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"NeoGenesis"

Chapter 1
1 And, lo! The Court was sorry for the injustice on the earth, and it grieved them to their heart. 2 So the Court said, "I will blot out the injustice which was created from the face of discrimination, for we are sorry that this was the past." 3 For Love found favor in the eyes of the COURT. 4 These are the generations of Love. Love was righteous, blameless in its generations; Love walked with the Court and with the people. 5 And Love had many sons and daughters; Stuart and John and Del and Phyllis among them. 6 Now the discrimination was unjust in the Court's sight. 7 And the Court said to Love, "We have determined to make an end of all of this injustice. 8 For behold, we will bring a flood of change to the legal waters upon the earth, to destroy all injustice. 9 And we will establish our covenant with you; and you shall come into the future, you, your sons and your daughters. 10 And of all the men and women, you shall bring two of each sort into the chapel; they shall be male and male, female and female; male and female. 11 Of the people according to their kinds, and of the love according to their kinds, of every loving thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you. 12 Love can do this; Love did all that the Court decreed to the land.

Chapter 2
1 Then the COURT said to Love, "Go and prepare, you and all your households, for we have seen that you are righteous before us in these generations. 2 For we will send a flood of change upon the earth thirty days and thirty nights; and every thing will change." 3 And Love did all that the COURT had decreed. 4 And after the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 5 In the six thousandth year of Love's life, in the fifth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of great joy burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 6 And rains of change fell upon the earth thirty days and thirty nights. 7 The flood continued thirty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the future, and it rose high above the earth. 8 The waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the future could be seen high floating on the face of the waters. 9 And the waters prevailed so mightily upon the earth that all the high mountains of injustice under the whole heaven were covered; 10 the waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen inches deep. 11 And all injustice died that moved upon the earth. 12 Only Love was left. 13 And the waters of justice prevailed upon the earth a hundred and seventy days.

Chapter 3
1 But the Court remembered Love and all the men and women that were with them for the future. And the Court made a wind of change blow over the earth, and the waters subsided; 2 the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of a hundred and seventy days the waters had abated; 4 and in the eleventh month, on the fourth day of the month, the future came to rest upon the mountains of the Electorate. 5 And the waters continued to abate until that eleventh month; in the eleventh month, on the fourth day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of those hundred and seventy days Love opened the window of the future which had been made, 7 and a Vote was sent forth of all the people; and it went to and fro, to see if the waters had truly changed the injustice and discrimination from the face of the ground; 8 and the Vote came back to Love in the evening, and lo, in her mouth a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Love knew that the waters had subsided from and changed the earth for the better. 9 In the thousandth and first year, in the eleventh month, the fifth day of the month, the waters of change were glorious on the earth; and Love removed the covering of the future, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was glorious. 10 Then the Love said to all, 11 "Go forth to the future, you and yours, and your sons and your sons' husbands, and your daughters and your daughters' wives with you. 12 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth." 13 So Love went forth, and its sons and daughters and its sons' husbands and its daughters' wives with them. 14 And everyone went forth by families out into the future. 15 Then Love built an chapel and put incense and flowers and rings upon hands. 16 And when the Court saw the pleasing views, the Court said in its heart, "I will never again allow injustice in the land. 17 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, justice shall not cease."

Chapter 4
1 And the future was blessed to Love and its sons and its sons' husbands and its daughters and its daughters' wives, and Love said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth." 2 Then Love said to its sons and daughters with them, 3 "Behold, we establish our covenant with Love and each other and our descendants after us. 4 We establish our covenant with you, that never again shall injustice dominate and destroy the earth." 5 And Love said, "This is the sign of the covenant which we make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 6 We set our rainbows in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between us and the earth. 7 When clouds are brought over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds, 8 we will remember our covenant which is between Love and all of us; and the injustice will never be again. 9 When the rainbow is in the clouds, we will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between Love and all of us." 10 And so it was to be for all time in all the future over all the land.