Broken Symmetries: Age of Illuminati (22 page)

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It was a long night for Padsha Mali, and he couldn’t sleep. He was thinking about his family all that night, and the next morning when the door was unlocked for him by a guard, he went to his usual preaching place. He was surprised to see a huge crowd waiting for him inside the hall. The people’s faces looked tired and fearful as they were attentively waiting for his speech. At first Padsha Mali hesitated to shout to them asking them to bow to him. ‘I prefer to throw myself off this podium and die instead of putting myself in the Lord’s place,’ he thought to himself but then he remembered his family’s doomed fate if he decided to do that. ‘It’s just a test. I don’t mean it in my heart, so God please forgive me. I’m always your faithful servant, and I will only do this as test, but I don’t mean my word.’

He then started to shout at the crowd asking them to bow to him. He was afraid that the crowd would respond to his request and bow to him immediately, but then he saw someone from the crowd rejecting his request boldly and a death ray hit him. At first Padsha Mali was terrified but then he remembered
Mr. Young’s
words, ‘Everything is just a scenario to make the test look real.’

He shouted at them again asking them to bow. He was now relieved to see that his followers were fixed on their faith and didn’t bow for a human even if their lives were threatened. He was very heartened by their reaction and their appropriate response. ‘This is all due to my preaching,’ he thought to himself. ‘I taught them not to bow to anyone but ∞Illuhim∞.’

He repeated the same lines again and again, each time saying it louder and bolder just to make sure that the test was successfully passed by his followers.

Moments later, he started to hear a loud voice that seemed to come from a large crowd behind the hall. ‘Is there another crowd outside? What they are shouting for?’ he asked himself. Then the voices get louder and louder, he started to hear them more clearly. They were praying to God asking him to send the Messiah!

The crowd inside the hall also began to call and pray for the return of Messiah! Padsha Mali didn’t know what to do at this stage, as the test was a clear success according to him, and no one was deceived by him, but why hadn’t he received any signal to announce the end of the test. ‘Maybe
Mr. Young
still wants me to continue,’ he thought. When he said his final bow to me command, it was only a second later that he realized the entire world was now wishing him dead! ‘Everyone is now watching me and thinking that I’m the Antichrist and praying for the return of Messiah to save them!’

Suddenly, a bright light shined down from the ceiling dome to the floor. A ray of the light hit Padsha Mali’s eyes, and it was only a fraction of a second later that he saw the figure of an angel in front of him. He had a pair of white bright wings and the armor of an ancient knight with shining beads. He held an expensive looking sword, a sword of a king, and as he looked into the face of the angel which was half covered with the armor, his long brown beard and hair seemed familiar to him but he couldn’t recognize the face because it was partially covered with the armor.

Padsha Mali tried to say something, but it was too late; the sword has already passed through his chest to his heart. He felt extreme pain. ‘This can’t be a part of the test!’ The world in front of him began to fade away, and he saw the relief on the crowd’s faces beneath him. They were so happy as if they were saved from a tyrant! He was the most hated man on the planet, and at that moment, Padsha Mali himself wasn’t sure if he was indeed the real Antichrist! He fell onto the ground while everything was fading into darkness, the last image he saw was his children’s faces before everything in front of him disappeared. ‘∞Illuhim∞ please forgive me for putting myself in your position. I’m nothing but your humble servant.’ That was his last prayer before falling to the ground below covered with blood.

Chapter 39

“People of the earth, it’s now officially the end of your story, your amazing long story. You are the survivors. You went through many difficult times, hunger, thirst, horror, and sadness but you have finally made it. We have been watching you all the time.

“You may be wondering why we left you all this time to suffer! We were always wishing to come and save you, but the key to unlocking your suffering was in your hands all the time. Today you proved yourselves, you unlocked the path by yourselves, and ∞Illuhim∞ is proud of you. You were once his favorite creation, he created you in his form, in a perfect shape. Among all his creations, you were his masterpiece, and he made you rulers of the Eden Garden. Angels and demons were your servants … but then … you fell into the devil’s trap. You broke the trust that ∞Illuhim∞ had in you, and from that moment, it was your duty to prove yourself again.

“The evil was disguised among you for all these years, and his plan was to deviate you further from ∞Illuhim∞. He ignited the war among you, and he was planning for your total destruction. He came to you in the form of the Antichrist and set himself in God’s place! Despite his dominion, his power, and the horror he set into your hearts, today you proved yourself again. You refused to submit to his wishes, you united together, you asked ∞Illuhim∞ for help, and you did that all with one heart. Your determination against evil has re-established the lost trust again between you and your creator.

Although you made a large step today towards your salvation, the evil is still here. He implanted hate against you, humans, among other of God’s creations in the Garden of Eden. The past sins that you and the people before you have committed are immense, so you will need to fix the past before being able to return to the Garden of Eden! But don’t worry, I’m the Messiah, and I have been given the responsibility to show you the path of your salvation. All you need is to follow my word, and I will illuminate the path for you, and soon you will become kings again in the heavens.”

That was the part of ‘the Messiah’s’ speech after he took on the ‘Antichrist’. The presumed Messiah stood up, with his shiny armor, his long brown hair and beard, and his partially covered face. In the eyes of people, he was the Godsend who had just fallen from the sky to be the savior of their dreams. People in the hall began to bow for their Messiah to show their respect and submission to God’s beloved savior.

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Hast’s biggest fear had come true, the literal interpretation of the holy§cript! He stood there among the crowd in shock; his religion had been hacked by evil! ‘Abraham didn’t free us from the tyrant, Nimrod, only to become slaves again!’ he thought to himself. ‘Abraham’s message was all about freedom, and we all miss-understood his message and his revolution toward a free society with independent thinking. There are nine billion minds in the world; it’s like nine billion parliaments, every one with a different life experience and a different wisdom. If we all think for ourselves, the path to the truth will be revealed but evil doesn’t want that. He wants to control all our minds through one portal, the Antichrist. We paved the path for evil to control us through preaching hate, distrust, and demonization. The evil grew by feeding from the terror we envisioned for ourselves, and no
w
he is much smarter and more powerful than ever. He will enslave us in the name of God,’ Hast concluded. ‘I need to do something…I need to save people from the new slavery. If he is the
Young Nimrod
, then I need to be the
Young Abraham
!’ At that moment Hast turned to Mark.

“Mark, could you record me with your mobile? I will try to reveal the truth to the world!” he said.

“But I don’t have a connection,” Mark said while looking at his mobile. “Oh! Never mind, start…”

That moment TV screens all over the world suddenly went blank! The world stood speechless after what they had just seen, they had witnessed what they could have never imagined a year ago. They saw all the prophecies come true. They saw Doomsday, and they saw the rise of the Antichrist, and now they had just witnessed the return of Messiah. It was like the truth had finally revealed itself to everyone; even the most aggressive skeptic of the Abrahamic faith was now seeking forgiveness from the Messiah.

    Despite people’s concerns at that moment, Howard ‘Nerd’ was thrilled! Finally, he was able to witness the ultimate proof of his underrated, wonderful theory. He began to jump around from the joy as it was his Eureka moment. He wandered around telling everyone he was meeting about his ultimate theory of everything: The Mind Quanta-Soup.

Chapter 40

When the morning alarm went off, Raimon was in a deep sleep. Yesterday morning when he saw the first news reports of the nuclear bomb detonation in Manhattan and the threat of possible worldwide war, he immediately thought he should keep himself from the trouble of looking at the horror stories on TV and social media, so he took his sleeping pill and decided to sleep for a while. This was his habit, to run away from the headache of caring about the crazy things happening in the world, but this time he had taken two pills of Valium.

Now his eyes were half-opened and he still hadn’t realized that it has been more than 20 hours since he had gone to sleep. He wanted to ignore the alarm and stay in bed for another few hours, but then he suddenly remembered yesterday’s horrible news. ‘Oh, I’m still alive,’ he thought to himself. ‘Dublin was not hit by a nuclear weapon!’ He stood up from the bed and switched on the TV to see the latest updates from the last 24 hours, but he couldn’t tune in to any working TV station. ‘Did they hit every TV station!’ He opened his laptop and there was no Wi-Fi signal. He looked at his cellphone and again there was no signal. ‘Large damage might have happened everywhere,’ he thought to himself.

He looked at the window which was facing west in his room and saw sunlight shining into the room from it! ‘It must be the sunset,’ he thought to himself as he moved his head near the window to have a clearer look at the sun disk. ‘Did I sleep for 30 hours!’ he looked again at the digital clock on the wall, but it was clearly indicating 8:20 AM! He thought that the clock might be broken, so he found his watch and it was 8:20 AM. again. That moment he remembered a sponsored post he had seen on the news feed of his social page which prophesied that on the end-days people would see the sun coming from the west. ‘This can’t be!’ he thought to himself.

Raimon was in his late twenties, and he had never had a religious experience or went to the holy
☼
house except for once ten years ago when he attended his mother’s funeral. He still remembered his mother’s last words urging him to stay faithful to ∞Illuhim∞. “Promise me to keep your faith. I want to see you again in heaven,” she said to him before her last breath in the hospital.

“I promise,” Raimon answered but deep his heart he was pledging not to go near the holy
☼
house for life. From that time on, Raimon kept himself away from religion. He drank heavily and partied most nights and every weekend. He kept on with his wild lifestyle until he realized that while he was in his current job, he wouldn’t be able to save a penny for his future nor for a family. Nevertheless, at that moment of realization, he decided not have kids. ‘Why should I save money for other people?’ he asked himself. He kept living his life by the motto of YOLO (you only live once).

Meanwhile, five months ago a new neighbor moved into the house next to his flat, and the new neighbor seemed very religious, as he was going to the holy
☼
house twice a week. During one of the holy days he invited Raimon to join him at the holy
☼
house to praise and thank the Lord for his virtues.

“Why should I praise and thank a God who took the life of my mother early despite she prayed to him every day,” Raimon said to the neighbor as he remembered the last moments of his loving mother’s life.

“No, you misunderstood ∞Illuhim∞. He doesn’t take lives. He just transfers them from one place to another, and I’m sure ∞Illuhim∞ loved your mother and that is why he took her to a better place. If you come to the holy
☼
house once and opened your heart, you would realize how much he loves you, too,” the neighbor said.

“I’m sorry pal, but I can’t believe in ∞Illuhim∞. There is no evidence of his existence, and I’m a man who wants evidence,” Raimon said.

“There is a lot of evidence, but you haven’t seen it yet,” he said.

“Then, I will stay atheist until I see some,” Raimon replied.

“You will see. I was like you, an unbeliever, but then God showed me the truth. I will pray for God to show you the truth,” the neighbor said before leaving Raimon.

A couple of days later, Raimon saw a post on the news feed of his social page showing a faith-healer healing cancer through prayer and the holy§cript. When Raimon looked further onto the name of the faith-healer, he realized the story was reported in many professional media outlets. ‘This can’t be true; the man is clearly a fraud,’ he thought to himself. ‘How can people be so naïve.’

That wasn’t everything for Raimon, and as the days passed, he kept seeing posts and videos online about the faith-healer and the Antichrist warnings! He kept reporting the videos or labeling them as ‘not interested’, but they kept coming back to his news feed page in an increasing frequency because many of them were sponsored posts! ‘Why the hell I keep seeing these posts? I’m almost about to become a theologian!’ Then he remembered his neighbor’s words saying that he’ll pray for him to see the truth! ‘I need to ask my neighbor to stop praying for me!’ he thought to himself mockingly.

Now, after Raimon woke up from his lengthy sleep, he remembered all those prophesies he had been warned of in the last month through the social media: the last world war, the rise of Antichrist, the return of Messiah, and the sun coming from the west. ‘What the hell has happened since yesterday?’ he asked himself. That moment he heard someone knocking on his door, and he quickly went to open the door. He was eager to meet someone to ask him questions and to confirm that he was not dreaming. When he opened the door, he saw that it was his neighbor.

“Hi, my friend. Everyone is going to the holy
☼
house to recite the Messiah’s words. Would you like to join me now?” he asked.

“What happened?” Raimon asked.

“You don’t know!” he said.

“I have been asleep for the last 24 hours or even more.”

“Are you kidding me? The world was on fire and you were sleeping!” he said in amazement. “I thought you were now praying on your knees asking for forgiveness from the Lord!”

“Why should I have done that? Could you please tell me what has happened?” Raimon asked eagerly.

“I can’t tell you everything now. I’m in a hurry to join the others,” he said as he was trying to leave Raimon.

“For God’s sake tell me what happened!” Raimon demanded fiercely as he was desperate to get an answer.

The neighbor turned to Raimon again, “You really need to soften your heart. To know what happened, come with me to the holy
☼
house and find out yourself.”

“But I don’t know how to pray,” Raimon said.

“It’s OK. We are going there to recite the Messiah’s words and learn them by heart,” he said while he started to walk. Raimon decided to join him as he quickly put on his shoes and grabbed his coat.

“Did the nuclear war between countries happen?” Raimon asked while they walked.

“Yesterday, Padsha Mali, who turned out to be the Antichrist as everyone had expected, ignited the world war. All the TV stations and social media went down except the one he was controlling,” he said.

“You mean the faith-healer’s TV station was working?” Raimon asked.

“Yes, before the Messiah returned, Padsha Mali appeared on the TV asking all of his followers and everyone watching to worship him instead of ∞Illuhim∞,” he said. “Most of his followers revolted against him at that moment, but we saw on the big screens he was killing them mercilessly.”

“How could he kill them? The faith-healer was just an old man?”

“Do you still not believe that he was the Antichrist? You should have stayed awake and watched it yourself! He was controlling lightening and used the bolts to hit everyone standing against him or refusing to bow to him.”

“What happened then?” Raimon asked.

“That moment we all started praying asking the Lord to save us from the Beast. I suspect everybody did the same thing all around the world, and shortly after our prayers, we saw the Messiah falling from sky through the ceiling of the hall, and he took the Antichrist down with his blessed sword. He then revealed God’s message to everyone. I couldn’t remember all his words, but now we are heading to the holy
☼
house to help each other learn and remember all the words together, and you should do it too if you want to be saved.”

“How do you know what happened on the screen was real?” Raimon asked.

“You are still in denial!” the neighbor said to Raimon in a frustrated voice. “When we first met, you said you only needed one piece of evidence!”

“I’m sorry. I believe your words but I just need to make sure about the authenticity of the show you saw on the TV.”

The neighbor then pointed toward the sun. “Look at the sun coming from the west this morning. Does that look like something Photoshopped to you? What would you say to God when you meet him? Would you say there was no evidence?”

“You are right, but I just need more time to think and comprehend everything,” Raimon said in a submissive voice as the truth he had built for himself in the past years was now shattering quickly!

“We are living the end-days. There is no time for thinking, and you need to decide soon,” the neighbor said to him. “I’m sorry to say this but if you don’t believe in Messiah after the truth has clearly revealed itself, your punishment will be doubled.”

Raimon thought deeply about his mother’s last words. May be these were a message from God and that does God loves him that is why he was seeing all these things. That moment they were getting closer to the holy
☼
house, and a huge crowd of people was gathered around it.

“What should I do to be saved?” Raimon asked finally revealing his will to convert.

“It’s easy,” the neighbor answered. “All we need to do at this time is to surrender to the Messiah, memorize everything he says and follow his teachings unconditionally. He has God’s message and he knows the path to our salvation better than anyone else.”