The Helianx Proposition/page 72

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Commentary


Certain contemporary metaphysicians have noted that although the legends circulating around the Western world for the last 40,000 years have spoken of Noe's intervention as a seminal event in human history, the true dynamics of the situation, or, even the real identity of the three participants, have remained largely hidden. And further; that this unlikely encounter would have become, over time, a simplistic story, used by priests and parents to frighten children and to extol the virtues of blind obedience, as well as painting lurid pictures of the consequences of personal initiative in the face of an angry deity, might be explained, in part, by the very complexity of what actually happened.

Human beings, these august savants have argued, have always preferred their myths and legends to make simple points. Something needed to be found to account for the evident woes of the human race. Over time, an endless oral tradition had further simplified the story, placing the emphasis on the consequences of disobedience and the expulsion from paradise of what had become by now the legendary story of the first humans. The talking serpent remained in the saga as a mysterious figure of unexplained origin, who could be blamed conveniently for the downfall of humanity and for sowing the seeds of enmity and deception that have so disastrously influenced human relations down through the centuries.

Although Noe had successfully completed hir replicatory task and had transferred the Helianx genetic information, now deposited on a cellular level deep within the new host species, the immediate future for all three participants turned out to be far more complicated and troubled than sHe could have anticipated. And yet that, too, had served Noe's purposes because within a few centuries the scientists' colony had finally fallen to the ravages of hostile tribes, driving the survivors out into the world to mix and interbreed with the indigenous natives. Due to this, MA's plan to use the off-world scientists to upgrade and refine the human genetic endowment was severely restricted. As a result of being deprived of a massive infusion of this violet blood, considered on most worlds to be an essential element in uplifting consciousness in the natural course of evolution of a well-balanced planetary intelligence, became severely shortchanged.

The botanists' mission ultimately carne to be seen as a failure and the primary players were withdrawn to Local System Headquarters. This had left the human races--through no fault of their own--once again caught in the middle of the ongoing conflict between seemingly divine entities, growing more crazed by the century and locked endlessly in their battles for dominance. Fertile ground, Noe realized with a mixture of emotions, for the accelerated evolution of a species that would emerge, in time, as courageous, wise and independent. Human beings who eventually will access, and express, the stream of this ancient race's genetic information, and work with it to complete the final phase of the mission to join and reawaken the Helianx in the Great Ship. And Noe slept.


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