Unified Terran Community

Subject:  Early Lectures of Heru Seleem.

Sub Category:  The Illumined.

Date of Recording:  17/06/2028

Status:  Withdrawn from Community Access.

Excerpt:

“…these and related considerations, lead us to the subject of the Illumined, their nature andtheir role in allowing this Community a chance to survive.  Although the Illumined seem like us, in a physical sense, we are not the same.  The Illumined represent something that we can only hope to aspire to.  They are the next step in humanity’s spiritual evolution, the stage of enlightenment just prior to being worthy of becoming one of the people of Heaven.  It is this proximity to Heaven that gives them the ability to wield occult forces and manipulate certain aspects of our percieved reality.  To our ancestors, these beings seemed godlike in their prowess and were worshipped as such.  In some respects, they might be considered the opposite number of the dread Outsiders.  This is not truly accurate, as their origins are quite seperate.  Additionally, it would be foolish to assign notions of benevolence to the Illumined.  They are now, as they have always been, largely indifferent to the activities of we, the unevolved members of humanity.  The Illumined have lived along side and amongst us for millenia, rarely interfering.  Often, the question of their continued presence has been addressed by the ancient scholars.  Why have these beings not left the mortal world and ascended to the Heavenly sphere?  Clearly, a evolutionary point has not been reached, but what is taking so long?  In this case, it is a simple matter of scale.  The Illumined are true immortals, the passage of time, as we percieve it, is meaningless for them.  They are ageless and undying.  This is not to say that the Illumined are indestructable, merely that it would require the action of another of their kind or an Outsider to terminate their existence.  As we begin to use the Mnemosyne Device, as sense of this timelessness will be gifted to us and we may begin to understand that for the Illumined, their spiritual ascension is proceeding at a reasonable speed.  It has been hypothesized that there is something preventing this apotheothis, and certainly when one looks into the activities of the Illumined there are numerous examples of petty and vengeful behaviour.  However, it is not our place to speculate on and judge the actions of these beings, for in truth, without their assistance we would still be living under the jackboot of the Dictators.  They have freed us from slavery, it is now our responsibility to make sure that such a situation never happens again…”

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Evening all!  The first part of ‘The High Watchtower’ has been published on the site, for your reading pleasure As always you can find it in the ‘Stories’ section to the right of the homepage (the story is letter I) or if you prefer, you can click here! I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to leave comments.

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Although the Unified Terran Community has no single leader, as such, they were initially guided by the vision of a cabal of scientists, philosophers and philanthropists. Pre-eminent among them was the man known as Heru Seleem. The precise origins of the man are shrouded in mythology, it seems, however, that Heru Seleem was the first human to retain full memory of his previous incarnations every time he was reborn. Heru was believed to have been born in Egypt near the end of the period referred to, by twenty first century scholars, as the Early Dynastic Period. It is thought that Seleem was a member of the Egyptian priesthood on several incarnations, as well as living diverse other lives serving as advisor to several Pharaohs, as well as developing numerous agricultural and alchemical techniques over several lifetimes. Many of the advances in agriculture which made food readily available Egypt were methods pioneered by Seleem. For Seleem himself, his most useful discovery was an alchemical recipe, ancient even then, which taught him the skills required to create living, but soulless simulacra. He used these vessels to reincarnate himself into an adult form, so that he could continue whatever work was consuming him at that time.

As the centuries rolled past, Seleem wandered the planet, exploring the rise and fall of a multitude of civilisations. As Seleem travelled, he began to see a pattern emerging from the history of ages. He began to take note of what aspects of a culture caused its initial growth and prosperity as well as taking note of the characteristics of cultural degeneration. He slowly began to conceive of a society where mankind could truly prosper. The main obstacle to overcome was the implementation of this massive cultural change. Seleem swiftly realised he would require considerable time and help to realise his plan and began to seek out certain individuals who he felt would see the value of his scheme. As preparations slowly built, Seleem was saddened and frustrated by the loss of his comrades to the inevitability that was death, and subsequent loss of memory upon reincarnation. Seleem understood the cause of the phenomena, and began to dream of a method of crossing the Lethean Barrier, while retaining recollection of past events. Employing principles conceived of by Pythagoras, Seleem began to work on the prototype of the Mnemosyne Device during the sixteenth century, aided in his work by Dr John Dee, advisor to the English Queen, Elizabeth I. During this period, Seleem also had frequent contact with Francis Bacon, whose ideas, he strongly influenced. When the first Mnemosyne Device was finally constructed in the seventeenth century, Dr Dee was the first soul to employ it as a means of incarnating into a simulacrum. Seleem carefully hid the Device from world at large, and began to approach the people who eventually become the founders of the Unified Terran Community.

Meanwhile, the endemic violence of the human race continued. Despite not actively fighting, Seleem was killed sixty three times during the Second World War. By this time, Seleem had seen thousands of years of conflict and strife between the nations of man and had concluded that a truly fundamental change had to occur. Seleem gathered his technologist allies and, in the dark days of the early twenty first century, they made their move. It took the rest of that incarnation for Seleem and his allies to stabilize the Community. As he approached the end of his incarnation, Seleem announced that he would not return immediately, but instead planned to explore the spirit world and return once he had learned the ‘wisdom of the distant shadows’. That was a little over two hundred years ago, and no one has seen or heard from Heru Seleem since.

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Hey folks! I have posted the first of the Travellers Tales featuring Maeldune and Eris. You can find it by clicking on its name in this post, or in the ‘Stories’ section to the right. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments!

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