by Donovan Neal
Those that were fortunate fell to the planet El had created for the humans. Imprisoned in mountains, trees, and the lower parts of the Earth reserved until El’s wrath had subsided. The Lord set aside those who had entrapped his people on Earth to Tartarus, the realm of Lucifer’s own creation and sealed them within the Earth.
El then turned to those who had been prime evils in aiding Lucifer and said, “Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof because thou have threshed Jerusalem with threshing instruments of iron and have been chief to set brother against brother.”
Then Murmur, Ashtaroth, Zeus, and Ares were cast as one man tied to each other in flaming chains and were hurtled across the arc of space, exiled to Earth, and sealed in the great river Euphrates. When their bodies crashed into the river, a third part of the fish in the river died. The Lord then set a watch over the mouth of the river so that if they ever sought escape, they would perish by an Ophanim he posted over the river. He sealed them deep within the mouth of the river until the end of all things.
Thus, the Lord chastened the sons of God that they fell as a great torrential rain unleashed from the sky. The Earth became without form, and darkness covered the face of the deep: as the loss of so many Elohim had turned the works of God back upon itself. The continents were ripped from the upheaval, for there were many that had turned away to watch El’s word. The Lord then placed a living mist around Eden to protect it and shrouded the man he had created from harm.
The great Ladders that had been sprawled across the face of Heaven then faded into nothing, and when the crackling of lightning had disappeared, seven thunders uttered. “It is done!” The Ophanim then rushed to El and surrounded the Lord in a great light. The Lord's features were visible by all, and He was as a great lion with wings.
When El had stopped in the pronunciation of judgment, the sky returned to its golden hue, and El changed, as a man ancient in years that walked with a limp, for the injury to his heel was clear. All wondered as they saw the blood and pondered. Can God be hurt? Can the Eternal One be destroyed?
Michael, like all of his kind, bowed his head before the Lord, and when the Lord walked past him to return to his throne, Michael turned to God and said, “Will not the judge of all the realms do right? For thou, my Lord could have prevented such a thing. To what end does the loss of the realm’s children serve?”
The Lord stopped, sighed, turned to face his son, and walked towards him. Michael was afraid for the power of the Lord and the Ophanim was still a thing that made the air crackle. Michael knelt and bowed his head and the Lord knelt to touch Michael’s forehead.
“See O beloved of angels, the things that are yet to come.”
A shimmering globe appeared in El’s hands, and Michael gazed into the giant crystal. It displayed images similar to the walls within the Hall of Grigoric records, but these images were different, and Michael perceived that what he watched were images that were of the future. For the Earth below him was populated with the humans and they multiplied as the stars in the sky. Michael peered deeper into the orb and watched as thousands of humans escaped a land that had kept them in slavery for 400 years, brought out by the mighty hand of the Lord. He watched as the seas swallowed their pursuers.
Moreover, men named Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David lived and died to serve El’s cause, and Michael watched as they fought to scrape out holiness in lands that had begun to worship the very ones El had just ejected. And Michael beheld as many a nation rose and fell by the command of the Lord. Finally, the great orb revealed a man whipped and beaten, and a crown of thorns was placed on his head. Michael looked away from the cruelty and destruction that the Adam and his kind could inflict on one another. Yet the brutality that this man took upon himself was somehow different. Michael looked on in horror at what he beheld, and he stared into the eyes of a man who hung on a cross.
It was the eyes of the man that told him who he was.
Michael fell back on his hind and waved his hand over his face to deflect the image he refused to see.
“….no….no…” and Michael shook his head in denial, placed his face in his palms, and wept. For Michael saw through the flesh of the man and looked into his eyes to behold that the man was El—hung by Adam’s kin on a cross.
The orb then grew dark and disappeared. The Lord stood mute looking down at his son.
Crying, Michael looked up at the Lord who smiled at him, and stroked his head as a father might his young child. El turned to walk away into the throne room. Blood trailed the transparent golden glass, and El walked slowly with a limp into the palace, until the great doors closed.
Michael staggered to his feet, still reeling from the images El let flood his mind. He stared at the throne room doors that shut behind El and looked at the trail of crimson blood left behind. Tears continued to fall from his eyes, his thoughts still racing and his heart filled with emotion.
But Lord…why must you die? But there was no reply to his thoughts.
As Michael stepped away from the Holy of Holies, he walked outside the temple to face his brethren and to do the will of his master. He was the Builder of Heaven, and his duty was to build the city. He looked upon the ground, and saw that broken into pieces was the key ring that Charon had given him. Yet, the keys to Death and Hell were not there. He looked to recover them until he saw that his brethren approached. Grief redirected him away from the search of lost keys to his kin. Jerahmeel came carrying the ruined body of Raphael, and Gabriel walked through the crowds holding the fallen Sariel.
Michael’s mind turned to grief at the loss of his brothers, and as he beheld the Kingdom of Heaven, which now lay in ruins, resolution gripped his face. He wiped his tears and marched out from the palace towards the destruction to assist his people.
Epilogue
Lucifer awoke groggily from his slumber, his eyes crusted over with ash and blood. His muscles throbbed and agonizingly objected with each attempt at movement. Pain bit at his jaw, and he instinctively reached to touch his face. Anger swelled within him as he felt the long scar left by his combat with Michael. He knew his visage was disfigured, and he calculated reprisal.
Michael would not go unpunished.
Slowly the mighty dragon rose to his feet and surveyed his surroundings. Smoke and burning embers served as his linen, an impact crater his mattress.
How long have I been unconscious?
Gingerly, he clawed his way up the steep sides of the charred earth, as gravel slipped beneath him. The fallen prince struggled to lift his tender frame, but determination enabled him to reach the crater's edge. He dragged his body forward and fell face down into the cool soil of the black earth. Steam hissed from the crater, and smoke, dust, and haze shrouded his view. His eyes slowly adjusted to his surroundings and began to filter out the debris, and his clarity of mind sharpened.
Lucifer looked at the scene before him and saw the mighty Euphrates only a short ways removed. The sun's zenith informed him that mid-day was upon him. He followed the sun's trail leading west to Athor, his mighty city.
He strained to see but was only able to spot several landmarks that lead to Athor. He followed them with his eyes as they piloted him closer to his own current location and curiously not further away.
Questioning, he turned to his east and saw the lush green of Eden beyond; his delicate handiwork crafted with love, unspoiled and spared from destruction. Still he looked for his earthly home and found nothing.
Slowly his intuition spoke to him and informed him that something was amiss. He moved farther away from the crater. Walking, almost stumbling, he finally mustered enough strength to use his great wings to lift him airborne. Higher he rose that he might gain a better perspective, but each increase in elevation brought with it an equally painful and horrific realization.
Denial of the truth assaulted him. The hard guttural ache he felt as he surveyed the ground below would not stop. The truth assailed him and could
not be denied. Athor was razed; its majesty obliterated.
Athor once stood as a beacon that magnified the very beauty and power of Lucifer, its triangular opulence designed to exalt him. Everything was now gone, wiped out by the very fall of Lucifer himself.
His once great city blotted out by the destructive power of Lucifer’s own descent. Even in exile, El would have no monument that glorified his adversary. He had used Lucifer’s own person as the explosive device to wipe the Earth clean of Lucifer’s legacy.
Lucifer had wrought destruction in Heaven, and El saw that Lucifer reaped at his own hand the ruin of his kingdom.
Lucifer’s anger swelled within him and despair pulled the once mighty prince to the ground. On bended knees, bitterness rose within him as he grasped the soil of his city now laid waste.
He stood defiantly to his feet and raised his tightly clenched fist high into the air, cursing the creator of the universe and spouted obscenities not pronounceable in the tongues of men.
He surveyed his once magnificent home, as bitterness and anger became his comforters. Seething with hate for his father, Lucifer’s tears fell into the dark earth.
He slowly gained his composer, wiped the tears from his eyes, and rose to his feet to behold the river Euphrates and the region roundabout. His gaze followed the waterway’s course toward the expanse of the great Garden of Eden off in the distance.
Lucifer’s eyes fixated menacingly on the tropical paradise’s pristine beauty — beauty wrongly denied him; his thoughts became ravenous with greed.
Looking down beneath him, he saw two keys protruding from the earth; each etched with the sigil of Charon and glowing with fire. Lucifer reached down to pick them up and beheld them. The souls of Hell displayed themselves within one key screaming while the other dripped black with oil and sulfur. Lucifer smiled, and thoughts upon thoughts filled him. He reached within the folds of his robes and withdrew the Tome of Hell that Abaddon had confiscated from Michael.
Vengeance soon came along as a hitchhiker requesting transport, and in Lucifer’s desire for companionship, he embraced the emotion and consorted with her like a familiar lover.
With his thoughts filled with bitterness and retribution: his heart discovered comfort, and a smirk found the mouth of the King of Lies.
I will secure your downfall through the Adam.
Lucifer smiled and salivated with lust for the garden in the distance and blithely transformed into a winged serpent. His great wings caught the breeze, and he drifted upon the wind.
Like the fine filament of a dandelion seed carried aloft by the breeze; his mind desired to disperse his seed-bearing parachutes of sin and iniquity. He was eager to bore himself into the innocent life of the human female, to supplant and choke the light from all things.
The warm spring wind proffered him to welcome the Adam and the Eve; the humans El had placed within the garden, these contemptible pretenders to royalty: a species of earth and clay, oblivious to all that truly lay around them.
He would welcome them indeed, for little did they know that something wicked their way comes.
The End
Glossary
El or Jehovah
The name that angels have given to God and by which he has revealed himself to them. Triune in nature, El is often seen in a singular bodily form. On rare occasions, his triune nature is revealed as three separate distinct personalities (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost); collectively they are called the Godhead.
Elohim
The collective name of all celestial kind.
Godhead
The Trinity composed of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Chief Prince
An honorific title given to one of seven angelic princes who stand before the presence of God
and receives instructions for their race. The Chief Prince is entrusted by El to walk within the
Stones of Fire and to protect the secret of the chamber, the Primestone. A repository of Gods
power where one may become as God. Lucifer is the Chief Prince of all Angels.
Lumazi
The group of seven archangels who stand before the throne of God.
Archon
The highest-ranking angel over an assignment.
Ladder
A mode of transport utilized by angels to travel between the realms.
Tartarus
A prison designed by Lucifer to dispose of those who opposed him.
Hell
A living mountain that serves as a prison. Designed originally with angels in mind, it lives off the eternal spirit of Elomic flesh. It possesses the ability to reproduce similar to an amoeba and can grow. Hell has grown to hold captive Humans.
Dissolution
Death to a celestial being is called dissolution.
The Kiln
A furnace from which El creates all celestial life and the storehouse of the Stones of Fire; the
living elements of creation. At the heart of the Kiln is the Primestone and the ultimate test for angelic kind.
Elomic Command
A vowel, consonant, or phrase allowing the power of God to be invoked by a delegated authority.
The Abyss
A gulf of nether sometimes referred to by humans as Limbo or by demonkind as “the
wilderness”. It is a realm that separates the Third and Second Heavens. Failure to bridge the
realms without a Ladder or direct intervention from El can cause one to be entrapped within the
winds of the nether. The winds are referred to as the Maelstrom. Kortai builders frequently
build near the edge of the Maelstrom expanding the landscape of Heaven. The Abyss is also
referred to as the “bottomless pit.” Mortals cannot pass through the abyss without shedding their
corporeal shell. Only Death or direct translation by God allows passage past the Abyss into the
spiritual world.
Waypoint
A designated area where travel between two points was allowed by God. Failure to utilize a
waypoint could displace the Third Heaven with the second or vice versa causing untold
destruction.
Manna
The food that angels consume. Grown in the fields of Elysium, it is must be shipped to the four corners of creation to supply angels with sustenance. When harvested it instantly grows back. During the exodus of the children of Israel, the nation was temporarily fed this food. Exodus 16:15
Creatures
Cherubim
A type of angel having great power; but not necessarily governmental oversight.
Seraphim
A heavily creature designed to serve as voice to the holiness of God; also called a “burning one”
a creature of great power. There are 4 in existence, and they stand before the temple of God.
Virtue
A living sentient aroma that lives before the throne of God and perfumes the throne.
Ophanim
A heavenly creature designed to serve as guard to the presence of God.
Zoa
A heavenly creature designed to serve as guard to the secret things of God.
Stones of Fire
A living sentient element of God, which can be molded in the Kiln to create celestial life. They are also called Kilnstones or Godstones.
Shekinah Glory
The residue of God's breath, equivalent to the exhaling of a human’s carbon dioxide; a living
cloak of breathing light that envelops and irradiates the person of God; Primarily a localized
phenomenon. Those that come near the Lord are irradiated by the Shekinah leaving an afterglow
on their own person for a temporary period. The Shekinah can manifest wherever the holiness
and righteousness of God exist.
Angelic Rankings
Chief Prince
El’s designated angelic leader over all Elohim.
The First of Angels/The Sum of all Things
High Prince
Seven angels in existence who speak for all their kind. (Collectively they are called the Lumazi and sometimes referred individually with that honorific title.)
Archon
A sole high-ranking governing angel who directs a specific assignment or regions of a
territory(s). Sometimes referred by humans as archangels.
Principality
A sole mid-ranking governing angel who administers more than one territory.
Powers
The lowest ranking governing angel overseeing one territory.
Prime
A non-governing angel representative of a particular virtue. (i.e. love, justice, etc.) After the fall, some angels were designated as prime evils.
Minister
A non-governing angel who serves the cause of El.
Demon
A fallen non-governing angel who serves the cause of Lucifer.
Specter
Fallen Grigori sometimes referred to by humans as Ghosts.
Shaun-tea’ll
A group of angelic warrior dispatched to bring truth to the Grigoric records of fallen Grigori at
any cost.
The Third Heaven
The Birth of God
By
Donovan M. Neal
© 2014 Donovan M. Neal
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