I wrote obtained the below 17 years ago.  I say it that way beacuse I'd like you to read this as if it were what it says it is.  Shorter: Take it literally for a minute. Then give me your thoughts. 

-Yug

[Eds. Note:  This was found in an abandoned crack house in the inner city of Chicago, September 10, 1992, by a social worker.  It was given to me shortly thereafter.  I have changed nothing.]

     I leave this note as a signpost pointing toward the inevitable.  Read it carefully for it holds the key to your future.

     I am from what you would consider the future though it is actually the past.  By my estimates it is now approximately the 21st century on a planet 2/3rds covered by water in the middle of a spiral galaxy.  The names, assuming they haven't changed are Earth and the Milky Way respectively.  This is written in the colloquial language commonly called English. 

     Whatever this message is interpreted to mean, let me make this clear from the outset, this is a message of hope:

     Have you ever contemplated what must have existed before...before everything?  Think for a moment of what must have passed in the universe by now.  Billions and billions of years, and the universe is still young.  Think also of those billions of years to come.  What will have to come to pass with the time.  This universe is sturdy and durable and vast.  And should your descendants, billions of years from now, choose to exist infinitely; they may.  But to the point, I assure you, They will not. 

     Let me explain myself.  In approximately 2 1/2 billion years from now your descendants, Earthlings, as well as many other races and beings will have explored the entire universe.  There will come a time when living-kind will have done it all, experienced it all, and know all.  There will be no more questions to answer, no more mysteries to explore, and no more solutions left to discover.  What I'm trying to tell you is that intelligent beings can only elevate to a finite level and there is a only a finite amount of knowledge to discover.  At some point it has to end, it needs to, lest we fail at some cosmic level.

     Now, to understand how is this a message of hope you need more information.  I must tell you what happens afterwards. After everything.  You see your descendants will one day face the ultimate question; What happens when all has been done, when all suffering ends, when paradise is a reality?  And the answer will be clear.  We must make the struggle continue forever, for the pleasure is in the pursuit of the unknown, and without that the universe is meaningless.

     But there is only one way to enable the pursuit to last forever.  To be blunt, we know how to make the universe collapse upon itself, and intend to implement that knowledge.  It is the only thing that has never been done and in a manner of speaking resets the digit-counters back to zero.

     Actually what I said was misleading.  It has been done before, but never by us; by those of us in this incident. But we know that it was done before us, and before them, and before them, stretching back at least 14,000,000 times.  Each time the universe changes less than 1/1trillionth of a percent, explaining my stunning accuracy in picking the right people and time of development when you would be receiving this message.  It is also known that this message, along with others scattered sparsely through time, are the cause of that margin of change.  If we did not participate in this small amount of change the universe would presumably repeat like a stuck record.  Rather than let that come to pass several thousand artifacts like this one will create harmless, even benign, differences in the universal fabric.  By the time the existent species are sufficiently developed to achieve highly civilized tendencies, the differences will grow and blossom; even across incidents.  It is probably not wrong to assume that eventually all the possible outcomes will be exhausted and the universe will close the loop it started at least 14,000,000 times ago, perhaps this is the second lap or the billionth, it doesn't really matter. 

     Take warning, however, for the messages, while the source of the change, are only the catalysts.  The true change comes from those who not only read these prophetic notes, but also heed their monumental warning.  If you are not completely satisfied with every moment, every action, every word, every iota of your being; you must correct your life for you are destined to repeat it not just once, but perhaps for all eternity.  Furthermore, the messages change from incident to incident, (and your descendants will act likewise in order to avoid the repetition of an incident endlessly), so it is highly unlikely you, personally, will receive the opportunity in future incidents to be made aware of your course.  As many religions predict, you will be eternally damned, and in a very understandable way.  If you think death will relieve you of all your worries, think again, for they will be revisited upon you, time after time, after time, forever. 

     But how, you may be still asking yourself, is this a message of hope?  First of all, you know not your individual destiny, for that is what you have.  Your actions, whether they be random or written in stone, feel completely real and unique on a day to day basis.  At some point the original you, if one incident was ever 'first', set up the fate that you have almost guaranteedly fulfilled at least 14,000,000 times.  Secondly, you, with a little help from you wiser ancestors, have been given a singular opportunity to change your fate, most will let it pass.

     On a grander scale though, it's even more simple, for you see every single instance of the universe ends with all known; rather than knowledge being foolishly lost time and time again, we voluntarily surrender it in order to begin again, secure in knowing the end result will be the same, for our ancestors assured us so, having been assured by their ancestors, and so on.  Even more basic is that those who are satisfied, those who find happiness, those who are fulfilled, will be again and again.   It is a benign infinite loop.  As an entity it could be called God and we are its subjects.  The beauty of it is that after all is known, faith in God still exists.  In fact God is undeniable, for only God assures that the first instance is as beautiful as the last and that all in between follow the previous one, albeit by very slightly different paths, to the same conclusion: Perfect Order.

     I leave this universe with these final words written billions of years ago, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."  John 1:1.

     To a new Beginning...