Prologue - A New Dawn

BOOK ONE
BAPTISM OF LIFE










BAPTISM OF LIFE ~ A MEMOIR
PROLOGUE – A NEW DAWN


It is widely accepted these days that man evolved from apes, and that if we traced our ancestry back through the ages all of man and today’s apes would arrive at one being, the common ancestor. There was a massive evolutionary leap forward many millions of years ago, and born from our mother ape the whole of mankind set forth to conquer the earth.
Although hard to imagine the early days, slowly, through thousands and then millions of years, mankind’s path spewed off from that of the apes creating new species. Man evolved from Homo-habilis to Homo-erectus, and then finally to the Homo-sapien. At each point along this chain man slowly changed, his brain growing larger and with it he learned new tricks to hedge his chances of survival on the earth. From fashioning tools to help him hunt, the discovery of fire, creating shelter and then communities, agriculture, religion, war, construction, industry, technology, to sending man to the moon, man’s destiny as the planet’s dominate species has spiralled him to the top of the food chain where he has remained indefinitely. The survival of their species was down to their larger brain which, in turn, has guaranteed them their mantel. Man really does rule the earth.
Let us go back for a moment, back to that first leap when are ape like mother gave birth to us. While we moved on through the ages her and her species died out, but were not alone on this journey. Our cousins, whose ancestors and ours is the same, are today’s Orang-utans, Gorillas, and Chimpanzees. Over millions of years we all divided and went our separate ways and then our particular species split again, creating a sub-species. It is believed that around three hundred and fifty thousand years ago, five separate species of human lived on the earth at the same time and for about seventy thousand years. It is believed that these five ‘brothers’, Homo-erectus, Homo-ergaster, Homo-neanderthalensis, Homo-heidelbergensis, and Homo-rhodesienis lived in different parts of the world, although whether they fought or lived together in their own separate communities, it is unknown.
Now, a new dawn is upon us.
Although I can tell you for definite that evolution’s new dawn has been rising for over eight hundred years, I cannot even begin to estimate when my kind and mankind’s destiny split.
Am I an ambassador for the third new evolution of man?
Is the Homo-sapien’s time coming to a close?
These are questions I cannot answer, and I know by writing this memoir I will be putting not only myself, but my species under threat.
History shows me that Man exterminates that which it does not understand. Jealousy would arise and a new war would be fought, not between religion or politics, but this time us and the. And because I fear we still number so few, we will be slaughtered instead of embraced.
A new dawn is upon us, the divine are amongst you.