Introduction

Scientists have discovered divine messages in human DNA and cosmic forces have been set in motion in anticipation that humans will soon be able to read them.

            It was thirty thousand years ago and it was cold in the Cave of the Red Serpent. The old man, the one with the crippled leg, had gone outside to relieve himself. He brought back several small sticks and twigs and added them to the dying fire—it was hardly enough to warm the large cavern. Manaa stirred and changed positions, uncomfortable in her pregnancy. The winged creature had told her she would have a son and that she should call him Ta Hadam. The clan in the cave spoke a language that consisted of barely one hundred words. Her primitive brain grappled with the complicated ideas that the winged being had spoken into her mind. Restless, she turned over to find a new position, the thoughts made her uneasy; she was different from the others in the cave.

            Now seven weeks into her pregnancy, Manaa was unaware that an ancient gene had stirred to life in the fetus in her womb. The gene was reading a two-billion-year-old blueprint, assembling a stem cell and a prescribed mixture of amino acids. The gene began building a brain neuron. As it had for millions of years, the gene created the end of the neuron with smooth cell wall extensions called dendrites—branches designed to overlap with other neurons in her son’s brain to form dendrite networks. His consciousness and thoughts would exist in these networks.

            Somewhere above her, there was the prospect of a war in heaven. Massive intellects argued for control of what was happening in Manaa’s womb…

            The ancient gene had mutated! This time the dendrite at the end of the neuron was different—thousands of tiny spines covered its surface. Industrious, infallible, mindlessly, the gene worked for a month building millions of the mutated neurons. The new spines facilitated vastly denser dendrite networks, yielding better and higher-bandwidth connections. The new and modern higher-brain functions of creativity and imagination now existed within these denser networks.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. (--- Revelation 12:7-9)

            On earth, the primitive people knew the great serpent and named him Yeshu—the word in their language for ‘beast.’ Frustrated that he had lost the heavenly war and believing that the infant male in Manaa’s womb was a threat to him, Yeshu attacked his daughter and attempted to kill her.