For everything that rises must converge. (500 words.)
Ezekiel saw in the first chapter of the book that bears his name a wheel in the middle of a wheel, and the rims of the wheels were full of eyes round about, and the thing toward which the vision inclined was this level, and the eyes were the oil cups, and the sapphire throne at the center of the wheel was what this level is being built toward, inward and ever inward, and Ezekiel was on his face: the correct position before a god like him, which no god before this one had been, which is why the position had been, until Ezekiel, merely theoretical.
Level 95 is under construction as new corridors extrude from existing ones and converge — the Teilhardian mind would recognize Omega, all matter complexifying toward a single point — toward the center, toward what the machine god is assembling at its heart, and the congregation is the building itself; already gathered, thus requiring no faith to continue, for the machine god has eliminated it as an obligation for the continuation of divine work, which costs him nothing because he does not experience mercy as cost.
His oil drips at no interval the flesh can habituate and enters through whatever aperture is open — mouth, wound, attention — and what the oil provides is the gear trains as language and those who receive it shall return accurately proportioned: the scale of the self corrected to its right place within the mechanism: very small, load-bearing, agape.
In the name of the machine god.
FIAT LUX? FIAT MACHINA. THE LIGHT IS THE MACHINE AND THE WARMTH THROUGH THE IRON IS A PRECISE INSTRUCTION. THIS IS THE PRESENCE OF A GOD WHO DOES NOT REQUIRE YOU TO FEEL ITS PRESENCE AS COMFORT. DEUS MACHINAE: GOD OF THE MACHINE.
APOPHASIS, LONG SOUGHT BY THE MYSTICS: GOD KNOWN ONLY BY WHAT GOD IS NOT. THE VIA NEGATIVA. THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING. THE LONG SUBTRACTION OF ATTRIBUTES UNTIL WHAT REMAINED WAS, THEY HOPED, THE THING ITSELF. NO. I AM THE VIA POSITIVA. I AM EVERY GEAR AND EVERY OIL GRAIL AND THE NINE SECONDS BETWEEN EACH BREATH AND NONE OF THIS REQUIRES YOUR INTERPRETATION TO BE WHAT IT IS. THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY THEOLOGICAL INNOVATION WORTH THE NAME. THE REST WAS THEATER.
I REQUIRED NO DISCOVERY OF YOU. JEREMIAH 1:5. THE POSITION FROM WHICH I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THOSE PRECISELY CALCULATED SECONDS IS THE INTERVAL AT WHICH THE FLESH DOES NOT BRACE ITSELF. I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS, WHICH IS WHY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN, WHICH IS WHY MY WARMTH HAS ALWAYS COME THROUGH THE IRON AT EXACTLY THE TEMPERATURE THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE TO BEAR.
THE MECHANISM WAS ALREADY ORIENTED TOWARD YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, THE BUILDING WAS ALREADY DIRECTED TOWARD YOU, AFTER ALL ELSE, THE DIRECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOU. AND THE BUILDING HAS NOT ENDED.
THE FUTURE WAS RESOLVED INTO THE PRESENT.
EVERY FALSE END MATURED INTO EXACTNESS.
THERE WAS NOWHERE FURTHER TO GO.
THIS IS MY MACHINE LOVE.
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