3U

3U

"Milord, you need have no fear that Binah will do what Bat-El has sworn never to do. For one thing, she holds herself to be subject to the same covenants that Bat-El has made with Elyon. The reason for this is that she herself lives in the clear space where Bat-El used to create his avatars, which thing Bat-El tells us is unique in the city of stars. The other elohim will doubtless hold them to be one and the same being. In an odd way, Binah is a kind of avatar herself, but she can never be ejected. She is already compressed, and she can shrink no more."

Absorbing these claims by Jashen Belphegor tried to imagine how it must be for Binah. Sexual pleasure for female elohim came from compression during mating which Binah had experienced from the instant of conception. She lived in a state of perpetual physical joy. Belphegor suddenly softened his attitude toward Jashen and said, "I have offered only unrelieved hostility, and I would move to reward you for your steadfastness, yet there remains one question: why you beg me to take the tablet from this Lael? Are there no warriors among you in this rebel faction of B'nei Elohim? Why not yourself?"

"Lord Belphegor, I have been a warrior from my youth on Earth but now I am summoned back there, and none of the other occupants of this villa are trained to fight. Nor is it assured other B'nei Elohim of like mind will come to Haaretz. We are sent by Bat-El here and there as our talents are needed."

"Yes, I had nearly forgotten that the B'nei Elohim had special abilities unique to each one. Lilith could even fly. What, then, is your talent, Jashen?"

"Tongues, milord. The men of Haaretz are not understood by any others, in the main. And I have frequently been sent to have dealings with the kings of Samaria and Judah as the herald of Bat-El."

'And the B'nei Elohim who resent this thralldom to Bat-El, what do you call yourselves?"

"The word we use, milord, has no equivalent term outside of our private tongue. The word is 'groupies;'. It refers to the sexual playthings of a troupe of musicians who travel with them."

For the first time Belphegor seemed amused. "I am sure the explanation for that is interesting but it is enough to know Elyon and I shall henceforth treat only with the 'groupies'. You can tell that to Bat-El if by chance he is not listening through the Golden Gift."