In 1974, Gustav Larsson, a young programmer from
Helsinki,Finland, stumbled upon an amazing discovery. While
working with a PDP-8 mainframe computer, Gustav suddenly
because bored. He decided to attempt to compile a single byte
program. For what reasons we cannot know.

Nevertheless, Gustav was already familiar with RTPS
FORTRAN and thus picked a single character to represent the
contents of the program: "@". Once compiled, he
expected nothing to happen.

He was wrong. To his absolute amazement, it compiled
successfully!

Using an ARS-33 Teletype, Gustav printed out the 1
byte program followed by its output. It appeared to contain a
message from God. A devout Catholic, Gustav showed it to his
immediate supervisor, who ordered both the print out and the
program itself destroyed. Although Gustav complied with his
wishes, it is rumored that he kept a copy of the printout in a
small shoe box in his apartment in Helsinki.

He also kept a brown diary which included various
small passages from the "Helsinki Code" (as he described it
years later). According to Gustav, the Helsinki Code came
directly from the 'Mind of God.'

The Helsinki Code read (in part):

"...[M]y presence in your world is unalterable for I
am the sanctuary of both the cosmos and the one soul inside
you. I could awaken each of you in this very moment to [my]
unity, but there is a larger design - a more comprehensive
vision - that places you in the boundaries of time and the
spatial dimensions of separateness...[T]he design requires a
progression into my wholeness that reacquaints you
with [my] unity through the experience of separation. Your
awakening, while slow and sometimes painful, is
assured, and this you must trust above all else..."

(Page 26 of Gustav's Journal - Dated February 10th,
1975)

Gustav passed away in 1996. Although his diary has
since turned up missing, the above fragment from the
'Helsinki Code' remains. Perhaps, just perhaps, we can 
learn to be better people simply by reading it.

Paul