Chapter Text
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In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.
Strictly speaking, as to the facts of this matter, opinions differ. At least slightly.
But the Bible still speaks to Abrahamic concept of the firmament, wrought to divide the waters above from the water below. The heavens made separate from the seas and the seas made separate from the land beyond the water.
Above the humility of the earth arcs the Vault of Heaven, the celestial dome onto which the stars are fastened, to shine on humanity below. The stars were so fastened as to order the seasons, to mark the days and the years, and to be signs for all creation.
The Earth is four and a half billion years old. At the very apex of this ripe old age, humanity began to hang its own stars, to arc across the sky, to weave and cross and wend through the lowest of the heavens. These sing the song of a new creation; sound and light and song and story radiating outward; Frank Sinatra serenading the depths of the cosmos, the beautiful and perfect mundanity of humankind.
Regardless of the theological foundation upon which "Strangers In The Night" and Ol' Blue Eyes have their footing, there are stars and there are stars. The former, man-made and artificial, hung by fallible hands, are by far the more dangerous.