From: Azah, Balseraph of Technology
To: Concerned Celestials everywhere
Re: God and the Universe.
Greetings. I am Azah and I write to you concerning my findings on
the true nature of God, in keeping with the research of the Genius Prince
in this matter. Hard as it may be to believe, I am writing this in your
own best interest, to explain why exactly we in Hell are conducting our
just war for freedom and why it is imperative that you of Heaven
understand us demons and join us, for your own sake as well as our own.
Rest assured, my writings come from a scientific perspective and do not
contain the blind fanaticism of less informed demons.
To begin, we should clarify what God is and isn't. Firstly, there
is no question that God is a Superior-level being. What is in question is
whether or not He transcends all other Superiors. That He has access to
tremendous stores of Essence, a great many Songs and the power to grant
Words is not in doubt. However, considering that the Lightbringer has
similar attributes, it is a question of whether or not God is the only
being that can claim supremacy. I will inform you of one popular theory
in Hell. We theorize that, just as the Archangel Janus of the Wind and
our own Prince Valefor of Theft may well be linked (in that they have
similar attunements, gifts to their Servitors, operating procedures,
etc.), so too may God and Lucifer be. Leaving that be for the time, I
focus on the theorized origins of God.
We well know that ethereals beings have been worshipped as gods.
Indeed, this was part of the moral justification of your Purification
Crusade some centuries ago. It is common belief today that ethereals rise
from the thoughts, dreams, nightmares, fears, and desires of mortal
beings, growing in power in an inverse proportional to the level of
belief and/or worship in their existence by mortals. However, serious
scientists on both sides of the War well know that ethereal beings well
predated the rise of humanity. Your Archangel of Dreams was tending to
the Marches before even the Eden Experiment and the Fall. Where did the
Ethereals gain their power before mortals came along to fuel it?
Tests done on ethereals captured in the Marches would indicate
that they have their own stores of Essence, which is why an ethereal
creature might survive as the ghost or remnant of what it was until
sufficient mortal belief re-energizes them. This, I believe, marks an
evolutionary development in the Ethereals, but more important, it would
indicate a great deal of the origins of God. We know that nothing arises
spontaneously. Even the universe has some prime components to it, else it
would not be. Have you ever stopped to think as to how and why God could
claim otherwise, in spite of all physical evidence to the contrary? Based
on this information, it is safe to hypothesize that the being called God
is really no more than a super-charged version of Odin or Zeus or any of
the ethereal gods. That being the case, we must look at how He came to
His current prominence.
Given the nature of the Marches and the competiveness between
pantheons, I think it is scientifically feasible to assume that the
God-entity accumulated power until He was able to create a domain for
himself. It is not uncommon for powerful Ethereals to claim portions of
the Marches as their own. Having accomplished this, He, much like the
unlamented Legion, grew in power to such a point that He was able to
claim a far vaster dominion for His own. To wit, the Celestial Plane. It
is of note that, having once seized the power to grant Words, the first
two He granted were Destiny and War. Let us look at this fact in greater
detail.
It has been my observation, based on careful research in the
Archives of Fate, that human tyrants often set into place social and
philosophical codes and ideals to justify their tyranny. What better form
of this could there be than to claim that the Tyrant's rule is truly the
best and brightest future for the universe. Like any tyrant, God placed a
good PR man up front to justify His reign. If one thinks of it, that
makes Yves nothing more than an ancient and degraded version of our own
Prince Nybbas of The Media. Next of course, a good tyrant needs a violent
thug to enforce his decrees, and who better for that task than Michael?
It is no coincidence that War was the first-born angel.
But you ask, what of the other Words? Surely if God was simply
another Ethereal, He could not grant Words? No, but we know that he
created the Symphony, a suspect creation in and of itself. Surely in His
version of reality He could grant the powers he deemed fit. Hence Destiny
and War, Stone, Creation, Fire, The Waters, and Light. It was with Light
that God made His mistake.
The original Archangels, and those who came later (Dreams, Love,
Laughter, Purity, Knowledge, The Wind, and Animals) were mindless sheep,
guided by the sadly deluded Metatron who served as mouthpiece for the
Tyrant. The idyllic times some of the older angels claim is, by my
research, simply the time when everyone accepted the Tyrant's whims
without thought or question. Then Lucifer, first of my Band, whose word
is Light, exercised a portion of his Word that God had not anticipated.
Is not Light that which illuminates, which drives back the Darkness of
ignorance and folly? The Lightbringer exercised his Word and saw through
the Divine Tyranny. He tried to guide the humans away from mindless
obedience, but that effort sadly failed, save with Princess Lilith. So
began the so-called Fall, when wise angels and Archangels, save as
Andrealphus and Kobal, turned from the pretender and tried to enlighten
Heaven. Based on my analysis of the situation, Lucifer actually did you a
favor in removing Metatron from your midst. By silencing the Voice of
God, the Lightbringer was attempting to show you the weakness and folly
of His position.
Although we were cast into Hell as political exiles, the Truth
would out. Princess Lilith freed us and the War against your willful
blindness began. The setback in the initial uprising in Heaven proved
that we must employ tough love to educate you. Rapine, Fate, Corruption,
Secrets, The War, The Game, Cruelty, Greed, and the other words, ancient
and modern, may have seemed harsh, but it did get your attention and thus
we can reason with you now. Unfortunately, the Tyrant appointed Judgement
to kill those who would listen to reason, just like the most savage human
bully, punching out those who dare question him. We do hold hope since
more intelligent Words like Flowers and Revelation have been cultured by
your side.
Some who read my words will argue that I do not speak Truth. But
we must consider, if God created this universe and the angels, then he
created the fixed and rigid Truth by which they live. Just as the
Seraphim of Flowers cannot help but to project an aura of peace about
them, then, by this premise, the Seraphim have been made incapable of
thinking outside the box. Further, look at the position of the Seraphim.
The Most Holy Choir, above all else, the Choir of Michael. Is it any
wonder then, that War and Judgement both are Seraphim? Who better to
prosecute the War than those incapable of recognizing any "Truth" but
that of the Tyrant's will? Note also Dominic's association with Yves, the
justifier of the absent Tyrant's will. Judgement draws strength from the
fact that Destiny sanctions his actions. War shows glimmers of
intelligence in severing his association with Destiny, but until he
realizes that all truths are subjective, he will forever be stuck in his
rut.
I turn my attention to other Archangels now. The Waters and
Knowledge are dead, Song and Death in exile (perhaps because they
stumbled upon the nature of God?), Purity is in absentia, and Love and
Laughter have seen the Light and accepted their places as Lust and Dark
Humor. But what of the rest of you? Flowers, Revelation, and Children,
the most peaceful and reasonable amongst you, are stifled by those who
will not see the Light. Creation is gone, and hopefully will be wiser
when he returns. Faith carries out his appointed task, making sure that
all human essence flows to the Tyrant to keep him fueled in Essence. The
Sword, young and naive as he is, smites those of us who are the
free-thinkers of the universe. He cannot help it. His Word makes him a
living weapon, and he is guided by such bad influences as War and
Judgement. Stone is obtuse by his very nature. Lightning comes close to
the reality of things, but is too hidebound to really think outside the
box, which is unfortunate. The Wind promotes his change, but in forever
playing the role of revolutionary, he himself stagnates. Protection
adheres to a system of protecting those in God's favor only, never
realizing that she is serving the same type of sadistic bully that she
fights so fervently against. Animals and Dreams are isolationists and
render themselves futile for the present.
Thus, by clear scientific evidence, I present to you that we of
Hell are in the right in our struggle for freedom and call upon all
right-thinking angels to join us in our noble quest.
Azah of Technology
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