Time to inflate the shoes a bit more ...
One has to ask why there are devils
and angels in the universe, and of course
as we were taught by Milton, they are
the side effect of the war in heaven
over the creation itself.
Devils are angels with a different agenda
set by an angel with an agenda. So, one
can say, if God is One, indivisible
(Brahma in the Hindu myth), then these
agents, while immortal from the limited
viewpoint of mortals, are really limited
to the age of a creation, and in fact, are
the product of a creation. (Instances,
so to speak with very long lifecycles.)
A third class of near immortals also
came into being. These are the angels
that are the conscientious objectors
of the war in heaven. Thinking it all
ridiculous, they would not take sides
and sat out the war on their own clouds
indulging themselves in the pleasures
of heaven.
Consider them the wildcards in the
dualities. In the judgment, these
angels were condemned to become the
elementals of Earth. Because they
did neither good nor evil, they are
neither good nor evil, but they are
very powerful because other than not
being able to reenter heaven, they
have the power of to transform themselves
and the elements. They are near gods.
Yet they are condemned to be part of
creation, so must also take on guises
when they manifest to mortals.
They are in music, in the wind, in the
fabric of the mortal world, whatever
they want to indulge in. They have free
will and God does not constrain them to
God's public agenda nor can the devil
constrain them to his. They can
constrain each other by the hierarchy of
their own society.
If they take on a human guise,
they are sorcerers, warlocks, witches,
and so on. Unlike angels and devils who
must work with an agenda, the only agenda
these beings have is their own indulgence,
yet because they actually are woven into
the fabric of a creation, they evolve.
So, they differentiate, become wicked,
become wise, become very individual
according to their desire, and that desire
is the means by which they are
known to each other.
They can also do what angels and devils
cannot; they can destroy a mortal, interbreed
with mortals, and create offspring. They
are part of the fabric of creation and
so can permanently affect it directly. They
live only so long as the part of creation
they are in exists. They age slowly but
faster than angels and devils who can
enter creation but are never part of it,
but much more slowly than the mortals.
They all know their spells. We call
them XSL transforms. They execute
when a world transitions into the
next state (consider it, episodes
divided into scenes. No commercials
unless you need the money...). Episodic
construction is the easiest way to
drive a never-ending story.
In case anyone wonders where I get this
stuff, it was the exercise of trying to
figure out where Samantha, Endora and
their race came from originally and
how Sam became the only witch to marry a
mortal. Call it, PreWitched. ;-)
Len
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
