CENTURIA IV · QUATRAIN LIII
The Gravity Wells
Les fugitifs & bannis revoquez,
Peres & fils grand garnissant les puits:
Le cruel pere & les siens suffoquez,
Son fils plus pire submerge dans le puits.
The fugitives and the banished recalled,
Fathers and sons greatly fortifying the wells:
The cruel father and his followers suffocated,
His son, the worse, drowned within the well.
THE MASTER SAYS…
This concerns the distant future, when space colonies and space flights become commonplace. Space colonies will be created within the Solar System, but beyond Earth, by those who did not fit in on Earth. Since the Earth will be somewhat overpopulated, these people will decide to found their own colony in space rather than try to merge with the crowd, abandoning their beliefs and ideas. But then unrest will arise on Earth. Someone will economically manipulate the Earth, and the leaders of Earth will call upon the colonies for help. The colonies will be able to supply Earth with things they produce in space and which are not available on Earth. In the phrase “strengthening deep wells,” the word “wells” refers to “gravity wells.” Gravity wells are found around every planet. That is, one must counteract the force of gravity in order to break away from a planet, and one must take this into account when maneuvering near a planet. To strengthen these wells, they send materials and everything necessary down to Earth. In the process of this exchange, a person who re-enters the atmospheric layers will make an error in calculations and burn up. This is about the “son who drowned in the well.” The phrase “the cruel father and his followers are suffocated” describes those who tried to destroy the lives of many and bring back the times of unrest, but did not succeed. It is the people in the colonies who will eventually capture the cruel father, although he will try to escape on a spaceship. Since they are already in space, it is not difficult for them to intercept him. They will decide that he deserves to be sent outside the space airlock without a spacesuit. This will happen in the distant future. It will not concern you directly. The quatrains that primarily concern him now relate to the time of unrest, since it will not be slow in coming. But he knows that it is not bad to satisfy your curiosity about the distant future as well.