The two embraced.

“Earthmaker is sovereign love!” said Ansond.

“The music of the universe!” agreed the Troubadour.

“Halana to the Father-Spirit!” cried the Golden Knight.

“Come with me!” the Singer said.

They walked to the Plaza of Peace. In the center of the square a sphere of bright transparent glass rested on one crystal’s very point.

In the center of the sphere was a world about the size that Terra Two had been the day she rode into the final battle of the War of Fire.

“It is Terra One—a replica, exact and scaled,” the Singer said.

“Forever sealed?” inquired Ansond.

“Forever,” agreed the Troubadour.

“And we can never hear the anguish from its center?” The Golden Knight seemed troubled.

“Never. There shall be silence where the Dark Prince writhes in chains.”

“He is small indeed to live in such a tiny world as this.”

“His is a dwindling point of death within a growing universe of joy.”

“Come,” said the Singer. They walked again.

Soon they came to a grand reliquary on a distant ivory causeway. There was a cube of glass and deep within a replica of the Great Machine of Death.

“Why keep this?” Ansond asked.

“It was the only hope of Terra One. Those who walk this newer world are here because I chose to die down there between the gears and ropes.”

“What was it like to die?” the Golden Knight asked.

“Be grateful you shall never have to know.”

The Troubadour looked thoughtfully away. “When it was over, I held a new relationship with men. Even Terra One died. Death does not matter.” The Singer gestured to the glistening world of Terra Two. “Dying is not final, only life.”

Ansond looked at the scars of death still marking the Prince’s hands.

“You are the Singer, Prince and Troubadour!”

There was music all around them in the air.

They sang the Star-Song, and far above the Crystal Chair, their music drifted outward on the universe.

“Earthmaker viewed the sculptured dignity

Of man, God-like and strident, President

Of everything that is, content to be

His intimate and only earthen friend.”

HALANA.

About the Author

Calvin Miller (1936-2012) was a professor at Beeson Divinity School. The beloved author of more than forty books, Miller was also well known as a poet, artist, novelist and speaker. His later works included Preaching (Baker), O Shepherd Where Art Thou? (Broadman & Holman) and Conversations with Jesus (Harvest House). He summed up his rule of life in four words: “Time is a gift.”

The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament

Hundreds of thousands have already thrilled to this extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Through the story of the Singer, his Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created a book full of life. Now, in one volume, you can find a powerful tale of incarnation and redemption.