The Divine Dissimulation [Complete]

Chapter 18 Abraham Sends Lucifer on a Mission

Abraham Goldstein walked around on his command ship, The Golden Divine, and inspected his future subjects. They were cryogenically frozen, so they looked like they were sleeping peacefully. Abraham was both fascinated and disgusted by their imperfections. Using Martians instead of Terrans was choice with both perks and disadvantages. The good thing about using Martians was that the Terran Council didn’t care how Abraham treated them, they were unlikely to intervene.

To the Terran Council, the Martian refugees were worthless animals; they were nuisances to dispose of. Another advantage of using Martians was that it was more cost-effective. There was no way he could have financed the Eden project if he had to use ships and equipment that were safe for Terrans. Abraham understood that the Terran Council approved the Eden Project because they could not care less if most of its passengers died. With Terran citizens, it was different, although the Council primarily focused on helping the wealthy and powerful it still aimed to provide a healthy and safe life for anyone considered worthy of living on Earth.

Another advantage of using Martian humans for the project was that his Angels, the men who were meant to be his physical manifestation looked picture-perfect compared to his Martian subjects. Abraham had always imagined that the divine should appear infinitely more appealing than the people and his Angels matched these criteria

His future subjects were a sad sight. 500 years of malnutrition and cosmic background radiation had transformed the humans living on Mars to a mere shadow of their former glory. Natural selection had made their skin thick and warty to protect against radiation, they had hunched posture from living in burrows underground, they had shorter limbs to survive the icy colds of Mars winter, and they looked sick from adapting to constant malnutrition.

More worrying than the state of his future subjects was the fact that his family back on Earth seemed to be stalling and delaying his plans.  It was January 2789, and it had been three years since he left Earth. Although Abraham knew that the creation of Eden was a long-term project, he needed to get the divine detector quantum physics accelerator up and running as soon as possible so he could transfer his soul and avoid dying. Abraham would turn 254 in a couple of months, and he had the feeling that his family was delaying the project hoping for his age to be his downfall.

Abraham decided to call in his favourite Angel, Archangel Lucifer.  Abraham had named all the members of the angel project after the original biblical angels. Unlike the Bible, Abraham hoped that Lucifer would never turn against him.  Just like all the other angels, Lucifer had been brought up in the Goldstein talented children program where individuals with favourable genes were indoctrinated from an early age to follow the bidding of their faction leader. The Goldstein gifted children program admitted both men and women, but Abraham had decided only to bring males. The purpose of the Angels was to do obey him; not to socialise and have their own families. Like all his fellow angels Lucifer was heterosexual as genes for homosexuality was something that stopped a child from being admitted to the program.

Abraham saw Lucifer as he was approaching; appearance-wise Lucifer was an extraordinary individual. Two meters tall Lucifer had a very athletic body with a perfect posture. His face was perfectly symmetrical, and his blue luminescent eyes were shining with energy. He was extremely focused, determined, and intelligent. As a product of his genetics and his very controlled upbringing, he had a very bland and controllable personality. He did not seem to have any goals or personal values, and he merely lived to serve. Abraham considered Lucifer to be the perfect human, and he trusted him with all his heart.

Lucifer:

-          You summoned me, master

Abraham Goldstein:

-          Yes. The wretched unbelievers in my family back on Earth are stalling my plans to reach godhood. I need you to convince them to redouble their efforts and get us back on track.

Lucifer:

-          I understand master. How do you wish me to do this?

Abraham Goldstein

-          Gather a group of angels and travel to Goldstein Tower on Earth and meet with my family members.

-          Take whatever measures you find necessary.  You can kill anyone who resists my divine will but use constraint; we need them to get this done.

Lucifer:

-          Understood

Abraham Goldstein:

-          One more thing, during times you might feel that you are losing the connection to me. Do not worry; you know what to do.

Lucifer

-          Yes, master, I will take a shuttle and leave at once.

As Lucifer wandered off Abraham was both relieved and worried. He trusted in Lucifer's loyalty, but he was not convinced of his ability. The Angels' lack of own thoughts and personalities made them particularly useful when they were within his control, but Abraham was not convinced that they were capable of doing things on their own.

The problem Abraham had faced since he arrived on Eden was that the Divine Technology did not have enough range to control and threaten his family members back on Earth. Initially, the shipments had arrived as planned but after a while, his family started stalling deliveries and came up with various excuses to do so. Abraham was not interested in excuses he wanted results. Hopefully sending Lucifer back to Earth would convince his family that they needed to do his bidding.  Ideally, Abraham would have gone himself, but he understood that his family members would try to kill him if he came. Knowing that there was nothing he could do for a couple of months Abraham entered the cryogenic tank and fell into a dreamless sleep.