other of a new kind of gods."

"It shall be my name," said the Golden One.

Now I look ahead. My future is clear before me. The Saint of the pyre
had seen the future when he chose me as his heir, as the heir of all the
saints and all the martyrs who came before him and who died for the same
cause, for the same word, no matter what name they gave to their cause
and their truth.

I shall live here, in my own house. I shall take my food from the earth
by the toil of my own hands. I shall learn many secrets from my books.
Through the years ahead, I shall rebuild the achievements of the past,
and open the way to carry them further, the achievements which are open
to me, but closed forever to my brothers, for their minds are shackled
to the weakest and dullest among them.

I have learned that the power of the sky was known to men long ago;
they called it Electricity. It was the power that moved their greatest
inventions. It lit this house with light that came from those globes of
glass on the walls. I have found the engine which produced this light.
I shall learn how to repair it and how to make it work again. I shall
learn how to use the wires which carry this power. Then I shall build a
barrier of wires around my home, and across the paths which lead to
my home; a barrier light as a cobweb, more impassable than a wall of
granite; a barrier my brothers will never be able to cross. For they
have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I
have my mind.

Then here, on this mountaintop, with the world below me and nothing
above me but the sun, I shall live my own truth. Gaea is pregnant with
my child. He will be taught to say "I" and to bear the pride of it.
He will be taught to walk straight on his own feet. He will be taught
reverence for his own spirit.

When I shall have read all the books and learned my new way, when my
home will be ready and my earth tilled, I shall steal one day, for
the last time, into the cursed City of my birth. I shall call to me my
friend who has no name save International 4-8818, and all those like
him, Fraternity 2-5503, who cries without reason, and Solidarity 9-6347
who calls for help in the night, and a few others. I shall call to me
all the men and the women whose spirit has not been killed within them
and who suffer under the yoke of their brothers. They will follow me
and I shall lead them to my fortress. And here, in this uncharted
wilderness, I and they, my ch