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With heart and soul, they demonstrated against God and heaven, and the theologian indeed suckled well on hell. They swore by the word of the astrologer and the astrologer maintained the telescope is the one, all-seeing eye. The biologist was elevated to the pinnacle of intelligence. But the deadly germ had something completely different in mind.

The geologist tried hard. But the earth reacted as philosopher, with her own peculiar monologue. On the same day, in one and the same place on her surface, it is wet and dry. Mother Earth therefore calls: I do as I please because I stay every living creature’s custodian. On one day I will praise man, just to rob her of everything in the next moment. From my intestines comes the life-giving, blessed water-eye. With destructive earthquakes I create new mountains and gorges.

And while destructive fires rob man of her harvests. In that place I have already planned new forests for a following period. For the lamentation of misuse on my surface I do not turn a deaf ear. Therefore, I often send catastrophes. Through so many periods I have worn myself out tirelessly, for all life. Therefore, I must again engage with destruction. So that I can promise new life to the next period.