Many occultic sects seek to gain immortality, to live as their ancestors did, in the Age of Immortals, where humans walked the earth like gods, where prophesies flowed like fine wine at a wedding party and power was strongest.
Methuselah was a great man, the son of Enoch, who did not die but was taken up to heaven and the grandfather of Noah, the ark builder.
It came to pass that Methuselah and his family were priests, who prophesied of the great flood that would come and the last day of all man. Methuselah died before the flood at a ripe age of 969, the longest any man had ever lived, until their god cut short the age of all man, to 120 years maximum. He was buried at his home and his body was forgotten.
The now fallen angels of God, he who is called Yahweh, wondered why the offspring they had with the humans did not live as long as the house of Enoch. They connived with the children of the night, the occult keepers, to kidnap Enoch and demand the secrets of his existence but their god protected him and whisked him away before they could lay claim of his body. Methuselah was 300 years old.
They decided to shift their target towards Methuselah, but he did not die and the protection around him was too strong. Many of them died, and the angels of God became restless, for they knew the time of the flood was soon to come and their plans to make Earth the 10th circle of hell was foiling. To preserve their lineage, they ordered their children to mate with whales and they bore the mere-folk, the first humanoids of the sea. The angels of gods were content thereafter, for their offspring would finally survive the flood and preserve their lineage.
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However, the children of the night were not content with the decision of the angels, for they were promised safe passage during the years of the flood. The angels told them that once a year, they would offer one of the mere-folk as a reward for working with them, and they would live an additional 100 years.
Thus, it began, the beginning of the unholy path to overturn the curse that made humans live for just 120 years.
However, there was a couple with greatness and greed in their hearts. They were not content with the mere 100 years that was promised. They challenged the angels as to why Enoch and his lineage did not have to eat their thrice cursed children. The angels mocked them saying,
“You do not know your place, you wish to be god but you follow the path of darkness, Do you know that those who seek immortality do not find it? Enoch does not wish to live long. Methuselah, whom you all envy would be content to rejoin his father this very moment. For this reason, our father granted them immortality, so that they may do his will”
The couple did not take kindly to the angels’ words and although outwardly showed respect and restraint, they secretly plotted a way to gain access to immortality, without the angels.
Just as the rains began pouring like buckets and the angels of god true to Noah had shut closed the gates, the couple exhumed Methuselah’s body because the eyes of the Lord were no longer upon his servant’s body. They dried and made it into leather with a kiln and tore it apart with their teeth.
They realized it gave them the ability to breathe under water, agility and premonition. Thus, they had it easier than the other children of night, who drowned for 150 days and 150 nights.