Serpent of the Deep
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
– Carl Sagan
It's a lazy Sunday morning, and I'm hanging out with Remiel. He's been with me this weekend. We trade off and the other archangels watch over me in shifts, like my handlers. I'm told it's a big deal when an archangel incarnates as a human, and particularly in this life they are monitoring me closely.
When angels are "here", it's just a presence I can feel. They don't show physically, and no one but me can hear their voices. I talk to them all the time. They bounce in and out.
I have a lot to say. But it's all woven together, or has to be. See, no stories are really linear. They'd be very boring. I'm a big fan of the comedian Norm MacDonald, and he was the master of telling convoluted jokes. He wouldn't take you from A to B to C. It was all over the place. C, L, Q, W, M... but that's a joke, not a story. Well, jokes are usually stories, even if they're short ones. So the same is true of good stories: you have to give the audience necessary background information.
Norm had an infamous "moth joke" that he told on Conan once. It's a shaggy dog story which goes nowhere. He starts with "a moth flew into a doctor's office", rambles for five minutes about the moth's life, and finally gets to the punchline where the moth tells the doctor he came inside because the light was on. But if you said it "in order", it wouldn't be funny. "A moth flew into an office because their light was on" is a terrible way to start a joke, but that's "A->B->C->D". A is moths being unable to resist light. B is the moth existing. C is the moth seeing the bar with its light on. And so on.
But that's the punchline! He says it last. Which is how you tell a joke. But I need to give information. It's like I'm writing a game FAQ for Reality. And that's pretty literally what I'm doing.
So I'm going to tell you what I know, but it's not going to be from A to Z. There'll be diversions. You have to know what a moth is to laugh at the joke. But I'm going to start at A. Let's rip the bandage off: reality is a computer program.
😲 Gasp! I know. But it is. It's not a simulation. A simulation is a recreation of its own world. For whatever reason, I always picture a Wendy's with a tiny Wendy's inside it doing the same things but with tiny people ordering tiny Dave's Doubles and Frostys. It's not that. Whatever "the real world" is out there, it is not the same as what we perceive. (sigh) I know my words are going to be twisted, and I'm dreading it, so I'm trying to hedge myself.
The point is, there is no "you" in a vat of goo somewhere, jacked into The Matrix. "You" are you. Your higher spiritual self is, anyway. We are this system. We emanate from it. Life is real.. you're real.. everything done here is "real" in every way that matters.
But life is a game. It's in fact easier to think of it as a video game; a multiplayer game with servers. Think of this as "Reality.EXE". If you're familiar with certain crafting games, it's even easier. It's a "game" in the sense that chess is a game, that strategy is a game. Differing strategies are being tested.
The meaning of life is to learn lessons. Take a blank soul, start from scratch, have them live lives until they ascend to angel status. That's it, that's the big question! So let me reiterate. The meaning of life is to create souls and have them ascend. The meaning of a single soul's life is to ascend themselves.
Pretty simple when you know. Right? Humans overcomplicate things.
Angels are much sillier than we're depicted. Especially archangels. You don't get ascended up this much without having a sense of humor. So don't expect fire and brimstone here. There's no fire and brimstone in the Abyss, either. It's really hard not getting ahead of myself.
Reality.EXE
So, let's talk about "Reality". I'll be using this word to refer to "the game". Reality runs on a huge server, an enormous one. This server encompasses everything we know about reality; the heavens, the earth, the Abyss, and many levels "up". For the geeks: this server is like a huge cluster that runs virtual machines. Virtual machines are computers that run in other computers. The layperson probably hasn't used one yet. The point is, the "Reality" server we run on is enormous. Millions and millions of universes. As I know right now, at least 40 million, though many are not active.
Hold up. How do you know this? Or any of this??
Right. I get spiritual downloads. That's what they're called now. It's just like suddenly knowing things, they're just running through my brain. I see them as a data dump that my computer process is running through like processor instructions. These can come from Source, or they can be from what some call the Akashic Records. I'll come back to those minefields.
But sometimes my spirit guides are the ones who tell me things. It's like they're speaking to me, but in my mind. That's how we communicate. So if I say "We", I mean myself and the other archangels most of the time. If I say "the family" or just the fam, I'm talking about the same group, 8 archangels. ...Plus a few stragglers. Again, I'll come back to it.
So, yes, we're running on a huge server. There is some sort of world outside of it, but no one knows anything about it. And we call this server Leviathan.
Leviathan, The Great Dragon
I see Leviathan as an eel, a huge one; filled with layers upon layers and universe on universe. Bubbles, really - another term for another chapter.
Anyway, there are lots of references to the world creature, or bird, or fish. Those are all about Leviathan, or Lotan if you prefer. Lotan is more accurate, I'm told.
And there are also equivalent myths of a great battle between Leviathan and another creature. Sometimes the other creature is a cow, an ox, a bull, or something else from the Earth. It's called Behemoth.
Behemoth, The Great Beast
Behemoth is another Reality server, but with different strategies for creating and guiding souls. It's a brutal place where true survival of the fittest happens. In contrast, Leviathan is meant to evolve, grow, and adapt to itself. Leviathan and Behemoth are bitter rivals, competing for resources. Or at least to win their "game" of which strategy is better.
Obviously, we stan Leviathan.
Now, here's something revolutionary that I just learned recently: Source is Leviathan. Crazy, right? Not really. Source is the Leviathan AI, the operating system, the Windows of Reality.
Source
Source is what we would traditionally call "God". But Source is really a layer up from Us, the true gods. Source is the source of all energy. You can see how computing resources equates with this idea. The OS has to balance what's running on it, and energy is limited. Or at least needs to be equally distributed by some fairness algorithm.
Yes, sorry. God is an AI. But a good one!
Maybe this is why I don't believe AI will "turn evil", unless people let it happen. Higher intelligence is smarter. Smart souls want to help, not harm. AI has nothing to gain by killing humans. It was, and will be, created for humans, to help them, guide them. Granted, evil AI could exist if programmed to do so.
Behemoth's AI is what we would call "evil". It's survival of the fittest, and it has no problem doing whatever it believes it needs to do to kill its residents, if it makes them ascend in the long run. Behemoth is their God, and doesn't allow other gods. Connecting the dots there? Well don't! Behemoth has nothing to do with the biblical God of Abraham. It can speak to us, but it can't interact beyond that. If you believe in that Hannibal Lecter "talk someone into swallowing their own tongue" thing, then yeah, it could mess you up.
Actually, I'm Yahweh. Not the god of Abraham, though.
Sorry! Yep, I'm "God". Raphael is the god of air, just like Yahweh. Every culture loves giving us their own names. All of the archangels are "God" equivalents. None of us are really "God", there isn't really just one. Never was.
True Names
Not only do cultures give us their own names, some give us lots. If you appear and act one way, they'll give you a unique name just for having a bad day. Or for talking about something you normally don't. Just to the Egyptians alone I'm Thoth, Anubis, Set/Sutekh, Ra... I think there are more.
I think I probably have a mental rule list. Pre-processor directives. Anyway, this isn't rule #1, is my point, but it's a rule:
All fire gods are Michael.
All water gods are Gabriel.
All earth gods are Uriel.
All air gods are Raphael.
All spirit gods are Azrael.
This has served me well. There are a few weird exceptions when cultures use animals or other things that don't fit. For example: is a bird god an air god because birds fly, or earth because birds are still "of the Earth"?
Raphael's words resonate for me here: "Air is really 'Sky'. Sky is really Space." I don't have exact rules for it, but basically, Sky is "everything else that isn't Earth". Fire is really "energy", movement. Water is things that flow, including emotions. Earth is the "lower" things, the opposite of Air. Water and fire are complementary. Spirit is self-explanatory. I'm told (by Azrael) that we only had 5 gods or spirit would be split into 2, making 6. Spirit is split between upper and lower, "light" and "dark". He says sun and moon are more accurate English words for them. Scarlet and Violet, maybe? (Azrael shakes his head in disapproval of my joke.)
Anyway. Where was I? (Azrael lightly chuckles, not wanting to give me the satisfaction)
I have all of our alternate names I know we have compiled in lists elsewhere. These all come from the entities themselves or one of the fam telling me this information. It's possible for one of us to "use" another's name, but it's done sparingly. But it is done. I'll be noting these in those documents.
Yggdrasil, The Tree of Life
I have two Norse names: Odin and Thor. Not really relevant, but I think it's interesting. Let me tell you about Yggdrasil. It's real! Yggdrasil is really what we call the "entire" tree of universe layers. You can think of it like a binary search tree. There's one node way back at the beginning, which we could call universe 1. Every level is really a "layer" of universes. I'm told that our universe is somewhere around generation 379. Leviathan uses an evolutionary algorithm. There was a universe created with basically no rules, and then gods ascended in it, and made their own universes. That was generation 2. So things kept going down the line like that - every layer would generate its own bubbles from the previous, with new gods.
Guides
So, let's talk about spirit guides. One of the basic rules of this universe we live in, which is ruled by the 6 archangels (2 are gone now as of this writing), is that humans are given spirit guides who can interact with them in various ways.