Corruption
When I began my mind travels, I was a preteen. Things didn’t really start to take shape, though, till I was a teenager. Then, I found my prime objective was to track down the source of ‘the corruption’ that was causing all the trouble for the Galactic Federation.
At the time, it was a fun fantasy that wrote itself, as mind travels are wont to do. It kept me occupied while I was bored or needed a distraction. (As handheld gaming didn’t exist back then!)
For decades, I assumed this was the kind of corruption that you found in governments or organizations where people who were in positions of power were using resources for their benefit. Of course, it made sense as I had no context for it to be otherwise.
The Edge
Then one day, after downloading a lot of data from The Phoenix Archives, I found that it wasn’t that at all.
The source was a portal, that was opened into a dimension outside of this reality. This occurred somewhere that was known as “The Edge”. A forbidden area where one reality begins and another ends. You could liken it to a membrane.
They brought something across that was never meant to be here.
Playing With Matches
It was the group who called themselves “The Twelve”, and their associates, that decided to experiment on this Being. They, most likely, believed that if they were careful, they would be immune to its effects, but they were wrong.
They used The Edge, to hide from observers in this reality. There, they had experimental facilities where they conducted highly illegal, and unethical procedures on captured Beings.
Some of them became known as The Experiments and I think 8 main ones were created. I’ve come across several of them in this life. Omen, from what I could tell, was the last of them.
Hellhound
There are guardians who protect The Edge. One type can be classed as Hellhounds. They are literal soul eaters. Trespassers would be hunted down, and if caught, consumed. Those souls would end up in a hellish place that is known as “The Land of the Dead”. There, they would remain until the next cycle began.
I am certain, now, that one of those Hellhounds was captured. I believe experiments were done on it. One of the side effects was that a dark, wispy tendril like, corruption, occurred, and was unleashed upon this reality.
Eventually, though, the corruption got loose and started to corrupt everything it could. This included gods, demon lords, Archangels, angelics… basically everything it touched.
Layers
A Soul has many layers to it. It’s not just one piece. Every layer you siphon off may become its own identity.
In the end, there were two or more versions of the same being. One of light and one of darkness. The new aspects would often take on a new persona or name.
This is why when you call on an Archangel for help, you have to be sure that you call on the one that has your interest at heart.
Tendrils
The corruption itself looked like black, snakelike, tendrils, that were venomous and toxic. I have come across them in dreams and I know I’m not the only one who has seen them.
Omen was that corruption personified. I was told that he corrupted everyone eventually. That was his nature. If you ever saw him, you would see the black tendrils waving around on his body. I can imagine that he might have looked terrifying for those who were not prepared to see such things.
Omen once told me that his favourite group, Slipknot, wrote a song about him called “The Virus of Life”. (He also told me they were a bunch of demons, but that’s more common in music than many might believe.)
This short history is important because it explains what was really behind the fall and corruption of the gods. It appears that those who chose to partake in using that power ended up being split into various aspects of themselves.
It’s similar to the plot of the movie The Dark Crystal except it’s a lot more complex and putting a shard back in place isn’t going to fix things.
Many organizations, such as The Triquerta, were formed from the corrupted versions of Beings. (The Triquerta are The Triple goddess known as The Fates.)
Next entry, we’ll explore how this mess affected Osiris.