Endless Flight
von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)
A very long, long time ago the earth was ruled by reptiles. They roamed the plains as masters. And along with them the birds evolved and filled the skies. As these creatures died their individual deaths, some of them left bones behind which was preserved by nature, in evidence of their passing. But their was another creature that left no traceable remains behind.
They were related to birds, but more distant in their relation than we are from monkeys. They also had wings and flew in the air alongside the multitudes of birds. But they had no internal organs like other creatures, apart from something that produced an advanced pattern of logical thought. Having no entrails, heart or blood, they existed by means of the energy of light. Their numbers were few and they did not reproduce frequently or by means of sexual intercourse, being sexless. Reproduction was achieved by close communial interaction of a closely related group, over a long period of time.
They were the actual masters of the world during pre-history. Being intelligent they were in total control of the world around them and the creatures in it. But unlike man who came after them, their thoughts were not self-centered. They did not pursue the temptations of technology or material fulfillment. Instead they developed their faculties in the regions of the essence of existence. Unlike man they did have to have to have laws forced upon them to value life.(Which man fails to do despite law.). Their very being was centered around the essence of life, and their natural tendency was toward good, as ours is towards evil.
These creatures were also immune against any sickness or physical regression of any kind, and they lived without the threat of degradation and ultimate demise. They flew across the blue and white skies endlessly. Their song mixed with the song of birds and the air was alive with life. The earth was paradise ruled by these benevolent masters for what must have seemed an eternity. But change did come as the mortal creatures on the earth died and evolved. And the changes affected these heavenly creatures also.
A dirty little bi-ped arrived on the scene. It took his kind a while to shake off some of the dirt and then they immediately presumed they were of superior nature to the other animals. They started building towns and advancing their material sciences. Being more in number than the beautiful sky creatures they seized control of the earth. They built and destroyed, built and destroyed. Unable to develop even a basic sense of right and wrong, they seemed doomed to return to mud.
The creatures in the air helped individuals from time to time, when they found them to be good men, persecuted by the injustices if the masses. These men called them Angels, because of their great beauty and inner power and wisdom. But their came a time when the science and sin of men started to become a curse on the earth, and the creatures left.
They roamed through the endless space of the universe, powered by the light of the stars, searching a new home. They found places that they could settle, not being bound by lack of food or other sustenance, and lived in harmony once again with each other. They were happy to be free of the curse of man, but missed the beauty of other harmless creatures. Yet they were free and kept away from their old home, now misruled by man.
On earth, man built vast empires. He ruled and killed and he maimed. He had no regard for his subjects, the subjects had no regard for each other. But not only did they murder each other and wallow gleefully in evil, but they were destroying the world as a whole. Plant an animal life was being exterminated by man, and not at a slow rate either. But his greed and folly overtook even his insatiable appetite, and he quickly brought about his own fall. It was upon him like an assassin in the night, and there was no redemption.
Their ignorance in the value and essence of life, brought them together in the valley of death, where they prepared to slaughter each other, down to the last man.
The creatures of the sky, got wind of this far away in their home in the heavens. They decided to return to their old home and witness the spectacle. Mankind amassed his weapons of war; their metal craft soared through the air with fire. Among the clouds the pilots of these craft saw strange and beautiful creatures, but their reports were dismissed as flights of fancy.
The end came with the fury of hell. Man burned in his own greed and evil, and it seemed as if no one would survive. But the creatures of the air had found a few good people among the multitude of evildoers, and protected them through the fire that purged mankind of his folly. The rivers ran with blood and the earth was scorched. Man made an ignoble exit, brought about his lust for power and supremacy. Like a shooting star he burned and raged, and then faded. When the killing had stopped there were those few left that had been found worthy of life, and so had been spared. The earth was quite, but soon there was again the sound of crickets in the grass. It was the interlude for the rebirth of nature.
With time the animal and plant life recovered. The scorched earth was replaced with fresh green growth, and the few people who were lucky enough to have survived began a new life, in subservience to nature. In the skies the birds sang beautiful tunes and alongside them flew the lords of the air, on golden wings, in endless flight.