Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Friday, March 1st, 2019
Chapter One: Spinning
Jim could not be everywhere.
Through the agency of his cadre of replicants, Jim worked tirelessly.
Even with his network of dopplegangers he frequently encountered the
limits of what was possible for him to do.
The human population grew quickly, spreading throughout the world. Jim
guided them to establish their villages in areas where the electromagnetic
fields were optimal for his research, where there was access to water, and
where they would develop for the greatest length of time independent from one
another.
Jim required autonomous population growth and cultural development to
test his hypotheses.
He used his agency to establish networks around the world. He
cultivated spies, informants, and confessors in every tribe.
The people called them priest, shaman, witch-doctor, prophet and
oracle.
They were the officiants of the sacred rights.
They were his eyes and ears among the people.
They listened to and recorded everything the people said and did, keeping
a special ear out for incidences of the paranormal and psychic intrusion.
They were indispensable to him.
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2019
Chapter Two: The Web
Jim built
a global network of interlocking cells.
Each web of spies served their own community first.
They were tribalistic in the extreme, and conditioned to be xenophobic. This
type of conditioning was what the Continuum prescribed.
Each and every independent cell held allegiances to the
people of their own tribe first, but at the highest levels they underwent
initiations that opened-up their broader purpose.
They were initiated into the sacred mysteries which
gave them a glimpse of the galaxy, of the Empire and the great Collective
Consciousness and the Continuum, the demi-urge at its heart.
In the shadows Jim cultivated a secret cabal, hostile
to the Continuum, people who were conditioned to believe that their sacred
mission was to prepare the world for the inevitable encroachment of the
Empire.
Unity would be required of the people of Earth if they
were to survive an encounter with the Empire, and to that end they set aside
their tribalism, shared information and cooperated together.
There was nothing more important than this, the fate of
humanity depended on it.
Jim was extremely selective about who he chose to
promote into these ranks. He deliberately chose men and women who had a weak
connection to the cynergenic field.
Into their genetic profile he engineered capacities for
psychic resistance.
He never perfected these, but his most trusted spies
were unreadable to ordinary psychics.
They were indoctrinated into the secret societies after
careful consideration and vetting, every one was interconnected by their
sense of duty and loyalty, to humanity itself, and to Jim.
They were absolutely trustworthy and their presence
allowed Jim the freedom to roam about the world.
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
Chapter
Three: Cloak
Secrecy
was everything.
Jim had to
be able to conceal his work from the Continuum. He had to be able to endure
its scrutiny at each and every cycle in which he was required to report back
to HomeWorld, exposing himself to the Continuum and sharing his first-hand
experience with his brothers and sisters in the Collective.
This task
was filled by a replicant, a version of himself who was completely committed
to the mission Jim had claimed for them all. To pass through the ordeal Jim
had restricted the experiences of this replicant, controlled them, making it
so that he had precious few secrets to hide at the moment his consciousness
was exposed to the powerful examination of the Continuum.
He had to
conceal his movements and machinations from the mechana of spycraft that the
Continuum had required him to position all around the world; satellites with
powerful tools for audio and visual surveillance.
He had to
be even more careful in consideration of the living spies he knew the
Continuum had sent to Earth, his fellow members of the Observer Corps who
were sent to watch over him and report back to the Continuum covertly.
When Earth
entered the digital age, he had to be even more mindful of his actions
because he knew the Continuum and its spies had penetrated the information
technologies of nations states, and could use their technological resources
to sort massive amounts of data at incredible speeds, thereby increasing the
likelihood that he would be discovered.
Jim orchestrated the development of his international organizations,
personally managing the traditions that would allow it to progress, pulling
the cloak of secrecy over it, and stretching its shadowy tendrils into every
facet of human society; the Templars, the Hashishim, the Jesuits, the
Illuminati, they all belonged to him, served his bidding, fulfilled his
purpose, operating in the shadows, well beneath the notice of the Observers.
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
Chapter Four: Secrets
Jim continued the meditative practices that he had developed, practices
which allowed him to partition his mind and thoughts from the Continuum and
his fellow members of the Collective.
He exercised his ability to keep secrets. He did so while probing the
mysteries of Earth’s Cynergenic field. It was unlike that artificial
construction on HomeWorld in distinct ways, it did not have the
smooth-predictable channels of energy, the linear circuitry, and other
structural features that were the product of design and intention.
It was organic, it was messy.
In the crucial moment to come he would be exposed, he would have to
keep everything he had been planning partitioned behind a wall of sheer will,
until the moment when the disaster struck and then he would have to let it go.
The tension of the timing would be fraught with danger.
He had to keep secrets even from himself, shrouding all of his
intentions in mystery, he had to trust that his replicants also trusted him,
because like him, they were essentially free creatures. He would know it if
they did, but they could turn away from their mission at any time.
He utilized the institutions he had developed to test and augment his
theories, both concerning his own liabilities and concerning the hidden
mysteries of Earth.
He was Prime, and he watched over his Seconds with systematic
scrutiny. These dopplegangers had to be kept out of the information loop for
hundreds of cycles, fulfilling the regular functions of the Observer, responsible
for reporting to the Central Planet, hiding from the Collective only the
things Jim had always kept hidden, and ignorant of the details of the unfolding
mission.
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Chapter Five: Language
Jim busied himself with work that served a dual purpose, tasks that advanced
his personal mission, which also fit within the assignment he had undertaken
for the Continuum
He seemed to be devoted to the type of work the Continuum expected him
to do; archiving, preserving, recording the history of this world.
Through his international network Jim kept alive the ancient languages
that informed disparate groups and tribes of their essential unity, even the
original language that the colonists spoke when they crashed on this planet
so many eons ago.
He kept them alive through his secret societies, using them as a vehicle
for initiation as the members ascended through the various hierarchies.
He hid codes within the prevailing tongues, echoes of those ancient
forms of speech, that rang out like a bell, or an alarm to the initiate when
they heard it.
He created auto-hypnotic tropes which they could not resist once their
indoctrination was complete. He moved freely through the circles of power
with the use of them.
He could not rely on his machinery to help him construct this network,
the risk of its being hacked by the Continuum was too great. Instead he
relied on the ancient methods of oral tradition, of complex mnemonics to
achieve those ends.
Secrecy was the path to survival.
Discovery would put the Earth in jeopardy, and he might not know it
until the warships appeared in the sky above the tiny blue green planet, Imperial
juggernauts large enough to blot out the sun.
Jim bided his time.
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Chapter Six: State
Jim layered into the consciousness of the living weapon he was forming
an implicit acceptance of cyclical nature of revolution, the rise and fall of
governments. The individual that emerged from his work would have to be able
to see the destruction that he or she was wrecking on the Collective in a contextual
structure that seemed natural.
Jim utilized his network of spies to form political states, to build
Empires and dynasties, turning slaves in to royalty, making great armies out
of herdsmen and nomads or bandits into Kings, only to tear them down at the
apex of their power, as if in a natural cycle of growth, death, and rebirth.
This satisfied his ambition, and it satisfied the hunger of the
Collective as well.
His was the unseen hand behind the powers and principalities, he was the
invisible whisperer that conditioned the policies of the most powerful people
in the world. He would point and they would go, taking credit for the
movement to themselves, never realizing the deep influence they were
subjected to.
The rulers of Earth never fully suspected how they were being
manipulated.
He exercised his power in a variety of ways, overtly and covertly,
with stealth and might.
He was a strategist, and none of the tools of statecraft were out of
reach for him: gold, sex, power, fear, he employed them like an artist would
his brush, or a sculptor his chisel and hammer.
The actors on the stage rarely knew what was happening in the grand
scheme of things. He guided them with the lightest of touches, planting seeds
inside their heads when they were children, reaping the fruit he had sewn
when it was ripe.
Everything was cultivated and he was the master planter, the invisible
gardener tending to everything that grew within his sight.
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Chapter Seven: Nation
Jim pushed and pushed, ever-so-subtly to bring coherence to human
government, binding them through language systems, tribal allegiances, and
systems of fealty.
As time
progressed he allowed for the emergence of Empires, he formed city states
into nations, and principalities into kingdoms.
He
implemented different governmental systems to stand in tension with one
another, hierarchical systems of governance from the top down, which
articulated the divine right of the rulers to rule, of the nobility to
inherit.
Against
these hierarchies, he developed systems of government based on mutuality and
common bonds, developed from the implicit understanding that the right to
rule stemmed from the consent of the governed.
These were
not developments that the Continuum desired, but the drama it produced when
civilizations clashed was utterly tantalizing to the Collective.
He wrote
the laws that governed the great powers of the world, and he established the
ministries which those governments revolved around, relied upon. Within those
organizations he planted replicants of himself, and the human cadre of
followers who were utterly committed to serving his ideals.
They
worked together hand in glove to orchestrate global conflict and its
resolution. All in the service of Jim’s mission.
He took
extraordinary pains to mask his work, keeping it secret from the Continuum
against impossible odds, while keeping the human societies that he
manipulated in the dark at one and the same time.
He did not conceal it all, there rumors abounded of secret societies
and secret powers, but nothing was ever substantiated, to link the rumors to
the reality.
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Section Five (a), Jim
Appendix Part Five, Spymaster
Collected Chapters
01
Spinning
02 The Web
03 Cloak
04 Secrets
05
Language
06 State
07 Nation
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
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