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This is just a collection of thoughts about one of the Backwards IN ideas floating around on the INML.
It started with humanity, as so many things do.
In the beginning, that which is known as 'God' was impersonal and possessed of an abstract, unknowable love. It loved because it was everything...it could do nothing /but/ love, because to know the universe on an intimate level was to love it. It had no personality; it could not even think of itself as God, even as piece of it broke off and became Angels. Yves named it, but even so, God was simple Presence, knowing and unknowable, completely devoid of individuality.
And then came humanity. Like nothing else, they were able to exercise control of that which was God, on a fundamental, unconscious level. When they died, their souls slipped up and became part of the Godhead. With their presence, they brought personality to God. He began to talk with his Angels, through Metatron, exploring this new self-awareness with as much joy as a child.
But humanity was not all kind, nor was it all loving. Humanity could be cruel, and selfish, and self-absorbed, and possessive. These were alien notions to the being who /was/ the Universe, but the weight of them began to be more than could be absorbed by the Godhead. God began to become more human. At the last moment of his true sanity, he created the ideas of Fate and Destiny, and a place of exile for Fated souls. He had hoped that through this, he could remove the most tainted souls from joining with the Godhead. Unfortunately, even the best of humanity has a spark of evil within them; the taint was slowed, but not stopped.
God became jealous. He commanded his Angels off of the Corporeal plane, anxious to not interfere with the wonderful, addictive /humanity/ of the souls flowing up to him. Lucifer, Archangel of Light, became worried. He sensed that the Truth was not what they had been told, and more, that his own perception of the Truth was not what it had been. The increasing humanity of God was frightening to someone who had been formed from the most divine and least human strands of the Symphony. Where there had been kindness and joy, impersonal though it had been, there was now touchiness and paranoia. He began talking to other Angels, asking them if they'd also felt this change in the Divine.
Eventually, his worries only increased, Lucifer went to the Voice of God. He asked for the Eden Experiment, a study of two perfect humans, to see if the human 'taint' was something inherent in their makeup, or dependent on their enviroment. He believed it was the former, while Metatron held that if Angels just didn't interfere, humanity would work things out for themselves. The Eden Experiment began...and Lilith walked away. It had never occurred to anyone that you could /do/ that, and so no one stopped her. Lucifer filed the information away.
And the rot spread. Ophis went, under Baal's decree, down to Earth, sneaking into Eden to get raw, uncensored data from the Experiment. He was accused of interfering, and the experiment was cancelled; but not before the Seraph saw the bruises on Eve's body and read the Truth of their creation from them. It was not that humans were evil; they were simply...free. Free to choose either good or evil. But God was not free to make the same choice, and the urge between impersonal selflessness and personal selfishness was driving the diety mad. And his Angels with him.
Lucifer, with the Angels who he'd managed to bring to his side, went to confront Metatron. The absorption of human souls had to stop. They could live in the lower Heavens, or be reincarnated indefinitely, but for the good of all Creation, they had to stop ascending the Ladder. When Metatron sneered and dismissed Lucifer, the Seraph struck his fellow Angel down, not out of hate, but out of a desperate need to sever God's influence on his fellow Angels.
Battle was joined. Lucifer and his Angels were eventually thrown into the place of exile, and they named it Hell. It was only upon their arrival that they discovered the existance of Fate. Lucifer realized what this meant: God had, at one point, understood the problem, but had not gone far enough in correcting it. He only barred those who were the worst of humanity from joining with him. To restore sanity to the Universe, /all/ humans would have to be turned away. And without harming them overmuch--it wasn't humanity's fault, after all.
The Rebels were able to stave off the madness, but only by embracing a new kind. They wrenched themselves away from the Symphony, wrapping a new, personal version around their hearts and Forces. But this symphony had to be aggressively promoted, or else it fell apart. Their resonances warped as they cut themselves off from their true natures. But it was necessary. Instead of Angels, they became Demons.
Balseraphs (The Evangelists)- Once the most Divine, these proud creatures had to push themselves the farthest away from the true presence. Even then, they remained Seraphim in some ways, the sound of their own lies caused them terrible pain, unless they could twist their symphonies into accepting lie as truth.
Djinn (The Still Ones)- Changing their natures meant rejecting that which had made them Angels. For Djinn, this meant rejecting the boundless devotion that was their birthright. They wrapped themselves in indifference and rationality, forming needed impassive voices in the Low Councils even as the exiled Elohim lost their minds. Although unable to love as they had, they still retained their own, peculiar attention to details.
Calabim (The Liberators)- The frenetic, fast-moving Ofanim could never fully suppress their natures; motion and energy flowed through them like a torrent, and their symphonies inevitably broke under the pressure of it. Until they learned to turn that energy outward, using it to tear things apart. They still retained their Ofanite hatred of enslavement, however, and most often use their destructive resonance to free humans and Celestial of chains, both literal and metaphorical.
Habbalah (The Passions)- The Habbalah are mourned by all of Hell. As they struggled to wall themselves off from the corruption of God, they discovered that the only way the rational Powers could do so was to embrace madness. Each Habbalah believes himself the servant of God, even as they work to thwart Him. They /know/ this is an insane belief, but they believe it sincerely anyway. It is all that keeps them from falling apart. They use their inverted resonance to test Angels and humans, attempting to expose the corruption within Angels and force the Angel to /see/ and /understand/. Among humans, they encourage passionate rebellion against God, styming Angels who seek to force humanity to lie meekly beneath the yoke of organized religions.
Lilim (The Daughters)- Created by Lilith, who, as Princess of Freedom, is the ultimate expression of what Lucifer hopes to achieve for humanity, the Lilim are unique and bewitching. They seek Geases mostly on their fellow Celestials, using their resonance to force them to deal fairly with each other, and to keep their promises. Oddly selfless for creatures with personal symphonies, rumors hold that there's more to Lilim (and their mother) than meets the eye...
Shedim (The Companions)- The Rebel Kyriotates gave up their multiplicity for the ability to more directly influence human minds. They rest carefully within their chosen hosts, every day encouraging them to strike out on their own a little more. They are the most ruthless of the new Demons, often assigned to the 'corruption' of Soldiers of God, either to join the Rebels, or to simply foul up Angelic operations.
Impudites (The Facilitators)- The Impudites retain the most of their Angelic natures...being close to humanity, they were better able to deal with the press of the Corruption. Their inverted resonance makes them the frontmen for any Corporeal operation, as well as those in charge of taking care of the Damned and the newly Exiled. Yes, they do drain Essence from the Damned, but it is done in as kind a manner as possible...there must always be some sacrifices in War.
It started with humanity, as so many things do.
In the beginning, that which is known as 'God' was impersonal and possessed of an abstract, unknowable love. It loved because it was everything...it could do nothing /but/ love, because to know the universe on an intimate level was to love it. It had no personality; it could not even think of itself as God, even as piece of it broke off and became Angels. Yves named it, but even so, God was simple Presence, knowing and unknowable, completely devoid of individuality.
And then came humanity. Like nothing else, they were able to exercise control of that which was God, on a fundamental, unconscious level. When they died, their souls slipped up and became part of the Godhead. With their presence, they brought personality to God. He began to talk with his Angels, through Metatron, exploring this new self-awareness with as much joy as a child.
But humanity was not all kind, nor was it all loving. Humanity could be cruel, and selfish, and self-absorbed, and possessive. These were alien notions to the being who /was/ the Universe, but the weight of them began to be more than could be absorbed by the Godhead. God began to become more human. At the last moment of his true sanity, he created the ideas of Fate and Destiny, and a place of exile for Fated souls. He had hoped that through this, he could remove the most tainted souls from joining with the Godhead. Unfortunately, even the best of humanity has a spark of evil within them; the taint was slowed, but not stopped.
God became jealous. He commanded his Angels off of the Corporeal plane, anxious to not interfere with the wonderful, addictive /humanity/ of the souls flowing up to him. Lucifer, Archangel of Light, became worried. He sensed that the Truth was not what they had been told, and more, that his own perception of the Truth was not what it had been. The increasing humanity of God was frightening to someone who had been formed from the most divine and least human strands of the Symphony. Where there had been kindness and joy, impersonal though it had been, there was now touchiness and paranoia. He began talking to other Angels, asking them if they'd also felt this change in the Divine.
Eventually, his worries only increased, Lucifer went to the Voice of God. He asked for the Eden Experiment, a study of two perfect humans, to see if the human 'taint' was something inherent in their makeup, or dependent on their enviroment. He believed it was the former, while Metatron held that if Angels just didn't interfere, humanity would work things out for themselves. The Eden Experiment began...and Lilith walked away. It had never occurred to anyone that you could /do/ that, and so no one stopped her. Lucifer filed the information away.
And the rot spread. Ophis went, under Baal's decree, down to Earth, sneaking into Eden to get raw, uncensored data from the Experiment. He was accused of interfering, and the experiment was cancelled; but not before the Seraph saw the bruises on Eve's body and read the Truth of their creation from them. It was not that humans were evil; they were simply...free. Free to choose either good or evil. But God was not free to make the same choice, and the urge between impersonal selflessness and personal selfishness was driving the diety mad. And his Angels with him.
Lucifer, with the Angels who he'd managed to bring to his side, went to confront Metatron. The absorption of human souls had to stop. They could live in the lower Heavens, or be reincarnated indefinitely, but for the good of all Creation, they had to stop ascending the Ladder. When Metatron sneered and dismissed Lucifer, the Seraph struck his fellow Angel down, not out of hate, but out of a desperate need to sever God's influence on his fellow Angels.
Battle was joined. Lucifer and his Angels were eventually thrown into the place of exile, and they named it Hell. It was only upon their arrival that they discovered the existance of Fate. Lucifer realized what this meant: God had, at one point, understood the problem, but had not gone far enough in correcting it. He only barred those who were the worst of humanity from joining with him. To restore sanity to the Universe, /all/ humans would have to be turned away. And without harming them overmuch--it wasn't humanity's fault, after all.
The Rebels were able to stave off the madness, but only by embracing a new kind. They wrenched themselves away from the Symphony, wrapping a new, personal version around their hearts and Forces. But this symphony had to be aggressively promoted, or else it fell apart. Their resonances warped as they cut themselves off from their true natures. But it was necessary. Instead of Angels, they became Demons.
Balseraphs (The Evangelists)- Once the most Divine, these proud creatures had to push themselves the farthest away from the true presence. Even then, they remained Seraphim in some ways, the sound of their own lies caused them terrible pain, unless they could twist their symphonies into accepting lie as truth.
Djinn (The Still Ones)- Changing their natures meant rejecting that which had made them Angels. For Djinn, this meant rejecting the boundless devotion that was their birthright. They wrapped themselves in indifference and rationality, forming needed impassive voices in the Low Councils even as the exiled Elohim lost their minds. Although unable to love as they had, they still retained their own, peculiar attention to details.
Calabim (The Liberators)- The frenetic, fast-moving Ofanim could never fully suppress their natures; motion and energy flowed through them like a torrent, and their symphonies inevitably broke under the pressure of it. Until they learned to turn that energy outward, using it to tear things apart. They still retained their Ofanite hatred of enslavement, however, and most often use their destructive resonance to free humans and Celestial of chains, both literal and metaphorical.
Habbalah (The Passions)- The Habbalah are mourned by all of Hell. As they struggled to wall themselves off from the corruption of God, they discovered that the only way the rational Powers could do so was to embrace madness. Each Habbalah believes himself the servant of God, even as they work to thwart Him. They /know/ this is an insane belief, but they believe it sincerely anyway. It is all that keeps them from falling apart. They use their inverted resonance to test Angels and humans, attempting to expose the corruption within Angels and force the Angel to /see/ and /understand/. Among humans, they encourage passionate rebellion against God, styming Angels who seek to force humanity to lie meekly beneath the yoke of organized religions.
Lilim (The Daughters)- Created by Lilith, who, as Princess of Freedom, is the ultimate expression of what Lucifer hopes to achieve for humanity, the Lilim are unique and bewitching. They seek Geases mostly on their fellow Celestials, using their resonance to force them to deal fairly with each other, and to keep their promises. Oddly selfless for creatures with personal symphonies, rumors hold that there's more to Lilim (and their mother) than meets the eye...
Shedim (The Companions)- The Rebel Kyriotates gave up their multiplicity for the ability to more directly influence human minds. They rest carefully within their chosen hosts, every day encouraging them to strike out on their own a little more. They are the most ruthless of the new Demons, often assigned to the 'corruption' of Soldiers of God, either to join the Rebels, or to simply foul up Angelic operations.
Impudites (The Facilitators)- The Impudites retain the most of their Angelic natures...being close to humanity, they were better able to deal with the press of the Corruption. Their inverted resonance makes them the frontmen for any Corporeal operation, as well as those in charge of taking care of the Damned and the newly Exiled. Yes, they do drain Essence from the Damned, but it is done in as kind a manner as possible...there must always be some sacrifices in War.
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