CITY IN THE SKY
The Forgotten Story of Arcslycus
By Pierre Ethier
PREFACE
The story
of Arcslycus is a very ancient one.
It is one
of the earliest incidents on the track and has been dated to have occurred many
trillions of years ago.
This story agrees
with LRH statements about it. It is complemented by the accounts of dozens of people
I have counseled throughout the years as well as my own.
P.S. People
holding to the belief that Arcslycus is merely the beginning of the relatively
recent Confederation that was destroyed 75 million years ago either need a
better understanding of the concept “large numbers” or have their Time Track
completely grouped as a result of faulty auditing.
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Try to imagine
a civilization that collapsed so long ago that its most stubborn remnant fell
to dust before the Galaxy in which we live even began to take its current shape…
Try to
think of the Universe as newly formed and the “Big Bang” as a relatively recent
occurrence.
Try to
conceive of an environment so dissimilar to our own that most of the laws of
Nature we take for granted were actually quite different than those we know
today…
Welcome to
Arcslycus, the City in the Sky.
Nickname “Sky”,
the city laid endlessly beyond comprehension. Towering buildings, narrow
spires, majestic halls, landing platforms, interconnected by a profusion of
bridges, arches and catwalks of all sizes going above and below further than
the eye could see.
Through
this gargantuan multi-dimensional maze, vehicles large and small hurried along
and within seconds would be lost from sight, absorbed in one of its many
tentacles. Everywhere one looked buildings were being built or extended.
You entered
the city by crossing one of its many access ramps also known as Freedom
Bridges.
After the
mandatory but quick registration upon first entering, the city literally
swallowed newcomers. Soon there seemed to be no beginning, no end to Paradise.
It would be quite possible to travel for hours at full throttle in any one
direction without seeming to come close to its any of its boundaries.
Located in
the middle of the sky of an impossibly large planet, Paradise had no visible
means of support. It did not matter to any of its countless millions of
inhabitants. The city was very prosperous and the envy of the entire
neighborhood.
Paradise
was also known as the city of a million names. Felicity, Bliss, and Joy were
some of the more popular ones. Religious minded people called it Heaven on
Earth or whatever their language or belief would allow. A predominant sect, the
Fehnari called it Arcslycus.
….
Have you
ever studied the Fehnari language or culture?
No I said,
Maybe you
should have.
You see the
word Fehnari in their own language means Dichotomy. Every word in their
language has two distinct, frequently opposed meanings: one for the Masses, and
a completely different for the Initiates. For them the word Arcslycus means
Bridge to Total Freedom, but for their Initiates it means an Elaborate Trap.
Al now
realizes the full meaning of the welcome message, this time in the Initiates
dialect:
You are now
entering our Elaborate Trap. You will find escape quite impossible. We expect
full compensation in the form of hard labor for any of the meager resources you
are likely to consume. As a new worker Your Motto is now :”Hard work sets one
free”. From now on, only if you work hard, will you find you existence
tolerable.