UNDERGROUND A&R REPORT

The Devil Is My Brother
Text insert that accompanies the single "The Devil Is My Brother" from the album Massive by Todd West (c) 2009 / 2010

Everyone believes the story of Adam and Eve, the garden of eden and the the snake is a nice fairy tale, or at best a type of moralistic analogy. True, it's kinda both. Now, we all know dinosaurs were here, basically how the earth was made. True, we kinda do, in a realistic way. We don't quite grasp how time works and there is the difference. We imagine if the garden of eden story is true, then it was at a certain "period" in history. Like when humans first actually became humans (such as they were still evolving), or, if you're religious, God put them here and the time line went quick to basically Humans having civilization (nada, but believe what you want to believe). The truth is actually an analogy. God took a long time to develop the earth, it was done naturally by what science says, and it took a long time. Humans evolved over an incredibly long time. Yet, at some "time" in history the "story" of the garden of eden was real, to some degree.

Before the garden of eden and humans had evolved, My entity had been created for specific purposes; in fact there are a large number of us, created for all kinds of purposes. We're called Angels. Angels had been created by God for many, many things. People seem a bit confused about angels. There are all kinds of myths, legends, and ideas. Of course in today's world, an increasing number of people don't believe in God nor angels, they kinda can figure out how things were made and how the "universe" became. What is usually the problem, is that intelligent people have a tendency to over simplify things when they kinda understand the big picture. Time is the biggest problem. Not the length, yet how it is measured. Lifespan, humans are just now beginning to understand. One day they will be the master. If not for what went down in the garden of eden, they would have complete control over life now, there would not be death. Would Adam and Eve still be alive. Not as people, no, but your great grand parents probably would. Huh? You say. Keep that thought, let's move on.

God created angels first to live with people of the earth. In this realm, which is just the little universe you can see (yes I know you see a long ways) there are not so much "laws of physics" yet certain ways certain things work, tied in to alot of other things. Creation in this realm God made to be structured, yet wide open. Literally, there is free will amongst creation. The more intelligence involved, the more free will (don't get lost into politics, I'm not over there). Now, back to the garden of eden;

Angels were to administer Life unto humans here on earth. Be teachers, doctors so to speak. Yet angels have free will, like you do. We kinda do what we want to do in a way. Then, not now, though many of us will dispute that, but more on that in a bit. When I say "then" I meant that period when the garden of eden "story" took place. Everyone should have their religious texts opened to where it's talked about Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve could do what they wanted to, they were not however ready to be angels, they have a spirit, so yes they are angelic there, yet they still had much to learn. Like school, they were in, probably about 1st grade, with a ph'd being able to sustain themselves over vast regions of time and space, and to literally truly visualize, that is see, and be with, God. Now Adam and Eve weren't exactly evolved from Apes, at this "time" during the life of the earth, they would not really "die". Angels would take care of them, and God's creation, forever.

Like a family, angels have broods, kin folk. We are divided into families called Choirs. Each family has different traits, and gifts. Not "powers", so to speak, that is a whole 'nother science. Yet we have brothers and sisters (not all angels are both, nor either/or - it's complicated) whom like families have "traits" To help with taking care of God's Creations we also have duties. Some of us take care of things like the earth, some of us work on science such as music, and physics; some are soldiers, some are administrators of different systems (planetary systems, dimensional systems). We all have "some" of that, if it is related to our choir. Some of us, were created specifically as judges. None were created evil.

So back to eden. When living with early Humans our responsibility were to teach things slowly, like a fine master to their pupils. Sure if we wanted to show them how suns were made, cool, they're not going to understand though. Some things though, were classified, still are. Only when you're a senior do you get to study those things. Now, your species is about 9th grade (no pun intended), so you've still got a lot to learn. Not even approaching college yet. Yet we could give you the tests for your doctorate when Adam and Eve were here (free will), but that was forbidden because that would be stupid, they would not pass, plus, it would be negative because of the stress on them to try and know these things. Free will allowed us to break the rules, and some did. Another thing that was forbidden was sex with humans. Some did that too.

In those "fairy tales" somewhere it says something about apples and snakes. Literature by good writers is fascinating, isn't it? Remember the old image of the apple for the teacher? Remember that 'ol college boy past-time about feedin' his snake? Analogy, study the science well. Not just as a literary style; God uses it in the life sciences, and in physics too. Amazing. For real!

I'm not sure which religion you're using to follow this, if any at all. If you're using the Bible, Torah or the Koran somewhere in there, usually at a time "after" the beginning it will say something about angels living amongst the humans. I don't study religion or theology much so I can's tell you where you'll find this, I just know it's there. The end of the garden did not signify the end of this (angels and humans living together), for some time. Yet in the garden my brother and some of our kin folk had sex with humans, so in time we (the ones who didn't do this) were banished from the earth (because it was defiled and made "dirty"), being able to live side by side with humankind in numbers was destroyed. I wasn't "here" when it all went down (the defiling of humans), but had been here before, and this being God's first painting we could see and touch, I thought it was/is fantastically beautiful. It lived like nothing the Big Man had done before, and the potential! He says the humans were more like him than we were, so we were allowed to glimpse and partake of those gifts he gave the humans, and share ours with them. We were not human though, and my department was not the earth, then. It was however, my brother's.

At some point, I was told. Your brother is defiling the humans, teaching them things they need not know now and having sex with them all. God said he was putting an end to it and banishing us from the earth. Some of us came in with a posse and a fight got started, we had to call in the artillery (I think it talks about this in religious text books). Time here is key, this was ancient, yet the war is only now reaching a crescendo. This may be hard to understand, but at some point the angels of my choir who were causing so much trouble could no longer do what we wanted to do to an extent, this affected the good and the bad. Because my brother started some serious shit, my whole family had to be disciplined. We lost our place on earth, and since some had defiled the humans, the beauty of God's creation was sullied, not just in a small way, and he was pissed.

I stayed on with the Armies Of Heaven and studied tactics, and fought angels in other places who were causing darkness to rule, or trying to make it master. The Great Angelic Wars. I was of the light, as was my brother at one time (it was even literally, his name), yet I could not enjoy, see, or enter this realm, it was not my place, and my kind had lost it. God thought to destroy it, yet free will allowed things such as destruction, death, evil. God has his reasons, I cannot second guess that Spirit, yet he said let it go, see how it comes out. Not long ago, as the war winds down in other places. I got a call.

Go and check my original creation God told me. "Here you will find these things. Here you will find death, evil, and all that comes with it, and those angels that rule it. Here you will also find traces of My Love. It, this Realm Of Creation is ready for me to allow or deny. It was a cage for those of you who fought against Me. Yet it has retained it's beauty. There is much darkness there, and will be, for I sent it there. You see, do I give it to death or everlasting life. "

I knew He already knew what he was gonna do. He had His own reasons for sending me. I think about things but don't try and second guess His plans and motives. I didn't think it was my place to make decisions, and come to find out, that's not how it works. Probably a good thing for us all.

So it was time to go back and finish the job. It wouldn't be as cool as before because things, over time, were different. I was gonna sneak in and call the calvary if it was needed. There are many, many ways to make war though. So we might could do it like a quiet type of revolution. My brother is usually not quiet about his warring ways, unless he too is sneakin' in on you. God showed me the atomic explosions over the island of Japan. I had not been able to see history before. No I cried out, No! We had used something like that to create stars, to give Life. Now it was used to threaten and to cause death? I saw how the threat of death had been used to empower all kinds of crazy humans; twisted in so that what held that power of death would be "good"? I saw the whole damn world going crazy, with all types of madness. I did not understand.

I saw Christ on the Cross, I remember at times there being a tension in the Kingdom, now I understood. I had never felt shame. I broke down, and something new happened. Tears came to my eyes. What does it mean? What is this hot liquid in my eyes. I didn't feel like a proud warrior. I felt, weak, like I was dying, which was new to me. What is this? I pleaded with God.

You will find out. He told me. These are what your people have become. It scared me, and I didn't know what being scared meant, or felt like. No, I told him, we're not that. I got angry at the things that were being done in My Name.

"Remember the day you told your own you'd be back? When you shut this seal. Remember this?" God opened it and I looked in. I smiled. Yeah, there she was! That sun, those stars, that beautiful little blue marble. But....I couldn't believe it. There wasn't any Life on the other planets or on nearby stars, and the Life way out there didn't live with the humans.

Memories that had been locked away came flooding back. God showed me the prisons, the Word in court rooms used to fill those places. Things done by mad men in the name of god against innocent people. My brother smiling, on his throne, some kind of awful place. I saw strange religions that had Christ as an idol and people twisting the Word to make money and try to rule over people with. I saw that dark energy actually was greater than light; it was holding the fabric of space together. WTF I thought.

"Go Angel, reclaim this". I was told. "When it is done your service will be done with, and you shall have all Creation with Me; even though you shall never leave this place where I exist again, you shall be allowed again to flow throughout, like I do, and see and partake in all. You will reclaim your seal." I looked at the seal again. It was closed, and it looked like our original seal with the star surrounded by two circles, as it always had. God pointed at my chest.

That seal was a star too. It was different though. Then the stars became one, again, like in the beginning. I tried to remember what tears felt like, but all I could feel or remember was something else, like......Love. I felt that power. There is nothing else in all Creation, that feels like that. God's Love.

I could see the Lord there, with us, as a part of God. He handed me my Battle Staff, and it was like wood, yet like iron; He pointed. I bowed before the Holy One. Then that place was gone. I was going back to retake the homeland.

Hammer Down Motherfuckers.