Double Christ

by Julian Gillespie

  Jesus...but perhaps His first plans needed more for those Angels to see his plan...

  Hassatan...there was nothing especially different - the only thing of importance was his later giving Man free-will...

  ...Jesus just sat listening - seemingly absorbed and in no apparent rush to stop Hassatan in his words...

  Hassatan...and then there is the end game Jesus - after a most difficult life for these mortals, what does He do upon their death ?... free-will... - Hassatan stood and walked around imitating God, speaking loudly - '... so Human... should you chose not to fulfill one single act of the Divine Books, then you risk BANG - “you are wicked” - off you go to spend eternity with Za'aphiel and his kind fellows in Ghenna's lovely surrounds... - and if it's not Ghenna, then he simply takes it back - their best knowledge acquired over their lifetime - nothing sublime like making their knowledge easily transfer to a son or daughter for that matter - no, He takes his toys home again, leaving those left after the dead to search through effects to see what was saved in the hope there are records of the great advancements an individual may have made - staggering really... - and then... then the unsaved, those not Judged on death either good or bad... well they are left to their soul's storage until... well when ?... - not spirits enough in life, nor bad enough in life - so they are left to drift in graves or the ether if burned, but adrift all the same - souls adrift waiting for their spirits to be lit - and that is the state of things... the most are just left to wait... - candles - solitary souls, spirits for wicks - after lives wandering and wondering how to light the thing to set their beings off to a full afterlife - but instead left to be souls floating the spaces or left to the ground of earth... that Jesus is a tease - a torture - if they were all lit, then communication - between everyone - there exist possibilities...

  ...Hassatan had started to excite, his eyes wide and staring into the distance - he looked at Jesus who appeared to be still going through what the Hassatan had just said - Hassatan looked a short while longer before his face did shrink back from its excitement... - he breathed deeply and exhaled and reached out to allow snow to pile onto his palm...

  Hassatan...his unlit-wicks - not much of a surprise hey - sort of Judged, sort of saved, then sent to bed until someone day..... - remember - I guard the Tree of Life - past me must every mortal go to touch those sacred bows - but tell me first Jesus - how can an unlit spirit in a dead body, kept company by an inert soul, muster the necessary skip in the step to even try to find where the damn thing is, let alone try for it ? - no Jesus, the Tree of Life is for those who He sends off to it - those Decreed saved...' - Hassatan then rose and threw his arms up in the air - '...and those very few like Enoch, Moses and Elijah who came up on special orders - orders to have a conversation with Him really - but His orders nonetheless - and those type were only told to go there for a special look around His place - and into my garden they were allowed... as for the mortals pffff - no, the Tree of Life is mostly coveted from humans - do I deny it to them ? - please... - just bring this little conversation up with your Father and let Him explain it to you...

  Jesus...you sound angry Hassatan?...

  ...Hassatan looks to Jesus blankly for a moment - then a smile comes upon his face - he lets a moment pass - he breathes in some more looking at Jesus, then relaxes into a stretched-out position by Jesus - he looks about himself... and as though something is in the distance that Jesus cannot see, Hassatan's attention is taken... Hassatan quickly turns back to Jesus...

  Hassatan...quick now - we must be off on the instant before it is too late...

  ...and to clear we went...

  to clear

  Chapter 18: Rain Forest

  from clear

  ...coming from clear Hassatan led Jesus into a hot dense forest thick with vines and puddles of shallow waters and buzzing insects... - the sun was late and hot and swam through the thick tree heads - moving off at a light run, the Hassatan kept forward...

  Hassatan...angry? - I'm not angry - but keep up - just ahead of here - we are nearly there...

  ...Jesus just a few paces behind him - Hassatan began to slow in the thick vegetation, to slowly moving away branches like a light breeze had naturally brushed them to one side - he moved forward as Jesus moved closer in behind him - then suddenly, Hassatan moved in behind a native brown skinned Man - short of hair and clothe - face with paint and dead bone through nose and ears... - with bow drawn, an arrow carefully lined-up in aim for something in the distant vegetation - Hassatan moved in softer so to bring his mouth close to the side of the Man's left ear... where he then whispered ever so softly in another tongue...

  Hassatan...do not kill him and it may save you in the afterlife...

  ...the Man paused... bringing his gaze just to his left, then slowly turning his head the same way to see whether in fact somebody had crept to his side - his left hand also slowly gave up the strain of the bow's string - he bowed his head as if in recognition, and just as softly shrank into a bowing position as he moved away backwards from where the Hassatan still crouched... and was soon no more to be seen through the dense forest leaves... - Hassatan stood looking over the plants where the Man disappeared to - he turned and briefly looked at Jesus as he walked by him...

  Hassatan...no Jesus, I'm not the angry one - but He, He is the one who is... - and why ? - you try a few hundred times over a few thousand eons to get one little creature to simply appear in your own image, and while you're at it, fail every time - that's why He's pissed - that's why He's become the strange thing He is - doesn't communicate, doesn't seem to care, yet has to have all the routine, the ritual, the worship, the songs of Holy - but when it comes to making a decision don't expect the first words to come from Him, no - He has plenty of others who have gladly taken the roles of providing this omnipresent being with ideas of what He should do, and how He should go about it - not a thing germinates with Him anymore... - so Son of God, someone has to help these people - they who do really appear forsaken most of the time - and if that sounds like not only His anger but boredom too... well don't be surprised if He scraps this place too - just another one...

  ...then I was needed and went to clear...

  to clear

  Chapter 19: Fireside

  from clear

  ...coming from clear into the shadow of the sun - Hassatan and Jesus had remained in the forest, but now night held the forest quiet - a clearing Hassatan had taken Jesus to was wide and allowed deep Universe to be seen above them - Hassatan had created fire between them which floated just above the ground, giving light on each of them as Hassatan continued his words...

  Hassatan...what have we these days? imagine - just imagine this... you who need to understand where He is these days - where He is coming from … - He... doesn't.. give... a shit - do you get that? - He just never will until He can see himself - it's called vanity - deliberate - preconceived - We, Mankind, everything He touches - we are a trial for Him, of trial and error while He ambles about looking to find His imagine in Us, Man and whatever else He thinks could do it for Him, where you, me and them are nothing more than works in progress - get it, and get use to it...

  Jesus...well Hassatan, that is probably the most absurd thing I have ever heard... - so your view is that our God's higher purpose is everything to do with His vanity ?... His seeking to perfect an image which what... He can then adopt? - make His own? - yet for all these efforts of His you forget the teachings given to Mankind - for Spiritual Perfection - the many tenets handed-down over time - how you continue in your influence with these notions of yours is simply beyond me...

  Hassatan...He is not seeking Spiritual Perfection - oh if He were our times everywhere may have been so much simpler - no, He only throws that challenge on Man Jesus, but achieving such Perfection is an implicitly impossible object of Creation, and He well knows that... - Creation starts with something and that something changes over time from its inception, and that change is a constant of Creation which cannot
be stopped - a thing can be annihilated perhaps, but it's change is always constant - so even were some idea of Perfection attained, it would eventually pass to another state of existence - but an image on the other hand... an image can be captured... - so no... God has put Spiritual Perfection on the table for Man, but it’s unwinnable - it's a great big distraction for Man - and what He has not let be known, is that it is all about image and His image...His face - His perpetually unseen face that is shrouded and surrounded with an outward facing Divine mirror that moves and breathes with Him, and I suspect it also reflects on the inside as well - an almost perfect Divine and breathing sphere of one reflection within, filled with his Divine light - that is an awesome state to think of existing in......anyway - you see Jesus, He seeks a face from humanity, nothing more - I mean really, a specie that has been so expendable at times, one in your position should have been asking a few more questions about his design - perhaps you should have been looking more at his object... - regardless, with the offspring of Man comes either Men or Woman - really products of the same sex for the lack of differences - and with each offspring there comes a new blending, something different never seen before in time - and that is the marvel of the flesh Creation, and that is what he hit on when He thought of Creating flesh - and it is here He can find His image...the image He is looking for - and as far as I am to understand, there is a wager on this outcome, and I suspect, some Creative desire for the object - the other select high Angels know this too, and they also know they are probably secretly foul in the sight of God, what with their multitudes of faces and features - just wait as I said until you view one of the Galgallum - yet these high Angels keep to their stations because their stations may afford them something in the future - maybe even the chance to have just one face is what I see in the thoughts of a few - the thoughts they secretly harbour - it is interesting to look upon their thoughts from time to time, when they think no one is about...' - Hassatan had peered off into the Heavens for a moment of pause before returning to his words - '...i mean, really, have you seen let alone met one of the Thrones, the Galgallum? - what are they?!... - but Jesus I should ask before I go on, because I quite truly do not know with you and your death act bit - but are you hungry... can I get you anything ?...

  Jesus...no Hassatan - I am neither hungry nor need anything - but please continue, as I am not sure whether to be fascinated, insulted, or seeking help for you...

  ...Hassatan smiled at Jesus with these words...

  Hassatan...Jesus there are times to be in comedy, and others to talk of essential truths - please be clear which time I am occupying with you... you being who you are - but to return - the Galgallum so you know them immediately...

  ...and as I watched this speak from Hassatan I noticed something Hassatan could not - Jesus, though not changing eyes before the fire, began to move elsewhere also from where he was - he was doing what is known as a bi-locate - remaining in bare thought and the Presence of Hassatan while another mind part of Jesus moved to another place, unknown to Hassatan - I went to split clear to follow where and why Jesus was moving like this, while remaining with Hassatan to ensure he or another perhaps unseen to me wasn't the cause of what was happening - I followed Jesus through his clear where his mind had changed to knowing something of what was occurring - his baptism and his later desert time with Hassatan had taken his senses through similar clear before - the path was not entirely unexpected, though still not expected as I was a part of these goings-on... - but their matters are theirs after all...

  Chapter 20: Meeting Michael

  ...the path Jesus had been drawn to was clear soon after - where his arrival only confirmed it - the sun - where only one could be expected and was waiting for Jesus to come from clear - Michael... - and despite the spectacular goings-on of the place, Michael, who was as though at home here, spoke calmly...

  Michael...hello Jesus - I am the Michael, one of God's Archangels...

  ...as Michael, Jesus also appeared suspended... to float in place as all about the two this sun brilliant breathed it's Divine Majesty of fire of fire - Jesus appeared of indifferent eyes...

  Jesus...yes, I know you Michael, you were one of those who aided my sores in the desert - why have you brought me here?....

  ...Michael was steady and continued unmoved...

  Michael...time as you appreciate is short - Hassatan is very good at these things, but here he has limited knowledge - the sun is my charge and is powerful, so even though he may detect your also being elsewhere, he won't be able to see where if we remain short....Jesus, the sun is pivotal to much of what your Father has Created, thus why it is appropriate you, his greatest Creation, should meet with me here - you have sensed that Hassatan is soon to be Judged - that message was conveyed and you embodied that message - and now he spends his time talking of past tales and holding you, as is his right, before presentment before the Divine Court - Jesus, this time you spend with him is the opportunity to show that Hassatan is not in faith with your Father - you only can show this by re-claiming a key from Hassatan that will release souls long held in a place unjust and unclean - you only can do this, and by your blood you will secure the proof that has been through manifold deceptions concealed from your Father, through his corruption of your Father's edicts - how you achieve this we cannot assist you with - but know this... however you can, you must make Hassatan to mingle with your Divine Blood - the Blood of the Lamb as it has been proclaimed - for this task you have no choice, for in failing he will instead seek to destroy you - so much I understand from the Halls of Heaven - so Jesus, be first, and be on your guard against the great Adversary - and know this - if he was able to notice my drawing you here away while he goes on, still, this sun will have stopped him knowing to where and to whom, such is the power here - and this he will also not be able to see in your thoughts, for a change - and now time removes us from each other - can I say more to you ?...

  Jesus...you can only confirm that what I am asked to do is asked by my Lord and no other?...

  Michael...that assurance I give - now, you must be returned to him...

  ...and within that moment Jesus was sent to clear from Michael...

  Chapter 21: Return to Fireside

  ...I returned the clear with Jesus and watched him fully assume his mind and being again before Hassatan, seeming unchanged as before he left - his return before Hassatan occurred without notice - Hassatan, moving his fire, was occupied with his gesticulating, his views, about which he continued to talk to Jesus about, and so appeared unaware of this journey by Jesus...

  Hassatan...wheels within damn wheels, studded with who knows how many eyes - and the name...Gal-gal-lim...what does that mean, really - and the effect they have when you're in their Presence... - when one of them move, everybody moves - when one stops, everybody stops - just try getting out of a room filled with them quickly...' - looking at Jesus with the sides of his eyes, Hassatan's eyes appeared smiling, his brow showing thinking - he then as quickly continued his walk about the fat flame between them - '...so normal do you think? - like every other freak spirit in the realms...the Cherubim I can get - at least one of their faces looks Human - I have gotten to know them - but the Thrones are something else apart, and that's including the old man...

  ...then Hassatan stopped quiet and stilled, looking over the stars - in place the forest breath gave dark noises of animals, of insects, of heat leaving to space, all together...

  Jesus...Hassatan, what do you hold over my Father - what is it that gives you such unequalled power to go as you will?...

  ...Hassatan remained turned to the stars...

  Hassatan...hold over Him? - why nothing - I am no more than He has made me, no more than He has allowed...true I am responsible for a few things - the Tree of Life being one, where were it destroyed, though I know not how, it would also mean the destruction of all these Humans you have come to know and love - and to love as I have come to - but a hold? - dear Jesus I suggest that you instead
get a hold of your thoughts and ask where they come from - who gives you such ideas that I, Hassatan, would command anything over my Lord and Father - the Lord forbids such notions, let alone realities... - what you must appreciate Jesus, is that I have never disobeyed Him - I have done some things He has never said not to do - and that Jesus, is the difference - what's not said is fair game... if you can that is - all matters of degree and intention you see - step against His Word and boom, you are reduced to nothing better than a flint's spark, and in a flash you're never seen again - now you see them, then you don't - though there is always that awful smell you just can't get off your tongue later - incinerated Angel is the only way to describe it I guess, despite we beings being generally odourless - oh so why the flowers here can be such nicer company when things get boring, wouldn't you agree Jesus?...