the fate of the Humans fresh in his mind, he asked Raziel: “What do you think the Almighty meant when He told us that we needed to be careful with these crystals that we are going to seek out, find and return to the Heavens?”
“I am not sure,” responded Raziel with some concern flashing across his face. “Only yesterday I would never have considered anything dangerous to us.”
“True , I thought we were always safe. As Beings of Light we were the first created Beings and made out of the major energy force that underlies the Universe,” said Ariel.
“But we have seen what happens when someone disobeys a commandment of the Almighty. Those Humans have now been cast out of Eden and sentenced to die,” Raziel said
“Like the dinosaurs?” Ariel said, even more worried.
“I imagine so,” said Raziel and added, “also wasn't one of the Cherubim injured during the destruction of the dinosaurs?”
“Yes, but Raphael seemed able to assist him,” Ariel said, relieved at the thought. “Do you think the Humans will die right away? "
“Not sure how much time they have, Ariel. If you think about it, before this disobedience there was no need for the concept of time either. What a mess has been made by such a stupid act! I understand that Jarahmael, Michael and Cerebriel are off to locate the two of them. I don’t know, those three Archangels may even be the ones sent to dispatch them into death.”
“But don't these new Humans have souls, unlike the dinosaurs?”
“Yes. That is one of the reasons the Almighty was not so concerned about the dinosaurs,” Raziel answered. “Luciferael did not know enough to give them souls, or the Book of Creation did not allow for souls, so they acted purely out of instinct, not thoughts and feelings.”
Raziel and Ariel had now come to the green moss coated cave where the Almighty had sent them. The sun’s light barely penetrated the dark hole that ran underneath the pyramid structure in Centr us and as they flew down into the cave the two Archangels used their luminescence to see. Near a bend in the cave that went back towards the surface, they landed and dimmed themselves. Off to the side they could see a large, seemingly bottomless chasm that was aglow in flickering orange light. The faintness of the color indicated that there were light and heat a great distance further down in to the Earth from where they were standing.
“I think this is the spot,” said Raziel. “Let's fly down there and see if we can find these crystals. The Almighty said that they were about halfway down , special crystals that can absorb and hold Light itself.”
“Trap light within them?” asked Ariel, concerned once again about the dangerousness of these things.
“I would assume,” said Raziel. “After all, we do have prisms that split light into various underlying colors. They had never affected us much as that form of light is relatively weak and dispersed.”
Ariel pulled back his red hair and aimed his orange wing tips towards the glow at the bottom of the hole, followed by Raziel and his purple-tipped wings. Flying down into the depths, they saw a dozen glowing Crystal Prisms formed along the walls of the inner cavern. Turning themselves upright mid-air, their wings kept them stable as they collected the Crystal Prisms, handling them carefully with the folds of their tunics as they did not want to somehow be harmed by the crystals. They then flew up through the chasm and , once in the upper regions of the cave , changed direction to fly back out.
“Off to Jarahmael's palace!” Raziel said and the two flew rapidly up into the Heavens.
After flying through each of the lower Heavens, Raziel and Ariel arrived at Jarahmael's palace and entered gently through the main doorway. Lillith had seen them flying through the Seventh Heaven towards the palace and went to the entranceway to greet them. As the two Angels entered, they bent over and gave a slight bow and announced