Adam and Eve
7/28/20252 min read
The Creation of Man
Adam
In the beginning, the Devil tried his hand at creation. He shaped a man out of clay and spoke to him, but the figure remained silent, lifeless. As the Devil puzzled over his work, God passed by and asked,
"What are you doing?"
"I'm making a man, " the Devil said. "But he won’t speak!"
"Give him to me," said God.
"Take him," the Devil replied.
So God breathed the Holy Spirit into the clay, and the man came to life—he spoke. Out of spite, the Devil spat—"Ptoo!"—and blew at the man. But God gathered the man again, turning what was inside out and what was outside in. That is why, to this day, man is not pure on the inside. That is why we curse—because the Devil cursed us first. And each time we speak cruelty or mockery, we echo his spite back to him.
Eve
It was the Devil who first molded Adam from clay. But it was God who blessed the figure and gave him breath. Adam came to life, his body covered with hair.
Then God saw that Adam should not be alone. So from Adam’s rib, He fashioned a woman—Eve. When the Devil saw her, he ran to God and asked,
"What is this new creature?"
"This," God said, "is woman—man’s companion and wife."
The Fall from Heaven
Adam and Eve lived in the highest realm—the Ninth Heaven—a paradise of unimaginable beauty. In that celestial garden grew a tree with a single apple, which God had forbidden them to eat.
But inside the apple coiled a serpent, sly and whispering. It tempted Eve, and she took a bite. She passed the fruit to Adam, who remembered God’s warning. He hesitated—and as he swallowed, a piece lodged in his throat. That’s why men bear the lump in their throats. But Eve, who swallowed without fear, did not.
Before their fall, they wore only leaves, unashamed. But the moment they sinned, their eyes opened. They saw their nakedness and felt shame. An angel called out to them, and they hid.
In paradise, Adam and Eve lived in peace. But the Devil came to them once more.
"Why do you sit so still?" he whispered. "Touch each other. Play. Discover."
And with that, he led them again into sin.
So God, in sorrow, drove them out—for paradise and innocence could no longer hold themGod banished them from heaven, casting them down to Earth. From then on, they were to live by labor—working the soil with forks and shovels to earn their bread.
Enkolpion: The Legacy
A novel by LJ Palas
Mitch is a gifted young physicist in Chicago, recruited to work on a classified project under the guidance of Igor, an enigmatic Russian mathematician. When Igor dies suddenly in what is labeled a suicide, Mitch senses the truth is far more complicated. His company responds with massive layoffs—yet Mitch is inexplicably spared and even promoted, a reward that feels more like a warning.
Still reeling from a devastating car accident that nearly killed him and claimed the life of his girlfriend, Lily, Mitch tries to piece his life back together. Memories of her haunt him: their travels, their shared passions, and especially the strange gifts she left behind—a rare edition of Malory’s Arthurian tales and an ancient Cyrillic manuscript filled with cryptic codes and mysterious chapters.
As Mitch unravels the manuscript, he finds uncanny parallels between its stories and his own unraveling reality: apocryphal accounts of Archangel Michael’s battle against the forces of darkness, secret grail traditions, and a cycle of conflicts fought across centuries. His dreams are filled with visions of Arthur’s knights, while in the waking world he faces suspicion from the police, who connect him to a crime he did not commit. A powerful lawyer shields him, but Detective Rogers quietly warns Mitch that Igor may have been murdered—and that Lily’s “accident” may not have been an accident at all.
Determined to uncover the truth, Mitch hires his own detective and discovers a chilling conspiracy: impostors framing him for murder, shadowy figures linked to his company, and ties between the manuscript’s tales and a hidden war still being fought. Sword against sword. Light against darkness. Science entangled with myth.
When Mitch saves a man who holds vital knowledge about this battle, the world of legend collides with his own in ways he never imagined. Ancient weapons, sacred relics, and secret societies converge, all orbiting around a single, terrifying truth: a cosmic struggle is being waged in the shadows of modern life, and Mitch may be destined to stand at its center.
Blending the pulse of a contemporary thriller with the mystique of Arthurian legend and apocryphal lore, this novel delivers a journey that is at once intellectual, spiritual, and action-packed. It asks: how much of myth is history, how much of history is prophecy—and when the lines blur, who will rise to fight?
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