Solomon's Private File #182
These stories about Stephen and Solomon take place starting in
1950's. Stephen wrote about his life in letters to a penpal, and then
in a secure blog, in case he lost his memory again, in the master
computer in his school for gifted students, which he started attending
in 2016 in a new incarnation, until his death. Now his son Solomon is
attending the same school, and is writing in his own secure blog for
his future incarnations.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
Solomon is 22 in this story, in the Winter of 2048-2049.
Solomon's Private File #182 "Wisdom For All"
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I had a meeting with the Director of the Bureau. I said, "So much
screwing finally forced us to move our school. Too full. It's not in DC
anymore. We're still keeping it as a travel terminal if needed, and a
target for anybody who needs one for us." He said, "That last, good.
Not going to tell us where?" I said, "Not much point in that. We can
move it in a second, and before this, and still, we hold classes in
multiple locations. Some experiments we don't want anywhere near
habitation. Or even on an inhabited planet. And with a few, not even in
an inhabited system." He said, "That dangerous?" I said, "In a way,
when you move planets around. We did that in a different dimension
recently." He said, "Wow!" I said, "We agree. Needed to settle an
interstellar war. Looked like this." I showed him a feathered centaur.
I said, "They look a lot better to us, than we do to them." Chuckles.
He said, "I've been thinking. If we had a psi working for us, we
could use him to uncover others who are working for criminals." I said,
"Works both ways. They will spot your agent, and know he's yours. Put a
big target on his back. Wouldn't last long. All that would be worse
than if you didn't." He said, "I see. Frustrating." I said, "Going to
ask for the obvious solution?" He grinned and said, "Can't fool you!" I
said, with exaggerated arrogance, "Of course." Chuckles. He said,
"Assign one of your people to us to remotely scan active cases we want
to know about?" I said, "You could have asked any of us for that.
Difficult to let go after the report, though." He said, "That's why I
didn't ask before." I said, "Use the same one of us who handles the
detector watch." He said, "Frank Stein." I said, "Right. Want to guess
what his middle initial is?" He said with a chuckle, "No." I said, "It
may interest you to know that I don't handle assignments, or do much in
regular leadership."
He said, "Why?" I said, "If I did, I would be doing all the work
myself, which wouldn't be good for our people. And I just don't want to
be bothered with it. In an operation where my abilities are needed,
well, even then I'm more of a teacher than a commander." He said with
interest, "What abilities do you have they they don't?" I said,
"Mostly, it's finer perceptions, which enables greater skill, and I'm a
little better with time things. All that helps me to send working
viewpoints to places where they can't, such as inside space ships that
are in advanced FTL drive. And they usually ask me to do things that
require convincing people not to do bad things. I kind of have a rep
for that." He laughed, and said, "You sure do!"
He said, "You've been finding enlightened people. Is there a step
above that?" I said, "Enlightenment is open ended. Can never get
enough. But yes, there is a step above. Oops, my people are er,
interested in that." He laughed and said, "I can well imagine that!" I
said, "I don't think so. It's not been this bad, ever. Worse is, they
know I'm not going to tell them any more. Ha! You're very lucky they're
not yelling in YOUR head. Funny, though. They should already know the
answer. That's got them yelling at each other now." He laughed. I said,
"I'd better go try some mediation." We said our farewells, and I ported
home.
Mom said in accusation, "You wanted this!" I said, "A teaching and
learning moment, sure. That's what I'm for." She said, "Oh." I said,
"Consider, what else do we have left to learn about, that is beyond
us?" She looked at me strangely, and said, "Our teacher. I keep
forgetting that. More than I thought, too, looking back. Wow, you've
been doing that since your summer camp days, to US!" I nodded. Galya
practically exploded with pride, which we all noticed. I grinned, and
hugged and kissed her with love.
I sent part of me to a large encampment in the mountains of
Northwestern Pakistan. I walked around in it, and people bowed to me,
which I returned. Then a man came to me, and said, "Greetings, Solomon.
Will you speak with our leader?" I said, "I will." He led me into a big
fancy tent. There were a lot of men there, and they rose and bowed to
me. One said, "Will you join us?" I said, "I will, thank you." We sat.
Silence. I said, "If you want to speak with me, it might be easier to
do that while I am here." One laughed. I smiled and nodded to him. They
all became a little more relaxed. The leader said, "Will you tell us
why you are here?" I said, "You probably want to know more than that
it's because you invited me in here. Why don't we start with your
questions? Any of you. I might even answer them. You know I am
monitored?" They nodded. I said, "They are more often interested in
what I will say, than those I say it to. And noisy about it." Chuckles.
One said, "Why are you wise?" I said, "In all my lifetimes, I have
never been asked that. The answer is something of the reverse. Why are
people NOT wise? Why don't all of you try to answer that." The leader
said, "Wise teacher. Because they don't think?" I said, "A start.
Next?" One said, "Selfish?" I nodded. One said, "Angry?" I said, "We
might as well include all the negative emotions." One said, "Because
they don't want to be wise? Oh! That must be it!" I grinned and said,
"Well done! That's not the full answer, but a very important reason.
Here is proof. How can we recognize wisdom if we are incapable of
understanding it?" They looked very thoughtful. One said, "Then we must
already have wisdom!" I said, "Some, yes, and more and less than people
think. The reason for that is, there is no real wisdom without life
experience, and the more of that, the more wisdom one might have,
although it may never be realized and expressed. Beyond life
experience, what can increase wisdom?" One said, "Faith in Allah." I
nodded. One said, "Learning." I nodded. Silence. I said, "I'm
disappointed that you don't see the other things, and what that says
about you. I'll say one. Cause and effect. Wisdom is being aware of and
responsible for consequences before they happen. In action, that is the
most important part of wisdom, and the least actually used." They
nodded, thoughtfully.
I said, "What is the purpose of wisdom?" One said, "So one may make
good decisions." I said, "True, but what are those decisions most for?"
One finally said, "That which affects other people?" I said, "True. But
how is wisdom applied in that?" One said, "In teaching the wisdom of
the Koran." I said, "No. All who can read it, can see that wisdom
themselves. In teaching it, you are not expressing your own wisdom, but
that of another. Try again." They couldn't. I said, "Wisdom is applied
to people, AS wisdom, when the wise KNOW people as they know
themselves, and as they don't want to know themselves, and that wisdom
benefits them." They thought on that for a while. One started to cry. I
said to him, "You understand now. Wisdom hurts." He said, "I don't know
how you can live with that." I said to the others, "Wisdom has no great
use to a man alone. It is most for others. All good things have in them
bad, too. The curse of wisdom is that it is most often ignored, even
opposed." They were surprised and then more thoughtful. I said to the
newly wise man, "None are more wise, than he who has been most unwise
in the past. I know this more than anybody, from all the lives I've
lived, where I was very evil. I was often evil even when I was good.
Doing evil for good reasons doesn't make evil less evil, or a person
good, no matter what they want to think." They thought some more.
I said, "More of you are becoming wiser now." One said, "I feel it.
You are correct. It hurts." I said, "Would you have wished to not have
become more wise?" He said, "A part of me says yes, but the wise part
says no." I said, "That can cause the wise to become unwise again. It
happens often, actually. Now I see you know. It takes more courage than
most can realize, more than even the fiercest warrior may have, to
choose to be wise. Death is easy. Living with our past, may not be."
Another said, "I cannot disagree with that." I said, "A little help for
you. Allah wants us all to be wise. You KNOW that." Another said, "I
do!" The rest said it, too. I said, "Part of wisdom is the ability to
feel as others do, to know them, and above all, to value them as you
value yourself, and even more than that." One said, "I feel I want to
share this!" I said, "That is another part of wisdom. A good part, I
think. Well, I AM a teacher." Some smiles. I said, "And another part.
To know a person with your own wisdom, is to love that person. Look to
me, and tell me, is that true?"
They were in awe, and one said, "I do love you!" More said that. And
more became wise. One said, "You love all. And you are wise!" One said,
"He speaks for Allah, so it MUST be so!" I said, "Trying to survive the
embarrassment, [chuckles] I have to say that is so. He would not choose
otherwise. Now. He did in the past. Would you like to know why?" They
really did. I said, "You aren't the only ones!" Laughter. I said,
"Death isn't the end. Most of us live many lives. Sometimes, thousands.
That is so our souls can learn important lessons. Often, we learn most
from our mistakes. There was one Prophet who was unwise, in the time
not long after the first Solomon. That was so that soul could learn
from that, which was important for the human race to survive in the
future. He didn't learn much then, so he thought, and in many lives
after that, but as he is today, he shows that he has learned well, and
is a good man who shares his wisdom with the world, and people will
survive to greatness in time. His suffering all those bad lives will
have a good purpose. His wisdom may in time not be ignored. Will you
help?"
They were all crying, some actually sobbing. I projected love and
hope. I said, "You have changed. Did I force that to happen?" The
leader said, "You did not. You have not told us to do or not do
anything, which I think none of us thought would be." I said, "Causing
surprise doesn't displease me." Some smiles. I said, "You know why
wisdom is opposed." One said, "Because one is selfish." I said, "They
value their anger, their envy and jealousy, their doubts, their
unnecessary desires, more than they value thinking about the
consequences, and much more than they value others. And strangely, it
is the others who could help them to achieve what they want, if only
they were wise enough to see that." Some smiled. I said, "I see you
understand something more now. Our own denial of wisdom causes most of
our problems that we wouldn't have if we were wise. A strange world we
live in!" Chuckles. I said, "And we, all the people, are the strangest
part of it, who too often do things that cause our own problems, and
refuse to see that. Will we ever learn better? We can't, if we don't
try. And try to help others. It's in our self interest to help others
to be wise. Well, they sure won't shoot us then." Smiles and nods.
I said, "And that is another issue. The dead can't become wise. Only
the living can, and only as they choose. They may be helped, but force
causes the reverse. In fact, we live, specifically to learn to be wise.
You know that." They agreed. I said, "If it were easy, it would have
little worth." They nodded. I said, "And I have to admit, it can be
quite an adventure." Smiles and nods. I said, "I tell you, do NOT try
to fly on a carpet, if you wish to keep your past meal in place!" Good
laughter. I said, "A messy way to gain in wisdom." More laughter. I
said, "I learned another lesson that day. Taking a woman on a flying
carpet ride is NOT a good way to impress her." Loud laughter. I said,
"Even the wise, can be unwise in matters of er, lust." Grins.
I said, "You know many people, some are your friends, are now less
wise than you. They may think you are now less of a man, while it is
THEY who are so, who can't admit it to themselves. You who have the
courage to choose to be wise, know this." They nodded. I said, "You, in
your wisdom, won't find fault in that, because they can't know as you
do. You have been helped. How will they have help?" Leader said, "I
know what you are saying. You can't help everybody directly, so we
is right!" I said with a smile, "I think you might be thinking of
asking for something." They grinned widely. I said, "True. The wise
would know. As you also now know, wisdom doesn't exclude humor." One
said, "If you knew wisdom came with the price of no humor?" I said in
exaggerated horror, "Don't do that to me!" They laughed.
I said, "There are two ways we can do this. A crystal can have a
video of this meeting. Is this what you were thinking?" He said, "It
was." I said, "Another way is to make that into a dream which will
include people's, your, feelings in it. That might cause some
embarrassment, but it could be more convincing. They could also
experience your bravery. Oh, maybe I shouldn't have included that last
thing in my description. Too much of an influence." He grinned and
said, "Too late!" He said to all, "Do we want that?" They shouted that
they did. I said, "Here they are." They all came and took them. I said,
"My love is in them, too. An embarrassing warning. Many people,
including men, can have some sexual feelings in experiencing my love.
That is normal. Strong love does have something of the sexual in it. I
tell this so you won't be surprised. It says nothing about who you are.
And now I offer you my personal love." I stood and opened my arms. Hawk
ported in at my request, to aid them. Most did poke me, and were not
that ashamed about it.
Hawk said, "Please?" I said, "You just want to know what He's going
to say. You LOVE to embarrass me." He said with a grin, "Absolutely!"
They chuckled. I said to them, "He's asking for me to call Allah into
contact." The leader said in awe, "Please!" I said, "Oh, brother to
Hawk?" Chuckles. One said, "I would NOT refuse such a honor!" Hawk was
surprised, and said, "Er, thank you." I said, "Embarrassed? Ha!"
Chuckles. I said, "Ready?" They were. I started the love broadcast, and
God came in without my asking. He said, "Solomon is my Senior Prophet.
He speaks for me. He is wise even when he does not think he needs to
be. It would please me if Hawk were as a brother to you. Go and do good
in the land." He left, and I stopped the broadcast. We were all in awe.
I said, "He's never done that before. Wow!" We looked at Hawk. He said,
"Wow, doubled." He said to the others, "I have been commanded to be and
do what I would choose to do. I will watch over you in your work for
Allah. None will harm you while you act with and share wisdom, as long
as I live. Brothers." They shared tears. He hugged them all with love.
I said to all, "Is it your wish that this be on television?" They
looked at Hawk. He grinned, and said to me, "My turn to be embarrassed.
I now know how it feels. Not that I'm going to stop embarrassing you."
We poked each other, and then hugged. He said to them, "Yours is the
work, yours is the will in this." They all wanted it. I said, "All will
be in the crystal, to the moment we leave, and the dream will have the
contact. That might be the first we've done of this." Hawk said, "A
significant honor. He mentioned ME! Wow!" I grinned widely. I said,
"The future is going to be VERY interesting!" They grinned and nodded.
I said, "Now we go."
We ported home. Mom said, "Wow!" Hawk ported Galagos in, and he said
wow, too. They didn't know what else to say. We all hugged and kissed
with love. I ported to Al Jazeera, and said to the manager, "Got a new
video for you. Has the usual conversion discussion, but from a
different direction. They will not now be extremists and kill people,
and I didn't even mention that." He said, "How is that possible?" I
said, "You will see. Their crystals contain a dream of the meeting, so
people can experience the feelings, and the God contact. Something very
different happened in that, which has shocked all my people. Here is
the video for telecast. Here is the dream, if you want to experience
it." He took the dream, and when he woke up, he said, "This is NEWS!" I
said, "Obviously." He said, "We will break in, and play it often
today." I said, "Your choice. I go now to wake up CNN." We hugged with
love.
I ported to the CNN person in charge overnight. I said, "Got a
meeting for you for broadcast. Dubbed in English, and one with
subtitles. Al Jazeera plans to run it almost continuously. Something
very unusual happened in it. Here's a crystal of what's on the card,
and here is the event as a dream, where you can feel the God contact,
and our surprise." He grabbed the dream crystal. When he woke up, he
said, "We have to run with this! First time?" I said, '"First time with
a task for somebody else. Happened before to me, a little differently.
In my first world love broadcast with my father in Tibet, I thanked God
for making me his son, and He gave me His personal approval and love,
almost flooring my father, because it had never happened before. We had
a day full of wows after that." He said, "Gimme a recording of what you
him another card, and he ran to a studio to set it up. I ported home,
still chuckling.
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