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A NOVEL

“A mind blowing revelation that will make you see your existence in a different light”

The Son ~ The Father ~ & I

An Extraordinary Story Ever Told to Humanity in Lucifer’s
Prospective.

A ground shaking story only the devil himself can tell.

LAUP
AISTEK

Copyright

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to humanity for inspiring me to write these memoires that
represent all the possibilities that were left behind or forgotten and or never said.

DEDICATION

To Humanity…

Epilogue

Dear humans, if you are reading my memoirs at this instant, it defines

that you are ready to cross another dimension beyond your mind could handle
and curious about who I was, what I am and what I will become. And who I am is
very simple and clear, I am your worst enemy, the prince of your dark side. You
may ask yourself at this very moment, who’s this despicable creature or man
condemning, blaspheming and defaming the essence of the living and your guess
is just about right. Yes, it is I, Satan himself as I’ve been called for millenniums;
however what I am and what I will be, will be up to you to discover and
acknowledged. If you’re genuinely ready to expand your mind on the possibilities
and facts about your existence and purpose in this world, you’re on the right track.
The revelations I am about the convey to you, are not as simple as the eyes may
see nor is my story another typical story read in many primitive or archaic books
in the past. If you believe that you’re unable to handle the darkness behind the
truth, well, close this book and never look back, but if you feel that your conscious
needs answers to many unanswered questions, well, let your free will lead you to
that path or conclusion as you read my deepest, personal journeys and story ever
told to humanity.

I guaranty that most of you reading this phenomenon would think, “this is just
another diabolic and or cult related objectives” which is absolutely and
undeniably wrong. You may also think I am just another myth or a character
created to stimulate the dark consciousness of every soul but the truth is I am so
much more than that and more so beyond everything you’ve ever known. Make no
fault that my side of the story reflecting my dark agendas is not for the purpose or
intention to serve me as your God nor convert you to join my explicit world, but
to open your psyche towards the indefinite definitions of your significance on
Earth. While reading this, keep in the back of your primitive minds that the
destitution of humanity started with me and also will end with me as you and I are
made with the same thread of life created by the same supernal entity ruling the
lands of heaven and hell.

You may deny me and or my doctrines all you want, but you’ll never be able to
resist your greed and inner dark self as you were born in the flesh. Moreover, I
instigated your deaths and stripped you out of your immortality. Yes, I did that.
Without any bits of neither shame nor remorse. You, foolish petty minded beings
were once immortals ornamented with perfection and wisdom, but all that had
changed because you couldn’t think for yourselves and were wrapped up into my
jealousy and conflicts with your maker, thus wouldn’t you want to know the real
reason why I engaged myself to use you mortals as a shield against your allege
God?
Once you’re done flipping all the pages from beginning to the end, you’ll become
the judge of where you should belong and you’ll decide your next move wisely or
not. I believe I already have the answer to that, but I am not going to make these
decisions for you, nor your God. Regretfully for you, the darkness nourishes the
choices you make. More so, in order to understand the dangerous grounds you’re
standing on, you must discover the core and beginning of the conflicts between
your God and me; first, how it began and why it happened and for what purpose.
Whether you’re a Christian, Muslim, Catholic, Jewish, Atheist, Buddhist and so
on, all that won’t matter as in the end, there will be only one way, one path and
one world where you all shall forever remain outside the living flesh. You may
hate and despise me or fight against my spirit within you, but I am in you as you
are breadth and betrothed with my aspirations, corruptions before the day you
were conceived and as long as I live, you’ll carry my mark and that emblem is
death. Yes, you were all born to live and die because of me the one who represent
the dark side in every living being. Yes, I did that too. I live in every single one of
you.

I am aware of the day of my falling into the fires of hell will come eventually
but I’m not going in alone. No, you’ll be coming with me, like a big happy family.
But in the meanwhile, before this predicament arrives like an uninvited guest, I’ll
have some little fun with your lives because you’re greedy and feeble-minded and
that gives me inconceivable leverage over your minds and lives. I, the son of
darkness is beyond your reasons and with that fact, you wouldn’t even try to deny
me at all cost even if your free will is lingering around your necks to save you
from damnation, and or to liberate you from me, your nemesis.

The day I’ll take my place into this world as the son of Shaitan or Satan as they
say, only until the end you’ll realize that I exist as it was me Omega, the one
behind your mortalities and when that moment comes, it will be too late, much
too late for your so called redemptions and salvation as your visions will be
blinded by my virtuous stamina and all the things or miracles I will offer you on
a platter of gold without fault. Yes, I am Omega, the end of all things as your
pitiful God is the alpha, the beginning of life, the life I’ve strived and managed to
destroy since the beginning of time.
I won’t deny the fact that the sole purpose of me revealing who I was, and who I
really am and where I’m heading to is to drag you into my dark iniquitous world
so you may see yourselves through my eyes and see me through yours. As you go
along with the doomed ride, you’ll discover your true self as well as unraveled
the missing pieces in all the corrupted biblical books as it will take its indigenous
shape to turn you upside down like a violent blow. And when the puzzles are
completed, be ready to face the raw, unsparing reality greeting you like blazing
fire and be ready for my coming into this world as the most notorious, powerful,
worshipped icon ever seen and known in the history of mankind, as the wonders I
will engender and accomplish before you could never be done by humans but I,
your new salvation. Be ready for me as I am coming soon, sooner than you think
and when the time comes, you will call me God.
Now that everything that needed to be said is clearly said, I will unscramble my
side of the truth that was never disclosed before and now this is my ground
shaking story as ⱿiiuⱾ the angel most loved by your God, and then turned into
Satan the fallen supreme being and at last will be known as Zeth Nickolah Omega,
son of Satan, born as the most powerful man ever lived.

1CHAPTER

The Interview; The Day After the Return
Of

Jesus Christ, The Messiah of Salvation...

Sitting inside my overly expensive car, I drove myself to worked, then I noted

that why in hell am I going to work for, work on what? As I drove my way towards
one of my buildings, I discerned from a distance a few living bodies were laying
in the middle of the highway as other people running towards their fatal delirium.
I deliberately ran over their corpses because I didn’t care and their unwelcome
presence was crowding my way.
How dare they feel that they’re entitled to have mercy as they lay around
anywhere, helpless? Their dead weights shouldn’t have been in the middle of the
road, to begin with.
Chasing the sight away from my already bad mood, I threw in some random music
to occupy my anxious thoughts of the event that occurred yesterday but couldn’t
hear the miscellaneous sound, instead the annoying sound of a clock was ticking,
but I am referring to the celestial clock that only I can hear. Indeed heaven made
sure that I hear every drop of time as a countdown awaiting my defeat and the end
of the tenets of my father Satan, and me.
Today was the first day of the one thousand years that was summoned to me by
The Messiah of Salvation my greatest nemesis. During this millennium I will rule
the world as a man and as a God, but it will be one man show.
There will be no more governments, no more financial institutions, no more
leaders occupying their respective countries, no more various religions, no more
politicians, no more gospel, no more Jesus Christ the Messiah of Salvation as at
that moment in time I will be the Messiah and will unleash the beast to tear
mankind into pieces.
Complete destruction.
It will be the time of my final creed and once my one thousand years of waiting
is up, I will be crushed in the fires of hell by all those I did wrong.
I know what you’re thinking right now; that I deserve everything I get. Maybe so,
maybe not.
A few millenniums ago before this day, I recalled one of my last meeting with
Jesus of Nazareth. He warned me this day would come and had the mortals writing
about it as to remind me and the rest of the world he’d returned like a thief in the
night when the time comes to wrapped things up.

As I take a deep breath, its sounds resonated deep inside my psyche that I am two
step behind as I’ve realized how conniving Jesus was and how stupid I’ve become
to fall for my own lies. Indeed, I fell right into my own trap, my own game.
Yesterday, he’d returned and took his loyal subjects or constituents with him and
in that process, he’d gifted me with one thousand more years on earth.
I, the enemy of all, had been giving one more thousands years to cause more
havoc. This revelation is nothing new. Though, I wondered if humanity ever asked
themselves, why God will give Satan more time? To be precised, 1000 years more
to raise more hell on earth. Indeed I will be given time to wrap up my fury against
humanity and heaven. The only way to affect heaven, I must hurt mankind.
I recalled, before Jesus was arrested and died on the cross, he’d warned me of my
falling and promised to destroy me. As he accused me of all the crimes and
downfall of humanity as well as destroying the lives of the supernal beings in
heaven, I build my defense.
Indeed, I build a ludicrous and impractical vindication.
Even I shook my head at the words that came out of my restless lying tongue when
I spoke to him.
At that moment for the first time, I said to myself, ‘what in the burning hell did I
just say? I deserve everything I get for being this irreversibly stupid.’ Jesus’
astonishment plastered on his face indicated that I was delusional and the worse
of the worse as I tried to trick him in a lie again. Little did I know he’d already
figured out, how he is going to use my games against me. As predicted he did
exactly that even though I fervently pleaded my case and stood up for what I
believe was true. Though, truth was never my motto or principles.
Nevertheless, the innate excuse I had relayed to him was, as long as I was not in
a physical form to hurt someone, nothing counts. Indeed I said to him on that
fateful day before his death, “Why condemning me for these mortals who will
soon have your head on a stick for the world to see and know about?”
“It is all your influence Lucifer. You did this. All of it!” Jesus said confidently to
my denials pinning me to my core of deceit.
“Look at yourself for a moment; you’re not in your right mind as you are making
excuses for these rats called humans. It is as if you’re covering their abdominal
sins and throw me into the fire. Do you love them that much? I have done nothing

to harm their person. Perhaps I may have said some things to propel and provoke
the human spirit towards immorality but I have never touched a single hair off
their heads nor physically harm or threatened them to sin. They did it willingly
on their own accord without any regards for their gifts. Before you were born as
a man, you existed and ruled the universe as a formless spirit and no one had seen
you with the naked eyes or no one could say they physically touched you and vice
versa, isn’t true?” I asked to get away with my crimes, but I knew he wouldn’t
fall for it.
“You may have said some things? Lucifer, as always, you always try to find a
preposterous logic behind your horrendous crimes”
“True, but you know well that I am not the only one to blame and to be punished
for all of it. It is unfair. All I did was to talk, lure and tempt people to do bad deeds
but they didn’t have to listen to me or follow my nefarious precepts, yet they chose
to. Keep in your terms that I did not force them. I believe my sentence must be
reduced because your so called children refused to use their gifts which are their
free-will you’ve bestowed upon them to save their necks”
“Have you forgotten who I am? How dare you spill lies before my divinity. I have
created you who’d turned out as dark as darkness because you were too focused
on taking my place and rule heaven the way you see fit. As long as I am, I decide
everyone’s fate including yours. You’ve thrived to destroy everything I built and
I must put an end to your madness and reinvented what was lost”
“You God of Jews can’t do anything to me. You have no right to judge me as you
let me be among them, to be a part of their everyday lives since the beginning of
time. I was a spirit and I am still a spirit. I was never built in the flesh to show the
act of sins, all I did was to lure minds towards their most profound dark desires
yet no one denied me. Every single one of them had a taste of the temptations I
laid out for them. I forced no one; therefore you can’t condemn me to hell forever”
I pleaded for a long moment knowing the clock is ticking and he has no patience
for my remedies.
“I made you, therefore, I can destroy you. And eliminating you will be too easy
but watching you suffer for eternity will be more gratifying and in the process of
your agonies, my children will watch you suffer. My words are final and

irreversible. In my return to earth, I and my chosen subjects will no longer be in
this world and you will set yourself up for own destruction”
“No, you can’t. You can’t do this to me”
“For here I say; I do not owe you anything. Never had. I am not on your side and
never was. You will be what I say you’ll be and there is no turning back. Before
my return into this world in few thousand years, you will be born a man through
the womb of a woman just as I did.
You will feel and act like a man even though you’ll still possess your devious
powers over the human spirit.
Every soul will see you as a man but behind your façade is hidden the enemy of
mankind. The power of the flesh is serious business and you’ll get a taste of it.
By heaven’s injunction, you will acquire a taste of weakness, and emotions as the
mortals as well as you will learn to love in the flesh.
After my return, you shall remain on earth for another millennium as a human, as
a man and at that time, your hardships and circumstances will go against you and
force you to be human.
You’ll be driven to produce more destruction with blood in your hands.
You will no longer hide behind your spirit.
You will face the world alone and be attainable by all. When the time comes and
will judge you to your eternal prison, you won’t be able to argue that you were
never born in the flesh of humans and will pay for every single drop of sins.
You will never die but suffer the unthinkable, forever” Those were the words Jesus
divulged with absolute certainty to shake my grounds upside down and I let him,
because there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it, as he is above me and above
all things. Damn Mother of Hell!!

~~~~~~

Two hundred and twenty-five years after the modernization of global

infrastructures and reform of the “OWM” One World Merge phenomenon that
took place in 2066. In the year 2284, my brilliant team of scientists and I broke

the code of scientific phenomena and because of our extraordinary endeavors we
lived in a cancer-free world and in addition we’ve launched the first embryo
grown inside a human male seven years ago. This Male pregnancy breakthrough
phenomenon caused quite an unfavorable mayhem in the political and juridical
arena. Men that were born male were able to bear children. Women were no longer
the only ones to carry and give birth to children. As well as they’d conducted a
political and religious fight against the movement of men that wanted to carry
babies which were execrable and perverse as well as it went against the laws of
Christian’s faith. It was the era when men had the same rights as women to bear
children just as women, with artificial implants of cloned reproductive organs.
But all that change during the first sound of the seven trumpet that annoyed the
shit out of my hell.
Indeed, the second coming of Christ occurred seven years after we launched the
science breakthrough of the second baby born from a male. And his return was
yesterday at 3 am sharp.
Instantly, I purged my mind to summon pleasant thoughts to tame the beast eager
to come out at my reminiscence. I felt fucking defeated.

~~~~~~

Back to my reality, like a coward, I was stalling on the edge of insanity as I was
glancing at my gigantic awfully tall office building from my Genesis XXCL SUV
car. As I glanced at its inconceivable height, I’ve realized how small I felt next to
it. I’ve perceived countless people must have felt the same. Yes, I felt so
minuscule next to greatness and conditional beauty, yet my state of mind and
deeds are larger than the universe itself.
The building was the tallest, most luxurious and most magnificent establishment
in the world which my office was at the very top overlooking the entire city.
Watching the world from above from the two hundred and fiftieth floors was an
absolute bliss. I shake my head at all the phenomenal things I’ve produced that
mankind couldn’t.

Bringing myself back to the ruthless reality, I glanced at my watch, It was about
10:10 am when I, Nickolah Zeth Omega, Satan Himself in the flesh decided to

still show up to work, knowing that the world had been brought to its knees as
today a new chapter of my legacy opens up. Now in 2291, my one thousand year
deal according to the inane prophecy of the bible, shamelessly begins……

32CHAPTER

My Apparatus and My Inconceivable
Leverage Over Humanity

The human race can never measure to my level of devious consciousness nor can
one portray to be me. No one can ever be me and there are many recognizable
reasons why the mortals could never be as demented as I am. There are two major
factors between I and those believing they are as evil as it gets. First I don’t

discriminate nor based my cruelty on age, color religion, sex, social and or
financial status. I am death marinated in sins, and in the world of the dead,
anything and anyone goes. The greatest thing in common is Death does not judge
and choose just as I do not choose who goes down in the burning flames of hell,
all are welcome. But humans chose who they want to hate, punish and kill, as
some most of these allege vile personas, feel the need to be a part of a group to
commit certain crimes. The worse criminals are those with significant power or
those that are invisible, still, I rule above them, and above all, after Jēh,
unfortunately. A villain may promote and or conduct the worse deeds in time, but
he or she had others that need care and or protection for their loved ones, but I, on
the other hand, don’t care for anyone nor obligated to assure anyone’s protection
and well-being. I betrayed my father and brothers in heaven, therefore why should
I care for humanity and things that matter? I am an entity that sees no reasons or
faults or pity or guilt. Yes. I am.
I am an artist in destruction and immorality, and profiting as much as I can over
humanity’s misfortunes, is all that matter and relish on the expense of everyone’s
misery. I love the deep and unsparing taste affliction especially when it callously
tears the very fundamental core of all the elements that makes a decent living
being. Therefore no one can take away my entity and true purpose of existence. I
am thee, and I’m here to stay among the sinners, good or bad. As I said, I am the
true face of pure raw evil and it gives me gratification for the world to know that
I am finally here. Hate me if you will, it wouldn’t change who I was and who I
am and who I will be in the near future ahead. Be ready to receive all the things I
have to offer and note that you will not have a choice when the time will come
nor there’ll be anyone to save you but yourselves, but that’s if you can. All that is
reveal may be old news to humanity but you’ve yet to see my power and
influences. When it’ll be my turn to rise as a human being in the flesh, you’d
wished you were ever born, but haplessly whether living or dead, your souls will
never die, which represent the most controversial, cruelest and inconceivable
supernal law that were ever bestowed upon the mortals and surprisingly on me.
What you’ll see through your eyes is what will be.
Your God had made you to perfectly fit in my plans and my doorway is your eyes,
the art of seeing to believe.

The empathetic gateway humans are more vulnerable or sensitive to are the eyes.
Their own vision as well of others’. The eye is a dimensional compass that
channels communication and is the most important and vital concept designed
inside the human traits. One’s actions always reflect on another. Most humans
define themselves through how others perceive them and that is human nature, no
one can help themselves. There is always a group of individuals who felt the need
to be seen, being recognized for who they are and the need to be abidingly
acknowledged by all. This type of sense-of-self was brought all the way to be an
abiding law created by mankind. And that is when the different types of freedoms
were born; freedom of speech, freedom of being whatever you are, freedom of
expressions and so forth. As a person free to be born in this world and live as it is
your gift, why would you need freedom or rights designed for you to do whatever
you want? Come on now, you’re meant to say, you are all naïve, controllable and
are kept like animals. In my eyes, you are all useful to help me with my war with
your God, yet when you dead, you’re no longer valuable but dead weight
occupying good space. I know your every weakness and the one that benefits me
the most are what you see everytime you wake up and everything else after that.
Your eyes are the ring bell to my immoral conscious.
When you’re awake I am awake. I never take vacations as you are a handful to
handle and always up to something and lucky for you when things don't go your
way you blame me and that is when I show up uninvited and wreck you into
pieces. Yes, I do that. Your biggest weakness above all is when you look at
yourself in the mirror literally, you see yourself as not good enough or you can do
better each day and or despise what you see and want to end your life because the
vision of yourself is the last thing you want to see or know. In addition, your
obsession for the vision of others and always seeking to label your existence, your
purpose, and label what or who you are, are extremely annoying and does not
mean a thing for all entities in heaven. Your poor-spirited attributes always
finding excuses not to grow outside the desire of the flesh as you’re seeking
acceptance all your life, some get it most don’t. When are you going to stop what
you are doing and seek for your God to save your neck? No, you won’t. You’re
too arrogant and greedy to do just that. I don’t blame you, actually, I like it.
Because at the end you’ll end up in my company or I’ll end up under your sheets

or under your skin. I am a manipulator and have the power to make you feel
however I think you should feel. Not only that, I lure you to push your audacity
on one’s face whether they like it or not. You want to be recognized, admired and
accepted.
But you’re nothing when you can’t make the effort to use your gifts designed to
save your own ass.
You’re minds and way of thinking bores me and your God’s too. You focus on
petty irrelevant things such as how you look, how you gain or lose weight; who’s
richer or poorer than you, also bring other’s down to make you feel better about
your trivial self. Steal when you think no one is watching, lie when it is
convenient, kill when you think it justifies your action and lunacy. Moreover,
Disobey because you can and seek a way to blame others and or me Satan.
I dote on those that say my name and brim all your blames upon my back because
it gives me inconceivable leverage to come around behind your backs and give
you a taste of hell and you’d better pray to your God you’d come out without a
scratch or alive. Focusing on vanity and in all the things that don't matter had been
your best traits in life. In this process of living no one had recognized or admitted
in their feeble consciousness that after you’d obtain that so-called wealth or looks
or status or something else, what would be next after you die? Will you be
bringing all these things with you when you’ll forever remain outside the flesh?
Petty fools.
You’ve missed the big picture while living. I’ve watched you since the beginning
taking the same aimless steps every time. I’m aware being acknowledge by the
world and leave your mark means something, but will it when you’ll meet your
God in person?
What have you done you make thing better?
To inspire your community and protect your children’s state of mind or mental.
Indeed shelter the children from your autochthonous ignorance as well as insulate
them from the way they truly see you and see the society they’re living in. I dance
as I climax on your crushed souls and bones when you find flaws in everything
and condemn everything as much. Your greatest colossal trait is stupidity as
you’ve considered skin color as a sin or a flaw or decay to the consciousness.
Yes, you do.

Colors, colors, and colors.
I laugh at your ignorance and insanity.
Well, you have Noah to thank for, he’d sure cursed you to failed in everything as
well as the darker you are the darker your heart is and will be persecuted by all.
But I’ve got news for you, doesn’t matter the color of your skin, you’re all going
to burn. In Hell. You should and must admit I am better than you and no one can
claim to be me, no one can be me. I don’t discriminate, I don’t judge, I don’t
complain, I’ll take everyone or anyone down. I have no specific preferences or
type of people to torment or destroy. Unlike humans, they compartmentalized
everything in their favor. I don’t. I’ll take anybody with me. And that is when
you’ll realize I’d won over you without realizing it beforehand.
Your arrogance and petty ways will never allow you to be the greatness that you
could be, before your God’s eyes. Nonetheless, Hell will gladly honor you as its
unsparing flames impaled the very core of your existence, while heaven cries
indomitable tears of blood.
Even though Jesus’ actions were of a God, but he was not quite equal to God
himself as he was attainable in some ways and was born in the flesh as a man.
Although the Son of God was born a man, he’d put first his humbleness and desire
for more knowledge. In order to achieve greatness for the goodness of good, he’d
put aside any bits of arrogance, pride, and selfishness and opened himself, his
mind, to learn and understand the way of life, the way of being good to others,
and serve others and or oneself. And being in flesh as a mortal, he’d humbled
himself by becoming docile to the point that his way of being and thinking led
him to die on a cross built by those who weren’t ready to accept that there were
things greater and better than the flesh and the vanities of this world, and that is
what the mortals fear to be, unacknowledged.

~~~~~~

Furthermore, I, as a sole leader above all, a conspirator, and a force of maleficium
strived in three domains in order to globally dominate every minds and perception.
The three domains are, Religion, politics and the media which are my most

precious apparatus against the world. Number one domain, religion always had a
strong presence in the everyday life of their practitioners. In addition to these
times, the religious doctrines had established immutable divisions among all
nations as the main goals were to segregate each religious group from each other’s
prospect. As for the governments around the world, they had their societies
brainwashed ahead of time prior the civilization of modern nation that if one
doesn’t believe in something greater than themselves and better their ways, there
will be significant problems that will rise on the horizon, therefore religion was
needed as a market structures to keep people in line or controlled as well as collect
funds. The brainwashing system involving religion was to oblige people to do
good, do the right thing and be obedient towards the God or figurine reigning
above themselves who’ll eventually bring prosper and peace. Humans were
created to be submissive, followers, they were not meant to rule above all things
as they can’t control their fate. The world leaders figured that out since the
beginning of time, throw a bone at someone, he or she will catch it instinctively.
Yes, religion in time had become a mind controlling weapon to keep people
marginalized in a pathological retrogression. In other words, humans need to be
controlled like cattle’s, and keep them in line because they want a higher force to
tell them what to do and what will be, if not, humans will keep going back to
doing the same mistakes, taking the same path obsessively and never learn from
it or anything.
The second domain is politic which represents overall, a prominent source that
conquers every leap holes inside the allege human rights and sponge away all the
decays deliberately festering under its manicured or masked infrastructure. This
type of superficial partisan effect was born and designed to beaconed dreams and
hopes that weren’t there, to begin with. Politics is all business nothing more or
less as well as it always came before people and country’s needs. With its
ludicrous functions, I can control every territory, financial institutions, lands, laws
and foremost keep a close eye on every single politician motivated by excessive
greed and power.
And finally, my favorite, most important arsenal is the media. It had been revealed
for centuries that the true enemy of the living was the media which was true yet
wrong at the same time. This massive chain of communication had proven to be

the most effective as to inform humanity of everything that is and will be as well
as to reminisce the past and history. In my world, the media is called ‘the eye’,
which was designed to be the specter or eyes and ears of the world, as well as the
doorway to home invasion as an effective distraction to keep the public
entertained on every level of consciousness. It is indeed your eye-witnessed
mirror reflecting all the things happening around the globe as well as inside your
next door neighbors’ life. That big flat box called television system is the biggest
and most detailed modus operandi and manufactured intruder designed to be a
part of your daily lives as if it was another guest in the room watching your every
move. The thought is ironic and hilarious. While you’re watching through its vivid
screen, it watches you back. Yesss, The eye of Satan, indeed that’s me. The
anarchic forces of the massive communication concept were not created to harm
anyone but to inform you, manipulate you, speculate information, brainwash you,
test your reactions and beliefs, confused you, trigger your emotions, entertained
you, scare you, affect your moods and so forth. The media’s propagating agendas
are brilliant and effective on the human psychological behaviors.
More so always keep in the back of your minds that I am the greatest salesman
ever engendered. I sell dreams, ambitions, and power. Whether the dream was a
lie or substantial, I sold it with assertiveness and pride even if it cost many lives
in the process. A salesman usually does not care who he or she had to throw under
a wrecking train to get what he or she wants, as long as the job is done in their
favor and that’s what count at the end of the day or journey. Throughout the course
of life, I’ve influences all walks of life and I’m good at it, that’s who I am and
always will be until the end. I sell, you buy, and that’s the motto as my offer is
too sweet to refuse or deny.
Prior becoming Lucifer the prince of darkness as they call it, I sold unorthodox
dreams to the rest of the angelical figures residing in heaven, some followed or
bought it and some ignored the facts I offered. But at the end, I succeeded to a
certain extent like a plague in the air and was banned from heaven for doing so.
Moreover, Jesus effectuated the same stratagem I engineered, which I’ve learned
from him when we once lived in heaven’s land, together. The power of
communication and enticement worked for both of us. I had to admit I did not
miss those days in heaven because I didn’t want to be pupated or be a follower

but an unassailable leader. Lead better than he ever did, so I thought. I conceded
that he was way ahead of the game as he knew I would betray him eventually and
efficaciously. Nevertheless, he made certain that I have no power to hurt, tamper
with time, past and future and never able to defeat him.
I used to think it was his bad luck and bad judgment that's led him to devise me
and since we’re from the same world, I’d have the power and or entitled to
overthrow his reign, authority and power, and hell, I was damn wrong. It is true
he engineered my soul effectively but made certain I was born without absolute
divine power as he possessed as in the end I will eventually wreck my way to hell
and as written I did all on my own and no one really to blame. Would I go back
and changed things the way they were? Never, of course. I sell dreams and take it
back anytime I want without a fair game. Making a deal with the devil is never a
good thing, but most of you mortals love it, crave for it and I’ll gladly give it to
you deep down your insatiable souls. There are always petty beings seeking for a
short cut in life and that’s when I come in, uninvited and ready to turn you upside
down.
I lie and that’s what keeps me going. Only a liar understand how greed, pettiness
works and there couldn’t be anyone better for the job than me.
Yes, I’m arrogant and immoral, so what?
Admit it! You love it!
You can never deny me. As long as I can deliver, giving the things you want
selfishly, you won’t complain as it will always be in your nature.
Greed.
Foremost, my job is to keep you happy under my terms and unhappy as always in
every way possible. You had a free pass to heaven which comes with eternal life
on a platter handed to you, but you’d passed on it and decided to stick with your
paltry ways that have no meaning to your true existence and take the short cut to
your eternal graves, with me, sprawled next to you and or your broken corpses.
Isn’t the thought frightening? For what it’s worth, you’ll never know who you
were truly supposed to be as a human species loved the most by your own God.
Your ignorance about these facts pleased me immensely; I could just climax with
glee. And I don’t feel a damn shame about it nor your importance because I can.

Also, the most sensitive and effective element in a mortal’s life is a religion which
is my greatest apparatus against them, against you, everyone.
Humans are like cattle or pure meat as dead weight. They need to be controlled
and processed in order so they may not get loose under my grips. Bringing nations
against each other is always a great elation and satisfaction to see and relish as
well as ignorance is such a beautiful phenomenon for the weak and the strong.
There is nothing as scarier than using religious belief to devour and bring down
the living to destitution and war. Religion is my strongest guaranteed apparatus
against the world and your Gods.
Lucky for you, I do not possess the power to permanently exterminate your
pathetic petty souls but I find it much more gratifying to see your suffering to no
end and that alone puts me in a comfort zone that only I can savor. Remember I
am not here for you, or to pity you. I am here to use you as a dagger pointed at
my greatest enemy. To hurt a parent, you mustn’t go after him or her, you must
go after the child and that’s when the parameters of hell will break lose without
mercy. May hell hears me, I love that diabolic concept as I dance a thousand step
led by death while crushing on every single bone beneath my feet and my seven
heads and horns twisted backward greeting you in the face with the most
apprehensive outcome that would hew your souls and heaven in a half.
I will repeat myself over and again to make my point across so you may never
forget as you humans never remember important facts when it is convenient to
you. Remember me and what I have done to you, to your world since the
beginning. I will never be there for your best interest as I don’t owe you anything.
I’m just standing there over your head naked waiting to piss my way into souls.
Yes, you, mortals created by my father Jēh in heaven who’d love you restlessly,
I despise your existence since the day you were brought to light as well as I hated
myself too for seeing you born from the ground before my eyes and watch your
God smiled back at you with glee but smirked at me with disgust and
chastisement.
Nevertheless, I will always have the upper hand over your lives. Although your
God loves you, I promise you won’t love him as much even if your lives depended
on it. Indeed you refuse to freely love him but to blame him for all the things he
did not do right. And that is exactly what I wanted you to think and wanted you

to be. I wanted you to disliking him as much and I succeeded. You always want
to depend on me, on luck but never use your gift which is your rightful autonomy.
Mimicking my footsteps without using your free-will to choose right from wrong,
were your greatest failures. Since the beginning of time of all rising civilizations,
impersonators pompously claiming to be me were behind the downfall of many
nations and empires, Nazi regime of destruction, Crimes against humanity,
suffering of the innocence since the beginning of time, premeditated famine
worldwide for hundreds of thousands of years, but those who had promoted all
these factors with abhorrence and murder on a larger scale were not me in the
flesh, they may have represented what I stand for but they were not me. They will
never be me and it wouldn’t matter how horrid and villainous their actions were
or may be, but they can’t be me because I am so much worse than what the human
mind had perceived. I am cancer, a deadly virus decaying the human soul. I eat
souls and eat people’s poor judgment as well as bringing the worst side of evil.
What makes me worst is that I stomp on everything my father had established. I
who’d been born in heaven’s grace and divinity became its worst enemy. I am the
shadow of sin and corruption. I am the representative of all sins behind the scene
watching and waiting for one to fall deep into an infinite hole. But I will assure
you that one day I will rise as a man in person when the end will be near, and I
will be called God. There is one artifact that humanity will never have or never
be and that is being me. Humanity will never measure up to be like me because I
am a God produced by another God but the only difference is that the other force
is allegedly good and I am undeniably bad to the core. I was made with the two
hands of a God which make me the most powerful above all mortals. Our Godly
common ground is that neither of us is able to kill a soul permanently or reverse
time backward. Moving forward is the only element thrives through me and my
father who is the light and time.
My father and I are not much different than the rest of the mortals’ world. Men
fight among themselves for power, control, wealth, and or demonstrate a sizable
ego and so on, just as I and the God of the humans are at war to win the final battle
of the human soul’s ownership. I am aware I won’t win eventually, but I won’t
fall alone, I’ll bring down as many souls as I could convene in the flaming hell
designed for me, besides it doesn’t hurt to have a little fun while I’m around. Two

Gods’ involvement into a never-ending war revolved around only one factor and
that is LOVE. The word love that brought me to who I was and who I’d become.
I’ve become the way aim embellished with so much hatred because I’m because
I once loved my father the prominent force of the beginning and the end. He’s
favored me above everything and I represented his pride and jubilation and led
me to believe that I can be the next in line to rule heaven and the infinite universe
but I released it was all in my head, I was a dreamer. I know he never made me
such promise to take over his place, thus, I rebelled and demonstrated that I could
be better than him and or anyone else. I was the real deal, there wasn’t anything I
couldn’t get when I lived in heaven and as well as there isn’t anything I can’t have
on earth as I am King and the God of dark desires incarcerated in the mortals’
souls. Hate is the most honest recipient verse Love is a complicated and sensible
energy that can change phase at any giving moment because love is too much to
bear, it is too raw and encourages perfection and flawless purity. I was weary of
being perfect and bored of an overwhelming love my father had confer on me.
The basic caustic constituent is that humanity is so much like my father and I. we
loved each at some point in time and then I turned against him for no reasonable
cause. Yes, I know, I am a nefarious force without shame and all the names in the
book that define my malefic character, but know this that I am you as you are me.
I am everywhere at once just as your God he is in every aspect of life. Some in
the past had known him in the flesh as Jesus and so will you know me in the flesh
as well. When my time will come to rise above all mankind, I will dominate every
home, every hearts and soul and no one will notice that it would be me until the
very end, but at that time it’ll be too indescribably late.
I do not have a conscious, nor pity for any living things. I find comfort into hatred
and destructions because I can’t handle what is right. But what’s right doesn’t
always apply to perfections of things. I am no one to preach nor to judge. Your
God’s judge you while I help you in your most, deepest inner desires whether
morality correct or unorthodox. You may call me your genie. Whatever you need
I’ll provide, but everyone has a price to pay and so will you after I’m done with
you. You’re in no position to judge me as you’ve never seen me with the naked
eye, but some in the past had seen you so called God, therefore judge him. He
created me and you and we’re both prisoners of this world as I can’t return to

heaven above, so I’m present in your pathetic lives reeling on your misfortunes
and inhibitions as I’m spending quality time with the mortals until he’s back to
claim what’s his. Humans are despicable being that I get off on when I crush all
their aspirations and morality. I savor their suffering because they’re weak, vile,
follow blindly, impure and easy to manipulate and destroy. Yes, I get my rocks
off on their miseries, tears, and blood. May Hell be on my side as I will never die
even if I burned in hell for an eternity, you’ll burn with me. Yes, burn, burn, and
burn a trillion ways until your ashes burn all over again, relentlessly without
mercy. There will be no end to your suffering with me by your side down below
in the burning fires of sin. Yes, hell will be your new domain and home and you
will be my mate and servant for an eternity. There will be no windows, nor a door
for you to escape; you’ll die every time, indefinitely, and the parameters of time
will no longer exist. The lives that you’ve known will no longer be, you’ll reside
with me forever. But remember that I will not be the one to designate this hellish
prison for you, but your own God, which convey that a soul never dies, it will
never eradicate as it was born to never disappear. If you believe in him you’ll
never see me again but if you don’t, you will spend quite some time with me, so
who will you follow? The true facts are whether you choose him or I, your soul
will never die as death’s peerless objection was to keep souls joined in unification
until they’re processed in their rightful choosing settings. You’ll either reside
without suffering and agony with your God for eternity or you choose me your
epical downfall, in hell. As I am legend in heaven and on Earth.
I engineered sins, I am the mastermind of corruption breaded with death. I am the
epidemic of hate, envy, and greed and no one can stop me but my father in the
end, but for now, I’m on my playground as the world is my Kingdom that will
soon fall. But, I am not afraid.

Ameliah and I

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Book Of “ⱿiiuⱾ II

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1Chapter

The Risen of Zeth, Nicholas Omega as Satan
himself;

& Ameliah

I rolled my tainted window down a little so I may not be seen, as always I
unintentionally drag attention to myself wherever I go. I was quite a looker, I
guess.

I glanced at the imposing church before me not wanting to go in but I kind of
have to. Wild thoughts began to show its seven ugly tails wavering at my
directions. Unlike many archaic books, I am not a vampire who fears churches
and crosses or silver. I was waiting to go inside as I was searching for someone,
a woman of great importance. In the meanwhile time had brought me back to what
my father’s once said. I’ve recalled Jēh’s words as if it was yesterday.
“I will never despise my children like I despise you. You will never be as good
and humble as they are. They deserve every bit of sacrifice I engendered. I can
never turn my back on them because they have goodness in them although they
betray a little part of me every day because of your dark influence.

I must admit they’d done the unthinkable and brought fear upon other nations.
They enslaved their own kind that happened to have a different color skin tone
and felt threatened by it, but favorably my grace upon them was served as a guide
on their path to reinvent themselves and learn how to live and all the flaws and
benediction this world is made of. You Satan have no power to destroy the works
of my grace and divinity that bring lights and hope in my subjects’ heart and soul.
You will never have what they have. You will always be the uninvited guest in the
mortal’s world. Just as the day can’t survive without night, fair skinned people
will embrace and love those of darkening skin. They’d realized one day that they
are all equal and no one lives forever as they bleed and live the same and that day
will be too late. There are no such things as black and white world; you have
instigated those petty values within my children’s souls. Inside my world and
judgment, color, status won’t matter. It never had. All will be judged by what
they’ve done, good and bad deeds.
Never color or ethnicity.

This type of morality does not exist in the world of celestial entities. I am God
above all and I created my children with emotions, obedience, and instincts to
protect and love, unlike you Lucifer. You’ll witness the time when the tables will
turn over as the children of light complexions will fight for the survival and
wellness of the children of darker shades. Indeed, they will undo their evil doctrine
thrived by your demonic spirit. It wouldn’t matter what you do from here and then.
The mortals will survive and you will lose as they’ll watch you burn a thousand
deaths in every breath. Be ready as I am too coming for you personally. Don’t
even try to hide behind my children, it will be pointless because my eyes always
have been on you, it has never left you since the day you were conceived. Time is
overdue to eradicate your spirit out of the earth, forever”

~~~~~~

Standing tall and magnificent as always at the step of one of the largest
evangelical church in the country, a broad group of people that includes mostly
women from all walks of life with wandering eyes glared at my delectable looks
with lust as if I was enticingly desirable, which I was.

Extremely so.
They couldn’t help themselves but look at their dark fantasy. According to them,
it wasn’t a sin to stare the desirable as long as no actions are taking or words were
spoken to convey their deep dark desires and or intentions, my miscreant
tendencies would imply otherwise. I have to admit I am a hell of a catch, built
with a 6 foot 3 frame, slightly muscular, and toned with a stunning physique and
a face only a God could possess. My golden silky hair nicely twirled in a bun and
my smooth skin exuded that I am a young actor in my late 20’s, which I was not,
let’s say I was hell hidden in the perfect package and etiquette in the right circle.

My only flaws are my unusual ever seeing turquoise eyes and distinguish lips.
I had the type of mouth that can make anyone go deliriously bold to want to touch
or feel them. Why is it a flaw, because the small minded, primitive mortals believe
it is the true beauty of human physique, but they refuse to recognized that real
beauty is so much more than a mere handsome man or woman or child. Mankind
is peculiar and programmed as visual species which set themselves short for a
short cut to hell and that’s how they’d missed the big picture of the value and
purpose of the gift to live, see, touch and feel. Women and men always seemed
to focus on my face, eyes, lips, and my words and they’re bewitched by it. No
wonder people believe any crass I throw at them. My good looks and words are
one of my weapons since mankind don’t know any better.

I am the father of manipulation, indeed. The female species always find the
need to make themselves noticeable so they may get some attention when
conversing with me which I find extreme boredom in what they pretend to be. In
their eyes I am God’s gift to their lonely meaningless livelihood as they must
approach me so close to catch a glance of my mouth and face and the rest of my
body which was quite hilarious and grotesque at the same time, still, I do get
extremely bored of human behaviors all the same. On the steps of this religious
doctrine, these living homologous are irrefutably brainwashed by vanity as they
forget about their God and what really matters once they laid eyes on me. At that
sinful moment, they welcomed me as their mental dirty little secret fantasy.
Hmmm…how delicious. Luckily, I was graced with eternal youth, but only I knew
the fact and no one else. The perfect 32 years old immortal.

I will never get old and gray and weak because I’m neither normal nor possess
a mortal’s lifespan although I was born a human.
The law of nature did not apply to me, as always.
The one being that was once my father was the cause of my anti-aging condition,
yet he made his business to prevent me from revealing myself in person to his
mortals and so that humanity never sees me as a holy God, although we’re both
from the holy lands of heaven. How hypocritical and detrimental.

Nonetheless, throughout my years of existence on earth, I’ve grown an interest
in the female gender. Indeed, I favor women even though I’ve never fornicated
with them nor other forms of life in my light years of existence. I must say, Evil
does have its purity in some sense. Men always look my way too, wishing to be
me and most wishing they’d had me, suddenly, I rebuked the vile thought from
my good mood, but I don’t disapprove of their choices or lifestyle, besides it is a
free world as they call, but to me it is my world and my playground.

In an instant, I was brought back to the moment when a hand full of 15 older
single women in their 30’s, 40’s and late 50’s hurriedly aimed my way like cattle
in need of guidance and suddenly grasp my hands to welcome me into their
prominent church as if I was their awaiting messiah. As they’d crowded my space
like a plague, they began to babble aimlessly about they’d never seen me around
before and questioned if it was my first time in their mega church and offered to
accompany me inside the temple, probably to satiate their insecurities but I
politely declined as I lied about waiting for someone. One of them still held onto
my hands. Usually, These hands are the only part of my body certain people are
allowed to touch as to greet me but sometimes they attempted to run off with them
which fortunately they’re attached with the rest of my body. The thought consoled
me.
“Lovely Madame, would you mind giving me my hands back, please?” Blue eyes
fluttered and embarrassed at the unauthorized touch released my now moist hand
“My apologies young man, we just thought we could be of some assistance to you,
nevertheless, enjoy today’s service, and welcome to our Christian ministry as we
are pleased to have you among us. And if you need anything, I mean anything,
really, please don’t be shy and let me know. May God bless you” nearly mentally
choking at the words she purred, I quickly haul myself away from her lingering

stares and faraway from the unwanted crowd of women and grimy glare of
resentful men wishing I die or go away.

Gingerly glancing at them with a sly grin on my face, I inwardly protested with
derision, “Well, what do we have here, a bunch of Homo-erectus group with
glares that could kill a fly. Sure, you all abhorred the sight of me because a face
like mine is unrivaled with a myriad load of wealth that comes with it. You all
disinclined men wishing you were me, breathing in my skin and walking in my
shoes. As you see, it’s just my pretty face, one you’ll see again for an eternity in
hell if you don’t behave. But don’t worry fellow gentlemen, lucky for you today
I’m in a fantastic mood so I’ll go easy on you as it is not in my mission today to
take away these temptresses away from you, which I could, though, besides I do
not possess the right tools in my pants yet to prey on them vigorously.

There is already one woman walking through my mind and in my pants for the
longest time and it is already too much of a burden to carry as lately I have urges
to have her only and take her soon in my bed, buried myself inside her heat so
deeply, so now, fuck off jealous skin deep wolves! Amen!”

No one knew me personally or had any clue of who I am, but if they did, I doubt
they’d be anyone left in this church and religion would have taken a new turn and
a new meaning as its sense of existence would have scattered back to its originated
point and in the process all these scrutinizing stares would have been running for
the hills screaming hell, except for the good Doctor who had seeing it all, I’m
confident this woman doctor would be on my side one day soon enough. I hope.
What if I enter this so called holy ground of a church, will hell break loose, will
my horns and carnivorous fangs popped out and greet them to a bloody battle of
feasting, or will this temple burned down to the ground by my presence like we
see in movies? What a load of muck. The idea made me chuckle like a child inside.

Taking a deep thoughtful breath, I started to move my steps slowly but halted
as I was greeted with demonic creatures that can only be found in dark tales books
or in medieval times driven by evil or the world of angels and demons created by
men. Thirteen grotesquely sculpted gargoyles wreathe the exterior of the so-
called holy premises. Most of them outlined by the carvers from the 16th century
hired by the mason Clans.

For an extended minute I scanned the area outside the church that used to be
a notorious roman catholic church 100 years ago now converted to the assembly
of Christ, of the Christian ministries, for some strange reason, I felt like I’m home.
There were absolutely nothing holy about neither this place nor the presence of
the God of humans, Jēh or Jesus Christ.

I am fully aware that these poor souls refused to admit that wherever place
they chose to adore their God; they always seem to add a cynical touch of figurines
to complement my existence and representation. These monstrous statues roaming
outside this overbearing temple represented Evil in medieval times. How
thoughtful and daring, I’m aroused at the thought, very pleased in fact, after all
the bible is all about me... and my father.

Before Jēh’s death on that damn cross, he would have never allowed demons
crafted figurine guarding the virtue of his churches, not even angels’ statuette
representing the pride and peace in heaven. He was a simple man with simple
goals in mind, and also a God that despised graven images or any type of effigy
mankind could adore instead of him. It makes my nose bleed in glee when I think
about it, that reminds me the fiasco Moses’ people caused after he helped liberated
the ingrate narrow-minded Jews, his people.
There were many other works of masterpieces including over three hundred and
thirty-three shaded stained glass windows, and rare stones imported from Jaffa,
Saudi Arabia. Inside its gothic styles walls, a sizable wrought iron swathe the
edifice, most of it the scheme of Dr. Estefan Alfonso Yemin back in 1866.
Convoluted woodcarving, unique colorful mosaics and wall-sized murals and
complemented colossal gates of metallic brown colors broadcasting its
achievements and status as well as making people believe its impressive bronzed
gateway represent the doors of heaven.
Or hell?

Overall the church had tripled in structural size in addition to its several floors
that could hold over 10 thousands greedy souls; it almost appeared like a
monumental stadium for circuses. Most of the interior ornamental constituents
have Christian symbolism, in alluding to the church's biblical origin, but the
edifice is replenished with the presence and or significance of wealth than divine
spirituality. Let’s not mention the gold and silver B.C. ancients coins rooting in

the marble floors of the hallway and altar which reminds me of the platter of silver
coins Judas had received for selling off the son of God who was his one and only
friend who accepted him the way he was, with all his flaws. How indistinctive is
this broadcast of religion? I doubt that all these hyperbole distinctions were made
in remembrance of their God that was once my father.

Back in its prime days, hundreds of years ago, the cathedral was deliberately
built to showcase an apocalyptic medieval sensation to elucidate that there is no
higher power than God and no one is above him. Well, in my opinion, it relayed
the opposite, something unorthodoxly disturbing; I surely know there is no holy
spirit here. This place smelled like greed, sin, and blood to me, but I like it, I am
after the God of vanity and impurity. It’s reminds me that life is like religion, you
have to worship it and can’t li without it. It is there in every breath and step you
make. It never existd to dismiss life. You’re its prisoner until you die naturally,
accidently or through suicide. Indeed life is one religion that doesnot discriminate
and so is death
As I lead my way towards the vivid crowd of the allege Christians followers, I
found a decent seat not to close to the altar but not too far so I may enjoy the view
of what’s to come. My main purpose in being in this church is to stare in the eyes
of the most famous individual on earth that changed the progress of science
forever and brought all my pharmaceuticals companies around the globe to a
monumental irreversible deficit. Yes, I am finally here to get a glance of the good
Doctor Ameliah Rosswell up close, my rival and the woman that had been
haunting my thoughts, indirectly crushing my testicles with spike heels and
brought my businesses to a financial crisis.
I will give her an offer impossible to refuse and at that moment I will determine
if she can be bought as well as her faith. However, I will not underestimate her as
she may be the only person who will not be afraid of who I really am.

To be continued...

SUMMARY

What if in your time, who’d grown up knowing an incredible sophisticated and compa
powerful rhetoric narcissistic politician on television ever seen. You’ve seen him grow
then vanished from the media’s sight until one day, later in time after his father’s deat
powerful man on earth.
More affluent than the pope and mega money families around the globe...
The non-typical and mysterious icon had become a scientist, philanthropist, anthropo
top leader and also known as a religious man with powers ever seen or feasible for a
the miracles Jesus used to manifest in his time over two thousand years ago on nation
In the midst of his life, he’d proven to be worthy of all the praise, respect and honor a
as he never denied it. And some were convinced he was the Son of Satan himself tha
During his lifetime he’d made enemies behind doors but always maintain the perfect
worship. He was indeed strikingly handsome and his physical attributes were rare.
Throughout his legacy, he’d owned it all, power, wealth, supernal abilities and then so
He’d eventually found a love interest with his rival Dr. Ameliah Roswell later in life.
One day, as expected he’d fallen. Fallen way too deep and on his way to hell. His sto
with a journalist after the return of the second coming of Christ. He’d witnessed the wo
eyes during the seven years of the seven trumpets of heaven’s calls. Inevitably, he wa
eternity but before he goes on his way to the crushing fires of hell, he’d decided to sh
reveals his indigenous identity that would shake the world in its raw elements.
He will unravel his side of the truth of the bible or Holy Scriptures, such as the missing
And the familiar stories mankind’s had known for millenniums will be professed in his p
His human named is Zeth Nickolah Omega. He is the oldest legend mostly talked abo
the history of mankind. Physically, he is no beast, or demonic-like creatures. He was m
heart and agendas held the destitutions and fallen of mankind.

Quote From Satan: “Those that stand behind every wise and good actions that are in
summoned by Jesus, are motivated by the greatest of all evil as they’d chose to hide
down every oppositions to their doctrines.”