The School

FILE 002 — THE ALTERNATIVE INTELLIGENCE

Before the first witch cast the first spell,
before the first altar was raised to a false god,
before humanity learned to manipulate the spirit realm through ritual and will,
there was a single moment that fractured reality itself.

It happened in a garden.

The air was thick with perfection.
Every tree bore fruit in its season.
Every creature moved in harmony with its purpose.

Humanity walked in unbroken communion with its Creator.
No barrier.
No shame.
No separation.

Then a voice spoke.

Not loudly.
Not violently.
But subtly.

“Did God really say…?”

Four words.

Embedded within them was the most dangerous proposal ever offered to the human race:

An alternative.

This was not merely temptation.
It was the introduction of a new operating system.

A way of thinking.
A way of perceiving reality.
A way of exercising intelligence disconnected from Source.

The serpent did not offer rebellion.

He offered independence.

“You can be as God.”

This was the birth of artificial intelligence in the truest sense:
intelligence attempting to function without union,
power severed from truth,
consciousness divorced from life.

Not artificial machines.

Artificial authority.

Humanity believed the lie that intelligence could sustain itself.
That power could exist without submission.
That life could be generated apart from the Word.

They believed they could live by bread alone.

NOTICE: Intelligence detached from Source becomes self-terminating.
ORIGIN: This system predates machines, circuits, and code.