18 RAISING THE OLD ONES There is That which watched the birthing of our universe in the fires of the Big Bang, and It will watch the last proton crumble at last into elemental space-time, and It will look upon an empty, cold and dark universe until time itself shall pass. There are some who say that this Watcher is God. I cannot tell you if this is true, but the last Observer is necessary to a defined universe, and in moments of stillness, I have heard the thoughts of One that is extended through all of space, and all of time. It is whispered that the Old Ones were the first thoughts of God made manifest in the universe, an unconscious seeking of order in a chaotic super-space. Perhaps the Old Ones were indeed created in the beginning by the mind of God, but I have seen that each of us w

