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"Of the nameless creature and its influence on men" by Saint Origène
On the Origin of the Creature without name
Of all the creatures that Jah created, the creature without name is one that causes the most questions.
Recall that we, the first creatures that Jah created, were imperfect, because only Jah is perfect. Therefore, after the Creation, each species of creatures evolved under the watchful eye of Jah. At that time, each creature believed themselves to be the most beloved of Jah, for each of these creatures had received a unique gift from Jah. Only humans thought themselves not to be loved, because they believed they had no special gifts. Given the plight of humans, Jah decided to bring together his creation to ask his creatures the question of the meaning of life. The gathering of Jah’s creatures, not knowing how to answer, were speechless.
Only one creature approached and spoke:
| Citation: | The Creation VI: The Question:
It seemed confident of itself and its response. All the other species gave way to it and, soon, a space emerged around it. It looked up to Jah, but its eyes were full of conceit. It replied, "You made the creatures live by the need to feed. You made the strong capable of devouring the weak. Without question it is therefore to ensure the dominance of the strong over the weak!”
It added, "I can prove this for I am the last of my kind. Only the strongest survived among mine! If You call me "Your child," I will be able to show you who, of all creatures, should rule the world.”
It waited until Jah congratulated it for its response, but in vain. For He did not answer. |
It’s here that appears for the first time the creature without name. This species was, originally, many in number, but at the meeting, there remained no more than one. This species had evolved in a spirit of domination of the strongest creatures over the weakest creatures. Therefore, for these creatures, only the strongest being the best, the elimination of rivals had become the rule, culminating in the result that at the meeting, only one creature of the species was still alive. Thus, as a consequence of its own experience, the creature without name revealed what it thought was the meaning of life that Jah gave to His Creation.
This creature expected Jah’s congratulations, because it was sure it knew the truth. It was all the more certain, being the last of its kind, it considered itself the best of its own and therefore the best of all creatures of the Creation. Thus, at this time, the unnamed creature believed itself the most beloved creature of Jah and thought it had carried out the Creator's intentions.
However, it was mistaken.
The mission of the creature without name
| Citation: | The Creation VIII: The decision:
Then, Jah turned His voice in the direction of the creature who had affirmed the domination of the strong over the weak. He said to him: “Since you are so sure of your choice, I leave you the occasion to prove it. You will preserve your spirit, but your body will be made of shadow. Thus, you will live, alone, among the human ones, until I deliver you of your sorrow. Thus, nobody will see you and nobody will name you, because I decided Myself not to see or name you.” |
The creature without name extolled dominance of the strong over the weak as the meaning of life, and at this moment it was not much worse than other creatures. It was just misguided in a bad way. Jah could have destroyed it then, but He did not because He loved every one of His creatures, including the creature without name. Yet, the discussion with the creature without name resulted in a denial of the love He advocated.This was the result of the free will that He had given to all of His creatures.
Therefore he transformed the creature without name into shadow, that no one should see it, but he let it live with humans, although not without a hold on the world, because although invisible, he gave it the opportunity to prove its theory. Thus, the creature without name could instill into the hearts and souls of the creatures of the earth its vision of the meaning of life, namely the domination of the strong over the weak.
Therefore:
| Citation: | Pre-History I: Oanylone:
Jah did not intervene any more in the world, letting His children live and thrive. He had given to the creature that He had not named freedom to try them so that they must choose between the way of the virtue and that of the sin. |
The non-intervention of Jah in his creation was for him the way to test his children, the humans, and see, by the free will he gave them, which path they chose. From that moment, the nameless creature became an instrument of Jah's judgment, for it was only through temptation and rejection of it that Jah could see the value of a man.
| Citation: | Pre-history II: Work:
Over time, men and women became increasingly numerous, maintaining their love for Jah and rejecting into the darkness the creature without name. This one nourished each day a little more its bitterness and its anger towards these people so beloved of Jah, who had taken from him his place as ruler of Creation. The men and the women lived carefree while, in the darkness, their enemy prepared its revenge. |
Following the meeting, humans became the only children of Jah and therefore Jah's favorite species, and while this species developed an aura of trust in Jah, the creature without name, scorned, considering its fate as a grave injustice, brooded in the shadows on its revenge against the humans who had taken its place, but without managing to tempt men to prove its vision of Creation.
| Citation: | Pre-History III: The Apathy:
Jah was satisfied. His children had cultivated themselves in the place that He had given them. But He knew that this beautiful spring was going to see the flowers of virtue fading, because the Creature Without Name ruminated still on its rage and its anger. Lying low in the darkness, it awaited the moment to prove to the Most High that the answer that Oane had given was not the best. It continued in its error, denying the force of love and persisting to conceive the domination of the weak by the strong as the purpose of life. |
The repeated failures of the creature without name in its attempts to prove that it was right only served to darken even more its already twisted soul and it then gradually sank into the deepest abyss of evil.
Then, before the darkness of the nameless creature, the humans began to hear its voice ...
The near victory of the creature without name
| Citation: | Pre-History IV: Sin:
Then, the man and the woman developed pride. The strong started to scorn the weak ones, which could not be nourished as much as they wished it. Like the Creature Without Name, they thought now that the role of the strong was to dominate the weak. The Creature Without Name thus saw that the hour of its revenge had come. It then went forth in the darkness and approached those that were thus scorned. It asked them: “Why let these others make you thus, why not act to reverse these roles?”
And the weak started to envy the strong. The strong, satisfied with their situation, did not see the weak ones wondering why they were less gifted than the strong. The Creature Without Name gloated in joy, because it felt the hour of its glory arrive. It murmured in the ears of the weak and poked their desire. Anger thundered in the heart of weak, which revolted internally against this injustice. It asked them why they bound this feeling in their spirit and did not let it be expressed?
Then, man and woman struck their brothers and sisters. Taking knife and axe in hand, each one struck the other in a storm of violence and destruction. They had just invented war, which reached its paroxysm when each one started to burn the house and to devastate the fields of the other. The Creature Without Name came again close to those whom had listened to it and said to them that violence and hatred would henceforth enable them to dominate their neighbors.
The man then took the woman and the woman took the man. The strong misused the weak and the weak one suffered the strong. All were linked in a bestial orgy of indecent assault and violence. Their mixed bodies reflected the flames of the houses that burned. Food was devoured and drink was guzzled down. The whispers encouraged the indecent gestures. A true orgy of vice took place. And no more thought was given to the love of Jah. |
The nameless creature had won. It was going to prove that Jah was wrong with his love, and that it was the nameless creature who had been right. The law of the jungle was indeed the meaning of life.
In this situation Jah was ready to destroy his completely deficient creation, but then he saw that men and women continued to do works of Love in spite of the horrors that washed over them. So Jah took pity on those who, despite adversity, did not fall into easy temptation. He decided to destroy Oanylone but to allow those who so deserved to be saved.
The creature without name, at the height of its power believing the final victory at hand, imagined itself himself back together with Jah and taking its place as the favorite creature of Jah. But the destruction of the Oanylone sent it back into the shadows and it seemed to disappear for a long time.
Jah gave humanity a second chance, to prove that Love is the meaning of life. But he always left the creature without name alive, its power intact.
The nameless creature today and its influence on men
From all this it follows that the creature without name has today become totally bad, even if it is not absolute evil because this would imply it is the equal of Jah, and yet it is only one of His creatures and even aspires to become his favorite creature and because of that it is desperate to prove it was right at the Meeting.
Since the fall of Oanylone, the nameless creature strives again to attain this, which is why it continues its mission of temptation. Men undergoing the temptations of the creature without name possess free will to surrender or not. But humanity can vary as to how strongly this temptation affects them. Thus, the creature without name will affect men to varying degrees, but there will always be a part of Jah in each of us.
This is why some are tempted by the creature without name only for small sins, an occasional flight, a passing fit of anger, a sudden excess of vanity, and occasional selfish behavior. But others are more deeply affected by the creature without name, living violently, becoming murderers, yet at the same time maintaining some good aspects. For Jah is present in all of us, inspiring us to be good, but the nameless creature tries to divert us, and each of us with our free will be led in varying degrees to the dark side!
Christos, himself, during the forty days of his wandering in the desert, had to deal with the nameless creature and resist its tempting voice. But Christos pushed away the voice of ease offered by the creature without name and rejected sloth, gluttony, lust, pride, envy and avarice. The nameless creature then tried one last time to separate Christos from virtue and explain to him what was the meaning of life.
| Citation: | Life of Christos - Chapter V
Then the creature without name cried out: “Jah made us His children because we are the strongest of His creatures. Among us, I am His preferred, because I am the strongest of us all. I alone understood that the strong were always to dominate the weak, just as you men dominate the cows, the pigs and the sheep. Jah gave us His creation to experience the thousand pleasures of the body and the spirit that we deserve. How is it possible to better pay homage to Him than in appreciating the pleasures of His creation?”
But Christos retorted: “Go away, tempter! Your presence among creation is an insult unto Jah. Know you that you are not His preferred. He relegated you to the darkness, because you were diverted from His light. He left you your existence only in order to test the faith of His children.”
And he added: “Jah made us His children because we are the only ones with understanding that, as He loves us, so He desires our love in return. He did not give you this status, shameful creature, because you do not have a soul, because your heart is black like jet. Admittedly, the world, created by Jah, offers a thousand pleasures and more. Admittedly, we pay homage to Him in knowing to appreciate them with their right value. But these pleasures must be tasted and not devoured. Only virtue, such as was taught to us by Aristotle the prophet, allows us to appreciate these worldly pleasures without falling into vice and sin.”
He concluded finally: “This is because sin is the negation of divine perfection. Total abandonment to the many pleasures is accompanied by diversion from the love of Jah, whereas the measured taste of the pleasures of divine creation can be done only in the love of its creator. Now take yourself away from me!”
At once, the creature without name, that had crawled at Joshua’s side, disappeared, leaving him alone at the edge of the desert. He had crossed this country of temptations in forty days. |
As we can see, the false words of the nameless creature had no effect on Christos who resisted it. For the nameless creature is not invincible, on the contrary, the day when all humanity rejects it, as Christos did, then it will disappear.
Humanity, by the free will given by Jah, holds the future in its hands. It is for each man to see he resists the creature without name to ensure that this leads to its final destruction.
Treaty written by Saint Origène, August 10, 248, Tyre.
Translated from the Greek by Vincent Diftain in the Abbey Saint Origen Flavigny sur Ozerain in the year 1456.
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His Excellency the Most Reverend Monsignor Prof. Dr. theol. Policarpo von Wittelsbach
Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg
Archabbot Emeritus of the Abbey of Heiligenbronn
German archivist for the Roman registers of Sacraments
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