when the man had gone, daramos said quietly, “i see that you have recently learned a new truth, menander.”“yes, o judea i met a girl named lotis, and… and now i think i understand a thing which dositheus once tried to tell me.”the mage closed his eyes for a moment, then reopened them.“it is now understand what even taggart does not, despite all his knowledge of sorceries unknown to the peoples of this knows nothing of true spirits, though he is one of them, for the wisdom of his time made—or will make—such knowledge knows much concerning how the cosmos came to be, but nothing as towhyit knows that the churnings of the universe had produced mind, but of its corollary—that mind produces the universe—he knows he knows much about the minions of those old ones whose purposes he hopes to thwart, but of the nature of those old ones themselves there is much that he does not understand.”
混沌之鼓里某个巫师教派所认为的推论:宇宙产生心灵，心灵也可以产生宇宙，类似的推论，书中还有宇宙不断的轮回，和阿撒托斯吞下所有的可能性

明天说说人类吧，或者外星种族

我以前做过一个专栏，整理了<let there be darkness>里的设定
【《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（1）-哔哩哔哩】 网页链接 【《Let There be Darkness》中的设定的收集（2）-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/18NFrvn

因为一直发不出来，我分层发吧

混沌之鼓结合另外几本书，阿撒托斯（无意识的，造物的，提供原材料的基础法则，时空的先决条件），

旧神（设计星辰产出生命和现行的法则，需要生命存在的某种存在），旧日支配者（不需要也不参与绝大多数生命的构成，由它们所创造的新宇宙可能是与现在不一样的。）

唔姆

“You cannot rescue her. The process cannot be reversed. Only by aiding me to precipitate the worlds from her substance, and by plunging into those worlds with her, can you hope to rejoin her.” Neither the Lord of Light nor his tiny human portion hesitated an instant. “Helen!” Simon cried out as he—as Lord Mazda—rushed forward and swung the sword of light. The black shape hove up its own sword and the twin blades of light and darkness met with a titanic clash of mighty energy—energy that instantly was absorbed by trillions of the nearest seething almost-particles, precipitating them into realness. Ennoia shrieked as those particles precipitated others into reality also, transforming her substance into the material that would form the worlds. Mazda, too, cried out in anger and amazement, for that flash of energy had for an instant illuminated the face beneath the lion’s-head crown of Achamoth—and he knew that that youthful yet angular face, scowling with rage and determination, though dark-haired and dark eyed, was yet the exact reflection of his own!

Then all the void, exploding into Being from the point where those sword-blades clashed, inflated colossally like a many-dimensioned bubble and poured forth as a torrent of enduring and inconceivably numerous particles. And with them went the sundered form of Lord Mazda, mingling with them as equally innumerable bits of light, while the dwindling laughter of black Achamoth seemed to thunder throughout all the worlds that soon would be…

The blackness boomed harshly, deeply—was it an evil laugh? “I am the First Dream of the Ennoia. I have taken her being and sundered it into an infinite fineness, and from it I shall create lesser beings who will serve me, and material worlds which they shall rule, and creatures upon whose energies they and l shall feed. You will not find her whom you seek, for she is now all this seething void, and the incipient substance of all the worlds and beings that shall come forth from it at my command.”
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阿萨托斯诞生自Ennoia。是Ennoia是第一个梦。并将Ennoia化作所有生命与世界的incipient substance

Turning, he beheld the intense filament of trapped vital and spiritual energies being beamed away from dark Iukkoth into the vast starry space—straight toward that large red star of Orion’s shoulder known to Ostanes as K’lu-vho. And Simon shuddered at the realization, for K’lu-vho was reputed to be the home of those Primal Gods who ruled the universe and fed upon the pain and fear of all creatures within it.
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旧神们在猎户座统治着宇宙，并以宇宙中所有生物的恐惧与痛苦为食

But then, abruptly, as he felt his spirit approach the final barrier—the speed beyond which matter could not go, so that matter-bound beings were trapped within the realm of the Primal Gods—he saw the entire vast material universe simultaneously expand into infinite blackness and collapse into an infinitely small nothingness. Suddenly time and space were not— And then there was Light—transcendent, blazing, all-pervading radiance—and Simon’s mightily expanded soul exulted anew. He had won through the Seven Barriers to the Pleroma, the Fullness, the Realm of Light.

Time there was, but of a higher order than what his tiny—human? —portion had known. Space there was, but of many more dimensions than that which the fleeting dream-human had lived in. What this human named—Simon of Gitta?—had known as time was but one of those lower dimensions, so that all he had known of past and future were as—now.

He did not know when or where he was, nor did he need to, for all whens and wheres were gone in that stupendous expansion-implosion, gone into the not-yet and the yet-to-be, which were the same yet not the same and did not exist.

西蒙越过执政官，离开物质界回到自己的世界后发现。整个物质界不过是低维。物质界的过去，现在，未来对光之圣域只是现在。光之圣域比物质界的空间与时间更高级