The Broken Earth was the same as our world until July 16, 1945. No, that's a lie. It was the same from outside appearances. There was magic and power, but it was hidden. The people who had it were in groups, in families or cults. After July 16, 1945 everyone had power. Everyone had a bit of magic. No one could control it very well. In our world, the Trinity Nuclear Tests were just that. Nuclear tests for a later atomic weapon. In Emily's world, the tests tore a hole in the fabric of reality, and gave everyone from Oak Ridge to Los Alamos an ability.
And if the Trinity tests simply tore a hole, then the atomic drops themselves blew the whole thing wide open. A few hundred people before, and now the world. Those who survived, that is. This world is currently a world that has no idea how to proceed. A world where people are given abilities they cannot yet control themselves. The people who will come to power will be the people who can. The families. The cults. Those who had these things before.
People's abilities got harder to control. Some of them gained Flaws and Glitches. Things that would make their abilities try to hurt them or others.
Abilities became government regulated, thanks to the Ecclesia becoming more and more ingrained in political entities. Families, like the Gudwgans, went into hiding. Members have changed their names and taken to hiding that they have abilities at all. Most of the other cults have been absorbed by the Ecclesia, save one which has taken to helping people who want to avoid the choices they have.
Those who have an ability have two choices. They can register their abilities and possibly be conscripted for government or military work, or they can have them supressed by either medication or by living near or with someone who has the ability to supress these things. Many people have chosen to have their abilities supressed, either out of fear of what it would mean to be registered or of what they have found they can do.
There are many people in this world who don't believe that what's happened to it has anything to do with the Trinity Tests, that it would have always happened to the world. That it's part of a degradation that will eventually burn the world up, and leave something new.
There are some people who believe that what has happened to the world is even stranger than it appears. That the holes in the world and the powers and abilities are manifestations of a bigger issue. That the bombs and the explosions killed or damaged God himself, breaking him apart and spreading Him throughout the world. Throughout almost everyone.
More and more people in the world are being born with negative abilities. The ability to cause pain. To cause war and sickness. To that end, there appears to be a plague rising up from Alamogordo. That said, with all the negative and awful in the world there are still places where people with abilities are finding that they have community: Lily Dale, Cassadega, Wonewoc, Sedona.
The government has given states leniency when dictating the laws regarding “powered” citizens and incarceration; Wisconsin starts by writing laws stating that they can chemically lobotomize ‘repeat offenders’ who have been convicted of ‘violent’ crimes; even though there no proof that chemical lobotomies do anything more than produce a poorly-functioning person who may or may not still be in possession of their powers (though completely without any ability to control them).
The law is problematic enough, but it’s put into practice almost immediately and people start to riot. Hugo Markov, a self proclaimed 'radio psychic' goes to a few SDS meetings and manages to sniff out people who are there essentially to turn them in.
Those arrested for "attempting to re-engineer" or other crimes of ability have the option between jail, supression or enlisting in the military.
There are entire countries, entire groups of people that have completely vanished with no trace that they were ever there in the first place, beyond memory.
No one knows what has become of these places.
There are theories that these places have been sent to a side-reality where only they exist.
Ecclesia: Cultists. Faith healing church. Ties to the Ordo Templi Orientis. Their core principle is "Love is the law, love under will." Led by Samuel Cain and Frances Hodges. They are of the belief that God has Shattered, and refer to the events as The Shatterdays.
Schwarze Sonne: Cultists. Ties to Deutscher Glaube, German Esoteric Revival and Germanic Mysticism. "We are trying to stop an abomination in the eyes of the Lord from destroying the world and plunging it into a great darkness. Good people may get hurt; good, God fearing people may die. We shall pray for their souls."
Rose-Croix: Cultists. Possibly masonic in nature. Predicted the Events. "God will cast them down into the abyss. They will be obliterated because of their wickedness. For they will come to be like volcanoes and consume one another."
Other Notable Cults: Das Gesellschaft; The Golden Rising; The Knights of Esau; The Hollow Circle; The Church of the Sphere.
The Gudwgans: A family of power. Tied to to the world, nearly literally. Possibly tied to druidism or kitchen-witchcraft. Notable family members: Iefan Gudwgan, Eira Cadwgan, Mary Duggan, Rhianon Gudwgan, Grace Gudwgan and Gwyn Crichett.
The Allaways: A family of power. Practitioners of Gray Magic.
Monroe-Wallace: Two families of power, joined together as one in recent years. They have 'disguised' themselves as a travelling circus.
Other Notable Families of Power: The Sedellas, The Fortiers, The Parsons, The Yoshidas, The Markovs, The Färbers and the Sesays.
Name: Abigail Conway Ability: Event influencing Flaw: human lie detector
Name: Father Orso Castiglione Ability: Ability to group powered people into a hive mind Flaw: Cannot join hive mind
Name: Samuel Kalpa Ability: Agrokinetic Flaw: Memories of all past lives, believes himself to be an emmanation of The Broken God
Name: Teresa Redecher Ability: Healing of self Flaw: Cannot regenerate anything removed, believes herself to be an emmanation of The Broken God
Name: Gosto Kimovec Ability: Atmokinesis, can start a weather event Flaw: Can't turn the weather back off, it must procede as it would if it happened naturally
Name: Agron Strokel Ability: Invisibility Flaw: Cannot turn visible again for 12 hours
Name: Lily Gao Ability: Radiation projection Flaw: Use weakens for 24 hours
The form of the formless, the word of the unutterable, the fountain which flowed from him, and the god of those who exist, the light of those whom he shines on, the love of those whom he loved, the revelation of the things which we seek, the eye of those who see, the breath of those who breathe, the life of those who live, the love of those who love, the unity of those who are mixed with the Emanations of Flesh.
All of them exist in the single one, as he clothes himself completely and by name he is called Monad, he is called Proarchē, he is called God. He is each and every one of the Emanations forever and at the same time. He is what all of them are and will ever be. He has the powers and he is beyond all that which he knows.
All those who came forth from him are emanations and offspring of his nature. They too, in their nature, have given glory to God. And in the power of the unity of him from whom they have come, they were drawn into a mingling and a combination and a unity with one another.
When they had known the grace by which they bore fruit with one another, they knew that it was because of God. For God has power and grace. It exists fully and perfect in the thought and the chaos, and that thought and chaos is a product of the individuality of the aeons. It is this which he loves and over which he has power, as it gives glory to the Monad
I am he who is the thought that dwells in the light, I am she who is Totality of all knowledge. I am the first who came to be. I am revealed in the ineffable, the incomprehensible, I dwell in the immeasurable, I move in every creature.
I am the life that dwells in every emanation and in every eternity, in every soul that dwells immaterial and material. I walk upright and I sleep. I awake and I am seen, I sleep and I am see.
I am the One before the All, I counsel those who are hidden and I am numberless. I am revealed. I am the head of Totality, I exist before all emanation and I am all emanation. I am a voice that speaks, and I am silence. I dwell within Silence and Thought and Depth and Chaos.
I descend to the underworlds and the other worlds and I shine upon the darkness, I pour forth the water and am hidden in the radiance. I am perception and knowledge. I cry out in every emanation, and it is recognized by those who know me, since a seed indwells within them.
Who I am, it is a mystery. It is unknown and it is known. It is visible and it is invisible. It is All and it is Nothing. It is Light dwelling within Light. It is known to Emanations and it is known to Man and Flesh.
For I am their father, and I shall tell you a mystery, indivulgeable by any. Every bond I struck from you, any chain I broke to free you from any demon. High walls, I overthrew and gates I shattered and bars I smashed. Because I am the Voice that appeared from my thoughts, for I am twin, he. For I am the the unchanging Speech that comes from my Thought, for I am twin, she.
I am undefiled, I am Mother and Father and I speak in many ways and forms and Flesh and Light. I complete the Totality, and it is in me that knowledge is everlasting. I speak within every creature, and I am known. I speak to the Sons of the Light.
I am the Word that comes from the Voice, I am Life that comes from the Word. I am perceived through the ways of The Mother, although the emanation that supports me is Male. I am perceived through the ways of The Father, although the emanation that supports me is female. The emanation that supports is my foundation, and it exists from the beginning until the End.
Out of the first blood on the Earth, Adam of the Light appeared. His masculinity was fire from the light. He is very lovely in his appearance, having charm beyond all the creatures of chaos. All of the angels of heaven, they became enamored of him. From the blood of Adam of the Light came Eve of the Darkness. She appeared, and at the midpoint of the Garden, the union of Adam and Eve of The Light and The Darkness was consummated, and out of the earth the primality caused the flora and fauna of the earth to blossom. The woman followed the earth. And marriage followed woman. Birth followed marriage. Life followed birth.
And after this union, Eve said to Adam:
It is I who am the wife; and it is I who am the mother. It is I who am pregnant; it is I who am the midwife. It is my husband who bore me; and it is I who am his mother. And it is he who is my father and my lord.
And regarding these, the holy voice of the dēmiourgos said, "Multiply and be fruitful! Be lord over all creatures." And it is they who were taken captive by the dēmiourgos, this emanation of God. And thus they were shut into the prisons of the Garden.
The Fallen Angels, who were full of jealousy for their free will, said unto them, "The fruit of all the trees created for you in the Garden shall be eaten; but as for the tree of knowledge, control yourselves and do not eat from it. If you eat, you will die." Having imparted great fear to them, they withdrew.
Adam and Eve went to the wisest of all creatures, who was called Beast. When he saw Eve, he said unto her: "What did they say to you?" and she said, "They said not only, 'Do not eat from it', but, 'Do not touch it, lest you die." And so the Beast said to her, "Do not be afraid. Even in death you shall not die. For they know that when you eat from it, you will be able to recognize the difference that exists between evil men and good ones. Indeed, it was in jealousy that they said this to you, so that you would not eat from it."
Eve had confidence in the words of the Beast. She gazed at the tree and saw that it was beautiful and appetizing, and she wanted it; she took some of its fruit and ate it, and Adam, he too ate it. Then their minds became open to the Truth of their Prison. For when they had eaten, the light of knowledge had fallen upon them.
When their minds became open, they clothed themselves for they knew that outside The Garden they would need shield against the elements. When their minds became open, they looked upon the Fallen who had warned them of the tree, and they saw monsters and loathed them. When their minds became open, they looked upon each other and became enamored.
The Fallen came to the woman, and they said to her, "What is this that you have done?" and she replied: "I have opened my mind to the prison of paradise." And when they asked what she had done to Adam, she replied the same.
And so The Fallen came up to the woman and cursed her and first son, her son with The Beast: Cain. After the woman, they cursed Adam, and his first son, his son with Eve: Abel. They were cast out from the prison of the garden and out into the world.
And still, the dēmiourgos desired to test Adam, and he gathered together all the domestic animals and the wild beasts of the earth and the birds of heaven and all the creatures of the sea and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. When he saw them, he gave names to each creature.
When katō Sophia saw what the Fallen had done to Adam and to Eve, she cast those Fallen down to dwell in the form of evil spirits upon the earth.
Light and darkness, death and life, good and evil, they are related. They are inseparable. Because of this the good is not good nor is the evil evil, nor life life nor death death. Each one will become eternal.
One day The Son was with his disciples, and he found them gathered together and seated in observance. When he approached them, they offered him a prayer of thanks over the bread, and yet he laughed. They asked "Why are you laughing when we do what is right?"
He said to them, in answer: "I am not laughing at you, I laugh because you do this because I ask of it." In reply, they said: "But you are the son of our God." To this, he laughed again. "How do you know? Truly, there is none among you who know me."
When they hear this, they became angry in their hearts. He asked them: "But why does this make you angry? If any of you truly know me, stand and tell me how you know me."
None of them had the strength to do this, save for Judas. Judas stood face to face with The Son, and he spoke: "I know who you are, and I know from where you came. You are the true emanation of Sophia and I am not worthy to utter the name of where you will soon dwell."
Jesus was quiet for a very long time, and then he replied: "If you step away from the others, I shall make sure that you are worthy of this name." Judas asked why, and Jesus left them for a time. When he returned, the two met again.
Judas said: "I have seen a great vision," and the Son laughed and said "You? Why do you try so hard for my favor? Tell me this vision, however."
Judas described his vision, telling tale of being stoned, of persecution. Of coming to a house of life, of greenery. Of greatness. And the Son laughed again. "Why do you laugh at us?" Judas asked.
"I do not laugh at you, but at your foolishness. This house that you described is not for any man, only for the Most Holy. But I see now that this may not always be so, if I am to be Risen, then I must Fall. But I cannot Fall on my own, so you must betray me and then this will be so."
Eve had a son, with The Beast, who was called Cain, and she had another son, with Adam, who was called Abel.
Abel became a shepherd, and Cain farmed the land. One day, Cain gave a part of his harvest to the dēmiourgos and Abel also gave an offering of his first-born lamb to the dēmiourgos. The Lonely Emanation was pleased with Abel, but not with Cain. Perceiving that he was shunned by God, this made Cain so unhappy that he could not hide his feelings, and he spoke them to dēmiourgos. He wished to known why the dēmiourgos did not love him as He loved Cain.
The dēmiourgos replied: "What is the matter with you that you are so angry, if only you had done the right thing, you would be joyful, but you did not and now you are as angry as a lion. Do not be angry, simply do the correct thing."
Cain asked the dēmiourgos what the right thing was, and only silence followed.
Cain spoke to his brother, and they went on a walk. During their walk, they spoke and Abel told his brother that he believed that a blood sacrifice of a first born was what the dēmiourgos required, but he did not know how to fix this because he had already sacrificed his first born lamb. If only, he said, Cain had come to him before he would have shared the sacrifice.
And Abel thought for a long time, a very long time, and then he offered himself to Cain and after much thought, Cain slew Abel. Regretting this action, he attempted to hide it from his family, from dēmiourgos and from himself.
Many days or many weeks or many months later, dēmiourgos asked: "Where is your brother, my favored child?" And Cain replied: "Am I my brother's keeper?"
And dēmiourgos said: "Why have you done this, why have you killed Abel and allowed his blood onto the ground?" Because Cain would not say, because the light of Abel would not say, the dēmiourgos placed a curse upon Cain that he would never be able to farm the land again, that if he tried it would not grow. That he would have to spend eternity wandering the world.
"From now on, you’ll be without a home, and you’ll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place until the world crumbles from an Eternity of Light."
In the beginning, there is me and I am love and love is the word. So it shall be written, so it shall pass. The earth is formless and empty, full of darkness. Deep with darkness and I am here. I am hovering over the waters of nothing. I need light, so let there be light.
And there is light, and it is good. Separate from the darkness, deep with the light. I will call the light 'day' and the darkness 'night.' There is evening and morning and mourning and grief and happiness and love and then there is nothing. And this is the first day. A swirling chaos. Darkness, light and nothing.
There will be lights in the sky and this will separate the night from the day. They will mark the seasons, the days, the years of life. They will be called the moon and the sun and it will be night.
The water will churn will living things, the great creatures of the sea. Bacteria, protozoa. The vertebrates, the boneless. The sky will be filled. The protoavis. The soroavisaurus. The raptors. The humans. My flesh. They will be fruitful, they will multiply and it will be day.
And there is the dēmiourgos. My son. My father. My brother. My love. My Betrayer. He disturbs the Pleroma, the Ogdoad, the seven heavens of love and life and me. He revolts. Makes war upon me.
I have never been this angry. So wrathful, or so full of love.
He has 133,306,668 angels in his legion. 133,306,668 angels that follow him. 133,306,668 ways to destroy me.
And now there is war. War in the Ogdoad and the seven heavens. War with my sister, with my brother, with my father, mother and love. An angel against a dragon, a boy against a girl, the chaos of nothing against the Monad, the Absolute, against the Aeon. My son is a beast.
And I love. I love and I am filled with wrath. I cast him out. I cast him out and he deceives the world. I cast him down. Into Hell. Into the Earth. Into the fire. I want him to burn, because I love.
Now is come salvation and strength in the kingdom of your God. The accuser is cast down. The betrayer is cast down. But there is love.
And she sees a great darkness, she sees souls tormented with boiling pitch. She sees a river of fire with souls immersed at differing depths. A man hung by the feet and devoured by serpents. And she sees a cloud of fire, an iron tree with bodies hung. Serpents and lions and leopards made of fire.
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And if the Trinity tests simply tore a hole, then the atomic drops themselves blew the whole thing wide open. A few hundred people before, and now the world. Those who survived, that is. This world is currently a world that has no idea how to proceed. A world where people are given abilities they cannot yet control themselves. The people who will come to power will be the people who can. The families. The cults. Those who had these things before.
People's abilities got harder to control. Some of them gained Flaws and Glitches. Things that would make their abilities try to hurt them or others.
Abilities became government regulated, thanks to the Ecclesia becoming more and more ingrained in political entities. Families, like the Gudwgans, went into hiding. Members have changed their names and taken to hiding that they have abilities at all. Most of the other cults have been absorbed by the Ecclesia, save one which has taken to helping people who want to avoid the choices they have.
Those who have an ability have two choices. They can register their abilities and possibly be conscripted for government or military work, or they can have them supressed by either medication or by living near or with someone who has the ability to supress these things. Many people have chosen to have their abilities supressed, either out of fear of what it would mean to be registered or of what they have found they can do.
There are many people in this world who don't believe that what's happened to it has anything to do with the Trinity Tests, that it would have always happened to the world. That it's part of a degradation that will eventually burn the world up, and leave something new.
There are some people who believe that what has happened to the world is even stranger than it appears. That the holes in the world and the powers and abilities are manifestations of a bigger issue. That the bombs and the explosions killed or damaged God himself, breaking him apart and spreading Him throughout the world. Throughout almost everyone.
More and more people in the world are being born with negative abilities. The ability to cause pain. To cause war and sickness. To that end, there appears to be a plague rising up from Alamogordo. That said, with all the negative and awful in the world there are still places where people with abilities are finding that they have community: Lily Dale, Cassadega, Wonewoc, Sedona.
1960s Info:
The law is problematic enough, but it’s put into practice almost immediately and people start to riot. Hugo Markov, a self proclaimed 'radio psychic' goes to a few SDS meetings and manages to sniff out people who are there essentially to turn them in.
Those arrested for "attempting to re-engineer" or other crimes of ability have the option between jail, supression or enlisting in the military.
The Missing
No one knows what has become of these places.
There are theories that these places have been sent to a side-reality where only they exist.
Cults:
Schwarze Sonne: Cultists. Ties to Deutscher Glaube, German Esoteric Revival and Germanic Mysticism. "We are trying to stop an abomination in the eyes of the Lord from destroying the world and plunging it into a great darkness. Good people may get hurt; good, God fearing people may die. We shall pray for their souls."
Rose-Croix: Cultists. Possibly masonic in nature. Predicted the Events. "God will cast them down into the abyss. They will be obliterated because of their wickedness. For they will come to be like volcanoes and consume one another."
Other Notable Cults: Das Gesellschaft; The Golden Rising; The Knights of Esau; The Hollow Circle; The Church of the Sphere.
Families Of Power
The Allaways: A family of power. Practitioners of Gray Magic.
Monroe-Wallace: Two families of power, joined together as one in recent years. They have 'disguised' themselves as a travelling circus.
Other Notable Families of Power: The Sedellas, The Fortiers, The Parsons, The Yoshidas, The Markovs, The Färbers and the Sesays.
Abilities
People Of Note:
Ability: He speak to and channel the souls of the dead into mechanical and electrical equipment.
Flaw: Interspatial catatonia
Name: Edwin Gage
Ability: Empathy
Flaw: Inability to shut it off
Name: Emily Gage
Ability: Transvection
Flaw: Cannot turn off, must use weights to keep from floating away
Name: Caleb Kalpa
Ability: Manipulation of light and dark
Flaw: Dulling of hearing, taste, touch and smell
Name: Hugo Markov
Ability: Mental Shortwave Radio
Flaw: 'night blindness'
Name: Lillie Swift
Ability: Can cause pain and illness, or heal it
Flaw: Empathic pain
Name: Clara Baldry
Ability: Cryokinesis
Flaw: Non-immune
Name: Jacob Orbost
Ability: Object Deformation
Flaw: Skeletal deformation
Name: Henry Warren
Ability: Pyrokinetic
Flaw: Lack of immunity
Name: Celeste Warren
Ability: Faith Healing
Flaw: 3 Days Sickness after healings
Name: Lottie Thackray
Ability: Hydrokinesis
Flaw: Can't breath out of water
Name: Eliza Sonora
Ability: Prophetic Dreaming
Flaw: Cannot see own future
Name: Hiram Kenning
Ability: Water locator/creator
Flaw: Can't shut off, needs gloves
Name: Abigail Conway
Ability: Event influencing
Flaw: human lie detector
Name: Father Orso Castiglione
Ability: Ability to group powered people into a hive mind
Flaw: Cannot join hive mind
Name: Samuel Kalpa
Ability: Agrokinetic
Flaw: Memories of all past lives, believes himself to be an emmanation of The Broken God
Name: Teresa Redecher
Ability: Healing of self
Flaw: Cannot regenerate anything removed, believes herself to be an emmanation of The Broken God
Name: Gosto Kimovec
Ability: Atmokinesis, can start a weather event
Flaw: Can't turn the weather back off, it must procede as it would if it happened naturally
Name: Agron Strokel
Ability: Invisibility
Flaw: Cannot turn visible again for 12 hours
Name: Lily Gao
Ability: Radiation projection
Flaw: Use weakens for 24 hours
The Scripture and Mythology:
The Monad
the word of the unutterable,
the fountain which flowed from him,
and the god of those who exist,
the light of those whom he shines on,
the love of those whom he loved,
the revelation of the things which we seek,
the eye of those who see,
the breath of those who breathe,
the life of those who live,
the love of those who love,
the unity of those who are mixed with the Emanations of Flesh.
All of them exist in the single one, as he clothes himself completely and by name he is called Monad, he is called Proarchē, he is called God. He is each and every one of the Emanations forever and at the same time. He is what all of them are and will ever be. He has the powers and he is beyond all that which he knows.
All those who came forth from him are emanations and offspring of his nature. They too, in their nature, have given glory to God. And in the power of the unity of him from whom they have come, they were drawn into a mingling and a combination and a unity with one another.
When they had known the grace by which they bore fruit with one another, they knew that it was because of God. For God has power and grace. It exists fully and perfect in the thought and the chaos, and that thought and chaos is a product of the individuality of the aeons. It is this which he loves and over which he has power, as it gives glory to the Monad
Monad II
I am the life that dwells in every emanation and in every eternity, in every soul that dwells immaterial and material. I walk upright and I sleep. I awake and I am seen, I sleep and I am see.
I am the One before the All, I counsel those who are hidden and I am numberless. I am revealed. I am the head of Totality, I exist before all emanation and I am all emanation. I am a voice that speaks, and I am silence. I dwell within Silence and Thought and Depth and Chaos.
I descend to the underworlds and the other worlds and I shine upon the darkness, I pour forth the water and am hidden in the radiance. I am perception and knowledge. I cry out in every emanation, and it is recognized by those who know me, since a seed indwells within them.
Who I am, it is a mystery. It is unknown and it is known. It is visible and it is invisible. It is All and it is Nothing. It is Light dwelling within Light. It is known to Emanations and it is known to Man and Flesh.
For I am their father, and I shall tell you a mystery, indivulgeable by any. Every bond I struck from you, any chain I broke to free you from any demon. High walls, I overthrew and gates I shattered and bars I smashed. Because I am the Voice that appeared from my thoughts, for I am twin, he. For I am the the unchanging Speech that comes from my Thought, for I am twin, she.
I am undefiled, I am Mother and Father and I speak in many ways and forms and Flesh and Light. I complete the Totality, and it is in me that knowledge is everlasting. I speak within every creature, and I am known. I speak to the Sons of the Light.
I am the Word that comes from the Voice, I am Life that comes from the Word. I am perceived through the ways of The Mother, although the emanation that supports me is Male. I am perceived through the ways of The Father, although the emanation that supports me is female. The emanation that supports is my foundation, and it exists from the beginning until the End.
Adam, Eve and The Garden
And after this union, Eve said to Adam:
It is I who am the wife; and it is I who am the mother. It is I who am pregnant; it is I who am the midwife. It is my husband who bore me; and it is I who am his mother. And it is he who is my father and my lord.
And regarding these, the holy voice of the dēmiourgos said, "Multiply and be fruitful! Be lord over all creatures." And it is they who were taken captive by the dēmiourgos, this emanation of God. And thus they were shut into the prisons of the Garden.
The Fallen Angels, who were full of jealousy for their free will, said unto them, "The fruit of all the trees created for you in the Garden shall be eaten; but as for the tree of knowledge, control yourselves and do not eat from it. If you eat, you will die." Having imparted great fear to them, they withdrew.
Adam and Eve went to the wisest of all creatures, who was called Beast. When he saw Eve, he said unto her: "What did they say to you?" and she said, "They said not only, 'Do not eat from it', but, 'Do not touch it, lest you die." And so the Beast said to her, "Do not be afraid. Even in death you shall not die. For they know that when you eat from it, you will be able to recognize the difference that exists between evil men and good ones. Indeed, it was in jealousy that they said this to you, so that you would not eat from it."
Eve had confidence in the words of the Beast. She gazed at the tree and saw that it was beautiful and appetizing, and she wanted it; she took some of its fruit and ate it, and Adam, he too ate it. Then their minds became open to the Truth of their Prison. For when they had eaten, the light of knowledge had fallen upon them.
When their minds became open, they clothed themselves for they knew that outside The Garden they would need shield against the elements. When their minds became open, they looked upon the Fallen who had warned them of the tree, and they saw monsters and loathed them. When their minds became open, they looked upon each other and became enamored.
The Fallen came to the woman, and they said to her, "What is this that you have done?" and she replied: "I have opened my mind to the prison of paradise." And when they asked what she had done to Adam, she replied the same.
And so The Fallen came up to the woman and cursed her and first son, her son with The Beast: Cain. After the woman, they cursed Adam, and his first son, his son with Eve: Abel. They were cast out from the prison of the garden and out into the world.
And still, the dēmiourgos desired to test Adam, and he gathered together all the domestic animals and the wild beasts of the earth and the birds of heaven and all the creatures of the sea and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. When he saw them, he gave names to each creature.
When katō Sophia saw what the Fallen had done to Adam and to Eve, she cast those Fallen down to dwell in the form of evil spirits upon the earth.
Light
Judas and The Son
He said to them, in answer: "I am not laughing at you, I laugh because you do this because I ask of it." In reply, they said: "But you are the son of our God." To this, he laughed again. "How do you know? Truly, there is none among you who know me."
When they hear this, they became angry in their hearts. He asked them: "But why does this make you angry? If any of you truly know me, stand and tell me how you know me."
None of them had the strength to do this, save for Judas. Judas stood face to face with The Son, and he spoke: "I know who you are, and I know from where you came. You are the true emanation of Sophia and I am not worthy to utter the name of where you will soon dwell."
Jesus was quiet for a very long time, and then he replied: "If you step away from the others, I shall make sure that you are worthy of this name." Judas asked why, and Jesus left them for a time. When he returned, the two met again.
Judas said: "I have seen a great vision," and the Son laughed and said "You? Why do you try so hard for my favor? Tell me this vision, however."
Judas described his vision, telling tale of being stoned, of persecution. Of coming to a house of life, of greenery. Of greatness. And the Son laughed again. "Why do you laugh at us?" Judas asked.
"I do not laugh at you, but at your foolishness. This house that you described is not for any man, only for the Most Holy. But I see now that this may not always be so, if I am to be Risen, then I must Fall. But I cannot Fall on my own, so you must betray me and then this will be so."
Cain and Abel
Abel became a shepherd, and Cain farmed the land. One day, Cain gave a part of his harvest to the dēmiourgos and Abel also gave an offering of his first-born lamb to the dēmiourgos. The Lonely Emanation was pleased with Abel, but not with Cain. Perceiving that he was shunned by God, this made Cain so unhappy that he could not hide his feelings, and he spoke them to dēmiourgos. He wished to known why the dēmiourgos did not love him as He loved Cain.
The dēmiourgos replied: "What is the matter with you that you are so angry, if only you had done the right thing, you would be joyful, but you did not and now you are as angry as a lion. Do not be angry, simply do the correct thing."
Cain asked the dēmiourgos what the right thing was, and only silence followed.
Cain spoke to his brother, and they went on a walk. During their walk, they spoke and Abel told his brother that he believed that a blood sacrifice of a first born was what the dēmiourgos required, but he did not know how to fix this because he had already sacrificed his first born lamb. If only, he said, Cain had come to him before he would have shared the sacrifice.
And Abel thought for a long time, a very long time, and then he offered himself to Cain and after much thought, Cain slew Abel. Regretting this action, he attempted to hide it from his family, from dēmiourgos and from himself.
Many days or many weeks or many months later, dēmiourgos asked: "Where is your brother, my favored child?" And Cain replied: "Am I my brother's keeper?"
And dēmiourgos said: "Why have you done this, why have you killed Abel and allowed his blood onto the ground?" Because Cain would not say, because the light of Abel would not say, the dēmiourgos placed a curse upon Cain that he would never be able to farm the land again, that if he tried it would not grow. That he would have to spend eternity wandering the world.
"From now on, you’ll be without a home, and you’ll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place until the world crumbles from an Eternity of Light."
The Gospel of the Living God
And there is light, and it is good. Separate from the darkness, deep with the light. I will call the light 'day' and the darkness 'night.' There is evening and morning and mourning and grief and happiness and love and then there is nothing. And this is the first day. A swirling chaos. Darkness, light and nothing.
There will be lights in the sky and this will separate the night from the day. They will mark the seasons, the days, the years of life. They will be called the moon and the sun and it will be night.
The water will churn will living things, the great creatures of the sea. Bacteria, protozoa. The vertebrates, the boneless. The sky will be filled. The protoavis. The soroavisaurus. The raptors. The humans. My flesh. They will be fruitful, they will multiply and it will be day.
And there is the dēmiourgos. My son. My father. My brother. My love. My Betrayer. He disturbs the Pleroma, the Ogdoad, the seven heavens of love and life and me. He revolts. Makes war upon me.
I have never been this angry. So wrathful, or so full of love.
He has 133,306,668 angels in his legion. 133,306,668 angels that follow him. 133,306,668 ways to destroy me.
And now there is war. War in the Ogdoad and the seven heavens. War with my sister, with my brother, with my father, mother and love. An angel against a dragon, a boy against a girl, the chaos of nothing against the Monad, the Absolute, against the Aeon. My son is a beast.
And I love. I love and I am filled with wrath. I cast him out. I cast him out and he deceives the world. I cast him down. Into Hell. Into the Earth. Into the fire. I want him to burn, because I love.
Now is come salvation and strength in the kingdom of your God. The accuser is cast down. The betrayer is cast down. But there is love.
Of Hell