27 February 2025
Hashing out a game plan with the wild man from the vortex
(Cont.)
Then, Moses, with his face still to the ground and his eyes shut, replied, “But why should the King of the Empire grant me an audience, let alone allow me to abscond with his whole labor force?”
The wild man answered, “You are the son of the Princess and enjoy a high position in the government there. Please do not treat me like a simpleton.”
And after a long silence, Moses dared to speak again: “But what should I tell the multitudes, when I explain your plan to them: Do I claim that the idea was my own? For you could lead this revolution yourself, but instead you are pressuring me to do it: Is that because you wish to remain unknown? Or would you prefer that I inform the people about you? And how might I do that, when I have no clue who you are? Perhaps I should stand before the masses and claim that some deity has sent me . . . But then surely they will ask which one of the celestials I represent. You know that people are choosy about such things; divine names and titles are important to them – a believer in ‘Christ’ will not follow someone sent by ‘Allah,’ neither will the adherents of ‘the LORD’ follow ‘BAAL,’ no matter how synonymous the terms are. So: Who should I say is my handler?”
The wild man said, “Tell them that their Hope is ready to help them: ‘the presence of absence who is the absence of presence’. Say that you were sent by the unknown one who comes and goes at will.”
Moses remained silent. Then he shook his head and said, “I just can’t do it. Please relieve me from this duty. Can’t you send one of the messiahs that are always being prophesied about? I’m not an eloquent speaker; and I have zero charisma.”
The man growled at this. “Fine. You have a ghostwriter named Bryan – the same one who played Tertius for Paul in Romans 16:22 – Bryan Ray, your shadow self: Use him as your front man. I will instruct you, and then you will instruct him, in turn. Thus, he will be your prophet, just as you are my prophet. It shall resemble a game of Telephone, or Chinese Whispers. (Like Whitman says: It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you, / Tied in your mouth, in mine it begins to be loosen’d.) So the new arrangement is that Bryan shall be your spokesman to the people. Understand? Rather than me playing a deity, with you serving as my mouthpiece, he shall be to you instead of a voice, and you shall be to him instead of God.”
The wild man then approached Moses. “Get up,” he said. “Take this.”
Moses arose, shielding his eyes with one hand while groping with the other until he clutched the object that the man was offering to him. It was some type of wand.
Moses gasped: “The Rod of God?”
“You will use this to perform various signs, when the need arises,” the wild man explained. “Now, go: make that appointment with the King, and tell him to release my precious child, the working class. And tell him that if he continues to mistreat my child, then I will personally murder his own precious child.
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Then Moses returned to the place where he was staying with his wife Zipporah and their precious son Xeno, whose name means Visitor or Outsider. And suddenly the Lord Yahweh appeared in the room and tried to murder the lad. (For Yahweh had warned Abram, back in Genesis 17:14, saying: “the uncircumcised man child shall be knifed away from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”) Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at Yahweh’s loins, and she said unto Moses, “What a bloody husband you are!” Then Yahweh let the lad go. And Zipporah raised her voice and said: “You are! You are! A bloody husband you are! What a barbaric ritual!”
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And the wild man said to Bryan, the ghostwriter of Moses, “Go into the rolling plains and meet your double.” And he went to the hillside where the vortex was, and the goats were still grazing; and he found his alter ego, and they embraced.
And Moses told Bryan all the instructions of the wild man who had sent him, and he showed him signs and wonders with the magic wand.
So Moses and Bryan went into the Empire and told all the heads of the labor unions and other representatives of the workers to gather their people together; and Bryan spoke to the masses, telling them everything that the wild man in the vortex had said to Moses, and he performed marvels in the sight of the multitudes.
And the people believed. And when they heard that their Hope was ready to help them, and that “the one who comes and goes at will” had seen their mistreatment at the hands of the Empire’s King, and that something powerful from THE BEYOND intended to stop this abuse, they pledged allegiance to Bryan and Moses; and they agreed to join their foreign-sponsored revolution.
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