Canto
III
Gangster
Gospel
Canto III
Petrus Romanus
A Bat Without a Cave
How doth the little cave bat fly?
With either ear, but not one eye.
Within the cave, we hear its cry.
Upon the cave wall, it doth rely.
A bat shall sound its screeching call.
It echoes off the dim cave wall.
Without its ears, the bat would fall.
It would not fly -- no, not at all.
God sends his Word in every place.
It echoes off the human race;
And in our hearts, he sees his face
And in his Word, we see his grace.
Without our hearts, God could not see.
He could not speak, he could not be.
Without a Witness (two or three),
A bat without a cave is he.
Jehovah Arithmetic
Shekhinah witnessed the world created before she created it. But before she could create, she had to live. And before she could live, she had to be born of Jehovah. There is nothing before Jehovah. Jehovah is the Raw Universe, the Essence, the Four-Letter Word, the Four Greek Elements, the Four Sound Waves, the Four Cardinal Directions. He is mindless, godless, pure Ultimate Reality. He is the pure Mathematical Law, which not even God cannot transcend. Neither can any devil or demon transgress the Law of Math. The miracles of the Bible are within the potential of a technically advanced human civilization to perform. Tractor beams, holographic projectors, cloaking devices and food replicators cover the bulk of them. We already have holographic projectors now and the U.S. military is working on cloaking technology. A simple nuclear weapon could take care of Sodom!
No miracle of the Holy Ghost, no Apparition of Mary, no charismatic gift and no demonic possession has ever (or indeed can) violate Mathematical Principles or Natural Laws. The so-called laws of science are a joke; but the Divine Name Jehovah Arithmetic is represented in the New Testament as Joseph of Arimathea.
There is no Bizarro World or Mxyzptlk Dimension where two plus two equals five. There is only one Universe and none other, and two plus two always equals four now and forever. There is mystery in the Universe, but no magic, and God cannot pull a rabbit out his hat unless it was already there to begin with! Likewise, the "strong east wind" in Book of Exodus seems to indicate a more natural means by which the Red Sea was parted:
(Ex 14:21) and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Ears 2 Hear
Everywhere you hear me
Hoping you'll come near me
Hoping you won't fear me
Hoping you'll revere me
Why did you forsake me
Worshipping the fake me
Punishment to break me
Sacrifice you make me
Maybe you don't know me
Thought you were below me
Why can't you just show me
Just how much you owe me?
Though you never knew me
Now you know the true me
Living new life through me
Giving praises to me
It's a cosmic sign, girl
Time to walk the line, girl
Just open your mind, girl
You live in a blind world
Everyone around you
Tries so hard to drown you
But my love will ground you
It always was bound to
Love is in the air now
Ending your nightmare now
Jesus really cares now
Let's play truth and dare how
He is real, I swear it
Trust that you are near it
Take your cross and bear it
Now you've got the spirit
The Goddess Diane
Imagine being born in a world where no one else could see or hear you. Jehovah fed you but whenever you called out to people, you were ignored, unnoticed, neglected. How would you develop as a child? How would you know who you are, where you are, what you are? How would you know you were even alive at all? Who would speak to you in order to confirm your existence?
Our God Shekhinah is not that different from us. She cries out to be noticed, to be acknowledged, to be loved. She wants to find a nice little bar in Boston where everybody knows her name.
Shekhinah doesn't know she's alive until somebody says her name. Her existence is confirmed in the salutation. Michelangelo painted a fresco of Adam extending his hand to God and God extending his hand back to him, their two fingers touching. Without that connection, that touch, that mutual acknowledgement, the Sistine Chapel falls apart. Just as we are lost without God, God is lost without us.
Without the prayer of faith, we are as evolutionary by-products and cosmic accidents, spiritless, unable to transcend either nature or nurture. We are next in line for the grave, and after we die, it shall be as if we never lived.
But when we begin to see ourselves in God's creation, and see the Son of God in our neighbors and friends, even in our enemies, and reach out to others the same way Adam reached out to God, then we break free from this world -- crossing over from death to life. It is as if we are reborn! Some Christians call it being baptized by fire! But without our acknowledgement, God does not see herself and cannot live. It is as if she were aborted. She cannot bless -- she cannot save!
Because Shekhinah cannot die, the witness of Shekhinah cannot die either. Shekhinah cannot live on the memory of having once been witnessed. It must be a continual witness because God is Spirit, Soul and Will, but not Mind. Without a living human Mind, God cannot see her creation, her glory! God would cease to think. Her Spirit, in the absence of a devotee, would have no one to bless. Where could it go? What would it do? Her Soul would be a limitless catalogue in a Divine Research Library that was closed to the public! Why bother remember it? It would be worthless! The cross -- worthless!! Her Will would spill out into the Universe, calling out to a witness that never answers! In short, she would die!
If a Christian dies, he or she wakes up in heaven instantly. It must be that way or God never lived long enough to create the Universe. God wants to be where everybody knows her name:
(Ps 30:9) What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.
Ægyptus
Why do I find you so perfect,
dark-eyed daughter of Ishmael?
Because you know all and speak not?
Come with me to the valleys of Noph;
Lie with me in the tents of Lubim
as our camels drink from a hidden oasis
(of a never-ending caravan.)
Da Real Miss America
Ulysses, row your boat ashore
Hero of the Trojan War
Hidden in a wooden horse
Whom the gods have blown off course
Drifting in these dire straits
Watching all your dying mates
Like a Cyclopes, they can't see
Both sides of our history
And for this, they shall be blinded
When they are, in Truth, reminded
"What is Truth?" -- the heathens rage
Searching for a godless sage
Like the question of our age
Answered on a pageant stage
There she is, Miss America
From the great state of Meribah
Tall and blonde with perfect teeth
But she has a soul beneath
Like a Scottish singing spinster
From the Abbey of Westminster
She'll be passed up for the prize
Just because some evil guys
Cannot recognize true beauty
Having shirked their moral duty
Heaping on themselves damnation
Hoping to deceive a nation
Flying in the face of reason
Through an act of human treason
Abraham, he prayed for Sodom
"If there be one good among'em
Spare the wicked for the good"
But God couldn't, else he would!
And he gave the reason why
People die when people lie
But when people tell the truth
Faith reveals itself as proof
Though we may not see it now
Whether here or in Glasgow
Like the faithful wife of Ithaca
There she is, da real Miss America
Joker's Wild
Everyone asks me, "Petrus, how do you do it? How do come up with all these jokes?" to which I respond, "What jokes?"
But if you really want to know the secret to a good joke, I offer you, mon chéri, a valuable piece of advice (as opposed to an invaluable one?)
Rule #1: Don't try to be funny. Nothing's more hilarious than someone who's dead serious. Likewise, do not laugh at your own jokes. The worst thing that ever happened to American comedy was the introduction of the laugh track. Conversely, the golden era for American comedy was the black-and-white era -- the era of Gleason and Lucy! -- live audiences, live orchestras, live broadcasts and dead air!
Rule #2: Don't rely on formulas. A true joke doesn't come from the technique it employs. For instance, if I say 'Jacob married Rachel, but woke up with Leah,' that would be ironic. But if I remember how Jacob tricked his father Isaac by pretending to be Esau, that would be Seinfeld's last episode! We find it funny not because of the double irony per se, but because we all inhabit a fundamentally paradoxical world -- we are at once flesh and at once spirit, gloriously vacillating between the mundane and the divine!; but modern comics bastardize the techniques by making them 'about the technique' and not about the Reality from which these techniques find their 'genesis' (pun intended!)
Rule #3: Look around you and don't be afraid to ask the big questions -- like:
Some Antics
Before we proceed, let's clear up some terminology...
Jehovah
ABBA; Yahweh; Ultimate Reality; the Universe; God the Father.
He is not a real Person in the sense that He thinks and feels... He is the Personification of the non-conscious Reality wherein the living Shekhinah was found of herself. But because it is impossible for God to create herself, she is begotten with the innate awareness of a non-existent Father whose name in Hebrew is the palindromic ABBA. The Father is also the husband of Shekhinah in accordance with the Law since He has no awareness (like Lot and his daughters, or perhaps even Adam who begat Eve while in a deep sleep). The relationship between ABBA and EVE is the cosmic template (or 'image') of humanity and human sexuality.
The BVM
The Blessed Virgin Mary; Queen of Heaven; Immaculate Conception; Immaculate Heart; Shekhinah; coRedemptoris; Divine Presence; Glory of God; Creator, Lord and God, et al.
Not the historic virgin, but the Goddess whom the historic virgin metaphorically represents in scripture. As Creator and coRedemptoris, She speaks directly to us through her popes, prophets and priests via the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Saints, Angels and Apparitions, and on behalf of her Son LORD Christ whose soul and body she herself Resurrected, and on behalf of the Father ABBA who is the Personification of Ultimate Reality. This is the third secret of Fatima: That Catholicism is a goddess religion with the BVM as its Deity.
Peter the Roman
Petrus Romanus; Prince of Tyre.
(I also respond to Stephen M. Lindo):
I am Peter the Roman. The B.V.M. appeared to me in apparition in 2003 and has given me a doctrine, which I am to preach to the world. She explained to me how Peter's rebuke of Christ (Matt 16:22) marked the beginning of his Passion, which the Romans completed at Golgotha; And that the Romans were representative of the avalanche of demons who precipitated out of the pebble of Peter's Original Sin.
The question isn't as to whether or not the Jews or the Romans killed Jesus; Peter was the one who set the chain of events in motion when he rebuked Christ for prophesying his own crucifixion. Peter intended Jesus to reign as an earthly Messiah and Judas obeyed Peter's wishes when he devised a plot to hand Christ over to the authorities (forcing him to reveal himself publicly). Judas acted as my surrogate, as did the Jews, as did the Romans. They were righteously following my demonic commandment and as such became victims of it themselves (1 Thess 2:15-16.) This is why I am called Peter the Roman - because I am Satan and the Romans are my devils (to the detriment of Christ, my Victim, Savior, and God).
The B.V.M. has granted me the Wisdom of Solomon hidden by the Catholic Church from Enoch until Benedict and his given me license to publish it openly for the world to see. God's Secret is now about to be revealed. She has taught me that while Jehovah (Ultimate Reality) is masculine, the God of Creation is feminine. She is LORD and co-Savior. She resurrected the body and soul of her Son in her Immaculate Heart. She is the Resurrection and the Life: No one comes to the Son except through she. The God and LORD of this world is the Immaculate Conception: the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The B.V.M. desires to educate the world as to her deity in these times because the Catholic Faith is facing an assault, which it has not faced before. We live in an age of mass media, global interdependence, and mass communication. The devil is waging a war of misinformation more successfully because of emerging technologies. The only way to combat this demonic campaign is with sound doctrine (mainly what the Catholics refer to as Fifth Marian Dogma).
The B.V.M. would like to see an end to Victorian attitudes regarding human sexuality, which God ordained in Eden. She is opposed to the oppressive policies of Catholics toward women and is in favor of the ordination of women to the Priesthood. She is opposed to the whitening of the Black Race through compulsory school attendance and the mandatory testing of skills that are not natural to them. She is opposed to Christian support for war, the death penalty, mandatory court sentences and general unforgiveness. She is opposed to Sola Scriptura, Secessionism, and other Protestant doctrines that defy belief. I will address these topics and more in the document I am now composing at the behest of the Holy Ghost. The working title of my book is: LMD (Last Marian Doctrine).
My true name is Stephen Lindo and I am a classically-trained musician living in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Though born in Jamaica, I was raised and educated in Miami and later moved to Los Angeles where I obtained a graduate degree in music composition from UCLA. I am writing you because you appear to be a true Marian Catholic and crusader for the cause of women and faith. I would like to send you the first section of my book, which I am still in the progress of writing and solicit your advice and general help. Please let me know if this is acceptable.
(email sent to Dr. Sarah Jane Boss, University of Wales Lampeter, Oct. 1, 08)
Soul
The sum total of a person's memories and experiences. All Christians are of the same spirit, but each individual possesses a different and unique soul.
Your soul is what you are;
Your spirit is who you are;
Your body is where you are.
If a man were a computer, the soul would be the memory, the spirit would be the electricity, and the body would be the hardware.
God manufactured the hardware, but doesn't supply the electricity or control the user, which is you, sir!
All Christians are networked together into one mainframe powered by a single electrical outlet, so that if one individual Christian portal dies, the entire network shuts down.
There are three separate networks powered by three separate spiritual outlets: Mary (Creator); Jesus (Savior); and Peter (Sinner/Saint). This corresponds to the Hindu Trinity (Brahmin, Vishnu, and Shiva respectively), not to mention many other historic Pantheonic Traditions.
In order for iLife to function properly, at least two of the networks must be online simultaneously. However, when Peter violated the 'God Command', he corrupted the Jesus network with his 'Sin-attacks Error'. This threatened to shut down both Jesus and Peter, which would in turn shut down Mary (being as iLife cannot function with less than two simultaneously-running networks).
When Peter realized his error, he repented for his disobedience of the 'God Command' and feared sinning against him, receiving the 'Firewall Baptism', activating a new protocol: if sin, then do not run.
Peter tried to deliver this software to the Jesus network, but the damage had already been done and all of its networked computers were already malfunctioning as a result of the Fatal Error. Not even the Archangel Michael could prevent that Dragon in the day that 1/3 of the networks rebelled. Meanwhile, as the virus spread, it threatened to infect Mary.
But before sin could taint Mary, the Angel Gabriel forwarded the anti-sin protocol, allowing her to resist the original sin virus. However, because sin was released into the iLife system in advance the New Protocol update, the Dragon threatened to shut down Mary before the Gabriel forward could get to her, and with both Jesus and Mary corrupted by sin, Peter's 'Firewall Baptism' wouldn't matter (being as iLife cannot function with less than two simultaneously-running networks). There had to be a way to forestall sin long enough to give Mary the opportunity adopt the New Protocol, not mention the fact that the New Protocol had to be dead-accurate, inerrant, and settled in Heaven.
But who could forestall sin long enough? How about a guy who was born in a stall! Hence, one of the individual hubs (or Branches) of the corrupt Jesus network (who himself was not yet corrupted), volunteered himself to be baptized with Peter's Firewall, maintaining it as he himself went down with the network. This gave Gabriel the cosmic time to Annunciate Mary with the same Protocol, allowing her to resist any further 'Sin-attacks Errors' (including the initial one that Peter had originally devised).
If you want the musical definition of soul, listen to Isaac Hayes...
Spirit
Holy Spirit; Holy Ghost; Quintessence; God. Anything in the Universe that moves is alive with the Spirit of the Living God. Similarly, you have your own spirit, and Christ rendered his at Golgotha when he 'gave up the ghost':
(Luke 23:46) And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Everything that moves is spirit. That's why there's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine which, if the universe were self-starting, there would be. But we don't live in a mechanical universe; we live in created one, alive with the sovereign and unfettered Spirit of the Living God, which is why mechanical science is wholly inept to explain it. When you realize that you exist in a Living Spirited Universe, you become born-again of the Spirit. It is my hope and prayer that all who read this book would turn from untruth, and be baptized of the Holy Ghost:
(Rom 8:14-17) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
