Questions and Answers – “The Master” Speaks
Heinlein sleeps through most of the next day – straight through Mid-Day Prayers. His pinky finger stump aches. Turns out that Dimitrios is an Serbian Special Forces Corpsman and keeps his “Kit” at the ready. He sutures Heinlein’s wound like a pro and bandages it perfectly. He’s straightforward with his prognosis.
“There’s really nothing else anybody can do with this. Let it heal. Learn how to live with four fingers on your left hand. So much for shredding guitar riffs and hard rock solos. Forget about that “Stairway to Heaven” cover you were going to record. Keep your day job.”
Heinlein’s real clothes were neatly stacked, cleaned and pressed. His shoes were shined. No more jumpsuits. No more tactical garb, capes or hoods.
Dimitrios departs his room with one comment:
“See you at Dinner. Seven sharp – OK?”
Heinlein rides the elevator up alone. When the doors open to reveal the long table of delicacies he has grown to know and love, he realizes that he’s the last to report for chow. Plates are already strategically arranged in front of “The Master”, Dimitrios and a new smiling face – Leeds.
Everybody is apparently well into their second glass of wine. There’s a pungent, spicy smell of vegetables and bacon wafting about – as well as baguettes of crusty French bread stacked like cordwood at center of the table for everyone to grab at will. Lacas commences spooning out his usual ample portions of today’s fare: Boeuf Bourguignonne. Heinlein’s already identified the dish by its delicious telltale aroma.
Simon Magus greets Heinlein first. He’s dressed in a dark priest’s suit with liturgical split collar shirt. His Orthodox silver crucifix hangs from around his neck.
“Ahhhh, a Detective Heinlein – home from the Wars! Take your seat and fill your glass. Tonight we feast like Vikings!”
Leeds looks at him and smiles.
“Did you bring your guitar?”
Heinlein smiles. Everybody is trying to lighten up the mood. He gets it.
“Let’s eat” He says.
Heinlein pours himself some wine – the carafes are filled with what looks to be Pinot Noir, an excellent choice with the delectable French beef dish. He grabs a baguette and tears off a large end piece – in spite of his bandaged hand – and starts to slather it with butter.
Everybody digs in. Plates of salad. Plates of red Boeuf Bourguignonne stew with broad noodles and vegetables. Endless ripped pieces of Baguette. Piles of breadcrumbs everywhere. Wine. Wine – and more Wine. With a side-helping of Wine.
If gluttony is truly a sin – everyone is going to need the Sacrament of Confession.
Finally, Lacas clears the dishes. He scrapes the mounds of breadcrumbs from the huge tablecloth and pours coffee for everyone. Individual cheesecakes are placed in front of everyone for dessert. The last thing to be taken from the table is the large Bourguignonne tureen.
The table grows quiet as everyone’s spirited levity wanes.
Simon Magus speaks.
“You’ve all seen many things – things that most humans never see or are even meant to experience in the normal course of their lives.
Of course, you have questions. At this time, I invite you to ask me anything that you feel uncertain about. Hold nothing back, please. You won’t offend me.”
Heinlein jumps at the opportunity.
Heinlein: “How do you disappear?”
MAGUS:
“I don’t. Let me explain.
Human eyes are little machines that collect light. God made us in his image – he has eyes, too. Light is the key to perception.
The Priests at Karnack and Abydos – and to some extent, Saqqara – taught that even in daylight, there is darkness. They taught us – initiates of the Sacred Mysteries of Horus – to melt into the darkness…bend daylight to our will.
Yes – over 2000 years ago, Priests in Egypt taught their students how to cheat Einsteinian physics. How?
Human eyes collect light – the so-called “visual light spectrum” – and route it to the retina, which converts the “photons” into data. The retina sends this data stream – electrical impulses – over the optic nerve to the brain. The brain interprets it, makes sense of it all. Turns it into recognizable pictures. Einstein figured out – actually, “rediscovered” is a better word – that light can “bend” around objects and obscure them IF the gravity around those objects is disturbed by a concentrated force. Result?
The object drops in and out of the human eye’s “visible light spectrum” – it’s “optical band window”. The object suddenly fades out. To the human eye – it disappears. Of course, to make something totally disappear, you would have to completely bend ALL of the light around it for a sustained period of time. That takes a massive weight exerting a huge pulling force on gravity – which, in turn – is bending the light near it. Like a planet.
Einstein described it all as: “like dropping a bowling ball on a bed spread – the ball sinks down, pulling the bed spread down around it”. Such an enormous drag on gravity and consequent light bending is impossible for one man to do.
So – How did the Priests of Karnack, Abydos and Saqqara short-cut their way through Einsteinian physics? Answer: Magic. The power of the mind. Psychic energy. The Priests of Egypt taught that directed and focused bursts of psychic energy can “warp” another human being’s ability to perceive “visible light” for brief periods of time – whether they know they’re being targeted or not. A Magician’s directed and focused psychic energy can trick light receptors inside a human eyeball. Result? The targeted subject thinks they can’t see a particular object or person. Think of it as “Mind over Matter”.
The Priests of Egypt taught us to focus our concentration and – momentarily – bend light, thereby changing the “visible light spectrum” perception of a targeted person. Objective? To “vanish” a person, object or image. By focusing the mind, you can effectively erase yourself or objects from another’s perception long enough to gain a strategic advantage. In circumstances like a fight, a poker game – or getting caught in bed with someone’s wife – perception is reality!”
Dimitrios: “How old are you? How old is Longinus? How did this happen?”
MAGUS:
“Let us start with the most important and profound truth there is: There is Good – and there is Evil. There is a God. And there is an Evil one.
The second most important concept is this: the Earth is much, much older than scientists believe. It has been through waves of specie evolutions and die-offs. We witnessed last night one such pinnacle of Evolved Earth species – the Guardians.
They evolved from Reptilian life-forms and now exist in another dimensional sphere. Along the way, they experimented with their science and tried to alter Earth mammalian specie DNA – with disastrous results. They consigned their failures to the bowels of our planet – but still refuse to allow their “degenerated ones”, as they call them, to be exterminated by any other means than natural “devolution” or selective extinction. They no longer wish to have anything to do with Earth or humanity.
There were many times when the Earth was beset by entities calling themselves “Gods”, who sought to use our planet for their purposes. One such race came from beyond our Kuiper Belt and “Oort Cloud” – an alleged “Ninth Planet” called “Noburu“. They experimented with Simian and Neanderthal DNA to create “Homo Sapiens” to mine gold for them. To breed a race of workers. These experiments, too, met with disaster. The entities responsible for these bio-engineered “Homo Sapiens” engineered a flood during the “Younger Dryas” epoch to destroy their handiwork. But their Simian-based experimental species proved to be heartier than the flood that was sent to destroy them – and they survived in Tribes.
One such tribe – called Hebrews – wandered through the Middle East, and – ultimately – became the extremist followers of a renegade Demiurge, a psychotic inter-dimensional entity named Yahweh or Jehovah. Their cult still exists. Other inter-dimensional autocratic “deities” like Odin and Thor were revered throughout Northern Europe and the Slavic regions a thousand years ago. The Romans, Greeks and Egyptians all made contact with entities who were the architypes for their respective organized religions. Earthbound humanity has been influenced, manipulated, exploited and controlled by a plethora of mystical interlopers and mountebanks for centuries who called themselves Gods. These fakers were little more than self-aggrandizing and rapacious inter-dimensional tyrants taking advantage of our ignorant bi-pedal human forebearers.
Ultimately, the true Architect of the Universe, God the Father – decided that enough was enough. When he saw the psychotic charlatan “Deity” Jehovah demand human sacrifice and annihilate every neighboring city-state in order to steal more land for his own “Chosen” Tribe – it was the last straw. Jehovah and the Hebrews galvanized God the Father into action.
His answer? Jesus Christ.
Evil, however, always manifested itself. It spawned all manner of resistance and enemies to thwart God’s plan. And its most effective tool to destroy God’s children on Earth were – and still are – Vampires.
Longinus and I were consecrated by Archangel Gabriel to hunt down and destroy Vampires. We have been doing this for centuries. This is why our lives were rescued from the abject depravity that we had succumbed to. We watched our Lord be crucified. Our existence is our penance.
Vampires are the spawn of Azazel – a disgraced, fallen Angel. He was a “Watcher”, sent to Earth by God to watch mankind. Read the Book of Enoch. He and his kind lusted after human women and impregnated them. The women gave birth to freaks and cannibalistic giants. The disgraced, fallen Angel Azazel was bound hand and foot and cast down into the pit of Hell. From this realm, he dispatches Vampires to victimize, corrupt and destroy mankind.
Cassius Gaius Longinus and I kill Vampires. That is our destiny. Be careful where you tread in your own quest. This world is not as it seems. And there are always consequences.
I will be watching you both. Be Honorable.
Leeds: “You are human. Longinus is human. Don’t you both fear that the longer you do this the more you will lose your humanity?”
MAGUS:
“Every day we pray for our years of service to end. We pray that Archangel Gabriel will identify and assign others to take up this sacred duty that we discharge. God will know when we’ve reached our limit. God will know when we can no longer serve. For us it is a matter of Faith. Every day we hold the Crucifix and pray “Thy Will Be Done.” Our lives are not our own. We devoted our lives to Jesus Christ many, many years ago. Our motto is: Deus vult – God Wills It.”
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