A Michael Of Nebadon Discourse
Know, my beloved, that I observe humanity's choices, and I see much that pains me. Men, fearing one another, have joined themselves in pacts of self-preservation, crafting idols of protection and bowing down to them. They utter laws born of might, and then submit to these very same laws. They turn to their neighbors, to the stranger within their gates, and declare, "Treat with us on terms we impose, or we shall rend you, cast you to judgment, and it shall not be well with you; our captains shall destroy you."
I tell you, the things men do are an abomination in my sight. They make a mockery of eternal right and principles. They expect me to join them in destroying their enemies. They rise in the morning and go forth to their labors, but their labor defiles them; they are unclean in their dealings.
They cry out, "Master, help us, for without your aid we weaken," yet they rise, relying on their strength alone. Their prayers are but whispers against their own tremors; they consume much, but it yields no true nourishment.
But know this: men will not long be able to maintain their frantic pace of building for Mammon. That which springs from evil lures them to surpass themselves in constructing instruments of destruction. They boast of vicious armaments; they mock the very creative instinct with piles of stark corpses.
Man creates abomination, I say, glorifying that which holds suffering at its core. He comes to his fellows and cries out joyously, "Look! We have new engines potent for destruction! We create that which seems evil, yet we do it so that good may follow." So they say, and they believe it.
Know that they believe rightly when they minister to the afflicted, providing protection for the weak, giving succor to the helpless, and bringing balm to those who suffer. Thus, they display their inherent godhood.
But know that they believe not rightly when they minister to vanity, making protection for their offices, giving succor to their coffers, and bringing balm to the terrified who foresee their powers diminishing.
We have a mission, my beloved. I have told you of that mission; I have spoken of its parts; I have revealed to you the miracle.
I tell you, this miracle comes to you personally, it comes to the world, it goes forth to men and some receive it gratefully, it goes forth to the children of men and they do not marvel that it arrived so timely.
Some will say, "A wonder happened! The Son of Light came shining in radiance! The Light spoke to our fathers! He came in a cloud, moving! He came in Spirit, and men saw Spirit! Great was their tumult!"
He came with a gesture, warning the nations. He came with indignation, saying, "Obey me, you peoples, or destruction comes! Indeed, by your own making shall you eat putrefactions!"
He came declaring, "This is my commandment: obey your own visionings, give heed to the wise ones who preach of my substance, treat with the circumspect who entreat you to tranquility!"
He came proclaiming, "Behold, I give warning! That which has been built upon the substances of errors shall face a vast toppling! That which has been raised to mark an evil royalty shall plunge with a crashing; its debris shall appall you!"
"You shall be creators without a creation; you shall work and know no payments; you shall be as spiders spinning webs of clay, breaking of their weight before the morning sun rises!"
Thus declared I to your fathers, and they laughed me to scorn. They went out and mocked it. They made tumults. They made vaunting.
Indeed, they made abominations of interpretations, so that nations were confounded. The poor in heart lamented; the sons of men rose up and cried, "There are none to bring us honor!"
They made jestings and laughings at eternal principles; they made terror of the heathen. These things came to pass, and your fathers took no warnings.
So say the children that are to come, beloved.
I tell you, in that day, men shall arise and be divided, even as in this one. They shall say, "It happened not; superstition caused it, error wrought it; that which our fathers beheld was a fancy."
"Great things saw they of other means and tenors; did they not err about them also? Why believe we the miraculous when the miraculous does not happen hourly? Why do not such miracles happen today? Do we not deserve them? Why do not great scenes occur for us to witness also?"
They shall say, these children, "Behold, our fathers were obscure in their descriptions; they perceived their errors; they proclaimed blasphemies."
"Was it not said that false Christs would arise? How know we such a miracle came of His essence?"
"We do that which seems wise; we consult our own intellects. We say, 'We believe according to the seasons.' Are our visionings imperfect? We perform of the sanities."
These things say the children of men, I tell you. They scoff in their ignorance; they cast up a great chaff, and it blinds their eyesight.
Yet, I come to them in that day also, making miracles. I have done it before; that is my essence, whereof I exist.
Christ Michael of Nebadon
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