The Lucifer Memoirs

Unearthed January thirteenth 2012, "The Lucifer Memoirs" may just be among the most controversial papers of all time. They appear to be the memoirs of an ancient man named Lucifer and his life in a distant universe. They contain an explanation of how our planet came to be and many other miraculous events. It was long believed that they were elaborate forgeries, however the results of radio-carbon dating has incontrovertibly proven that these documents are as old as they claim to be. And what's more they are now officially recognized as the oldest recorded use of complex language ever discovered on planet Earth. So, instead of bringing you a story about whether or not it's the real thing or a magnificent hoax, I will bring you all a much more important story.

The Truth of the Lucifer Memoirs.

The story contained in the documents begins over 1.2 million years before earth itself, humans life (albeit at varying levels of evolution) already existing in six superuniverses, and even further evolved life in the central universe (known as the "Paradise Hub�). It was there that the Universal Father resided with leagues of "pure spirits" of the highest degree. The humans who inhabited these six superuniverses had discovered there was more to existence than just life and death, there was yet another evolution they could undergo and with it they could achieve the ultimate blessing, immortality.

And so came forth the Paradise Sons, so called children of heaven, who claimed that there was a universal father that awaited all of us if we left our mortal bodies behind and made the journey though the Middle Passage to reach His presence in the Paradise Hub. They promised the people of the outer ring peace, immortality, and they promised god himself.

And so people began to make the journey through the Middle Passage to reach the side of the paradise father, they one by one found themselves "Pure spirits", formless shapeless senseless and selfless. But there they received what they had believed to be so much more, immortality with the Paradise Father.

Among these Pure Spirits there was one who held to him mortal name, Lucifer. He was considered to be an outcast among the pure spirits because he held onto his mortal name, cherished it, missed it. In fact Lucifer was angry that he had been foolish enough to be convinced to give up an existence of finite everything for infinite nothing. And where was this Universal Father? Supposedly he lived on the central Paradise Isle, Eden, but only the purest of spirits were allowed to enter Eden and Lucifer was not among them. So where was all the bliss he had been promised? There was none that he could see.

Lucifer took angelic form, a form that is visible yet intangible, and made his way to his home planet, Lanonandek. Pure Spirits, upon traveling to the outer ring of the six superuniverses need not pass through the torturous Middle Passage. Humans, in absolute mortal form cannot even conceive of the Middle Passage, much less pass through it, so they leave leave their mortal bodies behind to pass through the intensely challenging Middle Passage to reach the Paradise Hub. But Pure Spirits, being so far beyond them all pass through it as if it weren't ever there, effectively making the journey much shorter.

But his task was far from simple, in fact he was going to do something that had never been done before. He would return his now purified spirit to a mortal body. This process was actually not all that challenging in practice Lucifer simply waited at a Temple of Ascension until one of its members left their body for the Middle Passage. The body the would be left would not die in a literal sense, but in a spiritual sense, by losing the self within it. So if Lucifer were to replace the self of that body with his own then perhaps he could gain control over the body. And so he did.

At the time it was a point of great debate whether this constituted devolution or actually a great step forward in evolution. Lucifer did gain some advantageous skills in the transformation, so it did make sense that he had moved forward, but at the same time he had returned to a prior point in evolution and thus logically one would say he slid down evolution's slippery slope. Unless ascension was devolution in the first place. Nonsense, the believers said and mocked Lucifer, calling him a Devolver or the shorter "Devil".

As Lucifer enjoyed his new body it began to dawn on him how ridiculous the idea of ascension was. First you were to separate your body from your sense of self and that sense of self was later cleaved away during the Middle Passage, so, he pondered, what is left to you as a Pure Spirit? Are you nothing at all? You are just a mindless set of electrical pulses that once formed thoughts and inhabited a body. Who benefited from this disaster in human thought? And then he realized who, the Paradise Sons. Ascension left them six superuniverses to rule nearly unopposed. It now made sense to him why he had never seen the Universal Father in all the time he had spent in the Paradise Hub, there was no Universal Father to see.

As this began to grate on his nerves he began to hold assemblies on Lanonandek. At first people came only out of curiosity, he was the �devil�, the only person who in history to come back from the Paradise Hub. So when it came to ascension he was even more (in the minds of some) of an authority than the Paradise Sons themselves. Then after the curious had been converted, there came men from all reaches of the universes. The Paradise Sons would not allow him to do this, they would not allow him to take what they believed was theirs only. They began to hold opposing ceremonies to downgrade Lucifer, they claimed he had shared his heresy with god and god had banished him from paradise eternally. Therefore he was not a hero, but a villain. And so the six superuniverses were divided. Lucifer knew all too well that the Paradise Sons were ready to wage war for what they the planets they had held in their clutches for thousands of years, but he did not yet have his army complete. To do that, to overcome the army of the Paradise Sons, he would need more warriors like himself. And with that he traveled back to the Paradise Hub to find more Pure Spirits that had not yet given up their selves.

Once again he left his mortal body, leaving it in the care of his followers, and ascended. He found his fellow men in the emptiness and hollow promise that was Paradise and told them of a better life if only they would come with him. And finding promise in his words a great many of them did and they followed him down through the silent Middle Passage to the planet Satania where the greater of his followers were assembled. They waited there with selfless bodies collected from temples of ascension, awaiting the Spirits that were coming to inhabit them.

With his army now complete Lucifer called forth all of his leaders and fellow Spirited men to the planet Satania and the meeting was held on the planets great glass sea. At this conclave they were all issued copies of the �Lucifer Manifesto� and were told that soon they would declare their independence from ascension and the rule of the Paradise Sons. They were taught instead to cherish their mortal lives, frail though they were.

The Lucifer Manifesto claimed that the liberty and independence of the people of the outer ring was just and right under three heads. Firstly, Lucifer asserted that the Universal Father did not actually exist, that physical gravity and space-energy were inherent in the universe and not forces that need be explained by a being of great omnipotence. Furthermore the theory of the Universal Father was a myth invented by the Paradise Sons to enable them to maintain rule over the universes in the His name. Ascension was just a way for them to clear out the known universes so that they could rule unopposed, after all if everyone was ascending who would be left to stop them. This was to explain why they themselves, the ones who preached of how ascension was the next great step in evolution and made them even closer to the Universal Father were unwilling to ascend themselves.

Secondly Lucifer contended that the local system should be autonomous. He protested against the right of Michael, the so called �Creator Son� and leader of the Paradise Sons, to assume sovereignty in the name of a hypothetical Paradise Father. He proposed a system where each planet would have a ruling Prince and that no one person would be able to rule over the outer ring completely, as Michael did.

And finally he proposed an end to ascension itself. This may have been his boldest claim, but it was a claim easily backed up by his own knowledge of Paradise and what it held. He told them of his realization that a finite lifetime of experience far surpassed an infinite lifetime of nothingness. He told them that they would return to the practices of ancient days and live their short lives and foster families and growth. He assured them wholeheartedly that this was far better than ascension. And his fellow spirited men agreed with fervor.

His lecture was finished with him declaring a need for war and rebuilding to cleanse the lands of the influence of the Paradise Sons and put an end to ascension once and for all.

The Lucifer Rebellion started on the ground. On many planets his men fought outnumbered and won. They won because unlike the others they cherished their bodies as Lucifer had taught them to. The men in the armies of the Paradise Sons believed that their bodies were meaningless and cared for them naught, making their bodies weak and frail. They believed that their bodies had been made pointless because of evolution, ascension. Furthermore they were terrified of death for if they died they could not ascend and they believed ascension was the purpose of life. Lucifer's men knew that the meaning of life was life itself and that death was inevitable. Therefore they fought for their lives with all their power and motivation. And they had on their side a fleet of near immortal devils, or �spirited ones� as they had come to call themselves.

Its around here that pages are missing but it is somewhat clear from context that upon their armies defeat the armies of the Paradise Sons who finally ascended to paradise to escape their imminent doom. The leagues of devils under Lucifer's control followed, slaughtering the majority of the inhabitants to be sure that they would never return. And thus ascension was finally brought to a near standstill and was more or less forgotten by time. But it was not fully forgotten and Lucifer began to wish it had never been. Here the consistency of the pages returns making one wonder if there was some reason for the loss of pages in this particular section. Anyhow, Lucifer began to fantasize of a system of planets ignorant of the whole process.

From these dreams came the idea of creating a new superuniverse of men who would never know of the horrendous process. He called together his most loyal devils for a meeting on Satania. He met with several devils, notably Dalagastia and his advisor Calagastia, and discussed with them the importance of creating a new society of human, as well as other forms of, life that had never known of the process of ascension. If one such society was created there would be less of a chance of them repeating the mistakes that they themselves had just corrected. When the meeting was adjourned they made their way to an empty point in space when they set about the process of beginning again.

Using complex science I cannot begin to explain and machinery beyond comprehension, they did just that. In a process similar to ascension the devils pulled at the very fabric of the galaxy until the fabric itself ripped releasing a burst of energy that called into form the tiniest particles, the very most basic components of our world. Then using inconceivably small machines they pulled these particles into the stars where the particles fused until there were enough types of particles to promote life. The machines pulled these into masses and allowed the masses to heat forming cohesive spherical orbs of various sizes which they pulled out of the furnace and allowed to cool and establish orbits and then form atmospheres.

With the planets created they called for a league of scientists who had been training in the art of ultimate species creation for nearly 200,000 years. The scientists, who called themselves The Life Carriers, traveled to the planets deemed most capable of supporting life and planted their seeds and waited for growth to appear. On a few planet their plans worked, but even of these the artificially created life began to fail for one reason or another. Only on a few planets did live actually survive but little is told of them in the memoirs. Instead they shift to the favorite of the batch, the planet that would be Earth.

The Life Carriers had been sent there to plant �life cells� (think universal stem cells) in the warm briney waters of the fledgling planet at three different locations. From these evolved many types of life, from plants to bacteria, to giant lizards and sloths. While all seemed to be going well in evolutionary terms on the planet Lucifer could see a very basic, yet extremely troublesome problem. The creatures that had evolved from life cells created in laboratories were missing a very basic part of existence, free will. That is not to say they had no will, for they still lived and even thrived but they lived these lives in running the same basic circles, driven entirely by instinct not a scrap of emotion in their bodies.

But just as Lucifer was about to declare the planet a failure he observed something startling. In the lush forests two lemurs had wondered off into the unknown together for no apparent reason. This showed what promised to be basic free will because there was no logical advantage to doing this, therefore, Lucifer concluded they must be driven by emotion. As he further observed the lemurs he noticed that they seemed to be in love, disregarding basic logical principals of survival to protect one another. And so, free will, on planet Earth, was born from love.

Emotion began to creep and spread from them to several other creatures and after 300,000 years had passed it was a trend on the fringes of minority. Due to the fact that free will very often seemed to take away from survival instinct it was rare that what seemed to be a genetic disposition towards emotion would be passed on to future generations, and it seemed that the smaller more docile and gentle creatures were more apt to develop these traits than the larger dinosaurs and other such creatures who seemed to repel them. Perhaps it was too hard for the larger, more competitive, predators to adapt and develop emotion, because of their physically demanding lives.

In any case, it slowly became clear to Lucifer that these creatures would never be able to develop emotion and the result would be will-less creatures that would never die, and would continue killing all the creatures who had. He thought of selective breeding where desirable traits were encouraged. He realized that even if he did this the dinosaurs, who had all the physical advantages the world could provide yet no development of emotion, would remain regardless. This left him with only one remaining solution, take aside all willed creature and destroy all of the non-willed ones. He thought it would be a shame that this planet would never know the large semi-intelligent lizards he had had the pleasure of meeting on Kanon. But this was the only way, so it must be carried out.

Lucifer gathered up all the willed creatures and took them aboard an interplanetary vessel which orbited our young planet and assaulted the planet with fire, not so much to destroy the necessary plant-life but enough to put into action the extinction of the will-less creatures he had left on the planet. When all on the planet were gone and plant-life had returned, recreating a suitable atmosphere, he replaced the creatures from his ship onto the planet and allowed them to grow into the many species Earth has now.



And with those words Bossack felt the article was finished and pressed the button marked �publish� and in an instant the article was put on the wire and would, by the next morning, be printed worldwide.

But even with the article complete Bossack felt a question still nagging in his mind. �What happened to God?� Bossack had been asking himself that question since he had first read the memoirs and it had bothering him especially badly after he had wrote of the missing pages in his article. He knew of only one man who could possibly answer his question. Lucifer himself. He had known the location of Lucifer's earthly domain since late in his research into the validity of the memoirs, before the results of the radio-carbon dating testing had come in. He had thought of asking him questions about the memoirs but he had never gotten around to it. He had always been a bit afraid of him, seeing him as the ominous figure that had been portrayed in the memoirs. But today his curiosity overwhelmed the fear and he made the drive to Lucifer's humble apartment.

�Kind of odd,� he thought, �that a man of such importance would be confined to such a small domicile,� and he entered the cramped building.

Knocking the door of the apartment that had at least once contained the villain of every biblical text (aside from the memoirs, if you were to consider them biblical) Bossack had ever read.

So of course he was surprised when a soft-faced young man answered the door. He was not at all the man Bossack had expected to meet.

�So...� Bossack's words drifted off into the ether until his mind could recapture the thought. �So, I guess, that you would be... Lucifer?�

The man was only slightly taken aback by his question.

�I guess I am. Haven't gone by that name in what you would likely consider an eternity. You can call me Jack if it makes you any more comfortable.� �Jack� gestured with his hand to his dusty couch where I sat, quite eager to rest my tired legs.

�I hope so... Jack. Anyhow, you will likely come to know me as the man who paraphrased your memoirs for the world's understanding.�

�I guess I should thank you for that.� Lucifer/Jack sat in an out of fashion recliner directly across from Bossack. �Does this mean you want to talk about the past?�

�Yes, as I am sure you're aware there are pages missing in the memoirs, very important pages no less. Have you any idea what has happened to them?�

�No. It has been a good while since I have so much as seen them, so I guess the best answer I can give you is that they are lost to history. But, I am somewhat curious, which pages are these that you say are missing?�

�The documentation of your battle in heaven. It's not that I care for them in a historical context as they would have very little affect on the present. But one question has been burning a hole in my mind, what ever happened to God in the struggle?�

�And why do you wish to know that? I would think that you have realized by now that he is not at all the man you think of when you say God.�

�But I simply wish to know if he ever existed at all.�

�How would I know?� Mused Lucifer, �I never met the guy.�

Reviews

[Josh Davis]

I have to admit, that was an interesting read. I am afraid that if too many of my fellow Christians were to read it, they would lamblast you as a blasphemer, but as I say, I find this tale interesting. Well written, well thought-out, and only slightly lacking in the punctuation/grammar department. Fun read.