7/6/2023 0 Comments The Omen by David Seltzer![]() ![]() ![]() It was the sixth month, the sixth day, the sixth hour. ![]() It was the sound of the OHM, ringing upward to the heavens and inward to the pre-biblical core of the earth. With hands joined and heads bowed, their voices rose until the vibration could be heard and felt everywhere. ![]() In caves, basements, and open fields they had gathered midwives to the birth, some twenty thousand strong. It was the sound of voices human, yet not, growing in devout cacophony with the heightening potency of the star. For from the very bowels of the earth there came a distant sound. He feared he was alone with it, but in fact he was not. It grew brighter now and the constellations shuddered-or was it trembling hands on the eyepiece as the astronomer struggled to stifle his confused cry? From Capricorn, Cancer, and Leo pieces had suddenly flown, finding each other with magnetic certainty, melding into a pulsating galactic ember. A movement in the galaxies that should have taken eons occurred in the blinking of an eye.Īt the Cape Hattie observatory a young astronomer sat stunned, reaching an instant too late to activate the camera that might have recorded it: the splintering of three constellations that produced the dark, glowing star. Let He who hath understanding Reckon the number of the Beast For it is a human number, Its number is Six Hundred and Sixty-Six. ![]()
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