Excuse intermittent deviations from my typical posting between now and mid-August. I actually have the next chapter prepared, but it sits in a notebook in my car, and I have a date to see Ms. Lily Tomlin tomorrow in Napa. Time to take time out for fun. A new post WILL be up for next Sunday, however. In the meantime, please check out the link below . . .
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Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 28: Part Three
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Initially thought I could do it in two parts. That being said, the end is now. May y’all enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it!
Chapter 28: Part 3
Through the flat lands surrounding the villages, over stones where the river’s water is most shallow, and into the wilderness beyond, Enoch’s feet led and Lamelech, Triomvet, Hoflan, and Kleshala followed.
It had been twenty-one days that Dedicated had trusted to the impulses of his feet when, coming to a clearing amidst some trees, Enoch found himself stop. Hoflan, Lemelech, Kleshala, and Triomvet watched from behind the trees as Enoch looked up to see mists rolling in toward him from above. The mist fell upon him and washed him in its moisture as he turned his face into the feeling of having his cheeks kissed by the hand of God; he closed his eyes as he was engulfed in the coolness of the damp air.
Opening his eyes again some seconds later into fog, he saw a shadow that stood as though a tall human through the vapors, descending behind them. As he stared toward that figure, the moisture in the air began to subside, and a being not quite touching the ground was suspended where it floated by six wings pulsing as though water, refracting light as though made of some form of organic crystal.
Enoch was so transfixed by the one before him that many seconds passed as the mists began to thin before he saw from the periphery of his eye another figure. Turning toward the next figure, he recognized a form identical save for the face which was different, though no less beautiful, than the being he had just turned his gaze from. Turning toward this second being his periphery quickly caught again his eye, much more quickly this time, and continuing to turn he rotated fully perceiving that two more being hovered around him so that in all four of these winged people with faces of such extraordinary beauty surrounded him.
As they dissipated the mists, and the sky was again blue overhead, Enoch was not sure if they were now standing or still floating as their feet were obscured by their wings. What was clear, however, was that as the engagement of themselves, as Enoch would engage with his wife, slowed, so too did the mists disperse. The light filling the clearing from overhead, the angel directly in front of Dedicated began to speak, “It has not been unnoticed, Dedicated, that you have chosen to follow a path in your life that you may understand as closely as a being such as yourself can the fullness of What Has Created You.”
After finishing this sentence the angel to Enoch’s right began to speak, “They have determined that such a path should lead any who walk it to the fullness of their desire to, as your mind might say it, know Her.”
And now the next angel to his right, “As is such, in differentiated existence, further understanding, that is experiential, not merely conceptual knowledge, dictates for this fullness of your steps to continue, a form is necessitated differing from that which you have known in your life as you have known your life.”
Finally the last spoke, “So It has offered you now the continuation of your life closer in form to us to facilitate not merely the answer of questions you have not yet understood that you wish to ask, but also that you may serve more fully Actuated Creation as It would wish to be.”
Again spoke the first that had spoken, “He knows you have already walked in understanding of separateness from the physicality you have called yourself by up until the present.”
Now spoke the angel behind Enoch, “Are you willing in the next steps of your journey with Commonness Indivisible Ever-Presence to call yourself by Its own voice to serve the ears of those who hear as you have by listening to the voice of outer appearances?”
Now the angel to his left, “If so, She will guide you to Her and form you between knowledge of her and your instinctive impulse that they should understand what they are made of as you have sought diligently with your being to know what you are made of.”
The angel across from the angel that had spoken previously spoke next, “Though infinite the work of willing service, so too will you know no pain by it as your body would suffer by your intentional creations for the sake of positive synthesis while you have known being from existence close to dust.”
The angel to this one’s left spoke finally, “Shall you join with the offer She has made you in continuity of what your existence has impulsed through you for most of your days to strive toward?”
Dedicated looked in awe from angel to angel before turning to one of them and responding, “Your words are spoken beautifully and well, though I cannot possibly understand what form my existence would take, nor what the fullness of meaning might be to exist as the voice of God. Yet it is my yearning to align myself ever with the Source of All. If this means serving That even in being as I cannot now know what it is to be, I will take the opportunity given me by the messengers sent by What I Seek with the fullness of my being as I do know now to be.
“If you would give me but ten steps more upon the ground with which I am familiar, if such a request does not offend the Lord, I would be grateful to make my peace with my own dimness due to current limitation of being with a final appreciation of what my life has been up until what I am currently perceiving. If such a request would offend, then humbly I beseech no more time be wasted that my ignorance impede upon my own desire ever to fully integrate with The Mind That Has Dictated We Are At All.”
Upon ending his reply the first angel spoke again, “There is no impediment given to your own aim of existence that your request be honored.”
In unison all four spoke finally, “Walk accordingly in service to Whom We All Serve.”
The angel before Dedicated fluttered aside that Dedicated may pass through toward the destiny he had chosen for himself. As he passed them, mists began to rise up behind him as he stepped toward the rays of light penetrating through the tops of the trees. Eight, Nine, Ten steps Enoch walked with God, and then was no more, for God had taken him.
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 28: Part Two
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If you haven’t read any of this yet, might I suggest you start: In The Beginning . . .
Chapter 22 (Enoch meets his wife) . . .
Chapter 28: Part 2
Months later, free from thought as subtle plans and preparations were made, Enoch let his wife know that in three days he would dedicate as long a moment as she’d like to her.
The next day a great celebration filled their house as family from all around came to wish Enoch good travels on his journey to come. The following day Enoch made the last of his physical preparations for his walk; clothes, food, a certain stone he had found while visiting the city of Dedicated. On the third day, he wandered down to the river, early in the morning before his wife had awakened, and sat with his feet submerged in the cool, flowing water. His eyes shut, his mind silenced to himself and filled with the world surrounding him; the coolness of his feet, the sound of water and birds and wind, the firmness of the ground and the warmth of the breeze. He arrived home that night, shortly after opening his eyes, and wrapped his arms around his wife, who had long set her body to rest for the night, as he lay down beside her. He breathed in her scent and smiled to feel his heart beat surrounded by her warmth as a tear fell from his eye in gratitude and contentment at where his life had led him. He fell to sleep in her comfort and awoke to the same with her as she too awoke to contentment, and a tear, in his arms.
Before he had said the words, she responded to them, “First you owe me the price of your life in Our Common Creator’s hands.” She bade him dress as she made them breakfast before taking his hand and leading him far from the village where all the others had only begun to awaken from the sun.
She held his hand as she led him ever onward, finally to the river bank where first they had met. On the river bank she brought water to his body, washed him, and he did the same for her. There, where first he had seen her face in the light from above by the flowing waters, there their heads touched and they knew each other throughout. For seven days and seven nights they stayed intertwined as watches banded together to observe from the trees for far longer than initially they believed they were going to. It was then that Lamelech and Triomvet knew that of the four who would monitor Enoch on his journey, they would see him through wherever his feet would lead.
When at last, seven days later, their heads parted from each other, Enoch’s wife again bathed him in the coolness of the river and the heat of the sun, kissed him deeply, then led him back to their home where he had spent most of his life laying his body when it had need of rest. They held each one last time through the night, face to face, each knowing who existed behind the face of the other. In the morning, after consuming food, they kissed deeply, and then, once she had let go of him, he left.
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 27: Part Three
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Chapter 27: Part 3
Zarnuchtron, and Warmoot decided to return to the lands occupied by the descendents of Adam as Randolfy and Lemisslept decided to reside closer to the city of Dedicated. Warmoot and Zarnuchtron bowed deeply to Casarta’s grace and bid their fellows goodbye before taking up the journey with Childreth and Kakarnan at the edge of Dedicated to witness the path of Dedicated whom walked always with God upon his mind.
. . .
In the home of Cain Enoch bowed deeply to his host and hostess whom had housed him for the greater portion of the year; with whom he had shared tales of the descendents of Adam, the intrusion of the angels upon the daughters of Adam, and the lives of the offspring of Dedicated in the same-named city. Dedicated marveled that adam existed where the common father of he and Cain had never sewn his seed, and wondered after what he had been taught him that in the beginning only Adam had existed, the sole human creation of All-Existence-Common-Uni-Being-Endlessness.
And so Dedicated bid the city and cousin that bore his name a fond farewell and began walking in the direction he believed his wife to be, where he had known her to be last, for when he silenced his mind and cleared his thoughts, it was her face that shown clearly to him beyond any other silence he could allow to occupy his self.
As he turned to look a last time upon Dedicated, he beheld it with gratitude as he turned again and set himself toward the place he had known best upon the Earth as his home.
. . .
Turning to his wife, Cain spoke, “I am grateful to know that my father began a tribe of humanity after my passing away from him, even if they are ignorant of the fullness that exists beyond where they have so far been.”
“Husband,” replied Camphire, “I am grateful to see wonder and gratitude in your eyes for what your life has brought you.” She gazed within his eyes as she spoke, and as he extended his hands to her, and she took them, he was happy gazing back into the eyes of the consciousness that had brought him to a life far beyond the scream that had filled his ears from his chest so many centuries prior.
. . .
In the city of Dedicated, that night all citizens felt their cheek kissed by a warm breeze as dreams of sweet tastes filled their resting minds.
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 27: Part One
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Recalibrating myself a bit, so I’m going to break this chapter up into pieces. Slow but sure, may you enjoy!
Chapter 27: Part 1
Enoch was in fact quite surprised to see Enoch next to his father, for Enoch looked as though he were five hundred years older than his father.
As he approached, Enoch smiled warmly at the man entering the room, who shared his name. “Can we get you a cup of tea, Dedicated?” He asked.
Dedicated smiled as he responded to his cousin, “Yes, Dedicated, I’d like that very much.”
Cain looked up to his distant nephew and smiled though his past pulled at him as he braced himself for answering questions about the beginnings of his life, “What has brought you to the city of Dedicated, Dedicated?”
“I have spent my life walking with God. Knowing that there may be an end of my days once I perceived the dissolution of your father’s being, it came to me in my contemplation on That Which Created Me that I spend some time walking with Our Mutual Source of Experiencing All Perception as I haven’t before. And so, as I walked, my legs led me finally to Nod.”
Cain smirked to himself recalling the journey he had once made from east of Eden to Nod.
“And hearing the almost unbelievable story of the inn-keeper in Nod, I felt naturally compelled to seek out the city that shares my name to find out what several months ago I never would have imagined I might be able to learn about myself.”
It was as he was finishing his thought that a woman who looked to be almost as old as Eve herself entered the room.
Until next week . . .
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Between a road trip to my state’s capital, and turning 30, the next installment of the story will be next week. Enjoy from now till then!
Peace
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 26
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Chapter 26
The next day the inn-keeper brought Enoch to a stable where he could find steady work cleaning up after the horses in order to pay his way for the time he decided to stay in the community. After a month or so of living in Nod, he heard the inn-keeper discuss his son-in-law Cain one night.
“Forgive me,” interrupted Enoch, “but did you just speak of Cain, son of the first man existent?”
The inn-keeper gave Enoch a queer stare as was often the case when Enoch spoke, “I don’t know about first man existent, we can count humanity’s roots back thousands of years, but I do have a son-in-law who lives a short distance from here . . .”
Enoch ignored the absurdity of the inn-keeper’s notion that anything had existed even a thousand years before, let alone several thousand. He motioned the inn-keeper to bring his ear closer to his own face before asking, “Do you happen to know if Cain has done anything in his past of which he might be deeply regretful?”
The inn-keeper stood upright quickly, looked deeply into Enoch’s eyes, and nodded his head gravely.
“Do you happen to know,” inquired Dedicated, “is Cain, brother of Abel, still alive?
. . .
Enoch was very surprised to learn that an entire village shared his name, and that Cain’s son had been given also the same name he had been given. He journeyed to the city of Enoch as quickly as his legs would allow to seek out his cousin and great, great, great, great uncle. Following closely behind him since he had left the land East of Eden, through Nod, and now to the city of Dedicated, were Childreth, Kakarnan, Randolfy, and Lemisslept.
Quick on their feet, the four angels following behind Dedicated improvised stories about being wanderers from other lands as they marveled, and were quite confused, that humans existed other places than where they had observed the descendents of the the first man and first woman they witnessed being created. They were shocked to perceive adam living independently from the creation of the first pair they were given to know about. Such revelation made them question their own existences. They tried to push these growing concerns to the backs of their minds, however, as they were determined to follow through on their current mission to keep track of Enoch, descendent of Placed.
It was on the outskirts of the city of Enoch that they were greeted warmly by Taolith and Gendlebleth, who were just leaving the city as their watch was coming to an end. “Go with Gendlebleth, brothers,” Taolith smiled warmly upon them after formal greetings came to an end, “I will tell those on active watch to monitor Enoch as he seeks Enoch. The others will have much to tell you of the past several hundred years, and what wonders our daughter-sister Casarta has the capability of . . .”
With that, they were led to the encampment of the angels who had followed after Created.
. . .
At the door of the home of Cain, Enoch knocked. A young-looking man with a scar on his forehead answered the door and greeted Enoch, “Hello. How may I help you?”
“Good afternoon sir,” began Dedicated, “I am looking for Created, son of Man and Living, who I have been told lives at this house. Have I come here in error?”
Cain paused for a moment before responding, “It is not wide knowledge in this land the name of my parents, stranger. Who would like to find the man named by his parents Created?”
Enoch looked hard at Cain before continuing, “How is this possible? You look so young. You cannot be the Created who slew his brother Emptiness over nine hundred years ago!
“Forgive me. I am the great, great, great grandson of Appointed, brother of Created and Emptiness, who knew neither of these brothers, for both were no longer within his father’s house at the time of his birth. . .”
Now it was Cain who was looking hard at Dedicated before responding, “You mean to say that my father had a son, Seth, and that you are his descendent?”
“Yes, sir. I am your great, great, great, great nephew, Enoch.”
“Then no wonder you are confused by my appearance. In point of fact, you are not the first who has been, and frankly even I am deeply troubled that my own son looks older than I do by hundreds of years. Please come in, perhaps you would like to meet my first-born son, who shares your name? He was about to leave, but I doubt he will want to miss conversation with a distant cousin from a life I left behind me long ago. . .”
With that, Dedicated entered the home of Created.
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 21
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Chapter 18 . . . (Where we last left Cain)
Chapter 21
Enoch sat at his father’s feet, “Abba, how did you get that scar on your forehead?”
Cain stirred in his chair as his mind raced through his own father’s words to him after his head had landed on the rock upon which he had been thrown years prior. “Son, I knew this day would come eventually, but I did not think you would be only five years old before I’d be considering answering it for the first time . . .”
As they were leaving Nod Camphire explained to Cain the benefits of never keeping his crime a secret to the people of Nod, nor to anyone else he would meet along his path in life. She was adamant as well that no matter what he said to others on the subject he ever only be honest with their children, “For if we should lie to our children, then they should not trust us as they learn the awkwardness of taking full responsibility for their own actions and the the responsibility they have for the consequences that will inevitably result. As they lean toward lying to themselves, it is their trust in us that may prevent them from believing their own lies as they would learn to accept as the law of existence any lie we would demonstrate to them in lieu of what is.” Gravely Cain nodded his assent as she admonished him the consequences of acting out of his shame rather than fighting against it so as to respond to his past by creating his future from the wish of his heart to be whole again where once by his own hand it was broken.
“The truth is, son, my father acted out of his rage toward me after I had done the worst thing a person can do, and I landed hard on a rock where you see the scar I now bear.”
Enoch’s face shadowed over as he asked the obvious question, “What is the worst thing you can do that you did to make your father angry with you, Father?”
“The worst thing a man can do, Enoch, is to kill his brother.”
Enoch began to contemplate his father’s words as he considered the life growing in his mother’s belly.
. . .
And so, knowing his father’s story, Dedicated strove to live up to his name within the context of the town with which he shared it. A village of his parents, their friends and acquaintances, his brothers and sisters, and the occasional chance passer by. While it was rare one in route to Nod would stay in Dedicated to rest before continuing their journey, every several months a pair of angels in humanity’s clothing would come under such pretense. In this way, the development of Cain and his offspring were monitored that the angels might learn further how to serve.
Incognito envoys were sent regularly to Nod to monitor other human interaction, and the angels kept their camp miles to the west of Dedicated where they existed unseen. While all the monitoring was taking place, and the angels learned about their own physical existence and the existence of adam, Casarta explored and spied in her own right, always from a distance sure from the sight of those who shared her form, but not her origin; not the particular hue of her skin.
It was one day while she was spying on the town from its outskirts that she was having a bit of a day dream. She was envisioning herself at the center of a flock of crows encircling her. In her vision, the crows came to where she sat and flocked together so that their wings were joined and she was able to ride upon their backs, which formed as though one gigantic crow which carried her high into the sky and let her see the earth as they saw.
As she was having this vision at the outskirts of the town, Handoroth and Caldas were masquerading as visitors, being led through the town’s center. As they were being shown to a place they would be allowed to stay for several nights, and told that the town would gladly share of their food and water to these passers-by who were happy to share with the town some of the goods they carried from lands “far away,” suddenly the sun was engulfed and a shadow fell upon them all. Looking up, all who had sight perceived dozens of crows descend upon them. And, lo, they amassed together in the town’s center and stood silent together as though waiting. Handoroth and Caldas stared at each other, asking the same question of each other, and giving the same answer in reply.
For ten minutes they stood watching the birds who held together virtually motionless while the people of the town remained huddled close to the ground, occasionally peeking out at the birds from under arms covering their heads. After about ten minutes passed, the birds vanished as though into thin air. Handoroth and Caldas spent the next evening, as well as the next several days, convincing the people of the town that the birds were not an ill omen as the townsfolk busied themselves sacrificing animals in the hopes of appeasing God, who was clearly very angry with them for some reason they did not understand.
After spending a week in the village “resting” from their “long” journey, and spending much time calming the village, Caldas and Handoroth returned once more to their own village to confer with their brethren. As they were telling the story of what they had seen, Casarta joined the meeting of the angels.
“Why, that sounds exactly like the daydream I was having several days ago.”
All the angels turned and stared at Casarta.
“What?” Asked Casarta.
“We do not believe in coincidences.” Darwith replied.
Chronicles of the Angels of Eden: Chapter 20
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Chapter 20
Enoch sat at his father’s feet, “Abba, why do we exist?”
Jared raised an eyebrow in response, “That’s quite a question for a five year old, Enoch.” He stared at his son for a few moments while Enoch stared back, still, silent, awaiting a response. Jared stroked his chin as he slowly began to speak again, “The truth is, son, I don’t really know. But I’m sure God had a very good reason.” Jared folded his arms and reclined, contented that he had answered his child’s question well.
“Who is God, Daddy?”
The contentment left Jared’s face as he became again tense. “Why, He’s the creator of us!”
“Then, can you take me to him so that I can ask him why he created us, father?”
“Well, son, as far as I know, the last person to have a conversation with God was your Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather Adam. If the question is still with you in the Spring time, I suppose you could ask him at the time in which we celebrate his creation and the fact that he is the origin of all of our existences, if you like . . .”
“You can’t just ask him now, father?”
“Well, son, it is a bit of a journey from where we are. And, being as young as you are, I’m not sure how the old man would receive your question since you are so young. But, as I said before, if this question burns inside of you with such sincerity that you would still retain it till the time of the celebration of his existences beginning, I’m sure he will be intrigued enough, and be impressed enough by the sincerity of the invention-of-mind by the furthest reaches of his creativity, you, that he will be happy to answer you with the full extent of what he thinks the most useful answer to your questions could be.”
Enoch was hardly satisfied by his father’s answer. But, content that his question was a sincere one, and tormented so by his question accordingly, he decided that he would wait the short life-time to the Spring so that he could receive the answer from the one person his father claimed could answer it.
. . .
Amidst the festivities of the spring, sitting upon an ornate chair hand-carved by his grandson Human Being, Adam sat watching the existences he had created enjoying existence around him. From out of the crowd walked Descent in hand with Dedicated. Descent spoke first, “Great, Great, Great Grandfather, I honor your creation upon this day! My son, Dedicated, if it be pleasing to you on this day of the joy of your existence, has an unusual question which he would like to ask you that has been troubling him, apparently for some time.”
“Of course!” Responded the 627-year-old man with a wide beaming smile toward his five-year-old great, great, great, great grandson. “I’ve been alive long enough that I welcome anything one of my creations deems ‘unusual.’ What is this vexation of the mind that has you disturbed, so very young Dedicated? Please, sit on my knee.”
And so the young Enoch climbed atop his ancient ancestor’s knee, “Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather, what I asked my father months ago, which he apparently couldn’t answer was, why do we exist? To which my father responded that God has a good reason, so I asked if I could talk to God so that I could meet him and talk to him myself. Dad said if anyone knows where God is so I could ask him, it would be you.” Dedicated recollected his breath as Man answered him. Smiling, Adam replied, “You exist, my young descendent, so that God could look at Itself. If you wish to ask of God, you have but to silence your own voice completely, and any question you could have will quickly be answered.”
Dedicated stared up at the old man with eyes wide and mouth agape as he found himself silent and looking into the first eyes that ever perceived existence. He nodded, thanked his Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather, then climbed off of his knee. Dedicated found himself silent from the moment his feet touched the ground, to the moment he took his father’s hand as they made their way home from the gathering, until finally he was tucked into his bed. That night Enoch dreamed of sitting in the middle of a field, all alone, on a warm summer day, staring at a doe several feet off, not a thought in his head.
