CAPTURED BY TIME (An Original Novel - Chapter 5) (An experimental philosophical chapter)

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Content:
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4


CHAPTER FOUR

“Wake up Lucifer!” “Look at the rising sun”, Leila playingly laughed whilst gently stroking one of his wings.

Lucifer spread his powerful wings and got up to his feet. He smiled at Leila and they hurryingly began to flow towards the Eastern end of the gardens.

“How beautiful and calm are the sun rays today” she whispered. Both of them kept on looking in silence as the sun rose up.

As the sun climbed up higher and higher above the gardens more angels gathered around the Eastern gardens next to where they stood.

All of the angles enjoyed watching the sunrise; it gave them a sense of tranquil peace that they could use for the rest of the day.

“Are you ready for his crowning today?” asked Leila. Lucifer didn’t reply, he seemed to have been caught in his thoughts.

For a moment Leila noticed how beautifully the feathers shined on his wings as soon as the sun stood on the horizon. Even when the wings were folded they seemed so mighty.

He seemed to catch her thought and once again he spread his wings, but this time, he did it so everyone who stood behind them could see it.

Oh, how majestic were his wings in full light… As Lucifer spread them out he shrugged back his strong shoulders and his chest filled with the fresh morning air. He turned towards the angels and some seemed to be blinded by the power of his beauty.

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As if not noticing the amazed faces, he took Leila by the hand “Come on, we still have to catch the early cleansing today”.

She felt pride and devotion at those moments. She couldn’t stop looking at him, the fact that this was all in public only added to her already full feelings of love for him. She couldn’t explain why the public made her feel like this, but something inside was shaking and trembling when those moments took place.

Arriving at the blue fountain where the cleansing took place, Lucifer and Leila took their place in the long queue to the water.

Each angel, in turn, stood next to the fountain, where they would get under the stream of water from the stone marble top. Each one took about 10 seconds under the water, in which, they would shake off all the excess drops that fell onto their wings.

Lucifer got under the fountain and the cold droplets of water fell onto his body. He then closed his eyes and with one quick move of his muscles shook away all the water off of himself.

Leila, of course, watched this from the side as the fountain was not meant for night deities. She never questioned why that was the case, but there is no place for questions sometimes, every night deity knew that.

Lucifer took her by the hand once again and touched with his lips her forehead, “its time for you sleep my love, the sun is up and you must be tired”

“I want to stay awake and watch the crowning today” she replied with a sense of danger in her voice, something was telling her that his actions might end up worse then he makes it be.

“Don’t worry, go to sleep now” he knew what she was worried about. But it was not accepted for night deities to stay awake during daytime “Go now; go to bed” he repeated again.

As Lucifer said that Leila looked into his eyes once again and saw a sparkle of understanding which seemed to calm her down. She let go of his hand and turned around.

As she disappeared in the midst of the green trees to the West, Lucifer began his daily routine.

His job was to make others grasp the essence of light and after all, it was late morning already.

He rose up above the fountain with water and turned back towards the Eastern end of the gardens, where he landed on his beloved rock.

He closed his eyes and in seconds he began to hear prayers.

“Elohim… almighty…” “…Help me…” The current of words flew right into his mind. He searched amongst, trying to concentrate on each one for at least a moment and imagine the light shine into the prayer.

His concentration was interrupted by a voice:
“The hour is closing Lucifer, and I wish to see you there”.

It was his voice; the divine sound was at once painful and brought a sense of passion and love into the ears. Not everyone got to hear it as often as Lucifer had.

Though their conversations haven’t resembled as what they used to be once upon a time.

There were times during which they would talk for what had seemed like an eternity sometimes. And even though those days were gone, his voice made Lucifer feel the might and the power that it brought along with it.

He turned towards the voice, opened his eyes and kneeled. His head did not dare to move even though they knew each other so long now.

“Reply!” the voice commanded.

“I shall be there on time” “And will you kneel before him as you do before me?”

“Of course” as he replied to the voice, his tone didn’t change but something in this moment happened in the air. All of a sudden Lucifer felt a whish of cold air flow through the feathers in his wings, all the way from the neck to the bottom of his back.

As he picked up his eyes and his head, nothing was to be seen on the rock, only green crowns of the never endless trees below…

He closed his eyes once again and tried to search… Something happened, he felt as if his power became weaker. He could hear the prayers but not as loud as it was minutes ago.

He stood to his feet and opened his eyes again; he pushed himself off of the rock and dived into the green of the trees.

Down on the ground of the garden, he felt that something was not letting go deep down inside.

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It was a mixed feeling. One of anger, jealousy… the feeling that he lied to him. He wasn’t ready to kneel before the crowned one. It was not deserved to his belief.

How could it come to this moment? When did everything change like this?

As he kept on contemplating, he moved towards the temple of White. Something has hinted to him that the answer was to be found amongst the old walls of the temple.


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Really awesome series :) Promoted

Lucifer with wings. What a pretty image!

I somehow would have never imagined this. Especially this days in age. Wings is such an inefficient way to move in space. The fastest bird is PEREGRINE FALCON, which can reach the Maximum speed of 389 k/h. basically, the speed of a bullet. Much slower than, for example, a speed of sound.

If I were Lucifer, I’d probably fly much faster than that using the reactive principle, like Jet or much faster like flying saucer. In that case, what would he need wings for? Maybe it’s a costume, a uniform in hell. Something like that.

I remember back in a day there use to be a radio program about Lucifer visiting Dr. Faust. Unlike Dr. Faust in Goethe’s book, this one didn’t ask Lucifer for an eternal life, but asked him to solve the famous theorem of Fermat.

I think also that Dr. Faust gave Lucifer only 24 hours to solve it. In the end Lucifer failed to solve in in the allotted time and the soul of Dr. Faust was in no danger. However, Lucifer founds that Mathematics was much more fun than whatever he was doing before. Anyhow, thanks for bringing forward nice memories.

Flying fast could be interesting as to understand how things move...

I want to portray the argument behind Lucifers becoming who he became i guess )

So you went after the classical biblical scenario. Lucifer was an angel thereby wings. Then he got into a conflict with God and the rest is history. Thus the main question is: what was his disagreement with God. My guess God didn't give him enough freedom of speech, gathering, and religion. LOL

You are up to a challenge, buddy.

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