---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Old Valley Road Hotel.
By Wombat. ------------------------- Any constructive comments are appreciated. I'm at 'bungala_wombat@yahoo.com.au'. ------------------------------------
Chapter 6 part 3: Christmas Day.
------------------------------------ Part 58: The Piper on the Rock ------------------------------------
Derek admired Scott's spectacularly muscular body. It was incredible.
Scott's arms, shoulders, chest and legs bulged with huge muscles. He had a somewhat kite-shaped torso with his mighty trapezius muscles sloping up in a convex curve up to just below his jaw. His wide back muscles (lats) were like a cobra's hood. They came down from his massive shoulders in a bulging hourglass shape and sloped into his slim muscular waist. The perfectly symmetrical abdominal ten-pack of muscle gracing his slim muscle-packed waist was truly amazing. The mounds of muscle were like a tray of buns. His mighty 26-inch (66-cm) arms covered with veins were stupendous. The thick hard hemispherical boulders of his pectorals jutting out under his chin were a spectacular sight.
Derek: << Freaky! >>
Scott enjoyed Derek's attention.
Derek: <+ Amusement +> << By the way, you're still covered in semen from this morning's effort. >>
<< I guess I could wash it off in the swimming pool. I'm just about finished here. >>
A few minutes later they jumped naked into the pool together. They remembered to create a flexible force field inside their lungs to stop water getting in.
Derek swam around underwater admiring Scott's utterly magnificent body packed with huge bulging muscles. He rubbed his hands over Scott's body getting the dried semen off. He delighted in running his hands over Scott's extraordinary ten-pack of bulging abdominal muscles that was the main feature of Scott's slim but amazingly muscle-packed waist. He delighted in running his hands over Scott's huge mighty arms, shoulders and chest. With Derek's devoted attention, Scott quickly grew an erection. So did Derek.
Their great big cocks stood stiffly out in front of them underwater.
Scott: << You know, Derek, it's really something having a really hot hunky muscleman like you getting off on me. >>
In response, Derek slid his open mouth over Scott's enormous cock head. It filled his mouth. He ran his tongue over the piss slit.
Scott gasped involuntarily. He felt the cool pool water rush into the bronchial tubes of his lungs. However, the force field stopped the water going deep into his lungs.
He thrust his cock further down Derek's throat. In a few strokes, he had thrust his cock all the way down into Derek's stomach. He was invulnerable so his cock head was unaffected by Derek's stomach juices.
He grasped Derek by his strong muscular waist and slid Derek bodily up and down while he thrust his cock down Derek's gullet joyfully. It was wonderful to feel Derek's throat tight around the full length of his cock. It was wonderful to feel Derek's powerful and muscular body surrounding his cock.
Overcome by pre-orgasmic tension, he tried to sink his teeth into Derek's hard, rounded, muscular and invulnerable buttocks. It was like trying to bite into a rock surrounded by leather. There was little give. But that did not matter. Scott was beyond caring.
Orgasm exploded within him. He thrust his cock as far as it could go down Derek's gullet and ejaculated his juices directly into Derek's stomach. Derek's face was thrust into his pubic hair. Derek's chin bumped against his balls. Derek was held upside down with Scott biting his buttocks.
After some time his orgasm subsided. He realised that Derek had not come. He relaxed his bite on Derek's buttocks.
Derek: << Don't bite my bum. Lick my arse instead. >>
Scott thrust his tongue between Derek's buttocks up against Derek's arsehole. He tongued Derek's anus vigorously. Derek loved it.
Scott massaged Derek's cock which was still hard and erect. He delighted in running his hands up and down the full length of Derek's shaft. Meanwhile his own stiff cock was still thrust up Derek's throat.
While massaging Derek's cock, he thrust his tongue up into Derek's arsehole. Derek wriggled and groaned with delight as Scott massaged the inside of Derek's anus with his tongue.
Derek erupted joyfully into orgasm. His semen gushed out of his stiff cock and floated in the pool water.
Feeling Derek's body contracting orgasmically around his cock was enough to tip Scott over into another orgasm. They came joyfully together. Once more, Scott filled Derek's stomach with his semen while Derek's semen squirted rhythmically into the water and floated around them.
After their conjoint orgasms subsided, they floated happily together underwater in the pool.
The morning was warm, dry and cloudless. The sky was a bright cobalt blue. Christmas Day was going to be hot.
If someone were to stand near the end of the pool closest to the house and look at the reflection of the sky in the water, he would see interesting swirls in the surface of the water at the deep end. These would be made by the two supermen enjoying each other underwater.
The Reeves house had a big back yard. Not far from the swimming pool was its main feature. This was a rocky outcrop that came out from the gentle slope rising to the high back fence that was lined with a thick grove of pine trees. The outcrop was of a pale reddish-brown quartzite and stood about three metres (10 feet) high.
When the Reeves children were younger, they would spend hours playing over the rock. They played all sorts of games like cops and robbers or cowboys and indians. There was a fairly deep hollow at the base that they could pretend was a dark and mysterious cave.
Veronica and Max had planted a number of succulents in the crevices on the rocky surface. Tendrils of plants hung down the outcrop.
Surrounding the rocky outcrop on three sides was a shady grove of tall young gum (eucalyptus) trees. It had a rich and varied understorey of shrubs and bushes. The trees, shrubs and bushes had been planted by Veronica and Max.
The side facing the pool was open. At the base of the outcrop was a patch of soft soil planted with ferns and bushes. This broke the fall of any child falling off the outcrop.
When Max and Veronica were hunting for a site to build their new house, Veronica had been delighted with the block with the rocky outcrop. The block was part of a paddock that had been subdivided on the outskirts of the town. It was not hard for her to persuade Max to buy it. It had plenty of room for a big house and a growing family.
Derek tired of having Scott's cock down his throat. He regurgitated it, much to Scott's disappointment. They floated underwater close to one another. Both their cocks were still erect.
Derek remarked on the cloud of white globs of his semen floating in the water around them. Scott assured him that the pool filtration system would soon get rid of them.
As they watched, the cloud of semen started disappearing into the filter inlet.
Scott wanted to try a piledriver fuck with Derek. He had seen it on the Internet and wanted to experience it himself. He leered lustily at Derek.
Derek assented.
They climbed out of the swimming pool with their cocks standing out stiff in front. Their powerful muscular bodies dripped with water. Derek lay down on his back on the lawn near the pool not far from the rocky outcrop.
Scott put his hands under Derek's buttocks and hoisted them up into the air. Derek's full weight was on his neck and shoulders on the ground. Scott positioned Derek's arsehole against his stiff cock which he had angled downwards. He pushed gently.
Derek gasped. His arsehole relaxed as Scott thrust his huge cock down into his anal canal. Their great big muscles bulged with the exertion. Scott held Derek's buttocks firmly as he continued thrusting downwards into Derek's mighty muscular torso. Derek's prostate took a hammering as Scott thrust his cock head into it. Derek moaned as his groin ached with fervent tension. It was full of Scott's great cock.
Scott thrust down further into Derek's bowels past his prostate. It was a strange sensation for Derek as Scott's thick hard cock head bumped up against the inside of his thick hard bulging abdominal eight-pack of muscle. Scott was lost in lust as he continued fucking Derek by the poolside.
Their minds linked together telepathically as they each enjoyed to the full the sensations the other was feeling.
Derek wrapped his legs around Scott's waist while Scott powered into his arse. Derek's neck was resting on the ground while Scott grasped firmly Derek's hard hemispherical bubble-butt and kept on fucking him for all he was worth. Derek gasped and moaned with sheer joy as Scott kept on thrusting his cock down into the depths of his torso.
Derek looked up from the ground and saw Scott towering over him and thrusting his huge fat hard cock through his arsehole into the inmost core of his body. Scott was a mountain of a man. Each of his huge muscles bulged and writhed as he ploughed his penis into Derek's muscle-packed torso. The enormous muscles of his huge arms bulged as he held Derek's buttocks firmly and supported the weight of his body. His veiny biceps were magnificent.
Scott was loving it. He loved thrusting his cock into Derek's handsome hunky powerful muscular body. All Derek's muscles were bulging with the effort of being piledriver fucked. Scott's cock was indeed like a piledriver pounding down through his arsehole into the depths of his bowels.
In the heat of their passion, their bodies dried off quickly in the warm dry air. The drops of water were replaced by drops of sweat. Their thrusting, writhing bodies glistened.
Derek arched his torso so that just the top of his head was touching the ground. This increased the sensations as Scott's cock thrust into him. The insides of his abdominal muscles were taking a real pounding.
The sensations were incredible. Fleetingly he remembered how Albert felt as Derek ploughed into him while they were together in Durban. Derek's huge cock had thrust against the insides of Albert's abdominal muscles. Albert's memories were now his own.
Scott thrust his cock all the way up to its hilt down into Derek's arsehole. He kept on thrusting in and out. He enjoyed to the full the feeling of Derek's powerfully muscled body tight around his rampant cock as it ravished Derek's bowels. At the end of each thrust he could feel Derek's heart thumping hard against his cock head.
He looked down and saw Derek's powerful body bulging all over with great big muscles. Derek had his hands on the lawn. The top of his head was also on the lawn. Both his hands and his head were supporting his weight. Scott could see the splendid array of muscle on Derek's torso. He loved holding tight the hard muscular hemispheres of Derek's perfect bubble-butt in his big hands. He loved feeling the strong bands of Derek's anal sphincters tight around the thick hard shaft of his cock. Derek's thickly muscled thighs were wrapped around his waist. Scott's cock was embedded fully in Derek's arsehole.
Scott was like a bull ravishing another bull with utmost pleasure. Derek was the sweetest fuck he had ever had. Derek was solid muscle like him and he knew both of them were enjoying the fuck to the full.
A few more deep thrusts into Derek's muscular body and Scott exploded into orgasm. It was sheer joy to empty his balls into Derek's arse. It was sheer joy to feel his fiery semen gush into the depths of Derek's hot and massively powerful body and gathering in a lava-like pool around Derek's pounding heart. He cried out as he took Derek with savage joy.
Derek felt Scott's hot semen squirting into him and pooling in his chest. He felt his groin contract painfully around the thick hard shaft of Scott's cock embedded deep in his torso. He felt the tension in his balls explode in release. He felt his hot semen boil like exploding lava out of his groin along inside the shaft of his long thick erect penis and gush out of his cock head. Thick white ropes of his semen sprayed out over the lawn in front of his face. Derek screamed in the intensity of his passion.
Both supermen were connected with the Primal Power Source. Energy flowed into them prolonging their conjoint orgasms considerably.
They felt as if they were going into meltdown together. Hot rivers of molten radioactive metal poured into Derek from Scott's gushing torso and pooled inside Derek's chest around his heart. They were both aflame with the fire of lust and love. They both burned with the fire that did not consume them but instead spurred their orgasmic joy to greater heights. Their passion was like twin pillars of fire entwined around one another. Their orgasms were like two blue giant stars coming together, falling into one another and then exploding into an ecstatic supernova that continued for ever.
Their orgasms continued on and on in the morning sun.
Scott's legs started to relax when the huge orgasm that he was enjoying with Derek started to come to an end. He sank slowly down to the grass with Derek still impaled on his stiff hard cock. Derek was still in the throes of orgasm when Scott lifted him up gently and held him against his own body. Derek's semen squirted out all over Scott's chest as Scott hugged Derek to him.
Derek was almost limp with ecstasy. He was overcome with joy at being fucked by the mighty spunk-filled he-man with huge bulging muscles that Scott had become. Scott's cock was still stiff like a ramrod stuffed into his torso up to behind his breastbone.
Finally Derek's orgasm came to an end like the evening of a glorious day. Scott kept hugging Derek to him. His cock was still stiff up inside Derek. Derek's stiff cock was sandwiched between their bodies. His cock was still leaking semen and was held in between their mighty pectoral muscles. Derek loved sitting on Scott's thickly muscled haunches with Scott's cock up inside him.
Both of them were enjoying the golden glow of the post-coital bliss in the morning sun. They kissed each other tenderly on the lips. They both loved each other to the utmost. They revelled in each other's absolute closeness. They kept on kissing. They enjoyed each other. They loved one another.
They were sitting locked together in love when they heard eerie haunting music. It was coming from the top of the rock near where they were together on the lawn.
Scott felt a chill when he realised that the music was being played on panpipes. It sounded like the same kind of instrument used for part of the soundtrack of Peter Weir's Australian film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. His mother liked watching the film on their videotape player. The haunting panpipe and organ music used to spook Scott when he was a little boy. It still made him uncomfortable. However, this music was somewhat different; it was more haunting and more alien.
His cock softened inside Derek. It threatened to fall out.
Scott twisted around and looked up at the rock that was surrounded by gum trees. He saw a figure sitting cross-legged up on top of it and playing the panpipes. The figure looked almost part human with very hairy haunches like that of an animal. Its lean muscular arms were like those of a human, as were its hands holding the panpipes; they looked like a pianist's hands. Its head was definitely not human. It had straight horns like a goat. Its bearded face had a muzzle like that of a sheep or goat.
A shiver ran through Scott. His cock shrunk and fell out of Derek.
Derek got up off Scott. He closed his arsehole to stop Scott's semen from dripping out. He sauntered over to the base of the outcrop.
When the music stopped, Derek called out, "That's beautiful. I like it."
The creature leapt down off the rocky outcrop as gracefully as a mountain goat. It stood upright in front. Scott's blood ran cold when he saw that the creature's two large furry feet had cloven hooves.
Derek ran up and hugged the creature happily in welcome. He then turned and beckoned Scott over. He was clearly on friendly terms.
Scott wondered what the hell was going on. The creature looked like the Devil. What was Derek doing talking with the Devil?
He strode over towards the two aggressively. He was ready to do battle with the Devil. He would defend Derek to the end or die trying.
He caught Derek's thought that he had got it wrong. Derek had been monitoring his thoughts all along.
Derek: << Simmer down, mate. It's OK. This is my friend and mentor Pan. He won't hurt you. >>
Scott caught the creature's amusement. << And he can't hurt me. >>
Derek: << Come on. Come and meet him. >>
Scott thought: "God, he's ugly!"
God: << BY YOUR STANDARDS, HE WOULD BE UGLY, BUT YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL AND MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF A HUMAN MALE. I HAVE MADE YOU SO. DON'T JUDGE OTHERS BY YOUR HUMAN STANDARDS. THIS 'CREATURE' IS PAN, MY TRUE, LOYAL AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, WHO HAS SERVED ME WELL FOR ABOUT 256,000,000 YEARS. HE IS THE GOD OF NATURE, OF WILD THINGS AND WILD PLACES, OF ANIMALS, PLANTS AND TREES, AND OF NATURAL BEAUTY. >>
God was not shouting but his voice was all-enveloping. It surrounded Scott from all sides. Scott was obliged to pay attention. He realised with some embarrassment that God was monitoring his thought processes continually.
Scott: << OK, Lord, I get your point. >>
God: << WELL, BE NICE TO HIM. >>
Derek was grinning from ear to ear.
Pan: << So, Derek, this is Scott, the young man you've been telling me about. He's a spunky guy alright, to use your phrase. He certainly doesn't scare easily. >>
Scott joined Derek and Pan. He shook hands with Pan and looked him over curiously. Pan was sturdily built and stood about 180 centimetres (5'11") tall, a little shorter than Derek. Scott was fascinated by Pan's large cloven hooves that were the size of camel's feet. Thick brown curly hair covered Pan's thighs. A small pale brown hairy tail like that of a goat curled up from the base of his spine. His upper body was quite hairy also. His chest was very hairy. The dark brown hair on his head was thick and curly. From his head protruded two straight horns. He regarded Scott with intelligent dark brown eyes. He appeared quite young.
Scott knew nothing about the old god. Derek passed him the information that Pan was known and worshipped by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a god of sheep and goats, shepherds, wild places, fields, groves, wooded places, nature and fertility. His worship continues in some quarters to this day. He was known and worshipped also by primitive human tribes for many scores of thousands of years before the ancient Greeks. When the early Christian Church was contending with the Roman and Greek gods, it had confused Pan with the Devil. It had won against the old Roman and Greek religions when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. This had happened after the Roman Emperor Constantine I had converted to Christianity. Ever since then, the figure of Pan had been reviled by Christians as the personification of evil. How wrong the early Christian fathers were about Pan!
Pan eyed Scott up and down. << Well, Scott! You most certainly are a truly magnificent example of human manhood! What splendid musculature! And you're brave too. I like what I see! >>
"What are you?" asked Scott.
Derek looked at Scott with a steady gaze. << Didn't you hear what God just told you? Pan is God's true and faithful servant and he has served the Lord God for 256,000,000 years. Like I just told you, Pan is the god of sheep and goats, shepherds, wild places, fields, groves, wooded places, nature and fertility, not to mention wild things, animals, plants, trees and natural beauty. And he's my friend and mentor. >>
Scott felt abashed.
Pan looked at him lecherously. << I'd love to taste your spunk, you gorgeous hunk of muscle! >>
With that Pan reached down and grabbed Scott's limp cock. With a little expert hand massage by Pan, it soon stiffened. Pan bent down and applied his goat-like muzzle to Scott's penis. He licked and sucked on it eagerly. Scott gasped when Pan's tongue licked his cock head under his foreskin. His cock soon became a raging, rock hard erection. The sensations of the inside of Pan's muzzle around his penis were electrifying.
Pan continued licking and sucking. << This cock has been up inside Derek's arsehole, you lucky fellow. I can taste it. There's a lovely meaty sauce on your cock that comes from Derek's bowels. Yum, yum! You're a wild thing, Scott. >>
Scott's mind whirled with unanswered questions. His telepathic sense was not developed enough to gain any more information. Pan was concentrating on pleasuring Scott's cock with his mouth. There was nothing available in Pan's mind. The old god was full of tricks. Derek had some sort of mind shield up that a neophyte telepath like Scott could not penetrate. Orgasm eluded Scott. He just could not get there.
Scott felt Derek's muscular arms come around his waist and Derek's strong hands start massaging the magnificent ten-pack of his abdominal muscles. Shortly afterwards, he felt Derek's big stiff cock probing between his arse cheeks for his arsehole. Derek tightened his grip on Scott's slim but powerfully muscled waist and gently thrust his big thick cock head up into Scott's arsehole. He pushed further and bumped his cock head up against Scott's prostate.
Scott groaned with the double pleasuring he was receiving. He caught Derek's determination to make Scott cum into Pan's mouth.
Derek kept on thrusting his big thick penis up Scott's arsehole, penetrating Scott further with every stroke. Soon Derek had his cock fully embedded up inside Scott's heroically muscular torso. Derek thrust his cock into Scott with long steady strokes, driving him relentlessly towards orgasm.
Meanwhile, Pan was sucking busily on Scott's raging erect cock. The sensations were tremendous. Pan was an expert. Scott's cock tingled.
Derek was himself approaching orgasm as he pleasured himself mightily with Scott's huge muscular body.
He gave a telepathic shout: << Go, man, go! >>
The sensations of Derek's penis pounding into Scott's internal organs were overwhelming. Pan sensed that Scott was about to blow. He withdrew his mouth so that it covered just Scott's cock head. He massaged Scott's shaft with his hands wonderfully while he continued sucking on Scott's cock head.
Scott let it all go as he burst into orgasm. It was a wonderful feeling as once more he felt his semen boiling up through his groin along the shaft of his cock and gushing straight into Pan's eager mouth.
Pan savoured the taste of Scott's spunk squirting into his mouth. It was good. It was sweet. It was the juice of a powerful he-man with huge muscles.
A few seconds later, Derek roared into orgasm as well. All his big muscles tensed up. He thrust his cock as far as it could go up Scott's arse into his torso. He revelled in planting his semen deep inside Scott's magnificent body. It was sheer joy.
The two supermen remained rapt together in their conjoint orgasms. Pan continued sucking heartily on Scott's cock and massaging his shaft with his hands. At the same time, Derek's mighty cock remained stiff up Scott's arse filling his groin with its thick shaft. Scott was in double ecstasy. He was in a firestorm of orgasmic bliss that was connected up intimately with Derek. Pan fanned the flames. He played Scott's penis as if it were a thick clarinet. Scott screamed.
Derek roared like a lion in rut as he pumped his semen into the depths of Scott's bowels. Scott kept on squirting his semen into Pan's hot eager mouth.
The men's conjoint orgasms finally wound down to a close. Pan took his mouth off Scott's penis and burped loudly.
He stood up in front of Scott who was sagging happily in Derek's arms.
Pan grinned. << Truly the spunk of a warrior! >>
Scott was too well fucked to care. He smiled languidly back at Pan. Then he realised what Pan was thinking.
Scott: << What do you mean? >>
Pan: << You, Scott, have the potential to be a mighty warrior. >>
Scott briefly caught the image in Pan's mind of Scott himself raising his fist, shouting a battle cry and leading a charge of a horde of supermen into battle. The image was gone in an instant. It was like a movie poster.
Scott: << Pan, all joking aside, what are you? I've never seen a being like you before. I've never even heard of you before. >>
He felt Derek sigh impatiently and his penis soften. Derek withdrew his soft penis from Scott's arsehole. He rested his chin on Scott's shoulder and put his hands around Scott's waist. He rolled his eyes at Pan about Scott.
Pan smiled. << Scott, you certainly have the spirit of a warrior. You certainly show courage, even though your lover is a bit irritated with you. >>
He continued. << I am originally from a planet far away from here although it is still in the same galaxy as Earth. I am one of a race whose name translates literally into English as 'The People'. I am the only one of my race to have been granted super powers. I tried to uplift others of my kind to come before God and receive super powers but I was unsuccessful. I was reviled by my fellow people. Eventually I was obliged to leave my planet and go into exile. God sent me here to Earth to, essentially, guide the evolution of life forms on this planet. Earth is a rich and bountiful planet. Its environment is just right for the evolution of a rich and diverse array of life forms. God's original plan was for Earth to grow a wonderful garden of plant and animal life all living together in an interconnected environment. I arrived here about five million years before the end of the Permian Period, in other words, about 256 million years ago. There was a great extinction at the end of the Permian because Earth was drying out and the wrong kinds of life forms were evolving. I learnt a lot in that time. The angels transformed the life energy emanating from God, the Primal Source and, following the Divine Plan and Order, created and sustained life on Earth. I acted as a kind of consultant. Gradually the idea grew that Earth should be the birth place of an intelligent race who would come to know and love God.
In the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods that followed, life bloomed. Many diverse species evolved. Dinosaurs appeared during the Triassic period and diversified into many species, great and small. They grew to be magnificent animals with some weighing up to a hundred tons.
At the end of the Cretaceous Period, God asked the awful question: 'Will dinosaurs evolve into intelligent creatures with souls capable of knowing and loving Me?' The only possible answer was 'No.' I had not fulfilled my task. I had been too busy playing around with the evolution of dinosaurs and had forgotten my mission. God was willing to let me go for a while for there were other intelligent races evolving in the Universe. However, the other intelligent races were not successful in evolving souls capable of sustaining godhood. My own race was among them; it was quite unsuccessful in producing gods; I am the only one of my kind who has ever become a god.
God decided to let another intelligent race evolve on Earth. Given enough time, dinosaurs would have become intelligent, but it would have been the wrong sort of intelligence; it would not have been one that could have sustained a soul. Therefore God determined that the dinosaurs had to go extinct to make room for another race to evolve. He ordered me to guide an asteroid to collide with Earth and wipe out the dinosaurs. I wept bitter tears at the prospect of wiping out my creations. But I did it. I had to. If I had not, the Archangel Michael would have done the job for me. I would have been humiliated. I would have been shown up as not made of the right stuff. With tears running down my face, I guided that asteroid to hit Earth and set off a global catastrophe.
To be sure, a few dinosaurs survived that cataclysm. They have become all the birds we have today. >>
Pan indicated the flock of sulphur-crested white cockatoos screeching in the pine trees along the back fence. The birds were feasting on the pine nuts inside the pinecones. The fowls clucked in the henhouse. Sparrows hopped around inside the henhouse pecking at the spilled chicken feed. Half a dozen crows flapped across the sky. A kookaburra's laugh came from the forest near the town. All birds were dinosaurs that still lived.
Pan went on to describe how a group of mammals became the primates. From these eventually evolved the human race. This race showed considerable promise, from the shamans and spirit men to the great holy men and teachers such as Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, and the Jewish prophets such as Moses, Isaiah and Ezekiel. These teachers and holy men kept appearing all through human history. God and his servant Pan knew that they had a race with potential.
Derek, at Pan's prompting, told of Hal's teaching about the five forms of intelligence. He showed in his mind an image of four circles arranged in the shape of a plus sign around a central circle.
At the bottom was the instinctive or automatic intelligence. This was characteristic of animals that operated through instinct alone.
On one side was the evil intelligence. This was utterly selfish and was perfectly willing to hurt and exploit heedlessly other creatures for its own advantage. This was characteristic of demons.
On the opposite side was the perfect or good intelligence. This would do no wrong. It was altruistic and always chose to do the right thing. Angels all had a perfect intelligence.
Halfway between the perfect and evil intelligences was the neutral intelligence. It could operate without regard to good or evil. It could be regarded as the utilitarian intelligence. Most intelligent races in the universe had this form of intelligence.
At the uppermost point opposite the instinctive intelligence was the divine or Christ-like intelligence. This form of intelligence had evolved in the human race. Jesus Christ was the paragon of this form of intelligence. The divine intelligence could operate in any of the four other modes of intelligence: good, evil, neutral or instinctive. It was completely free to do so. That was its characteristic, perfect freedom. Its highest expression to become a god and serve the Lord God.
Pan took up the story.
Two thousand years ago a baby boy was born in the town of Bethlehem in the province of Judaea in the Roman Empire. This baby was named Jesus and in him was incarnate the Holy Spirit. The anniversary of the baby's birth is celebrated as Christmas Day.
The Word was made flesh in this baby. The soul of this baby was able to sustain godhood. That became apparent as Jesus grew into manhood and commenced His ministry.
When God saw that Jesus was a god, He knew that he had struck the jackpot with the human race. He knew that because of Jesus, the human race had the potential to become gods. However, it had taken nearly 2000 years before Hal had not only become a god himself, but he and his band had discovered how to train up other human beings to become superhuman gods. Hal had understood fully the teaching of Jesus Christ. He saw that Love was the transforming principle. Transformation was relatively easy through sex magic.
Certainly, other human beings after Jesus but before Hal had become gods. However, they had not been able to uplift other humans into godhood. Some had come close, but very few had succeeded in creating small communities.
Jesus knew through His close relationship with The Lord God that He was a god with superhuman powers. He chose to use them as a great wise teacher who on occasion worked miracles. Jesus loved God as His Father. He was faithful and obedient even to death.
Pan loved Jesus. He saw Him as a beautiful and wonderful human being, the pinnacle of creation. He knew with God that the human race had been shown to be capable of great things.
God was determined to test Jesus thoroughly. Lucifer, the fallen angel, had tried hard to tempt Jesus away from His relationship and obedience to God but Jesus had remained steadfast and true. Lucifer, or Satan, had been defeated by Michael and the Heavenly Host. Now he was trying to win favour with God again. God gave him the onerous task of testing the human race, of trying to tempt them into evil and to sharpen the humans' ability to differentiate good from evil. As Hal had put it, the human race was being forged by the Hammer of Christ on the Anvil of Satan.
Pan saw Jesus go through His suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. He saw that Jesus was to die upon the Cross. Pan was terribly distressed to see that Jesus, the beautiful and wonderful human being who was the paragon of perfection, was to suffer a hideous and painful death by crucifixion. What Pan found impossible to understand was that God was expecting Jesus to go to His death upon the Cross. He tried hard to persuade Jesus not to go through with this action, which Pan saw as suicide. However, Jesus was adamant. He will do the Will of God even though it meant that he was going to die a horrible death.
Some of the disciples in the garden saw Pan talking to Jesus. They thought he was the Devil. So arose the myth that the Devil was tempting Jesus away from His fate.
Jesus was arrested by the Jewish temple guards after being betrayed by the apostle Judas. He was led away to His trial. Afterwards He was handed over by the Jewish religious authorities to the Romans for execution by crucifixion.
Pan witnessed all this happening. When he saw Jesus dying upon the cross in such agony, he wept bitterly. Jesus was superhuman. How could this happen? When Jesus died, Pan went to God in terrible distress. He did not understand what was happening. Why did God allow this to happen?
God made it clear to Pan that it was all in accord with His Will. Jesus died upon the cross. Two days later (on the third day) He rose again from the dead. Jesus had gone obediently to His death on the cross. He died showing that all humans are capable of godhood for Jesus was God incarnate in human form. When He rose again from the sepulchre and showed Himself to His disciples, He demonstrated His Divine power. They saw that He who was dead, was not longer dead but fully alive. He had conquered death. Jesus was a human but fully divine being of the spirit.
By His death and resurrection, Jesus demonstrated that He was completely obedient to God's Will, not only to God, but also to the human race as well. He demonstrated that humans were capable of achieving godhood and becoming immortal. Therefore God was willing to preserve and nurture the human race and forgive their failings. Jesus had shown that the transforming principle was love. By His death on the cross He had demonstrated His love for His fellow human beings. That was enough for God. He loved the human race. By Jesus's sacrifice of himself they had been proved worthy of God's love. The human race was redeemed by the death of one man who was a god. The Lord God would await the transformation of the human race through love.
The death and resurrection of Jesus had a powerful impact on people at the time. These occurrences had amplified Jesus' teaching, which would resonate down through the centuries.
Derek came in with an aside that many Christian churches had degenerated into power structures that used fear to control people's lives. They had lost sight of Jesus' teaching about love and its primacy.
Pan: << That's true, Derek. However, the churches and other religions will fade into irrelevance once most human beings become superhuman gods in the service of the Lord God Almighty. Soon, the churches and other religious bodies will simply not matter. >>
Scott: << But, Pan, what about you? Are you the only one of your kind ever to become a god? >>
Pan: << Yes. >>
<< What about the rest of them? >>
<< Sadly, none of them had the ability to become superhuman. I was a freak. And now they are all dead. My race is extinct, apart from me, that is. >>
<< You are the only one left of your kind? How come? >>
With sadness Pan told of the holocaust that had been visited upon his race about two thousand years ago. The People had not evolved any further since Pan had left his home planet 256,000,000 years ago. In fact, they had stagnated. They had never explored their solar system, let alone other star systems. They had not even left the confines of their home planet. They had reached a state which they regarded as perfect and remained unchanged for many millions of years.
Scott commented how boring life there must have been.
Pan shrugged his shoulders and continued.
A race of perfect soldiers was created by a race who prided itself on building artificial life forms. The 'master' race had overreached itself and was exterminated by the perfect soldiers who had rebelled against them. This race of perfect soldiers had then embarked on a tremendous wave of conquest and carved out a huge empire that spanned the Milky Way Galaxy and the two Magellanic Clouds. They had freely used technology stolen from the other races that they had conquered. They had acquired a very effective faster-than-light drive that enabled them to travel astronomical distances quickly. Their empire spread rapidly. They were merciless and ruthless. They exterminated any race they deemed unworthy, including the one that Pan had been a member of. They saw themselves as the Master Race.
Even now their empire was expanding. Its furthest outposts were not far from the solar system. Those humans with super powers were well aware of the empire expanding towards Earth.
Scott: << What's going to stop them? >>
Pan: << You humans are. >>
Scott caught an image in Pan's mind of Scott himself shouting "We shall never surrender!" He shuddered as Pan looked at him inscrutably.
Pan: << Let me tell you a story from the Aboriginal Dreamtime. >>
Pan told the story of a giant perentie (goanna or monitor lizard) that was very hungry. All the other animals had hidden themselves away in fear because they did not want to get eaten by the giant perentie. Only one animal was not hidden away and that was the spiny echidna (spiny anteater). He was not afraid of the perentie and he went about his business eating ants.
The huge perentie was so hungry that he stalked the echidna who was walking along quite carefree. He sprang upon the echidna and gobbled him up in one gulp. However, he choked on the echidna's spines and died. The echidna was still inside the throat of the dead perentie. He found it hard to breathe so he dug his way out through the neck of the dead perentie with his powerful claws. He was glad to reach the open air. Pretty soon, many, many ants came and started eating up the body of the perentie. Their numbers multiplied rapidly. The echidna feasted on the ants and grew fat. Pretty soon a lady echidna came along and joined the feast. She praised the echidna for being such a brave warrior in slaying the terrible monster perentie. The two echidnas soon had lots of children who spread all over Australia.
Pan: << You supermen and superwomen of the human race are like the echidna who was swallowed by the giant perentie but killed the perentie stone dead. You by your very nature will defeat the perfect soldiers. That is the Will of God. Already measures are in place to protect Earth. >>
To keep Earth safe, supermen had recently surrounded the entire Solar System with a spatio-temporal discontinuity (STD) sphere. Inside this sphere, time was delayed by a few microseconds. Photons were able to cross it easily. However, the sphere proved an impenetrable barrier to any physical object made of ordinary matter trying to cross it. Any spaceship attempting to cross the barrier at any speed, especially faster than light, would hit it and be vaporised by the impact. A superhuman could easily jump through it. However, the perfect soldiers did not have that technology.
Scott: << How are we going to stop them? >>
Pan: << Exterminate them, just like they exterminated many other races in the galaxies. >>
Derek: << Like your own race? >>
Pan: << Except for me, but yes. When my race was wiped out, I was hidden away here on Earth. That was a little over two thousand years ago, long before there was any such thing as a STD sphere. That was invented only a few years ago by that young genius Richard Kelvin. >>
Scott: << Why exterminate them? Couldn't that be seen as revenge on your part for killing off your own race with us supermen doing the dirty work for you? >>
Derek remained quiet. He had had this argument before and could see the inevitable outcome.
Pan: << Just think about it, Scott. There are about 6,000,000,000 human beings and they are all on this one planet Earth, well at the moment they are, still very vulnerable. In time most of those will have become superhuman. However, you will be up against 120,000,000,000,000,000 of these perfect soldiers. You humans are outnumbered by 20,000,000 to one. One more thing, these perfect soldiers all have the intelligence type of evil. They were designed that way by the race that created them, not deliberately but it was the inevitable outcome of the way the creators designed the perfect soldiers' brains. The creators built the perfect soldiers to be aggressive, ruthless, harsh, merciless, cruel and invincible. You cannot appeal to their better natures for they have none. They do not respond to acts of mercy except by taking advantage of the mercy shown to them and attacking the merciful. You humans, in spite of all the evil things that humans have done over the past centuries and millennia, are like sweet and noble saints compared to these perfect soldiers. If, Scott, you, or any human, can indeed think of a way of stopping these soldiers without exterminating them, your name will be lauded across the galaxies. But, if you cannot, you have no option but to exterminate them for the sake of the other races in the universe and the sake of the Will of God. He does not want to see the garden of His universe taken over by rampant exotic weeds that choke out all other life forms. And spread across the universe they will, if they are not stopped by you humans. >>
Scott: << Sounds like it's going to be pretty bloody blood-thirsty! >>
<< But Scott, you humans are up to the task. Just think of all the horrible bloody wars that you humans have fought over the centuries and millennia. You've all had plenty of practice. You humans can be extremely blood-thirsty when the occasion arises. You humans can wipe out this race. You all are capable of doing things that my own race was never capable of doing. My race bred out any traits regarded as evil and look where it got them all, being turned into radioactive ash! On the other hand, you humans are capable of both great evil and great good. Not only that, but you have super powers and those super powers will spread throughout the entire human race. I know that you all will be up to the task of wiping out the perfect soldiers. It will be a mighty terrible war that you humans will fight, but fight it and win it by exterminating the perfect soldiers you will. >>
"Either that or come up with another way," intoned Derek.
Pan: << Precisely, my friend. You pinpoint the dilemma precisely. The beautiful thing about you humans is that you can see that there is a dilemma. Most races cannot see that. You do because of your god- like intelligence. >>
Scott: << What about the other races in the universe? Can't they do anything? >>
Pan: << The perfect soldiers are increasing rapidly in numbers all the time. At the moment there are one hundred and twenty thousand million million of them, twenty million for every one of the human beings on this planet. It will not be long before they are double that number. They possess very advanced technology that they have stolen from other races.
Beings with normal capabilities will simply be overwhelmed by them because of their numbers and their highly advanced technology and their enormous destructive capabilities. Only beings with super powers can stop them. >>
Scott: << How many of those are there? There must heaps in the whole universe. >>
Pan: << That is precisely the problem. There are now approximately one hundred thousand human beings on Earth with super powers. However, from the whole universe apart from Earth, there are only twelve non-human beings with super powers, extraterrestrial super- beings if you like. The number of supermen and superwomen far outnumber the extraterrestrial super-beings, 100,000 to 12, and I am one of the non-human super-beings. Human beings find it much easier to become telepaths and receive superpowers than every other race in the universe. That is why there are so many more superhumans than all the other races put together. And another thing, most of those twelve are living right here on Earth because they have found the superhumans such congenial company. They are loved and appreciated by the humans. The humans are willing to learn from us and they have learnt much from us. Some of us are many millions of years old and have in that time acquired much knowledge. >>
Derek: << You can see, Scott, why we humans are so precious to God. >>
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