This is the second of a four-part abridged Conversation With A Covenant Emissary. The central theme focuses on the curse of power and the chance of human survival in a cosmic experimental garden. Any assumptions made about the origin of the The Covenant Emissary are neither alleged nor implied, confirmed nor denied.
W: In your judgement, is the demise of the human life-form inevitable?
E: You've look at at your history. You are living in the present. You have seen projections about the future of the living planet. What do you think? I will tell you this. Suppose Earth is a laboratory for various life-forms. The human life-form is only one of numerous forms, albeit with a its own set of special attributes that--despite its failing limitations--includes an exceptional design of emotion and cognition. Will it survive? Some among you say that humans will be extinct within a thousand years. Perhaps it will not last nearly that long.
W: That is as dire a prophecy as I have ever heard.
E: You want prophecy? I will prophesy for you. For I have had visions and I have seen things. In my vision came a covenant warning and I saw Earth become a desecrated place. What once had been hallowed ground became a desolate zoo. And I had visions of an Angry Creator. Consider this, human: my Covenant Prophecy.
In the beginning was Creation.
And in the beginning
Creation fashioned a Majestic Power
Of Massive Cosmic Energy.
Over the vast expanse of an infinite intelligence
Creation propagated lesser forms of this power
And begat smaller things.
In time, Creation shaped an experimental garden
And gave life to a mammalian creature
That, in one language, call itself man, and the experimental garden, Earth.
And I felt Creation allow a Mutant Lesser Power to give the man-creature
The gift of a corrupted small power and consummate a union
That begot authority over many earthly things.
And other men.
And I saw the man-creature become the Mutant Lesser Power's entertainment.
And Earth became the creature's Zoo.
And like a big stick in a caged monkey's zoo,
The corrupted small power became the man-creature's toy.
And the Zoo became a desecrated place.
And I saw the creature's existence become a life of struggle and strife.
A perpetually violent embroilment against the garden and against its own kind.
Foolishly some men called it the First Law, the law of survival.
And I understood that intelligent reasoning was not a prerequisite
For the creature's short existence, only for its long term survival.
And I felt Creation feel the pain borne of the mammal that called itself man
As the man-creature unleashed it toy and wrecked havoc in his Zoo.
Then I saw a wretched Zoo, 9 Billion people,
Living in abject fear of the toy called power,
An abomination called greed,
And the pain called hunger.
And I felt Creation angered that the garden had become a desecrated place.
Then I felt Creation say,
Let us diminish the toy the creature uses to desecrate My Garden.
And I saw 9 Billion living human beings reduced to 4 Billion
As the toy's expended force consumed more than half, without waste.
And the 4 Billion who survived partitioned themselves in 666 polities.
Then I saw 13 powerful old men and 9 powerful young men covet the toy.
So they formed an alliance, called Unity, to resurrect it.
And I felt Creation made angry again.
Then I felt Creation say,
Let us destroy the Unity Confederacy and those who are a party to it.
And they did it, because they had no choice.
And I saw 20 out of every 100 who survived that destruction
Still addicted to the powerful toy that eradicated the 5 Billion.
And they raged war against each other,
Relentlessly violating what was still an evolving living planet,
Relentlessly desecrating what once had been hallowed ground.
And I saw the Final Wrath of Creation who destroyed the all to save the Zoo.
Because the Zoo was the better creation.