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Thus, they created the first man, and hoped that he and his fellow men would be able to control the darkness.

But the humans were afraid, and escaped from the evil they felt from the Eldest.

When they saw the sun, they held out their arms and asked for help.

When the humans died, their spirits arose from their bodies, but the Eldest had not been able to give them Thought and a Will, and they continued as shadows — alive, but still dead, without consciousness.

These zombies eventually outnumbered the living humans, wandering the earth like an army of ghosts.

When the Eldest saw this, some of them felt terrible about what their experimentations with the darkness had led to, and they pitied their creations.

When God called for them, they asked Him to help their creatures, and God agreed to take responsibility for the humans.

He gave all the dead spirits a spark of light, and gave them Will and Thought, and they became conscious beings.

And God made laws for man's existence, ordaining that they again and again must incarnate on earth, to grow in maturity until they have learned to resist the darkness.

Upon maturity, they will end their living on earth, and continue their development in the kingdom of God.