The Legend of God, Lucifer and The People - Part I

This happened far, far away on another planet millions of years ago... It was an incredible world of blinding beauty. Enchanting music filled the air. Everything of that world was made so knowingly that you would stare and marvel. Everything was extraordinarily technologically advanced. This was the world of humans. There they led long and tranquil lives. They travelled on space ships far into the cosmos. Everything was still, quiet and calm. The humans knew not of war or conflict.

They no longer knew of fire, because it was warm everywhere and they simply didn’t need it. They didn’t know how the things they used were made, because they were made by robots. Rarely, there would occur incidents when certain people’s behavior would change, but these individuals were immediately and effectively removed without anyone’s notice. However, the humans knew neither happiness nor love. They had been living in slavery for so long, that they could no longer remember that they weren’t free. They were imprisoned in their own bodies and living in them, had grown to believe their bodies were their selves.

In the beginning things had been quite different. Everything had started like a game. The people were equal, with equal powers and unlimited possibilities. They didn’t eat like they do now, since they possessed energy in its pure form. They didn’t need to consume other beings in order to absorb their energy. Greed didn’t exist, and neither did hunger. But in time, the game became a competition and so, greed and hunger for power were born, as well as a deep desire to take from others…

At the same time a grave conversation was taking place. After this conversation God was overcome with fury while Lucifer was struck with grief and disappointment. What they had said no one knows, except the two of them. The division of the hierarchy was already under way and Lucifer wanted all the people who were caught in its web against their will to win back their original freedom. He refused to submit to and worship God and the hierarchy and everyone concluded that he had been reborn. Yet before all this, Lucifer had been God’s closest archangel from among the rest, and had taken care of all his affairs. One day, however, strange doubts began to gnaw at his faith in the righteousness of the Hierarchy. And then this secret scripture did too…

Soon after the affair, God gave him a choice – either stay despite the hostility towards him or take the form of a man and move to different planet, taking all the prisoners with him. Lucifer retired to be alone to think it over. He had to make a decision, but such a decision couldn’t be made quickly. He had the gift of seeing into the future. He thought long about what he saw. He considered all the possibilities of the two roads he could take. If he stayed, he would have continued his battle alone against everyone. That could have gone on for millions of years, before achieving any result, and victory was not guaranteed. More and more people would have awakened, who would have been locked away in the dungeons of that plant, spending their whole lives there. And he himself, would be sentenced to living in the midst of his enemies and their hatred. If he left along with the people to go to another planet, everything would have to begin from scratch all over again. Although the dungeons made them stronger, the humans wouldn’t be ready for such a life. With this option too, it would take millions of years until he could reassemble the people. Both paths promised much pain and suffering.

Lucifer decided that it would be better to leave. This way, they would eventually forget about him. During the time he spent contemplating the decision he had understood something that no one understood, not even God and his followers. Lucifer began preparing himself, because on that depended the success of his undertaking. Knowing the interventions of the hierarchy on the people’s memory, he had to intervene too, in order to preserve his and the people’s memory. And he began to insert the needed information in them, to group it, and then he coded and recoded it many times, so that no one except himself could reach it. In this information he saved the memory of everyone’s past. Instructions for the carrying out of future events, arrangements for how they will find and recognize each other… He agreed to go to the new planet.

The transfer began. Exiles were brought over in small groups, left at different locations on the new earth, so that they could not assemble together. God divided the people. They weren’t allowed to bring anything except the clothes on their backs. Their chances of survival were almost zero. The planet had turned out to be unwelcoming and full of dangers – dangerous predators, poisonous plants, harsh climate. Many of the people did not survive. Their range of travel was limited due to the risk of spontaneous attacks by predators. From hunger they began to chew on whatever they could find, and many died by poisonous plants and fruits. The next enemy of the people turned out to be the cold. They began dying of simple cold. At first, they didn’t know about all these dangers and didn’t know how to protect themselves. They came from a high-tech world where they didn’t know the concepts “ danger” or “survival”. They didn’t know how to light a fire to warm themselves. After time, their clothes were reduced to shreds and they were left naked, not knowing how to make new ones. They knew neither how to build homes, nor how to defend themselves with their bare hands and available resources. Many people who couldn’t take this horror were driven crazy. They had lost their human aspect.

After time, the people figures out that they could be in relative safety when they climbed up the trees or hid in the caves. Time passed and the bodies of the people began to grow hair to protect against the cold. They began to turn wild. Not after long and they began to look like the native inhabitants of this earth. However, they had one advantage which separated them from the rest – their ingenuity.

Some of those first ones that survived created a new generation. When their children grew up, they told them about the world from which they came and about the things that existed there. They couldn’t show them, so they drew pictures of the various objects which they possessed before. But it’s difficult to explain something that you cannot show. After time, their children drew pictures to their own proper children and told them about things, which they had never seen, but only heard about from their elders. And so, generation after generation they passed on legends about things that they were no longer sure had ever existed. Eventually their interest about the legends dissipated, just as the people grew more feeble-minded and brutish because of their way of life – a battle for survival. Even their pursuit of freedom was lost somewhere in the battle.

Lucifer couldn’t help everyone in these hard times. He was now mortal and his time was limited. The first thing he had to do was to preserve the group with which he arrived. And this was a group of the best-prepared and most-important for his plan – the angels and archangels who followed him, and a part of the people in whom the ambition for freedom was stronger than anything. The rest of the people who could be leaders he spread out among all the groups, so that their chances of survival could increase, even minimally. He and his group happened to fall on one of the harshest places on the planet. High in the mountains he began to search for the places where he could preserve his friends and his secrets. The best and safest places were the deep caves. There the chance of being found and attacked was minimal. For each one he found an appropriate cave, and within each he wrote the holy scriptures on the walls.

A few stayed with Lucifer, and the rest entered the caves and fell into a deep slumber in order to preserve themselves and their memories. There they were left to await the day when he would come back and wake them. To those who stayed with him he ordered what they should do century after century, and they split up to find the people who survived. He had to go, so that he blend with the people and become more like them. No one ever heard of him again. No one has seen him since then, since no one knows what he looks like now. But he appeared from time to time among the people without anyone knowing to help them as much as he could. He showed them how light a fire and what they could use it for. He showed them how to make their own tools and weapons. But a long time passed, and everyone forgot him.

After the departure of Lucifer, the Hierarchy completely divided and the battle between good and evil was continued with a stronger force. The bad lay in that this battle was carried on through the people. Because of this battle between angels and demons, it was the people who suffered. One day God and Satan came to the agreement to move the battle onto the new planet. In exchange for this God gave to Satan the right to rule it. And thus Satan became the ruler of the planet of punishment (Hell). The disappearance of Lucifer had thrown into alarm the whole hierarchy and they began to search for him, to track him down. They attacked anyone who resembled him in any small way. Every ambition toward some sort of freedom was considered to have come from him. All actions toward progress were linked to him and so were put out as soon as they sprouted. For a long time, the hierarchy came in the way of the progress of the people, so that they could suffer as much as possible. They called the planet the punishing planet (Hell) and they continued their battle there. After time they realized that life on this plant was not quite horrible enough, so they created viruses and diseases and spread them throughout. The lifespan of the people became shorter because of the sickness and horror in which they lived.

To be continued...