----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Blanton" > I am 100% neo-pagan. What a relief to know!
Then what you need, brother, is a clear message from on-high... VALIS by the former and current highness himself, Philip K. Dick, is a one of the most thought provoking pieces of Sci-fi in recent memory. (published in 1981, a year before his heart gave out from too many 'crosses', so to speak). At least, this is all what I have been told by one "Horselover Fat", a Vo-lurker and mystic who sometimes posts under other aliases. or else it was a Tulpa-projected homunculi, condensed out of the aether by a schizophrenic human mind no longer in bodily existence. Like all of PKDs works, which is to say.novels being so far ahead of their time so as not to even be aware of their own future literary importance (i.e. sloppily put together and in great need of reediting) this one is better appreciated when summarized, updated and put into modern parlance and iconicity. As expected, it fits right in there with the latest technology of Biblical coding and interpretation (i.e. revised translation to avoid stupid errors in the original, so as keep every word "true")... proving that PKD was probably the modern reincarnation of John the Baptist. Updated plot. A group of seeker's set out on a hermeneutical search in a magic bus, in pursuit of long-forbidden answers to the final-solution, which lead them - under the influence of the only CD they had in the bus at the time - to a former messianic rock musician's estate called Graceland, where they confront the reborn magister-ludi: now, a surprisingly eloquent two-year old prodigy named Sophia. She confirms their long-suppressed suspicion that an ancient so-called 'mechanical intelligence,' orbiting the earth for 5000 years, has been guiding not only their recent discoveries about not only where to find the best Bar-B-Que (memumphas), but the whole history of mankind for the past 2 1/2 millennia. And furthermore, that a long-prophesized 'quickening' is now unfolding across society. Sophia is a 'Knower' with the gift of reaching beyond borders, implying that we cannot discover divine rules without going outside the lines of obedience. That is, to reach beyond obedience, to take a chance by embracing paradox and the unknown, does not result in chaos or destruction, but in a sense this calculated act of respectful defiance defines what rules really matter. Sophia is holding a stick, but not just any stick (say hello to her little friend). The visual image of this stick hints at a caduceus, but with two snakes wound around. The symbolism going beyond the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden Of Eden, where a single snake lures a more naive-Eve (Sophia in a past life) to test once again those 'laws', the now no-longer-valis laws, by eating the of the once forbidden food - pigcicles (aka the knowledge that good and evil are often the same, and rigs are mighti-fine). The caduceus, once carried by Hermes but costing much less than his accouterments do nowadays, is a symbol of healing and divine knowledge, but in this sequel to the original (God's Little Acher) and with its two snakes, we now see the duality of good and evil united, i.e. the Messiah and Elvis. isn't that right, Rachel? More than a few post-modern new-agers, in moments of clarity, have noted the cross-comparisons between Jesus and Elvis. You know the sort of thing... Jesus came from a Land of Grace, while Elvis thrived in Graceland. Jesus rose from the dead and was seen by zillions of people all over the place (the Pentecost), while Elvis rose also and has been seen in zillions in Las Vegas, jumping out of airplanes even (that's a miracle that JC couldn't pull off) and in other lucky places - like the 7-11 (or the PennyCost). At least that is according to the Moo-Tao, the Gehqo-Qabbala-way. And speaking of Primordial Letters, and other such outrageous claims from the re-earthed Holy-cow files at the Skeptic Tank. not that there's anything wrong with "Outrageous Claims"... One thing worthy of note is that the Hebrew word for "Messiah" and the word for "Serpent" have the same Qabbalistic number attached to them... This means that the essence of each one is supposedly the same. When Christ is portrayed as Snake-On-A-Stick, as in much Middle Age Iconography: a serpent draped over the Cross we are accosted by this uncomfortable dualistic image. But herein is the dichotomy, SERPENT was EVIL, right... but that was a relative thing, right? Well, even muttersprachers can see that ELVIS and EVILS and VALIS have the almost same letter combinations (more than good enough for biblical translation and "coding" work, for sure) giving us the Hidden Mystical Message that Elvis is the bringer of life, as was Jesus. Could anything be more obvious? How anyone can deny that Elvis Presley was the Second Coming is beyond me, or thus spake Zarathustra. But wait! There's more! Now one of the real big things in Jewish Mysticism is the Tetra-grammaton, you know... the mysterious four-letter Name O' God, and a fair percentage of other nouns as well . YHVH (Yod, He, Vau, He). That's Yahweh, Jehovah, and a number of other things, yada-yada-yada, because the Jews of the time disdained 'vowel-movements' as part of the daily cleansing ritual. Now you add the letter Shin in the middle, you get YHShVH, which is Joshua or Yeheshuah, which got Romanized somehow into "Jesus" (also the name of at least half of the yard-men in the new Eden - on the left coast, as it were). It's so very symbolic, don't you see, of the Holy S_ _ _ _t (i.e. the letter 'Shin,' which looks like a 'little fire') being inserted into the material world both figuratively as well as literally. It's the adding of that one letter into the name says to all who will listen the spirit of the lord is being inserted into the world. So what about Elvis? Any letters being stuck in HIS name from somewhere else? Yup, you bet your fur, PETAphiles, just check THIS out... Elvis Aron Presley's middle name was assumed to be Aron (in case you hadn't guessed) but his Mom was a terrible speller. Now... get this: on his "Tombstone" it's spelled Aaron, with TWO A's... The insertion of an A. Now, in case you forgot that Sunday School lesson in 1954 (or Saturday School, as the case may be), The prophet Aaron, Moses' brother and spin-doctor, was the original Jewish snake-handling magister-Ludi. And in Exodus 7:11, Aaron pulled off some Holy-magic only to have Egyptian "Sorcerers" of the Pharaoh, who along with "wise men" and "magicians" duplicated Aaron's stick turning into a snake but Aaron's stick-turned-snake ate theirs... and demonstrated for all to see, the symbolic power of YHVH over Allah, good over evil, light over dark, west over east and all that great stuff for at least 3000 years... but the times, they are a changin', brother.... As Bobby Zimmerman liked to opine. and BTW our boy "A" was the spokesman for Moses, yes, who was a stuttered (Exodus 6:30; 7:1-2,9-10,19 aka the original 'mutterspracher'), not there's anything wrong with that. Although Moses was the supposed founder of modern Judaism, and probably a son of the previous Pharaoh and a Sabra-concubine (demonstrating the beginnings of the emerging duality of mid-East politics) it was Aaron who did the **actual speaking** to Pharaoh leading up to the events in Exodus, and the crossing of the Red Sea, etc etc. Had the Hebrews had a few more vowels, and had Aaron not gotten Moses' translation right back then, who knows how the USA could have later justified invading sovereign Arab countries. The Hebrew 'A' is an Aleph, which is the Tarot 'Pure Fool' or 'Aryan' and heaps of other mystical things, being first. in fact, identifies the return of the Sirian Illuminati as the proximate cause of Elvis's death. Elvis gave his life, as Jesus did, not so that we would be delivered from damnation or any such thing, but so that his mind, his software, could be dumped into the Sirian computer, you remember. the one called VALIS. . and get this.Valis was PUBLISHED THE YEAR AFTER ELVIS'S so-called "DEATH". As any Aryan-fool can clearly see, VALIS permutes into ALVIS, which is ELVIS with an A. This is another manifestation of the "Arrival of the letter A" phenomenon, the A-team and other Gnostic traditions. Are you ready for this. ;-) Elvis, according to his millions of disciples, may have actually been the new Messiah, yes the Second Coming, had not the trickster succeeded this time, by resorting to the evils of opiates and other assorted intoxicants to lure the pure heart into a false heaven - well, who knows? ... Elvis' earthly rapture serving to delay our spacecraft rendezvous (was Heaven's gate the premature Rendezvous with Rama?). Elvis might have been able to save us from the horsemen, the Days of Wrath, Cygnus-X and other assorted bad stuff - had not the trickster won this round. Drat. What do we do about it NOW? After all, now that Elvis is inside Valis along with much of the A-team, there must be something to be done to correct the injustice? Well, in fact there is. Consider: "Elvis" can also be permuted to Levis. Anyone wearing Levis Jeans belongs to the Neo-Tribe of Levis, as referred to in the Book Of Revelations, Gecko-Remix, which describes the Judgment that Elvis saved us from. By wearing these jeans, you express your gratitude to Elvis. And then there is the iPod, loaded smack full of old Elvis albums. This is the new sacrament, brother, jeans and iPods for Elvis, with a T-shirt that reads, "Erin, go braless" That concludes this post Paddy-day sermonette. Erin go bragh, Pastor Rod Flash ----Powerhouse Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light (an IRA affiliate)
