding the strange object at the bottom of the fall. Thus, he managed to remain standing. He pulled the White Rod out, looked at it in surprise and awe, washed it a bit from all the mud and silt and then handed it to Anna, carefully. He then climbed the stone wall up and out of the basin. Now, with all that momentary glow seemingly gone, the white rod appeared as a white semi-transparent crystal, that retained some light that was gradually going out till it was completely extinguished, remaining a beautiful crystal rod in Anna’s hands.

They stepped a bit away returning to their lonely spot under the old plane tree, and sitting under it, started to examine the White Rod with interest and admiration. What they had experienced was as if it had taken place in a metaphysical universe, cutting both of them off from their environment and earth’s gravity. Time had become still and everything around them seemed unchanged except the area covered by the strange light that worked like an independent small universe, like an isolated time-space continuum. They wondered in admiration about what they experienced and whether it had all really taken place. They were not sure whether they had really lived through all that or simply imagined them. As time passed, they were convincing themselves that it was all figments of their imagination.