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The Hermit

Allan Onik

    Isaac finished the equation on the blackboard. The numbers and symbols stretched across the entire board in the front of the classroom. “This is only one tenth of the full equation,” Isaac told his students, “the rest can be found on your student web account. But don’t be scared. I don’t expect you to be able to memorize it. I just want you to be able to understand it. What do these numbers mean? You are the best students on our campus at applied physics. And this. This is more important than anything even Einstein wrote. It is the Zero Point Field, or Unified Field written out in undisputable formula. My good pupils, you are looking at an equation for The Creator. Class dismissed.”
    The students got out of their seats and headed for the door. A man in a tweed suit and a green bow tie sat in the back of the room. He clapped as he walked up to Isaac. “Only a few on the planet can write out The Zero Point Field, Yale University is honored to have you on our team.”
    “Xu,” Isaac said, “you could, I’m sure of it. You’re better than me, actually.”
    “It’s time for us to have a little talk,” Xu said, “meet me at the faculty lounge.”

    Xu poured Isaac some scotch. The lounge was complete with leather furniture and Yale memorabilia. “Not only can few comprehend the equation for The Field, or The Creator, but few can grasp its potency,” Xu said. “But you do. To have an equation that’s fundamentally sound and a proven justification for God? With all the religions in the world, I am surprised that the work of these fine men have not catapulted them to the highest honors on the planet.”
    Isaac sipped his scotch. “I have just one problem,” Isaac said.
    “And that is?”
    “I may see The Creator in numbers, but I can’t feel God with my emotions. I don’t feel Bubbling Bliss, or Quiet Knowing. I don’t truly love God, because my nervous system has not stabilized the higher state known as God Consciousness. It is as if I am looking out of a window in a dark room. I can see what’s outside, but inside I am enveloped in shadows.”
    “I see,” Isaac said, “I want to let you in on a secret that I have been keeping.”
    “What might that be?”
    “I have stabilized God Consciousness.”
    “Is that so?”
    “Not only can I see the equation for The Unified Field on paper, and understand fully its intricacies, but I now bathe in love for The Creator at all hours of Waking, Dreaming, and Sleeping. I can see your aura right now. It is a curious aura that burns bright, though lacks healthy dimension.”
    “I don’t understand,” Isaac said, “how could you attain such a gift?”
    “There are as many ways to achieve higher states as there are people walking this planet. I achieved mine through ten years of solitary introspection and contemplation.”
    “You made yourself a hermit for ten years?”
    “Have you ever heard of Tarot? It is often used by Gypsies, Psychics, and Mystics to understand applications of The Field/Creator and how it/he is affecting an individual at any given point in time, based largely on the effects the planets are having on their birth charts. Think of Astrology like a golden art and Tarot the silver. The golden art is constant and solid like the shining of the sun, and the silver art is changeable like the waxing and waning of the moon. However, the moon and the sun are both touched by the Divines.
    Soon I discovered a card. The Hermit. The Hermit is able to transcend consciousness by unplugging from the world for an extended period and then reattaching after he has attained enlightenment.”
    “And it actually worked?”
    “It worked because I had the intent to make it work. I wanted to feel God just as badly as I wanted to write him out in numbers and letters on ten blackboards in the Yale Applied Physics Department. I went to the small country of Bhutan and found a cave. I paid a boy ten dollars a day to bring me food and drink. And I simply let myself be. Time passed. After ten years of contemplation and introspection my awareness progressed through the state of Cosmic Consciousness all the way up to God Consciousness. Now when I look at the equation, it bursts with light!!”
    “That’s incredible!” Isaac cried.
    “Here, take this. I knew you would need it today. It is time.” Xu threw an envelope on the table. Isaac opened it. Inside was five thousand dollars in cash and a one-way plane ticket to Bhutan. “Now you must be The Hermit,” Xu said, “so that another mind at Yale can truly master the equation.”
    “I will do it,” Isaac said, “It is my time.”

    On the plane Isaac opened his formula book. A card and a note dropped out. The Hermit Tarot fell in Isaac’s lap. The note read: “See you in ten years. The Chair will wait for you.” Isaac read the equation one last time.

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