The Santa Claus Chronicles offer a view of Life based on simple Logic. Logic is the "e;formal"e; expression of common sense. It is part of Mathematics. Mathematics, as you know, also spreads into uncommon sense, Differential Equations for example, which we happily leave to the Mathematicians. But everyone knows about counting, and the universally famous Counting Numbers, also called the Natural Numbers-1,2,3, . . . and so on, onward to as large a Number as you like. Numbers are the first expression of Logic in our conscious human brains. We use the word intuitive to explain where they come from. One mathematician thought God programmed our brains with them when he created the first human brain. So what does Santa Claus have to do with Counting Numbers? As you know, there are a lot of them, more than anyone can ever count. Because wherever you stop counting, the next Number is always bigger, bigger by 1, thus new and different, or old and different, take your pick. Santa's thing is giving Gifts, right? And where did the idea of Santa Claus and Gifts originate? From an old Story in an old book. It is the Oldest Book if you define the word "e;book"e; in a certain common-sense way. The Santa Claus Chronicles are small books intended to take a new look at the Old Story, from the perspective of Counting. As it happens, the Old Story is a Love Story. About how Love started out easy and then became difficult, confused, and complicated with something vastly different from Love, something opposed to Love, like Love backwards: Evol. We usually spell it E-v-i-l. The story is large in scope: it covers the time span of our entire Universe. It begins with the beginning of the Universe and ends with the end of it. The beginning is called Genesis, which means "e;beginning,"e; and the end is called Revelation, because the end of the Universe hasn't happened yet; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this. So, because we don't exactly know what will happen in the future, no one knows how the Story ends yet. The idea of the Revelation part of the book seems to have been to give out some strangely coded clues as to what the end of the Universe might be like. Through dreams, or visions. Reportedly inspired by the Maker of Time and Everything Else. A lot of it sounds very strange, to be sure. Partly because it was written two thousand years ago from symbolic dreams of fierce beasts and so on. And notice how we are counting, counting Time. Time is always counting, tick, tock. Two Thousand, 2,000 is the approximate Number. Years, that is. How many days? A little more than 730,500, figuring for leap years and other small corrections. How many tick-tock cycles (seconds)? A little more than 63,115,200,000. The Santa Claus Chronicles views this story, from the standpoint of an imaginary Universe, parallel to and outside Earth's universe. What do we mean by "e;parallel to and outside"e;? Read on and see. North Pole Universe we style as the home Universe of Santa Claus himself. It is outside of Time, which is one of the dimensions our Universe runs on (ask Albert Einstein). Life in Earth Universe is Life in Time. Not in the North Pole Universe though, no tick-tocks there. How could Santa Claus get around the entire world with his gifts in one night? In Time? Obviously, he could not. So why not take a closer look at Time?
