Excerpts from the Elohim
Writing Excerpts
(While they bear no risk of forgetting their own experience, some elohim write of their thoughts and experiences as a means of expression or sharing.)
Excerpt from Palael the Minstrel:
"I am excited this day… 'Day.' I still marvel at these concepts, day and night. I probably would have just made there be light all the time. But the way the Most High did it, sun, moon, stars. They all work together in such a way I cannot adequately describe the beauty and the nuance. The Most High could replace the sun himself if he chose through his manifest Angel. But this way was his choice and I have already been inspired to create two songs about its splendor.
“I have also been observing these new beings the Most High has created, especially the man and woman. Their physical bodies are a puzzle to me. They must feel so confined and yet also so defined. Or maybe not as they have never known any different existence. Someday I may approach them to speak, but not yet. This is all so new I am trying to take it in slowly. I want to appreciate each detail. What need is there to rush?"
Excerpt from Taphasel the Warrior:
"After I gained awareness, after my own creation, I watched as the Most High continued his work. He took the formless chaos and made it into form. The waters could not resist his will as he pushed them aside into seas to make room for the earth he desired. His power is immeasurable, incalculable.
“After this, I watched as he created life. Plants, birds, beasts, fish, and finally humans. I observed as the Most High gave the humans a form of his power. Not power to create with a word, no. That power remains the Most High’s alone. But he gave them the power to subdue the earth and the other creatures. The man shapes and controls the plants. The man named the other creatures, determining what they would be called. The humans are given so much authority over their corner of the creation. I shall watch and see what they do with that authority.
“The humans rule, but they are just things made by the Most High and not even a thing without the Most High. In fact, the Most High split the man to make an other, woman, like the man and not like him. The Most High conquered nothing and made something. Then he gave one of the things the power to rule the other things while still to him they are just things. That is true power.”
Excerpt from Nahael the Minstrel:
"In the grand garden the Most High dared
create some new creatures with whom he would share
his rule and image that they should portray,
but they ate from the tree and gave it away.
“He guided them out not to let them back in.
He gave them some garments, the cover of skin.
He cursed the foul serpent who told them his lies.
He cursed all the soil they’d work for their lives.
“They left in disgrace. They left in despair.
They’d ruined the lives they’d been given back there.
Now where were they going? They dared not a guess.
‘Just not going back’, they had to confess.”
Excerpt from Saddiqel the Ministering Spirit:
"I watched as the Cherubim escorted the man and the woman outside of the garden. I saw the sadness and remorse the humans displayed. I saw no remorse in my brother, the Cherub who tempted them. No, my brother’s eyes were empty. The Most High’s light was not present. Only darkness. Void.
“This terrified me to my core. How could one empty themselves of the source of everything? What would be left? Could I become like this? I do not want to know. I am resolved and must cling to the Most High and his righteousness.
“What could have been my brother’s motive? Why would he do such harm? I am told that he envied the human’s purpose of bringing righteous order to the earth outside the garden. I have heard he thought himself more worthy. I have heard he thought the humans unworthy. Maybe he thought both. He helped the humans take knowledge that was not given to them. They were immature. He demonstrated that. But what did his treachery accomplish?
His new station is appalling to me. This brother is cursed to continually highlight the unrighteousness in humans. We should be helping them. Cooperating to bring them to maturity. It would have been magnificent.
“Now the humans bodies will eventually die. I can already see how they are changed and diminished. But their ability to die is also a gift. Their depravity has an end. They can be restored after leaving those corrupted bodies behind. I see no end to the depravity of my brother. He is changed too, but he is forever so. No portion of him is temporal. I struggle as to why the Most High has allowed him to continue rather than ending him in an instant. I do not yet understand the righteousness in that. I trust it is there. It is just beyond my grasp.”
Excerpt from Malakutiel the Messenger:
Many of the watchers have been acting strangely lately. Apparently, it is something they are keeping to themselves. They dismiss me when I ask them about it. Some of them are not good at hiding things. Ba’ar is one of whom this could be said. When I asked him why the watchers appear agitated, he glanced at the nearby humans and then looked down at the ground before looking at me and answering simply, “there is some uncertainty about the future of our duties.”
What could that uncertainty be? I told Ruahel that it must be related to the humans. Maybe the watchers are feeling jealous of the Most High’s loyalty to the humans... like the elohim who tempted the first humans in the Most High’s garden.
… Or maybe they think of making their own kingdom! But they could be uncertain because of the judgment given that garden serpent. I’m sure he has not been too happy with being lord over death. And now he has been given to test the humans’ hearts and tempt them toward sin. He is cursed to do what he did in the garden over and over. Who would want to risk the Most High’s irony after that display?
Or maybe they want to be human. Blend in with them and be like them. See what it is like. I mean, they are watching over them all the time. Appeal from prolonged exposure.
The possibilities are endless. I’ll go see what Pehiel thinks. He always has something to say.