Creation

 

 

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Creation

 

And he took some sparks of energy and shut them up in pleasant shapes.

 

He created them male and female, gave the male the desire to conquer and the female the ability to survive.

 

He also created animals of both gentle and fierce natures and to please his first creature he told them they had dominion over them.

He also came up with a set of norms they would call religion and promised eternal life to those who would follow those rules blindly. They were naive enough not to realize this was a punishment more than a reward for their pitiful efforts to please him.

 

He also tried to deny the animals souls and intelligence so his first

 

creatures could use and exploit them without guilt but as he had his limitations

 

he failed miserably. He had thought working with sparks of energy would be easier but then, he only had the power of the fallen. So he had tried to do the same with the female but she had outwitted him.

 

He learnt then why the snake had approached her, both had superior intelligence. He had to admit he had given his first man a rather primitive nature so to cover up this mishap he punished the woman and her descendants with some sin of a dubious nature.

 

And then, before banning them from his garden and presence he

 

made sure they had their own set of passions ready to create a species that would rule the world and eventually destroy it. They would also destroy their own species and all the others, ruling by cruelty and the fear they inspired.

 

Before they left he instilled in them the idea they could only survive eating corpses of slaughtered animals so he set them against the meek and the innocent. And

 

thus he banned them from his garden, knowing he could trust them to destroy themselves and his creation, just for fun.

 

He then learnt he should rest, as more than seven days had passed

 

since he had captured sparks of energy in the shapes of humans and non-humans. And,-uncomfortable knowledge- he also knew someone pitied him enough to respect his creation and allow it to exist. He hated that being for his mercy so

 

• in retaliation, he created ideal conditions for earthquakes, storms and all sorts of disasters, just to provoke him.

But, he failed at that, as he had been failing since the beginning, that time when the Light had spiralled on itself and sparks

 

had flown in all directions, feeding the darkness of the universe.

 

And, upon learning this, he cried.

 

His only comfort was that the species begotten by his first creatures

 

would deny the very truth that could help them and they would resort to him every time, under innumerable names and forms of worship. Only the rebellious ones would go to Nature and meditate in

 

forest and caves. They would not be fooled by his rules, they knew they were prisoners in his game of power so they shunned his rules. They defied his laws and felt comfortable in light, the little light that filtered through the darkness.

 

He made sure darkness would be present, he also allowed some mysteries to be discovered so his creatures would get to something they would call progress.

 

Following their knowledge, they would create potions and other elements able to poison nature, animals and also themselves. He could count on them to do that, he always could. It was

 

his pitiful victory over the Other one, the one he resented so much,

 

the One his creatures searched for in vain. There was a reason for this endless search, he had stolen the sparks of energy from the Other one and his creatures bore a part of that energy.

 

The only ones who had never strayed from their true nature were the animals. So, he hated them and made his humans turn them into mere animated objects to be used mercilessly.

 

And thus, his humans ignored the plea of the innocent and deprived them of their lives without guilt. They became perfect copies of him

the creator of a world bent on its own destruction. The earth cried in Despair, rivers became poisoned and the forests were decimated Gigantic slaughterhouses thrived, proclaiming the lethal supremacy of the children of the destroyer.

 

 

Us.

 

And all this we knew it would come to pass and the world would go in that sad fashion towards its end.

 

In the meantime, the pyre at the bottom of the mountain is being built.

 

We are almost there, twisting in the flames. We fear and yet fear not, for we are , after all, going to the Other one, the Love that was is and will be.

 

We might come back in other bodies, though. If so, we will recognize one another and we will join in a gathering. We will also fight for the innocent together.

 

We just hope to die with their dignity.

 

 

 

Apocalypse

 

 

 

 

And there were only a few stars they could still see and humans wanted to keep them for light and warmth. The sun had died on them and the Earth was always in darkness.

 

The stars seemed to be too far and their light was dim, They thought of sending one of their powerful space ships to see what they could do to get some light, not for the Earth but for another planet they were trying to reach.

 

Somehow they managed to get two ships ready, one to the faraway stars to see how potent they were and the other to a planet not too far from the Earth. This second ship was crowded with the

Powerful, the ones without power and all other species were left behind, to fend in the semi-darkness as best they could. After all, they were useless to them, there was no room for them either on the ship or the new planet.

 

And so the two ships parted, happy with the idea of a new beginning. The first one travelled to the stars that would give them light and warmth. Their trip was long but they thought nothing of it, they would make it and their new planet would have its own sun, they would see to it. And so, they approached their destination confidently, only to find themselves wrapped in flames. The stars had defended their light and had rendered them cosmic waste.in the Universe.

 

The second ship arrived safely only to find their new planet cold, too cold.. There was no light and everything was silent. They felt alone and afraid, they tried to use some lights they had on board to keep them warm but it was no use, it became colder and colder.

 

They realized then they had to go back to Earth, everything was preferable to this place where power meant nothing and they were engulfed in darkness. They had tried and had failed and so they prepared themselves to return to their decimated Earth. ´Perhaps the ones left behind could be of some use to them.

 

And they would have returned, had their space ship not broken down beyond repair. And so they stayed, hunched up in the darkness from which their species had emerged countless light years before. They had ruined the Earth, had killed the other species for greed and also fun, had enslaved them and subjected them to lives of misery. They had also poisoned the waters and fouled up the air and they had done all this proudly, without any doubt in their power.

 

And so, they learnt then they would die in fear, the same fear they had seen in their victims on Earth, the same fear they had mocked only that their victims had been innocent and they knew they were not. They died one by one, in terror, and their power died with them.

 

In the meantime, the sun had started to shine brightly, warming the Earth. The waters became clean and the air pure. Everything had returned to the very beginning.

 

Elizabeth Aldam,August 2020.

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 06.09.2023

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In homage to the Cathars, the brave members of the Church of Love. They were destroyed by King and Pope but their spirit did not die in the flames.