This is my first blog post in over a month -
which means I’ve been writing hard, so all else takes a back seat!
I am presently writing The Final Prophecy -
second in The Ancient Knowledge trilogy. Right now, I’m the devil. And I’m
really enjoying him. The Final Prophecy cannot be written without his influence
and what better way to represent him than from his point of view?
He is, of course, the embodiment of
gorgeousness and temptation; his amorality and iniquity pristine in its logic
and deliverance.
Lord Morgen, now on Earth and in delicious
human form, precipitates Armageddon - The Final Prophecy of 2012 - from which
there is no escape. Viewing the carnage through his eyes, the end of human
civilisation is an exciting diversion. Torment, suffering and lingering death
are chocolate fudge cake and cream with toffee drizzle, for Lord Morgen. He
views his corrupt human allies - politicians, bankers, corporations, clergy
etc, as one might view a deadly virus through a microscope. With contemptuous
fascination.
His is a unique perspective; as singular as
that of a god - whichever version you choose. But as I write, I begin to
realise that at this stage of the game, Lord Morgen is more of an observer than
perpetrator of the destruction.
He played his part when he created the
historical markers that set humanity on its ultimate path to self-annihilation;
tipping the natural balance off kilter when he ‘suggested’ a possible answer to
an unanswerable question. Then all he really had to do was let hunter-gatherer
man intensify, twist and defile the new ‘idea’ over the next twelve millennia
or so, until it evolved into a profligate tide of conflicting beliefs and
avaricious perversion.
Twelve thousand years on and the results of his
seeding have blossomed into twenty-first Century ‘civilisation’.
So, the devil can now sit back comfortably and
enjoy the show.
And what a show! His protégés have done him
proud. With so many more levels of human iniquity than are attributed to
Dante’s version of hell, he celebrates and encourages the worst of man.
Lord Morgen’s task is so much easier than his
nemesis’, Alice. She has to dredge the prehistory of the human soul in order to scrape
together enough of the Ancient Knowledge to claw humankind back from the abyss.
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