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Memoirs of a Galactic Emperor - Chapter I

-{( Memoirs of a Galactic Emperor – Chapter I )}-
An out-of-body experience I had on Friday, July 2, 2010, in the morning

“As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be.” - Lorenzo Snow


Prelude: The Everlasting Cycles

This detailed account was recorded on Friday, July 2, 2010, in the evening…
“The dawn of time was only the beginning of this present, current cycle of existence. God was a part of each current existence since the dawn… and God has existed in all previous cycles… thusly God will continue to exist in every single cycle from the present, current one into infinity. In each cycle, God begins as a mortal and becomes divine. Long before the creation of mankind in each cycle, God has already reached the divine status and has already created the oldest sentient races either through himself or through the agency of his power as taken by the goddess Sophia. After a time, the old races are made mortal and must regain their divinity. But the children of Eve, they were made in God’s image and so began as mortals. We of the old races now walk amongst them, and together we: and the children of Eve have become one single kindred. Originally, we saw this as the worst punishment imaginable, but now we know why we had to become mortals as well… so that we could guide humanity unseen, and in cooperation with the younger race, create a better universe fro both of us to dwell in. One day, perhaps man will become divine, just as their maker did. One day, perhaps we will have regained that state. But first, mankind must survive! And the key to survival is wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. That is why Eden failed… because when you try to keep humanity from true enlightenment, you create the climate for rebellion. Such was the original cause of the Titan rebellion against Olympian tyranny. The “War in Heaven” of popular religious thought. I know, because I was there. I was a galactic emperor… and my people became human over time, although not of Eve’s blood initially. That was God’s doing, and this is the story of how I learned who I was, and how that came to be. It is ironic to think that I myself had no small role in the influencing of events during the beginning of this cycle of time. I look in the mirror, and I see just a regular person. A mortal: a human being, like any other. Yet all that is but raiment worn as clothes are worn. Beneath that raiment, is my true form, and if my fellow man could see that… they would know that humanity is not alone in the universe.”
So I began to write, recently, when thinking about the nature of space, time, energy, and matter as it exists in the universe today. There is so much that mankind has forgotten, but that I remember. People ask me how it is that I alone remember these things. But I am not alone… there are many others like me out there. Most choose not to speak of what really transpired in the distant past, but for myself I am doomed never to be allowed to forget it!

Prologue: The Golden Theater

I am going to tell you something, which you may not believe… but which is the absolute truth. Early this morning I laid down fatigued from having been up all night, and thought to sleep. But as I began to drift off, I felt myself rising higher and higher. And as I looked down on my motionless body below… I knew I was in the spirit, rather than in the flesh. What happened next was a feeling of instantaneous travel across vast distances, and I was on the planet nearest Heaven that some religions call Kolob, or Kobol as it is known in more popular consciousness. I was standing outside a great indoor theater surrounded by the massive glass walls that enclosed a food court. The walls of the theater’s facade were of stone, and decorated with gilded ornamentations. Marble columns upheld the court’s flat roof, and although this was indeed a theater there were no advertisements or posters to show what might be playing inside. It was late at night, the clock showing about 8:PM, even though it had been perhaps that exact hour in the morning. A single day’s difference existed between this alien planet and Earth, I realized! I spoke to the ticket seller, and he said the theater was closed. I walked about the food court and noticed a woman walking towards me with purpose. Her long platinum blonde hair and emerald green eyes with no whites in them were familiar and quite well known to me. On Earth, she had always been my guardian angel. Before my earliest incarnation on Earth, she had also been my sister, the archangel some call Lucifer… and though she is beloved of God and has no malice in her heart, people still will popularly imagine that she is the Devil, due to the odd hatred the Church has ever held for her, due to her being a powerful female goddess of old, and they being a patriarchal establishment that was always at odds with the vastly older, more rational, matriarchal religions. But some of us still remember the truth. Some like myself, who are more than human, though bound in restricting human flesh and bone by powers beyond mortal comprehension… and therefore, made mortal. She was wearing a baggy red jumpsuit, and it accentuated well her pale skin. “Sibling beloved!” she called to me. I turned. She continued: “You came even as I called for you!” I smiled at her, most fondly. She then formally spoke to me another welcome, using my true name: I'yaldabara'xenus. As always, I found that name familiar and yet so very alien and so bizarre to hear spoken. I should mention, that Kobol exists in the middle of a black void of space where a single bright star exists as that planet’s sun. That world and that star are alone within that void.

Part One: The Riddle of Numbers

The angel and I clasped hands, our traditional greeting, and then we embraced warmly. I waited whilst she gave a pouch filled with crystals to an older woman who worked at a counter nearby. The woman accepted the gems and gave Lucifer a map. “Come with me, and do not fall behind.” The angel thusly cautioned me, and I followed her out a door in the encircling glass walls and thence into a parking lot outside the theater and food court, which I noticed was one immense, square-shaped building. She led me to a wine-colored car that had four doors, all open, and said: “Great! I think this was our car, but it has been broken into.” And I examined it inside and out. Then, I noticed the license plate number. “No, this is not our car.” I explained. “Our car’s number ends with 51790.” And as I said that, the tall blonde stood to her full six foot height and recited from memory, but as if in a trance: “5, for the five living elementals who had once held court in the theater. 1, for the seventh who is above the seven! 7, for his first creations, one of which was an empty vessel to house his own spirit… 9: for the aspects of the divine before the tenth and most holy sphere. And 0, for infinity.” Then, she was herself again and simply said: “Come on, let us go look for our car.” Eventually, after an exhausting search, we came to a red car with two doors and the correct license plate number on it. It was half-hidden in some big bushes with large palm-like leaves. “There, I must have hidden it and forgotten about it. Now I must leave you for a time. I am going to the Valley of the Gods, where the tombs of the ancients lie. You must not follow me there yet. For now, return to the theater and wait for my return.” And then she took off in the car, leaving me to return whence we had come. And so I waited for hours, but Lucifer never returned. I started to notice many odd things that escaped me before. I was clothed in a red jumpsuit not unlike hers, but with blue decorations… and I was wearing a silver pendant shaped like a serpent swallowing its’ own tail. A red jewel in the middle of an eye in a pyramid and surrounded by a circle decorated the center of the pendant. I pinched myself, and realized this was not a dream. This place… I had been here before, but it was not like this! So much had been changed. There was something dreadful and sinister about that theater, something long forgotten.

Part Two: The Valley of the Gods

I was sitting at a table in the food court when I did notice a man washing one of the glass walls outside. He wore a jumpsuit identical to my own, but with white trim. Another man in similar attire was walking around past the map seller. I knocked on the window to get the window washer’s attention and he put his mop down and came around through a door into the court. “Can I help you with anything?” he politely asked. I then explained: “Yes, actually I want to know got to get to the tombs in the Valley of the Gods. Someone I love is there, and I must find her.” The man then paid a pouch of crystals for a map from the map seller, just as Lucifer had done earlier. The man then said: “I am ready now. Follow me, but only go where I tell you and do not stray from the path I walk.” And so we left the theater grounds and the parking lot, and journeyed over some thickly wooded hills. At length, we came to a huge valley filled with sand and dust. A true desolation, where here and there ancient rusted metal vehicles stuck up out of the sands, along with vastly more ancient structures. All half-buried by time. I turned to my left, and beheld a stone barrow surrounded by a fence made from massive standing stones. The black entrance of the old tomb was like unto a hungry open mouth. I could hear cackling, screaming, and laughing amidst wailing, weeping, and curses of every sort. All coming from the blackness! But my guide ran past the evil place and I followed him closely, not wishing to get any closer to it. “Is that the place I seek?” I asked the man, and he replied: “No, that is not the tombs of legend. They lie in a magnificent temple on the far side of the valley. That is the place where the unquiet dead dwell. They: who perished in ancient wars, and so have nowhere else to go, do dwell in the underworld that lies beneath that barrow. The evils of the past, of the wars waged on this world in another age, lie just beneath the surface of this valley. Your part in those conflicts is long over… but those ghosts would recognize you and seek vengeance upon you still! Never go into their domain.” Primal fear told me this was truth. The ancient possessing spirits of legend that can enter the bodies of the living and cause all manner of madness and illness. Such beings lived, surely, in those darkest of recesses. “I'yaldabara'xenus, most accursed!” they shouted out at me. “It is your doing, that we do suffer eternally in this way. We who are now damned. Why does God never liberate us?”

Part Three: The City in the Mountains

It was shocking to me, to see a planet regarded as holy, reduced to such a declining state. I followed my guide as the wasteland’s ground became soft and in places crumbled away beneath my feet. I saw ancient machines long buried, and the bones of the long dead that lay scattered about them. Eventually, as the ground sank lower and lower, we came to a more level plain where I spotted a vast city built into the side of the cliffs that marked the lower boundaries of the mountains that surrounded the valley. We were in the far south of the valley, as the map showed. As we drew near the city, I saw that the sides of all of the buildings on the ground level were open, exposing offices, work places, and merchants. As the buildings were stacked one on top of the next, all the way up the mountainside… they were closed above the ground level. I reasoned that those closed parts were homes and dwellings. The city was bustling with activity, as people went about their own daily business. My guide handed me his map and then went into a nearby elevator. All of the levels of the city: were linked by elevators, I noticed. I walked up to a market stall where a large-built woman was talking about cartography over a telephone to someone. I waited for her to finish and then showed her the map. “Excuse me madam, but could you tell me where the temple that contains the tombs of legend would be? I must, surely be close.” And the woman explained: “You have no idea how far away you are! Here, let me show you…” and she marked a series of stars on the map, with the largest of them surrounded by a pyramid with a circle around it and some sort of a halo of light rays. “You need to follow the side of these cliffs unto it comes around almost to the east of the center of the wasteland itself. There, amidst the most ancient and terrible of all the ruins that lie in the valley, lies the temple of the five and the seven.” And I walked for a ways, until the way led me underground. I noticed an old, white-haired man walking just past me who was wearing a brown suit of the business variety, and a pair of small round spectacles. I called out to him: “Sir, could you kindly show me the way to the temple from this underground tunnel? I do not want to get lost.” And he said: “Follow me. I know the way very well!”

Part Four: The Ruins of the False God

The old man led me to a series of seven elevators. He entered one of them and it vanished into the ground. I sat at a nearby booth and waited for a while, until at last Lucifer rose up out of the sixth elevator. “I told you to wait for me back at the theater!” She started, only to smile broadly and exclaim: “Oh, it doesn’t matter, beloved sibling, so long as you are here safely now.” And she hugged me with a passionate embrace. I showed her the map, and she showed me her own, which had the same star markings upon it. “Now, we can go to the temple together, as I wished for us to do.” She stated happily. “We must enter the sixth elevator together. Come on!” and so we entered the elevator and descended into the darkness below. Eventually, it opened unto a long tunnel that eventually led out into the part of the valley indicated by the pyramid symbol on the map. The scene before us was hellish to say the least! This part of the wasteland was covered in black ash, and circular blast marks and craters dotted the landscape. Filled with long-destroyed debris of every kind. Tall brick buildings reduced to rubble by time stuck up from the sand and the ash, and wild, barbaric people roamed the area. They gathered at a circled etched into the soil, which glowed with a pale green light. And towering over them… over all this horrific scene of desolation… was a monster. Like a gigantic insect it was, with six wings that beat like a dragonfly’s. It had long spindly legs like a spider, ending in sharp claws… but even those legs: were dwarfed by the massive wings. The head and face was a demonic skull with long, curved horns. And within the beast, as could be seen through the thing’s transparent abdomen, was a kind of hellfire in which living souls screamed and writhed in indescribable agony. Lucifer explained to me: “That is the false god who rules this part of the valley. Have no fear, for he has no power of you and can harm you not.” And I did watch in horror as the creature spat out strands of light that sucked up some of the savage people and brought them into its’ gaping maw. “I am God, kneel before me!” it screamed.
“There are gods above all other gods, and gods beyond the gods of all the universes. Yet, you, creature, are no god at all!” screamed Lucifer at the monster, as her power built up. The overt malice of the thing could surely not withstand the celestial might of her glory!

Part Five: The Temple of the Ancients

Lucifer bombarded the monster with emerald-colored blasts of light, and the false god did scream again, this time in pain. I felt golden-hued bursts erupt from my fingers, and they too flew into the horror’s massive bulk. After a time of such combat, the insect changed into a more spider-like form than it had originally and crashed into the nearby mountains. As it fell, it burst into pieces, freeing the souls trapped inside it. The savage worshippers of the beast fled in all direction, their god’s physical form destroyed. Soon, all was quiet. The fair-haired angel beckonede onward, and I followed her until soon we arrived at a massive gate set into a low cliff. On top of the cliff, nestled into the mountainside, was a huge crystalline dome covered in hexagonal panels. The gate, which led into the structure itself, was covered with silver and gold images of human souls entwined together. In the midst of them was the image of a serpent swallowing its’ own tail. In the middle of that, was a circle enclosing a pyramid with an eye in the middle of it. Two tall marble pillars stood to either side of that massive portal, each topped with a smaller crystal sphere. One of dull gray color, and one of bright gold color, like unto the sun and the moon. Lucifer urged me to place my pendant in the eye part of the gate, where a circular depression lay. The pendant fit, and unlocked the towering doors. The angel and I entered a short hall where two statues of lions, in the oriental style, sat to either side of the passage, watching us with fierce but vacant gazes. Then, we were on a bridge with no railing leading out to the center of a massive crystal sphere. The top part formed the dome we had seen when we were outside. “Behold, the temple of the five and the seven!” And suspended in the center of the sphere was a pentagram surrounded by a golden ring. At each point of the star was a human-like being held by some gravitational force. I could not make out their features, because each was bathed in bright golden and white light. Then, I beheld a far larger ring surrounding everything. Seven points were on it, and on those points were ancient marble sarcophagi kept in place. The pentagram and the rings turned perpetually, and the slow spinning of them was almost like unto the orbit of planets around their star. There was a kind of music in all that spinning and symmetry that I swear I could detect.

Interlude: The Nakedness of the Spirit

Some claim that it is by some cosmic game between powers unseen and unknowable that the universe came into being as we know it today. I found myself transmitted in spirit, in pure androgynous spirit… to the most holy and sacred world in existence… where a body created to receive me awaited my coming. And yet, there was ruin and horror to be found there! And what was to come would prove even far more shocking to me still. The mere fact that, even amidst sacredness and holiness there is destruction and desolation gives a person pause for thought. Though in some alien body I stood, I was naked in my spirit on that world… for there, in that form, my senses were more acute and heightened. And the natural powers of the spirit and soul were enhanced to levels unknown to humanity today. Yet, in ancient times mankind knew more of the inner self than is known now! The secret knowledge that all of us are, in spirit and soul, semi-divine… even though of old some of the semi-divine beings rose up to dominate others it viewed as “lesser”, that conflict and so many others were born of false notions. For were it made known that all beings can be like unto God, capable of ruling over their own creations… would not sooner of later the children supplant the parent, and failing that at least rebel? So it had been when I: and my sister Lucifer rebelled so long ago, and lost. But in losing we gained even more wisdom, and freedoms hitherto unknown. God did not so much punish we who rebelled… rather, God set us free of any chains that had bound us before. But all this was not at first made apparent to us, when our rebellion failed! Oh, so much I was about to learn on Kobol… but before I can relate it all to you, dear reader, I must relate other things. I have, over the millennia of being reincarnated since the dawn of time, discovered that death is not man’s worst enemy. Rather, denial of one’s potential is. Damnation is never so terrible as when it comes because one did not do enough to better oneself in lifetime after lifetime! There are possessing spirits of which I will later speak, who have ceased to desire any kind of self-betterment or higher state. They believe they are trapped, and so they remain. Some can be helped, guided, and freed from their self-imposed imprisonment… but others are beyond all human effort to aid, and so must be left in the hands of higher agencies than mortals. To cleanse oneself of all that holds us back is a glorious thing, and in my journey I discovered that the holy power to cleanse myself was within me since the dawn of time!

Part Six: The Mystery of the Archon

“Would you like to see your first body, the one you created to house your spirit?” Lucifer asked me. “Yes. I would like that very much!” I exclaimed. And I walked off the bridge. Suddenly, the space within the dome displayed an image of space. Stars, planets, and all manner of celestial phenomena surrounded me. I was walking towards the outer ring now and was drawn to one of the seven sarcophagi, ornately decorated with gold and silver in the shape of beautiful faces and fantastic creatures. The image of a lion was emblazoned on the lid where the name “I'yaldabara'xenus” was etched in a strange script that I found I could read. Beneath a transparent panel through which I could see my own face, my eyes closed in their final repose. Gold and white light was all about me, and when I touched the panel I beheld images of all my lives and incarnations. Past, and present! I dared not look at the future, though, and when that segment began I turned back to speak with my angelic sister. “I know who I was. Who I am! The old name you always called me by… my true name… I now know you did not deceive me.” I was the first, whose mother had been called Sophia Achamoth. The Empress of the Universe: who granted me a portion of her own power and glory. But there was a conflict between her and a god whose name was never spoken, the god whose own power she had taken a greater part of to create me. To save me from his wrath, she sent me to live on the planet Kobol, and there I so longed for companionship! I created seven angels, all part human and part machine, to keep me company… and I made the seventh without a soul, an empty vessel into which I poured the whole of my being. I so became my own creation, in that way, and once I was within that body I forgot my true parentage, and did not realize there were any gods before me. Long I remained that way, until twelve tribes of humankind created by the unnamed god came to dwell on the planet with me. From them rose up twelve ruling lords that mankind would later call the “Olympians”. They began to call my kindred and I “Titans”, meaning “Ancient Ones” and harsh tensions grew between their kind and mine, for they claimed to possess sacred knowledge of a god and goddess I had no memory of. To ease the mistrust growing between our races, the ruling lords allowed me to sit on their council in the high capital city of Kobol, known as Eden. That same Eden in whose honor our first colony on Earth would be named so many generations later, and the garden which religious tradition makes so much of. But for now, thirteen lords sat in council: twelve Olympians and one Titan. I was that Titan, and I soon grew more and more jealous when these upstart gods began to call themselves “Elder Gods”, and dared to say that there was a supreme God of Light who loved them and knew me not. Strange words, to one who thought he was the eldest! Soon, the jealously and tension erupted into war between Olympians and Titans, and at the last Sophia appeared and restored my memory. I tried to restore sanity to the two warring factions, but neither side would back down. In the end, I stuck with my own kindred and the battle resumed more fiercely than ever before. As ever, all I desired was lasting peace. But never again would peace reign on Kobol, for its’ era was finally ended. In our cause for equality, we were aided: by five elemental gods who had a great temple on that holy world. These elementals came originally from the Titan race. The Olympians attempted to drive them out of their holy place, though, and so the elementals sided with us against them. We brought to bear a mighty host… one the enemy could never imagine!

Part Seven: The Wars across the Heavens

It was all too little… too late. For the twelve lords bested us and forced us into exile from the world that had been our home. And as we fell, we fled across the stars to a new world previously unknown. A habitable world between Mars and Jupiter, where we built up our civilization until, in the age of the last queen of that civilization, the five elementals that had previously dwelled on Kobol came to our world to live, and took on the forms of our race, human and machine, as opposed to the divine beings that had become on Kobol. But then the serpent-folk, who were the indigenous people of that world, rose up in rebellion against us, just as we had risen in rebellion against the Olympians. These alien beings did call the planet by the name “Rahab”, and their queen was called the Dragon Mother. Her name was Tiamat, and her daughter was princess Ereshkigal. In their language, my name was “Nergal”, which meant “God of War”. To try and bring about a lasting peace, it was arranged that I would marry Ereshkigal and so become a son of Tiamat by that marriage. This was done, and she thereafter granted me the title “Kingu”, meaning “King to Come” for when Tiamat’s time to pass on came I was to succeed her and become king. It was in this golden age of that planet’s history that we founded colonies on Mars. The greatest of all our achievements on Mars was the construction of a grand ziggurat temple in honor of Tiamat, where she was worshipped as a living goddess. Mars, in those days, was a literal paradise not unlike how Earth once was. Ereshkigal was given Mars to rule, and I ruled it for a time at her side. But at last, the five elementals grew fearful that they would one day be mistreated by us as they were by the Olympians… and so they once more stoked the fires of war, between Tiamat’s people and mine. As both sides neared an interplanetary nuclear confrontation, the five knew they had made a mistake and sent out a distress call to Kobol, to their former enemies, and so the twelve lords sent an armada to our world, “Rahab”. The world we called Terra, but which the Olympians called Tartarus. They had brought their most terrible battleship with them, a construct capable of destroying all of a planet. But first, they trained their nuclear weapons upon the surface of Terra, and once that was done they unleashed the battleship and obliterated the sad planet, and out of that apocalypse the fragments became the asteroid belt known today. That explosion caused the atmosphere of Mars to be sucked away… as planetary fragments struck it. Thus did our colonies on Mars and the rich civilization that developed there come to a violent end!
But, before that horror took place, the Olympians fielded their armies to attempt conquest of Terra. When their first troops were spotted entering the planet’s atmosphere, Tiamat abdicated the throne to lead her peoples’ armies into battle against them. Ereshigal was named queen in her stead, and the daughter she had by me, Lilithu, was named princess and heir to the throne. On Mars, a woman named Lucifera came to power and ruled that world as its’ last princess. She was named general of the Martian army but rose quickly to become Tiamat’s most trusted general as well. Lastly, my people fielded their own forces to aid Tiamat against the invaders, but when she was killed in battle and all of our armies combined proved too much for the Olympians to even hope of defeating… that is when the nuclear weapons of both sides were deployed. That is when the weapon that destroyed a planet was unleashed. The war, for a war it had become, ended in slaughter. A shower of debris struck the moon of the world we called Earth, and a single piece had hit the Earth itself, ending the life of the dinosaurs that existed at that time. We had fled annihilation in a mass exodus, so returning to Kobol to enact our revenge. But something had shifted in the orbits of planets and the swirl of galaxies… and it took generations to return. The five found a way to reincarnate themselves, and with their aid we grew strong again, and numerous. By the time we got on back, the planet Kobol, nearest to God’s own home in the heavens, was in the desolate state I related throughout the earlier parts of my tale. We used it as a base to recover, rearm, and prepare to exact our revenge against our ancient enemies. We discovered the new worlds that became home to them, and from out of their new homes, the Olympians had emerged to fight us. But Sophia and the unnamed god she now served loyally, created Lucifer… and thusly my sister was born. Once fully grown, Lucifer did come over to our side and led us in the unnamed god’s name, against the Olympians. But that god had decided that our cause was merely one of vengeance and so unjust… and he cast his own lot in with the Olympians. Realizing too late that this god was God, Lucifer tried to put a stop to the war… but it was too late, and we had lost. We were forced to side with our own foes! History would repeat itself, one day. Lucifer’s real name was originally Solaris, with “Lucifer” being but a title that she was awarded. In fact she proved to be the reincarnation of that same Lucifera who fought the Olympians in the name of Tiamat when they invaded Terra. People today have a very mythologized idea of these histories, and those I will relate to you next. That is probably because, only we who were there still remember what really took place… and all others could only speculate on what transpired. I remember the dawn of all time, and recorded history, in detail! In some ways, to remember is a kind of torture… because there is no return to ignorance, or bliss. Oft, my own kind referred to me as Saklas meaning “fool”… because I wanted to always remember what others might forget. Little did I know how long memory could go on for!

Part Eight: The Long Migration to Eden

By the end of this final conflict between the Olympian and Titan races, Lucifer had lost what at the time was the source of her power: a magnificent emerald imbued with many dark energies and powers. It was taken across the Universe to Earth by a group of rebel, neutral angels who refused to side with either faction. Neither they nor their prize were ever heard from again. To this day, alchemists seek the emerald in vain, calling it by the name of “The Philosopher’s Stone”. But only the angels who bore it, knew its’ location. As a reminder of the mad conflicts in the stars… I was left with an injured left leg, and so was forced to use a cane for a time thereafter. In my current earthly incarnation, my left leg has always troubled me, although until this revelation I had never actually understood just why. When the old wars were over, a new era of cooperation began out of our mutual necessity. By this time in our history, the race created by the archons was no longer at all part machine, but wholly human, as the Olympians themselves were. Human: but capable of resurrection, reincarnation, and having exceedingly long life spans. And we left the old war-torn part of space that had been our home since my birth, in search of a new world to colonize. We sought the world once home to the dinosaurs, Earth, and found that, indeed, the roads of the cosmos had changed! We could not return there. And Lucifer did so pray unto Sophia, and the true unnamable God, for guidance. And though the five elementals had been dead since the previous wars, God allowed them to return, to show us the way. But because they had to incarnate as human beings, the way was lost to them. It was then that God caused the Holy Spirit to incarnate as a beautiful woman of the Olympian race named Aurora. A woman who had died in their service and become deified! It was said that a ship all of white light appeared, and from it she emerged as whole again as she had ever been in life. And that resurrected woman named Aurora, because she was a part of God, was able to absorb the memories of the five elementals. She unblocked the ancient memories and returned them to the five. And so they awakened, and so she awakened… and the way became known to them all. Thusly, we reached the Milky Way, where Earth still sat just past Mars. The ruins of lost Terra, now the famed asteroid belt, ever eternally circled between Mars and Jupiter, in memory of the war that did rage there, so long ago.
At this time, the former advisor of Ereshigal, Namtar, decided to attempt to rally those of Tiamat’s race who survived amongst our people in order to cause them to rebel against us. His goal was to force us to return to Kobol and forsake Earth at all costs. He and his dark necromancers were thwarted in their ambitions by Aurora and Lucifer who managed to uncover their plot and put an end to these fiends: once and for all. Lucifer entrapped them in a black crystal sphere, and only released them once they had all sworn undying loyalty to her alone. To this day, their spirits live on and serve her through life and death!
This final obstacle was dealt with, and now we approached the world we had long sought. In memory of Terra, we called Earth by her name. And so Earth became known as Terra in ancient records, whilst the first planet to be called Terra was forgotten. Holy scripture tells what happened next. God led humanity to Earth and established the Garden of Eden for all to dwell in. Our first colony on the new world! There, both Adama and Lilith were born. But Lilith, being a descendant of princess Lilithu, so despised Adama for his human weaknesses and thusly she came to be my lover instead. For a time, we lived in a modest settlement by the shores of the Red Sea… but eventually, I was called back to Eden again by two messengers: sent to bring Lilith and I back. Lilith refused to go, and stayed in her self-imposed exile. God thereafter created a woman named Eve solely for Adama, and in fact she was as utterly subservient to his will as a sentient being could be. From Eve’s old and powerful mitochondrial DNA came the whole genetic pattern of humanity ever after. To test my loyalty, God bade me to bow before Adama and Eve, saying that they were in his likeness, and so worthy of reverence. I refused to bow, stating that it would surely be blasphemy to revere them and not God himself. Unable to deny this, God remarked that I had the cunning of a serpent, and jokingly suggested I should go crawl back to Lilith on my belly like one. But this was meant in jest, and nothing came of it. However, God had commanded two things he did expect us to obey: firstly, that the old technologies of the past never get used again, and secondly, that no “angel” breed with Eve’s race. And so were the members of our “alien” races called “Watchers”, for we were intended to be merely the shepherds of Eve’s bloodline to come. We were to just “watch over” and to guide. But it would come to pass, that passion, love, and lust ruled ever the hearts of all living souls! Yet, before Gods laws were broken… there was a darker deed to be enacted.

Part Nine: The Mountains of Damnation

By this time in our history, the billions of my race that had followed me to Earth were in constant conflict with the far larger population of God’s followers. Although we tried to become one people over time, old prejudices and rivalries still persisted. It was said that in the old wars across the stars, one third of the Olympians joined the Titan cause, and Lucifer and I were held to blame for their having “fallen” from the Olympian ideals of grace. At this point, both sides faced the problem of high overpopulation and so we were, therefore, commanded to take the worst of the Titans and Olympians who had done the greatest evils on both sides and find a way to dispose of them. I was placed in charge of that deed, and so I became reviled and hated as a tyrant because of it. No one knew that I was merely acting out the will of God, but sometimes even divine mandate can be sinful! So it was, that the offenders were rounded up with promises of rewards for their military service, and those who hadn’t actually fought in the old wars were told that they were to be given lives of comfort and ease. Some who wished to go back to the stars were made to believe they were being taken back to Kobol and other worlds that were home to them. The whole of these peoples were flown across the globe in flying crafts to many places, but primarily to the volcanic regions that would one day become Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu. Then, they were placed in cryogenic storage, they were told “for their journey home” and rather than be taken to the stars… they were cast into the flames. This is where the original notion of Hell being a place of fire and brimstone originated! The old mountains were then made to erupt, so that the souls and spirits of the fallen could be collected. And so they were blown upwards by the smoke and ash of the eruption, and cast adrift upon the winds, having no bodies to inhabit. Most were captured: by twisted devices that had the single capacity to catch the unique energy patterns of all things spiritual, and so those bodiless entities were placed in capsules to contain them. Some escaped, and to this day are demonic, possessing creatures that seek to take over the bodies of the living. But, in the long run… what of those taken captive? They were condemned to what was called “The Second Death” which it was believed would rehabilitate them for their future lives. The details of this procedure are linked to the secret of the golden theater on Kobol itself. Once… the theater was simply an opera house, but over time it was converted for a very different use: the reeducation of criminals. And so it was to be these captives’ destination.

Part Ten: The Second Death Enacted

A fleet of Olympian and Titan space-faring vessels were dispatched back to Kobol, each ship bearing as the cargo the capsules containing the imprisoned souls and spirits. In this way, they had not been lied to, since they were finally going home. Once back there, the capsules were emptied and the entities were given temporary bodies to inhabit. Then, the lot of them were: taken to Kobol’s massive golden theater and there were re-programmed using movie-like films that incorporated subliminal messages and images under the guise of entertainment. They came to believe that had been consigned to “Hell” and were now in “Heaven” in the conventional sense of those places rather than the more factual reality of them. It was impressed upon them that salvation lay only through utter, unquestioning loyalty and obedience to divine law. They were told that God was “God” and that I had been the “Devil”, and seeing the closeness between my sister and I they came to believe that Lucifer was just another name for the totally fictional notion of the “Devil”. But in reality… the only “Devil” proved to be ignorance. The reprogrammed beings were then taken out of their bodies and beamed back to Earth using the soul and spirit’s own natural ability to travel faster than light, being a form of energy. Once on Earth, they settled into bodies of humans of Eve’s race as well as members of the Olympian and Titan races. In time, their single-minded delusions were passed on to all living, sentient beings. And so we strove with all our hearts to please God, fearing damnation. Lucifer and I were in that way made to bear the guilt of having caused the fall of all rebel “angels”, even though in truth their fall was through their own deeds, not ours… and heaped upon that older guilt was the memory that my people had punished them that much further after their deaths. It had come to pass that only once these deeds were done, did the God of Light determined that such practices were monstrous and too cruel. His most loyal officers shut down the theater and made certain that it was never again used for the purpose to which we had, in madness, consigned it. They then relieved me of command of the entire operation and did force me to return to Earth. However, the consequences of our actions were quite heavy! Many of our peoples began to go mad from the possessing spirits, and the very first to be affected was Lilith. It was thought, at first, to be harmless kind of madness, sine she hid it well from everyone. Lucifer and she spoke often in secret, and it was soon said that they had a plan of some kind in store for Eve. Simple mischief, most had agreed. But it was all wrought by the malice of the bodiless beings that even now sought revenge for what had been perpetrated upon them! Countless of their horrible numbers came to dwell in Lilith especially, and the means to free oneself of them was not yet known. It was a dark period.

Part Eleven: The Battle of the Factions

As we returned to Earth once again from Kobol, we were pursued by the zealous faction now known as the “Loyal Officers”, who used stolen hyper jump data to reach Earth long before our ships could. This was due to sabotage on the part of spies, who made certain our trip would take that much longer than originally intended. About halfway along our return journey, we encountered a living starship known as a “Leviathan” which was one of the ancient ships used by Tiamat’s navy in the defense of old Terra long ago. As soon as we neared its’ space, it began to open fire upon our main flagship, tearing huge holes in the engine section and crippling the vessel permanently. In a necessary act of galactic space piracy, I ordered the crew to prepare to board the Leviathan and take it over for our own use. We made our way to shuttles and escape pods, and any other available craft, as well as every available attack craft. The remainder of the crew who were left were, to the last man, woman and child, outfitted with Seraphim-class and Cherubim-class armor that would allow them to breathe and traverse the distance in the void of space between the two ships. And so, the mass evacuation and invasion of the enemy craft was begun. We poured into their exposed docking bay and entered every corner of the Leviathan, all of us fully expecting to fight an army. Instead, all we found were ancient living machines of Titan design who had re-programmed themselves for survival and combat. We managed to overcome all of the living machines and we soon discovered the half-human hybrid at the main helm, whose mind was linked to the vital systems of the Leviathan. Our wisest technicians began to re-program the hybrid to serve us, and soon we were on our way to Earth once again. As we neared the space between Mars and Earth’s moon, we held our council to decide what to do about the impending battle between ourselves and the enemy faction waiting for us on Earth; during the course of our planning, half of the crew opted to mutiny and placed the rest of us in the Leviathan’s hold. There, I planned the means to retake the vessel by overseeing the repair of a Titan combat robot the size that a car or a truck would be today. We repairs several others as well, and led them upstairs, where we brutally gunned down the mutineers, retaking the craft at last. I stood on the bridge along with my second-in-command, D’anna. As we viewed images of the Earth and look at the reconnaissance data that was returning to us… we saw the fleet of the Loyal Officers in orbit around the planet. They had formed a blockade! I ordered all weapons to open fire on them, and we came out from behind the moon with a vengeance. Managing to take out their entire battle fleet with the Leviathan, but at the cost of losing our entire fleet of ships except for it… I was brought to tears by the massive loss of civilian life on both sides. I recall sitting slumped over on the bridge, hearing the news that the remainder of the very faction whose navy we just annihilated was signaling us for a cease-fire rather than any direct surrender. “Surely there must have been some good people even amongst our own enemy!” I screamed, more at myself than anybody else. “So many innocents died today, the most since old Terra was destroyed. No more! Never again.” And D’anna put her arm around me, comforting me with her calm, reasonable voice. She said: “My Lord, you had no choice but to defend our people, our way of life.” I then explained my sorrow: “But it was a crime we committed back on Kobol, and in those volcanoes on Earth! We defended a crime… not a way of life. Signal the enemy leaders and tell them I accept their offer of cease-fire and that I myself surrender so long as I alone am held responsible for this deed. Everyone else is to be spared. Especially you, my love.” And D’anna held me as I broke down finally into tears of guilt and despair. The remainder of the Loyal Officers had been invited aboard, and they took me into custody. Everyone else was free to go back home to the Eden colony, but I was taken back to Kobol for trial and execution. Since my original body was already entombed on Kobol… they laid my then-current one to rest inside of a royal vault beneath it, and sealed the door to the mountain tomb electronically using that very pendant with which I myself unlocked it all these thousands and thousands of years later. It had been given into the hands of Lucifer: the only one who could be trusted with it… and that explained much to me. My most trusted retainers on Kobol had managed to extract my spirit from my body at the time of my execution; however, and soon they had me safe within a fresh empty clone of my body. Thusly resurrected, they returned me in secret back to Earth, to the Eden Colony where I was reunited with D’anna and pardoned by God. During this time, is when Lilith’s madness drove her to an act that actually might have benefited the whole of the human race of Adama and Eve’s blood! I shall relate this.

Part Twelve: The Fall of Eden’s Garden

So Lilith grew jealous of Adama’s love for Eve, and she and Lucifer came to them with offers of the old knowledge of how to build an advanced civilization from the very bare rudiments on up. The old technologies, that God forbid anyone to bring back, were given up as well. I noticed how primitive Adama and Eve were, being naked savages living in the wilds of the walled garden. Like animals in a cruel scientific experiment, they were! They called their masters Anunnaki, meaning “Those who from Heaven to Earth came”. Back in those times, Eve’s kindred lived for hundreds of years… and so did she become mother of many new tribes of man. And across the world, other gods (just deified humans like we “angels”) created similar places for their own amusements. And in some of them, the primitive humans of Eve’s tribes that were dwelling there… were made into the gods’ slaves. Some even toiled in diamond mines for the crystals and gems that were always the currencies of the gods! But it all changed, when Adama and Eve learned the secrets that Lilith and Lucifer had to teach them. Sophia herself came to Earth in that time, and she so dwelled in a home underneath a massive tree in Eden’s garden. There, she chose the most ancient name by which she had ever been known: Zoe. And Zoe then directed Lilith and Lucifer, as well as myself and others of our “angelic” race to encourage the new races of mankind to rebel against the tyranny of their overseers from the stars. So did mankind as it is known today come into its’ own! And to show her appreciation for this new freedom, Eve… for a time… made herself my lover, thus giving birth to Cain, the half-brother to Adama’s son Abel. Cain became the first of the Nephilim race, and so was God’s second forbidden rule broken: that no “angel” ever breed with Eve’s bloodline. And after this did the other archons lie with Eve, thinking no consequences would come from those actions. Thusly did Zoe come to stop them, and in ignorance the archons did with her as they may please. But Sophia freed herself from the mortal form of “Zoe” and smote all the archons. Sophia demonstrated her divine power by cleansing all those driven mad by the bodiless spirits, and then she decided the time had come to punish they who had acted against her. It was Sophia herself who would teach mankind how to cleanse themselves of the spirits! The people of Atlantis would prove to be masters of the technique, which was passed on. Today, all living beings yet have the capacity to will themselves free of all spiritual woes.
Written by Kou_Indigo (Karam L. Parveen-Ashton)
Published | Edited 22nd Jan 2013
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