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    The Angel Ultimatum
    The Angel Ultimatum
    The Angel Ultimatum
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    The Angel Ultimatum

    By Alexander Mann

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    "The Angel Ultimatum," is, "make sense of creation, or else." It is a Bible based, non-status quo work, which contrasts the untenable traditional explanation for creation against the explanation for the creation of individuality. Concluding that any mortal can be allowed to ascend, if they choose love, as they will then also choose good over evil as a divine being, making them incorruptible. This does not require that they also choose the right religion, as religion is not a factor, only love.

    In fact, the command from the Divine has always been to, "love one another," and versions of that law can be found in virtually every religion, but a second command, to go out and make disciples, became the battle cry for religion and love became its victim. Love one another, and love your enemy, were then trampled under by the crusades, the witch hunts and by every other form of religious persecution which permeates our history.

    Then consider individuality, in which the individual is defined as being, "not divisible without loss of identity," which requires non-interference, and at most, influence. This then dictates that the resulting society will be chaotic, filled with extremes of both good and evil, as those individuals are allowed to be the individuals they were created to be. And, if they exist, the same could be expected from Angels, if they too were individuals. So, would that resulting chaos fit the picture of any society we know? The explanation awaits you.

    To see the review at "The Review Board" use the "Twitter" link on the Alexander Mann page.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexander Mann
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311332516
    The Angel Ultimatum
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    Alexander Mann

    If you like my work, please write a review! Alexander Mann is an author, producer, screenwriter, previously credited on the films, Angry Red Planet, Kowel's Voice, RockLand, and the film version of, "The Angel Ultimatum," all of which have now moved back into an "in development" status . He suffered the death of his oldest brother Brad, who passed away in a motorcycle accident in 1975, at the age of 22, and has since lost both parents, his father in 1999, his mother in 2013. His greatest talent is his ability to conceptualize, which when combined with the loss he has suffered, results in a depth of writing, producing compelling stories. He is a college graduate, a trained technician, and a health and safety professional, who is now emerging as a talented writer, with a goal to produce films that will touch both the hearts and minds of audiences. And to conceptualize a promising future, in which we choose, as a people, to succeed as a species.

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      The Angel Ultimatum - Alexander Mann

      ALEXANDER MANN’s

      The Angel Ultimatum

      "Dedicated to every caring person who

      has ever, or will ever live."

      COPYRIGHT 2014 by Alexander Mann

      (Writers Guild Registry #1549244)

      FILM IN DEVELOPMENT

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      INTRODUCTION

      Many would agree that the traditional explanation for creation is completely untenable. Angels are created, only to fight a war, humans are created, only to fall, religion is created, only to fail, so all is flawed, a cascade of one mistake after another. Yet, the Bible itself continues to have a profound influence on our society, even though that influence often results in chaos.

      The creation of Angels, leads to a chaotic war. The mortal fall, results in a chaotic world. The creation of religion, results in a chaotic struggle between belief systems, resulting in a great deal of religious tension, that continuously opposes peace. So what explanation could possibly make sense out of such a mess?

      Enter, The Angel Ultimatum, which is to, make sense of creation, or else. Here we exchange the untenable explanation of creation, for the tenable explanation of the creation of individuality. Once the individual is created, it is then hands-off, otherwise individuality is sacrificed, which would oppose the very point of the creation.

      The resulting, free will, must then produce extremes of both good and evil, which can only produce a chaotic society. If then, the Angels are individuals, the same chaos can be expected, and the result can be war. True faith is then expressed through love, through which the Divine connects with the creation, making religion irrelevant.

      This is an explanation of everything that has occurred, from the creation of Angels onward. It is a glimpse into the plan that runs seamlessly and quietly, behind the chaos, which appears to make no sense. It takes us to the precipice of creation, where we stand beside a Creator, who must decide to either create individuality, from chaos, knowing everything that must follow, or face eternity alone.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter One: What’s with the Influence?

      Chapter Two: The Origin of Faith

      Chapter Three: A Multitude of Puzzles

      Chapter Four: The Legislation of Love

      Chapter Five: The Ides of Individuality

      Chapter Six: The Law of Love

      Chapter Seven: The Two Salvations

      Chapter Eight: Outside of Time

      Chapter Nine: The Souls of Angels

      Chapter Ten: The Mortal Angels

      Chapter Eleven: The Genesis of Angels

      Chapter Twelve: The Angel Ultimatum

      Chapter Thirteen: The Dualities of Creation

      Chapter Fourteen: The Very Nature of the Plan

      Chapter Fifteen: Universal Selection

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      CHAPTER ONE: WHAT’S WITH THE INFLUENCE?

      When considering the Bible, any sane, reasonable, objective individual, should ask the question, why has this collection of books had such a profound influence on our society? In the Bible, we have an alleged God of creation, who creates the heavens and the earth in six days, which makes no sense. This God allegedly then creates beings, called Angels, which leads to a war in heaven, after which people are created, leading to the fall of the human race.

      This, God of love, then requires animal sacrifices for something called, sin, and this same, God of love, allegedly orders the people of Israel to commit genocide when they enter the Promised Land. Yet, in spite of this insanity, according to many people, this collection of books is the absolutely perfect, word of God.

      Now, none of these books were written until after 600 BC, yet they cover subject matter that goes back thousands of years. So, we need to ask, are we looking at an alleged historical record, passed on verbally, or are we simply looking at collection of fiction? We have three options here. One, being that the history of the nation of Israel was passed on accurately. Two, that it was simply invented, in which case it is all fiction and none of it actually occurred, as described. Or three, it is a combination of both, in which case there is accurate information, mixed with fiction.

      It is important to keep in mind that from the point in history, beginning after the reign of King Solomon, the recorded history of Israel can be verified from independent Egyptian, and Assyrian accounts. So we know that this portion of the historical record, contained in the Bible is more, or less, accurate. However, from the beginning of the book of Genesis, until the end of Solomon’s reign, virtually nothing can be verified.

      The existence of every early biblical character is therefore questionable, because there is no evidence to prove that they existed. Also, the efforts of archaeologists have apparently failed to find any evidence that the nation of Israel ever travelled through the wilderness, and into the promised-land. Nor is there apparently anything in Egyptian history to verify the claim that the Nation of Israel ever was enslaved, certainly not in the way that the Bible claims. This means that the very existence of Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, Solomon and virtually every other early biblical character, may be nothing more than fiction, as there is no proof that they did exist.

      So, at this point, we need to ask the question, can we find a source for the biblical stories that we see in the early history, described in the Bible? And, what is actually contained in the historical records of Egypt, for that time period, and will those records provide us some plausible explanations of what might have actually occurred?

      Now, if we examine the early history of Egypt, we see a society that consistently worships many different Gods, with only one very notable exception. And, it is extremely important that we understand the significance of this one exception, because it gives us the very first documented evidence, in the history of the world, of a monotheism religion. That is the belief in one single God.

      Now, this occurred in the reign of the Pharaoh called Akhenaten. He was known as the heretic Pharaoh, who worshiped the one God. He built the city of Amarna, the city of the one God, Aten. And he forbade the worship of all the other Gods of Egypt, calling them false Gods. He essentially elevated the Egyptian God Aten, to become the one supreme God, the one Supreme Being, and if his actions were influenced, the question would be, by whom?

      Now, Sigmund Freud (Moses and Monotheism, 1939) argued that Moses was actually an Atenist Priest, and it is completely plausible that the Hebrew people were on the scene at this time, but under a different name. They could have been known as the Hyksos or Habiru or Apiru, and could have had an influence simply by believing in the one God. The Egyptians could have been curious, thought it was a good idea, elevating the God Aten.

      Then, after the death of Akhenaten, the Egyptian people completely rebelled against his belief in the one God, and they put everything back the way it was, prior to his reign. The backlash was so strong that the people of Egypt erased every trace of Akhenaten from history, and he remained completely lost to history, until the remains of the City of Amarna was discovered in the 19th century.

      Now, with the backlash of the Egyptian people being so severe, against this belief in the one God, it is also very likely that anyone associated with that belief, may have had to flee Egypt. And, this could have been the cause of an actual exodus from Egypt. Also, around the same time period, we have the eruption of Thera, one of the most powerful eruptions in history, which is credited by some as having caused the plagues of Egypt (The Exodus Decoded, 2006).

      And, that same eruption could also be the source for the description of the Hebrew people being led, by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. And, the Pharaoh who came into power, just thirty three years after the death of Akhenaten, was the Pharaoh Ramses, who is most associated with the biblical stories.

      Now the Hebrew people initially began writing down their history during the period of what is called, The Babylonian Captivity, approximately 800 years after these events took place. And, there is now evidence (Dr. Irving Finkel, The Real Noah’s Ark: Secret History) that while in Babylon, they would have been exposed to the story of the flood of Gilgamesh. And, that the story of Moses as a baby, and the lineage of Adam, also have Babylonian sources.

      So, the flood of Gilgamesh becomes the flood of Noah. The influence on the Pharaoh Akhenaten becomes the story of the influence of Joseph. The Thera eruption becomes both the plagues of Egypt, and the cloud by day, and pillar of fire by night. And, the story of the exodus, that may have occurred at some point after the death of Akhenaten, becomes the story of Moses, and the Exodus.

      Also, if any Egyptian military units had been lost in a tsunami caused by, either the Thera eruption, or a subsequent earthquake, this could have then been a source for the story of the parting of the Red Sea. What we would then have is a source for almost every early biblical story. So, when the Hebrew people finally did decide to write down their history, they could simply

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