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WHAT IF? HYPOTETICAL ESSAYS AND FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNTS

"IN THE BEGINNING...:

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"Once upon a time, billions of years ago, in the  far northern reaches of the universe, God sat  brooding over the events directly  preceding this time.   He  surveyed the  terran  plain,  representative  of  His essence--cosmic energy--according to  His own constants.    He  looked down at primordial matter,  created by His handiwork; His  own  cosmic energy equalled mass times the speed of light squared--the creation of the primordial  matter caused  by dividing a  portion  of  His  cosmic energy by the speed of  light squared.  <E = mc2, where, according  to Einstein, Energy  equals  mass  times  the  speed  of  light  squared; therefore, by transposition, M = E/c2--thus was matter created.> [It is the postulation of the Evidentiary Science Ministry Of PARRC Research that the original equation was P = mL2]

The terran plain, or primordial matter, was rived of any  semblance of the original body of matter  He had created.  Electrons still  danced, and lightnings flashed from the  battle which had so recently  ensued.

A large  chunk of the  terran plain had  been  ripped  loose—rendered without form  and  void--and  His  most  beautiful  creation  was  now banished upon it.

The curve of the universe  was forming in front of His majestic  eyes.

The sparks from the  original explosion, which flung Lucifer  down  to Terra, burned  hot, becoming  the very  stars  of  heaven  themselves, hurtling out at hundreds of thousands of kilometers per second.

The angels sat and watched in astonishment, their song of praise never missing a beat.  Directed toward God, it reached His ears, and pleased Him, even  in the face  of such carnage.   Michael and  Gabriel  stood nearby, faces reflecting the glory  of God, watching their Lord.   His eyes moved back  and forth over Terra,  scanning its rocky  crags  and dark valleys.   There  was no life  on its surface;  however,  in  the still-heated interior, rustlings and cacklings  could be heard by  His divine ears.....

He knew the design  of life, and the plan  for the universe.  He  knew from everlasting the  movements of each molecule  in space.   He  knew that this "Big Bang"  would result in the re-formation  of the  spaces

and the plain.  He  knew it--and He allowed circumstances to go  forth unimpeded by Divine intervention.

He  also knew what was coming next.

He had  created Lucifer,  first, with an  independent will.    In  the process of creation, He decided  that a creature, reflecting back  His glory to Him by choice, rather than role, was desirous.   He also knew that where choice entered  in, positives and negatives  were  created.

It was worth it  all, according to His master  plan.  In fact, it  was integral to His final  designs.  As He suspected,  through the  years, Lucifer began feeling his own power, and seeing his own  glory; vanity

superseded worship, and his demise began.

Now, that demise was complete.   He had dared to ascend to the  Throne of God  in his  demented vanity.   He  had allowed  his  will  to  run rampantly away from the All-Father, and such was his undoing.   Now as

the  Great  and   Powerful  El-Shaddai  sat,  He   heard   the   early reverberations of Lucifer's voice, calling.  The once-beautiful  music now fell in discordant  waves, ne'er reminiscent of the  creature  who

once was.    The  colors,  once  coruscant  and  beautiful,  now  were indescribable in their ugliness, and  dripped in foul rivers from  the new creature.   He  called his  hideous song,  and  it  reached  God's

ears.....

As he called, God  turned His eyes downward to  the prison that  Terra had become, down into the pit where he and the angels who followed him now found their abode.   Looking downward through the brimstone,  down to where  Lucifer reclined on  his throne of lava  rock,  light  burst forth in accompaniment of God's glance.  His lighteyes shone downward, casting shadows and unveiling hideous  atrocities which had once  been the glorious  angels of  heaven.  They  recoiled in  fear,  pain,  and

hatred, scuttling into the  shadows, seeking the repose  of  darkness.

Only Lucifer  remained, nearly  blinded by  the  same  light  that  he himself once reflected.

"I see thou still answerest my call, All-Father."  God answered in His voice-without-words, seething with power and  glory.  Deep inside  the decayed mind of Lucifer, God's answer formed.  "I hear, Lucifer."

"Call me by my new name, Enemy; the one which  befits the enemy of all he surveys.  Call me Enemy."

God, ever-majestic and righteous, answered,  "I follow the counsel  of My own will, Lucifer; I call thee what thou wert--thou mayest may call thyself what thou  hast become." 

"Ever  seeking the best,  Father  Of Lights?   I need not  thy pity or fond  memories; I have  called  thee forth to issue a challenge."

God's  sonorous  voice  echoed  throughout  the  dank  passageways  of Lucifer's mind.   "I  AM THAT  I AM."    Thunderings  accompanied  the revelation of truth, and the weak foundations of Terra shuddered.  

"I cannot be challenged, as thou well knowest, Lucifer."  Michael  spoke:

"Perhaps he seeks a more even test, My Lord; send  me."  His face like nuclear fire, Michael  stood poised to once  again enjoin  Lucifer  in battle.  God, ever-knowing and  understanding, soothingly said to  his

archangel, "Peace, Michael; there will be no more violence not according to his designs."

"I seek not the challenge of violence, My Lord," Lucifer enjoined.  "I am no  fool; I  am also not  afraid of thy supplicant,  Michael.    My challenge is a cerebral one--and one which thou canst not turn down."

Jehovah listened, knowing what was coming next.

Lucifer said,  "Thy beautiful  angels  watch,  seeing  how  thou  hast treated us,  Lord.   They see  the ruthless way  in  which  thou  hast treated thy former supplicants.  The angels which art now  mine sit in

the shadows, preferring the dark  to the light of supplication.   They have been abandoned;  cast out.  The  example thou hast shown  to  all thine angels  is not a  good one, and stirs  fear and doubt  in  their

hearts.  What  sayest thou, Lord?   What wilt thou do about  it?   How canst thou still their fears?"

God  answered,  "Behold,  thine  art  true  to  thy  new   visage—the consummate liar which thou  art.  In the lies  which thou hast  woven, thou seekest to create--but such is not thy power.  I do, however, see

the seed  of truth which  thou dost do not.   My angels have  seen  my ruthlessness, for righteousness sake; thou hast made it necessary.   I will now show them my mercy."

Lucifer leaned forward on the  rock, eyes narrowed into slits.   "What wilt    thou  do, My  Lord?    How  wilt  thou  grant  succor  to  thy supplicants, and their fears?"

He answered, "I will again  create:  an entity which is reflective  of myself, in its three components. 

Something lower than the angels, yet higher than  all other forms  of corporeal life.   I will  grant  them

life, and the realities of worship and communion with Me."

"Thou seekest to show your  mercy to your supplicants through  showing mercy to another  race?  It makes  no sense," Lucifer answered.    "My ways art not your ways,  Lucifer; my thoughts art not privy to  thee," God answered, looking down upon His creation.

"Thou seekest seek to  create a race of beings  which givest thee  the same praise, as inherent to their natures, as thine other supplicants. This proves nothing.   I can givest  thou the opportunity to  show  in

stark relief thy mercy," Lucifer chided.

"Thou needest  need not tell  me what I already  know,  Lucifer,"  God replied.  "Thou  art indeed central to  this theme; without  thee,  it would not be possible."

"Thou readest  my thoughts,  Lord; is  this  not  unfair?    Art  thou creating the future now, or art thou allowing the course  of events to travel unimpeded?"

"The future goes as I  will it, Lucifer," God said.  "But, within  the province of my good and  perfect will lie freedoms which comprise  the foundations which make possible this challenge."

Curiosity piqued, Lucifer rose from  the stone, hooves grating on  the rough surface.   Looking up into the  brilliance, he said  "What  dost thou meanest?  How can  this be?"  "Think, Lucifer, think; the  answer

is already in thee," God replied.

Looking deeper into himself, Lucifer  found the core of knowledge  God alluded to.  "Thou wilt  give me the chance to provide an opposite  to Thyself?  Thou wilt  give them FREE WILL to  choose?"  "As I did  with

the angels that followed thee, and with thine own self,  I will,"  God replied.

Lucifer spun around and around  with glee.  "Thou canst not  seriously believe that  thou canst  win?  Thou  knowest the depths  that  I  can plumb; Thou knowest  full well the depravities,  the  imaginings,  the

strongholds which I  may set up.   Thou knowest the evil that  a  free mind is capable of.  THOU MUST KNOW THAT I WILL BE TRIUMPHANT!"

God spoke:   "I can only show  mercy, Lucifer, where there  is  cause Thou, Lucifer, art that vehicle.  Thou wilt provide the contrast which will make my new people a great new nation--for in resisting thee, and in voluntarily giving their wills to Me, they will be perfected."

"I will see to it, Lord, that Thou hast no new nation!"  he screamed.

"There will be, Lucifer--in spite  of thine efforts to the  contrary," God said.

"Then since Thou art Supreme,  Lord, and I am doomed to failure,  Thou art free to be magnanimous  with the rules," Lucifer ployed.   "Givest them to me, on Terra; give me maximum access to them; let me in on thy strategies, thy chronologies, thy prophecies.  Givest me these things, since thy mercy descends to even my deposed station!"

God listened, seeing  the plan reach completion.   "Thou  hast  asked, Lucifer; so it shall be given to thee.  But  beware:  Thou hast only a little season in which to  do thy worst.  After that season, the  home of thine current occupation will  seem like the heaven thou hast  only so recently departed."

Flying into an unholy rage, Lucifer countered, "I will fill the bowels of  Terra  to  bursting  with  thy  'people!'    I  will  cause  every debauchery, every degredation, every imaginable perversion, and debase thy 'people' beyond  even thy reach, or  care!  I will cause  them  to fall--to prey upon each other--hate each other, for reasons of  my own choosing--to so  misportray that which  Thou seekest  that  Thou  wilt willingly GIVE them to me!"

"I will kill them--cause them  to kill each other!  I will fill  their physicalities with lust, and avarice,  and warmongering!  I will  find my greatest power, and triumph,  in their demise!  This I so swear  to Thee, Lord--there will be no reason to exterminate me--Thou wilt  look to me to take responsibility for the refuse of Thy 'people!'"

"I will cause Thine own  former angels--mine own demons--to prey  upon them--live inside them--causing them to give themselves to me, and  MY will--not Thine!   I will cause them  to take every word  Thou   givest them, and misinterpret and mongrelize  it!  I will cause Thee to  fall from their minds--in time, Thou  wilt not even seem to exist!  Only  I will seem real!  I will raise up my own people, superior to Thine own,

and cause destruction and hatred unheralded in the annals of time!"

"AND ONE MORE THING:  THOU MAYEST LEAD THEM AS YE WISH; BUT SWEAR THAT DURING THE YEARS TOWARD  THE FULNESS OF TIMES OF  THIS CHALLENGE  THOU WILLEST NOT PERSONALLY INTERFERE!"

God spoke:   "I need  not swear, Lucifer; even  thou knowest  that  my every word is truth.  Thou mayest have thy conditions."

Lucifer fell silent.  Could this be?  His sinister  heart leapt in his goat-like chest.  Grinning a  demonic smile, bowing from the waist  in mock supplication, he said, "I Thank Thee, Lord."

Beginning the cackle of a laugh, Lucifer looked up; the  cackle became a full-fledged  laugh as  he sought  to taunt  God.    "Thou  must  be slipping," he  grated.  "Thou  must know within the  bounds  of  Thine

Omniscience that this is a doomed proposition.  However, I accept.  It is this that I seem to have been created for."

"There is more truth in  thy statement than thou realizeth,  Lucifer," God said.  Lucifer stopped laughing.  "Indeed," God spoke,  "Thou wilt serve to  create a  formidable opposition;  however,  my  people  will

survive thy greatest threats, and My mercy and Presence will always be with them."

"Thou hast said Thou woudst not visit them personally!"  He responded.

God said, "I AM  TRINITY:  three-in-one.  At  no time during this  era will I come to them in Trinity.  I will go in my Body, I will go In My Mind, and I will go  in My Spirit.  They will have Me, as they  havest Thee--and I will triumph.  Thou must know this Lucifer,  even in thy demented state."

Lucifer screamed.   "Just leave  them to me!   Let them  decide  their path, with my instruction!  Let me have them!"

God  spoke:   "Thou  mayest  have  AT  them,  Lucifer;  do  thine  own worst--and through thine actions of hatred, Mine actions of love  will prevail, thereby proving to the minions of heaven that God, indeed, is

The Great And Only God."

Whirling around, he sat down  on the rocky throne.  "Indeed,"  Lucifer laughed.  "Indeed."

God spoke one last time:   "Thou were my greatest creation.  Thou  art now my greatest adversary.  But God is God.   His Will is Supreme," He spoke, in second person.  "Do thy worst, and look  thou ever forward to the day of  reckoning."  Thunder crashed, accompanying  His  voice.

Lucifer crouched, glancing upward in hatred.  "Look thou ever forward, adversary of man and God,  and remember; the day is coming when  thine chains having   been forged complete, and  the name  'defeat'  written upon  them,  will  bindest  thou  forever  in  the  living  evil  thou representest.  Until then, Satan."

The light  withdrew.  The  thunder stopped.  The  demons  returned  to their master, eyes  red in the dark  night.  He still  looked  upward, mind already planning  unspeakeable evil, and mused  upon  God's  last

word:  "Satan."

Yes--he felt it was  a fitting name for him--for  his new  activities.

He would keep it.

Suddenly, looking around,  the surface of Terra  began  to  transform, shifting, geometries rebalancing.   Soon light began to  break  forth, and the darkness began to  shrink, driving Satan and his minions  deep

underground, where the light would  not burn them.  God was  beginning to reform the new 'Earth.' 

Deeper and deeper, into  the bowels of the earth he retreated, finding his new home.....

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