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Maximus Romulus
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Maximus Romulus
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.
FADE IN:
EXT. FARMLAND – AFTERNOON
On a hill overlooking farmland below, we see two entities. A feminine entity (GOD), and a masculine entity (SHAYTAN), surveying the land below. As they watch, a middle-aged man exits a farmhouse quite a distance away.
GOD Shaytan, look upon my servant, Job. He's like no other man on earth. Look, how blameless, and upright he is.
SHAYTAN Ah, But does Job fear you for nothing? Have you not put a hedge around him, and his household, and everything that he has?
Indicates all of the farmland with a sweep of his hand.
SHAYTAN (continuing) You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. However, stretch out your hand, and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.
GOD Very well, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.
Shaytan stretches out his hand, and strikes Job’s land.
VOICE OVER: And so it was. Job curses the Lord, as the story is told, in one of the most well-known parables in Biblical tales. However, long ago, in the before time, God, and Shaytan consented upon yet another wager. This story is illustrated in the gospel of Lilith, a parable which has been banished from the scriptures for centuries. So, I'll tell it to you now in secret; the greatest story never told; the story of Lilith.
EXT. OPEN SPACE - DAY
Shaytan and God are gathered together in a completely white space. Nothing has been created as of yet. God forms a feminine creature, and calls her Lilith. Shaytan creates a masculine being, and calls him Metatron. God and Shaytan then combined their efforts together to produce a formless entity, a Spirit. They each gave Spirit a luminous object.
GOD We name you Spirit, and we gift you the key to Knowledge.
Gives Spirit a luminous object.
SHAYTAN You are Metatron, and I gift you the key to Life.
Gives Metatron a luminous object.
GOD I name you Lilith, and I gift you the key to Providence.
Gives Lilith a luminous object. Lilith, Metatron, and Spirit lived for eons. To the three entities, God and Shaytan were so similar, so easily interchangeable that the spirits called them both by one name: Tetragrammaton.
EXT. SPACE - NIGHT
Spirit hovers around the emptiness of space, while Lilith and Metatron supervises from afar.
VOICE OVER: During this time Lilith, Metatron and Spirit, together created the earth, and the heavens along with nine echelons of angels.
METATRON Let us introduce new beings. Let's make creatures in our image, in our likeness.
SPIRIT I shall breathe into their nostrils, the breath of life, as they shall become living souls.
EXT. EARTH - DAY
In the center of the Garden of Eden, Lilith, Metatron and Spirit play among the peaceful animals, lush background, and colorful flowers. Birds chirp, and a huge dragonfly flies across the screen, buzzing beautifully. Lilith mixes some dirt, and water to make a paste. She forms a woman in her own image.
LILITH You will be called Eve.
Metatron mixes dirt, and water to form man in his own image.
METATRON I call you errr...Adapu, Adamu, errr...Adam.
Spirit breathes into Adam first, and Adam jumps up. He feels his chest, and face, and twirls in excitement. Spirit then breathes into Eve, and Eve jumps forth excitedly as well. She joins Adam in celebrating life.
LILITH Oh! My, they look fantastic.
Metatron looks toward Adam, and Eve with satisfaction; proud as to what they have accomplished.
LILITH (continuing) But! What about Spirit here? Poor, Spirit doesn't have his own incarnation in this realm.
METATRON What do you propose we do about that?
LILITH I don't know... Wait, I've got just the thing.
Spirit and Metatron wait attentively.
LILITH (continuing) How about each one of us picks out a particular plant unto which we'll cast our aura?
Metatron chooses the genus Thuja, and casts his aura on the plant; making it the tree of Life. Lilith selects the Moringa as the tree of Providence, and the Spirit opts for the Pomegranate as the tree of Knowledge.
EXT. HEAVEN - DAY
Every living creature, including Adam and Eve are gathering in heaven for a special ceremony. Heaven; realm of the divine, has walls great and high, with twelve gates; at each of these gates are twelve angels. Every several gate was of one pearl, and the roads are paved with pure gold. The multitudes of angels are gathered in columns, surrounding this magnificent open-air chapel.
GABRIEL Come on now; move along; quickly...quickly.
The angel Gabriel does his very best to get everything set before the bride, and groom arrives.
MICHAEL Here comes the light-bringer.
In the middle of this seemingly endless aisles of angels comes pacing the intensely sparkling Lucifer.
RAPHAEL (murmuring) What is Lucifer trying to do, outshine the sun?
MICHAEL He is the sun.
RAPHAEL He’s such a show-off. Is it truly necessary for him to have his wings extending so extravagantly?
URIEL If I have not known better, I would have easily mistaken him for a peafowl.
MICHAEL (whispering) Hush! The ceremony is about to begin.
Nearing the altar where the Spirit is hovering, Lucifer stops, he instinctively recoils his wings, and steps aside. As Lilith passes by, Lucifer’s eyes briefly met with hers. Lucifer quickly shrouds himself with his wings, and kneels down on the ground to display his utmost respect for the bride and groom. Lilith is clothed with the sun; her nude figure painted with gold, clearly showing every curve on her body. The moon is beneath her feet, glowing with her every footstep, and on her head lay a tiara of twelve stars. The groom is arraying in the finest linen, clean and white. He is wearing a glittering crown on his head, garnish with all sorts of precious stones.
METATRON We swear by harmony and love to stand, heart to heart and hand in hand.
LILITH Mark, O Spirit, and hear us now, confirming our sacred vow.
EXT. EARTH - BEACH – AFTERNOON
Eons later. We see Adam and Eve entering into the ocean, diving through the waves. From an aerial view, we see them swimming beside each other. We watch the newly created beings full of life; swimming strokes for strokes. They swim a long distance, far out beyond the shoreline. Suddenly, Eve starts to slow, her strokes becoming labored, until she becomes completely motionless in the water. She begins to sink like a stone. Adam, realizing Eve is no longer beside him, turns back to lend his support. Adam takes her in a lifeguard hold, and begins to nurse her back to shore. Finally, the two are coughed up onto the shallows. They both collapse, just beyond the waterline, exhausted, gasping for air.
INT. HEAVEN - DAY
Spirit and Metatron are lounging about in heaven, while Angels are catering to them. Lilith suddenly appears.
LILITH (sternly) Leave us.
Then all the angels disappear, leaving only her, Metatron and Spirit.
LILITH What’s the meaning of this inequality?
Turns to Spirit, and accuses.
LILITH (continuing) When you breathed into Adam first! Did you give him more of an essence?
Lilith pokes her finger into Spirit’s middle, where his chest would have been, if he had a human body.
LILITH (continuing) It was you, wasn’t it? You made Eve fail! Spirit, I want my human to be equal to Metatron’s human in every
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