BOOK OF CREATION.
CHAPTER SIX: DADAM AND LEWID.
(1) Maeva fled for her life and many kinfolk went with her. But Dadam was unable to follow, being laid low with the sickness. This loosened his tongue so it became uncontrollable, making him babble like a child, and the sickness covered his body with red sores from which came an issue. Lewid also departed for a place far out in
the wilderness.
(2) Those with Dadam, who looked back towards the place of the garden, saw bright tongues of light licking the sky above it, the whole being interwoven with flickering flames in many hues. Those who sought to return were repulsed with a tingling ache over their bodies which increased into severe pain as they approached, so they were driven away.
(3) When Dadam recovered so he could stand, only a few remained with him and they all moved further into the wilderness to a place where there was water and pasture. There Dadam left Herthew, his son, and the boy's mother, with Habaris the Learned, and set out to find Lewid.
(4) After many days Dadam and those with him came upon Lewid and his Yoslings who were frail with sickness, and slew many, but Lewid was not slain though mortally wounded, and he lay against a great rock. When Dadam came near, Lewid raised an arm heavily and said, "Hail to the victor and benefactor who was come to terminate our wretchedness.” While Dadam stood sternly contemplating him, Lewid said, "To kill me now is your prerogative, for even we lesser being who are far removed from godmen have the law of husbandly pride. What I did has been done before and will be done again, but I erred by crossing an unknown barrier which could not be discerned, for we, within ourselves, are no more contagious to each other than are your people. If then I must die, let it be for my part in spawning the cankerworms of disease which have stricken both our peoples."
(5) "Back in the dreaming time, when the Great Gods strove among themselves for dominion of the sky spaces, and the wide expanse of Earth was rent apart by unearthly wildfire, Bemotha was cut apart by the bright arrows of Shemas. Then this land was given to my people as their dominion, while yours was in another unearthly place far distant. Our domain was a pleasant place and though you teach that because of this we remained as we are, yet we were content. We know of no great design, nor of any barely attainable objectives to which men must aspire. Such striving as you know is to us no more than purposeless vexation."
(6) "I have my God and you have yours, and as they strove one against the other before times, so will it always be; but now there is a new battleground with new battle chiefs. I will go to my appointed place and you will go to yours, and from thence, as leaders of the fray, we shall wage a never ceasing war. Such is fated and must be, but who will win the fair prize of Earth for their king? We shall not strive with clubs and lances, the hurling stone and flying dart, but with more subtle weaponry. This thing is not our choice, we are but playthings of fate. That
you and I should head the fray is not because of our qualities but because we were where we were, when we were. Now we are but two precarious points of life in a hostile wilderness, but what might we be in a hundred generations?"
(7) Dadam said, "These things I know too, for my eyes have always been opened. I too have looked out into an endless plain without any horizon, but I shall lead those who have grown strong through seeking and striving, while those in your ranks will be weakened through indulgence in the fleshpots and pleasure places of Earth. We are the disinherited but not the disowned, we have the seeds of victory within us. You and yours were never more than you are, sons of the easy path, followers of the downhill road."
(8) Then, when these things had been spoken, Lewid died and Dadam and those with him burnt his body. Dadam and those with him wandered the wasteland for many days, then turned southward towards the mountain. Then it happened that one day Dadam was seated apart, in solitude among rocks, with chin on chest, and a hunter of the Ubalites came upon him from behind. The hunter slung a smooth stone as the man turned, and it struck out his eye. Then the Ubalite slew him by smashing in his head with a stone.
(9) The hunter was the son of Ankadur, son of Enanari, king of the Ubalites, by Urkelah, daughter of the Chaisites. This is known because those who were with Dadam came out of the barren places and learned the ways of builders, becoming great among the Ubalites and raising cities along the rivers. Among them was Enkilgal who built Keridor, which stands between the two great rivers, and Netar and Baletsheramam who taught men the ways of writing, setting the letters upon a pillar in Herak.
COMMENTARY.
The three principal antagonists (Maeva , Lewid & Dadam) in the fall from grace each headed in different directions after the Garden was removed from them. Dadam initially stayed close to the Garden partly because of illness and also to see whether he and those with him could go back but they couldn't. It wasn't allowed!
When well enough the few remaining with him set off in pursuit of Lewid. When found they killed many of the Yoslings and Lewid too who died of his injuries. They then burnt his remains. Is this the way to behave when things don't go how you want?
Part of this chapter is given to Lewid & Dadam explaining their versions of events. Everyone to their own taste I suppose. Writings were only just starting through Netar and Baletsheramam mentioned in the last paragraph here. Because of this Lewid can only suggest what happened in the past from whence came fairytales and the like. For his part he blames crossing a path which wasn't discernible. Otherwise everything else has happened before and will happen again. Do we learning now see personal sins, generational sins, sins of others as well as shock & trauma affecting our lives? ‘…What might we be in a hundred generations?’ Exactly the same.
Dadam for his part gives a graphic account of knowing Father Yah. ‘Seeking and striving (in other words) as I have mentioned before. The Truth was with him as it is with us now who believe. Disinherited but not disowned. Dadam and the few who remain headed south toward the mountain. There, one day, he is killed by the ‘king of the Ubalites.’ Those with him join with these leaving the barren places, learning the ways of builders and raising cities along the rivers from where they started writing. These ways are common and known to us now too. Who, however , wins the battle when we behave like this? Where shall this develop? Do we become like the Children of Men or the Children of Yah? Yah isn’t ‘…the ‘God’ of battles, not the ‘God’ of nations, not even the ‘God’ of men. I Am the ‘God’ of Souls, The Keeper of the Treasures of Eternity. I have not turned away from My children. My children have turned away from Me, disobeying My laws. This cry will echo down through the generations of man: "My ‘God’, why have You deserted me?" And it will come from those who have deserted their ‘God’.’ (More on this in the Book of Gleanings.)
"I would like to add to this that the same ideologies most obvious in the story with Lewid still seem to be around in today's world or something very similar. It seems like there's a path in the spirit world that even if others try to help out yet you'll end up doing what's wrong. (As I've said, doing what you shouldn't do and the things you should do you don't.) It seems rather tragic. Maybe it's decades and generations that cause it. I've been on NETS course at Ellel Pierrepont. Ellel Ministries the organisation which runs the course was principally set up to run healing retreats to help people with just such things as generational curses, personal sins, sins of others as well as shock & trauma. This is for those of us who know where we come from and are going. A little help along the way from Father Yah. It doesn't really matter too much what we do. Yahuah's loving hands will enfold us. Look back at your life be it long or short he's led you along it and no doubt you'll also see there was no rush for each step. AMaN.
Many in the church refer to us as vile sinners. When Ruach HaKodesh comes down in revival people are convicted of sin. Even so, sinners keep the will of Yah and ordinary people love them. (Sir) Bob Geldof did a mighty deed back in the 1980s with Live Aid and a charity single the previous Christmas. Was this his calling? So the Children of Men apparently become strong and the Children of Yah become weak. Can this be the will of our Father? Yah spoke to Eloisa, thus: "Let your spirit be at peace, for things happen as they will; it is the grain being winnowed from the chaff. It is always easier for men to follow the ways of the flesh than the ways of the spirit, yet the deeper man descends into the vale of earthly things, the harder the climb out to the heights of glory. A generation to go down, ten generations to rise again. Man must struggle or degenerate, but the path of pleasure is pleasant, while the path of progress is beset with pain and strife.” (And:) "Behold, I have been good to My children, they have been given everything that is pleasant, everything has come easily to their hand. The lot of The Children of Men is more harsh and yet they prosper. Childish things are expected from a child, but when it grows up more is anticipated. Yet still My children come to me as children.” Take your time. Learn slowly. Be at peace.