Drake's Tale--#2...Cosmology Primer

You will have to pardon me for the diversion I am about to go into, but some things must be said before I can continue with my tale.

Let it be noted for the record that I will not tolerate such a long delay in my narrative again. If my ‘son’ wants to avoid any further nasty defeats against creatures that he has only dreamed existed, he would be well advised to pay heed to my story and learn what it is I have to offer.

My father is one of the three most powerful lords among the An’girasii. He commands Spirits both great and small. He will stop at nothing to regain the worship and admiration of millions of human subjects. It is his birthright, his destiny, and his most ardent desire.

The scrolls that his servant left with Rusty are but a mere hint at the tactics to which he will resort, once he has laid the groundwork he feels is necessary.

As much as I might want to let the full nature of the An’girasii be revealed throughout the course of my story, it appears that I will have to be far less subtle in my storytelling.

So let me start at the beginning. Not my beginning, mind you, but the very beginning…

Your modern scientific theories of the beginning of the universe are actually not that far off from how it all actually began, of course I might have played a hand in or two in helping guide the right individuals along a bit, but I digress…

In the beginning, the universe, including the various worlds and dimensions of both physical and the Spiritual existence, was a very tiny, very compressed ball containing enormous amounts of energy, matter and Spirit that were bound together into The One.

There are almost as many names for The One as there are languages to say it in…YHWH, Jehovah, Allah, Dios, God, the Holy Spirit, etc.

Everything, everyone, that has ever existed in this Universe, and that ever will exist, was contained within The One, all bound together for untold countless eons as one omnipotent, omniscient entity.

But just as a living body is comprised of millions of living cells and countless billions of atoms of matter, The One was also comprised of trillions of unique Spirits, an unfathomable amount of compressed matter, and nearly limitless amounts of energy.

For reasons unknown to (but often guessed at) any individual Spirit that I know of, The One erupted in a massive conflagration that your scientists call the Big Bang, creating the ‘multiverse’ as we know it now.

Each of the Spirits that had been previously part of The One were now free entities to explore this new universe, to try and make sense of the maelstrom of Chaos that existed in those early moments after the Big Bang.

Just as matter and energy scattered and then later coalesced into galaxies and stars, planets and asteroids, Spirits also first scattered and then began coming back together, for the most part bringing Order to the Chaos of the Big Bang.

Your modern science can measure and quantify both matter and energy (at least most of the common forms of each), but human science has not yet been able to come to grips with the existence of the third, and most important aspect of existence, Spirit. It is fairly well understood that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed. Matter can be converted into energy and energy can be converted into matter, but the motivating ‘force’ for any of that to happen is Spirit.

Only once humans begin to truly grasp this concept and begin to apply it on a regular basis, will they be able to make the breakthroughs to become fully engaged in this Universe of ours.

As time progressed, Spirits were able to find expression within the physical world by manipulating both energy and matter in such a way as to develop Life. Once living organisms became developed to such as degree as to be useful, Spirits began to invest themselves into those living organisms.

In the process of doing so, however, something strange and wonderful happened…once they became attached to living organisms, almost all Spirits lost (at least temporarily) the conscious knowledge of their own true existence, becoming instead, fully invested in the struggle to survive in the physical environment in which they found themselves.

Oh, the more advanced the biological form was, the higher the level of consciousness became, but it was only the rare living being that remained even partially cognizant of the existence of their own, or anyone else’s, Spirit. But, it was often not until the death of the living organism was imminent that the Spirit within that organism began to recall its true nature and could begin to incorporate the lessons and knowledge it had gained by living. By participating in the drama of life and death in the physical world, Spirits gain invaluable knowledge and experience and forge relationships that help them to learn and grow.

Many Spirits choose to enter this cycle of life and death many, many times. Each time they do so, they enter a new body, immediately prior to the birth (or hatching, etc.) of that creature. Most of the time the kind of Spirit that is attracted to that life form is the same kind of Spirit that inhabits the bodies of most members of that species. In those rare instances when the ‘wrong’ kind of Spirit is attracted to the new life form, interesting things may happen.

Now, let’s get refocused just a little bit from this grander picture that I have been painting and bring us back a little bit towards the portrait at hand.

Just as each cell in your body is individually unique, there a clearly groups of similar cells that perform similar functions with each other, and have similar needs. It was the same within The One. Each Spirit and each seed of a Spirit contained within The One was a unique individual, but there were, at minimum, several dozen different Orders of Spirits.

The vast majority of Spirits are rather small and inconsequential beings that don’t have the self awareness or the power to manifest any changes upon the physical world. They are the lowest level of spiritual entities.

I will try not to bore you overly much with the details of this, but suffice it to say that the kinds of Spirits that inhabit human bodies, are for the most part, middling level entities that are neither particularly high nor particularly low on the pecking order of Spirit existence.

To shorten this up a bit, let me just state that the An’girasii are Spirits that are of a significantly higher Order than the Spirits that are called into human bodies. (To be continued in my next permitted installment.)