Cosmic-mythic invocation addressed to Earth and Heaven. Angels, avatars, and humans mingling for counsel. Performance-ready spoken word.
Pandemic Papers
Prelude to the Trial
(cleaned + performance-ready)
Brothers and sisters—Earth and Heaven—listen.
In the name of Jesus, Muhammad, and Moses, we address you.
When the Son was given, this mission was placed upon us.
He—the Father of Time—allowed mankind to suffer for a thousand reasons. Yet demons cannot keep long commitments, and angels do not drift far from Heaven. We, however—mortals—were assigned the burden of awareness: to function at a higher level while walking inside ambiguity.
In council with the Trinity, the Almighty reasoned:
Never before had a greater opportunity appeared for angels and avatars to mingle with humans—not for pleasure, but for counsel.
So He summoned the whole human spectrum as witness and jury:
Kings and queens, avatars and muses.
Athletes and entertainers.
Police officers, firefighters, teachers.
Plumbers, ambulance crews, taxi drivers—
and all to whom Earth is of concern.
At last, He turned His attention toward the Adversary and asked:
“Will you ever cease interfering in mankind’s affairs?
Is it not enough that you have the universe to swallow?”
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Heaven and Earth
It will not be long now.
Having released One from tyranny, the Church of Poison and the House of Cards are nearing their final collapse.
Yet those closest to the Almighty complain: strangers bearing gifts—charitable donations—were accepted by the assembly for the first time. Not as bribes. Not as substitutes for tears. Not as prayers disguised as currency.
As a sign of compassion.
For a counsel is considered proper only when its design contains three elements:
Love. Harmony. Prosperity.
And because each contains its own contradiction, none can be conceived without the others—on Earth or in Heaven.
When peace is achieved, war ceases.
When love is attained, hate is subdued.
When harmony is reached, calm is restored—
and prosperity follows.
Remember also the avatars humans created to represent themselves in Heaven, since they could not enter.
Duplicates. Copies of self.
An attempt to be in more than one place at once—
as if mankind could borrow God’s trick without borrowing God’s wisdom.
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To Gabriel’s attention came the silhouette of a beast marked with the sign 666.
No masks.
No hand sanitizer in his toolbox.
No handheld devices. No GPS.
And yet he glowed.
If the one claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth resembles a deity, it is only because of the brightness of his avatar.
When he and the kings and queens of Earth attempted to assault Heaven, they said it was to dispel angst and anxiety.
But this figure who appears in the name of Jesus is no less a fraud for wearing light,
and no less a deceiver for speaking comfort.
Those digital signals they hurled toward Heaven scattered across the universe in every direction, trying to locate what cannot be mapped.
The ones who breached the gates were not men.
They were avatars.
And the avatars—unable to feel pain, unable to hunger, unable to fear—
were left to wander the depths of space for eternity,
like transmissions that never find a receiver.
For if humanity cannot present itself for its own trial before the gates of Heaven, then its case will not be heard.
An avatar cannot bleed.
An avatar cannot tremble.
An avatar cannot argue the point with a soul on the line.
And because Heaven requires consequence for testimony,
humanity’s case has been denied.
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