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the Red Sea, and the Nile Sea, all of which
now form part of the Sacred Sea. He eradicated also with
his Great Bulk part of the Black Sea, now called the
White Sea, Egypt, Athens, Cyprus and the Bnlkn Peninsula
as far north as Belgrade, now Holy Belgrade, for
above this town towered the neck of the Huge God on
his First Visit to us mortals, just clearing the roofs of the
houses.
As for his head, it lifted above the region of mountains
that we call Ittaland, which was then named Europe, a
populous part of the globe, raised so high that it might
easily be seen on a clear day from London, then as now
the chief town of the land of the Anglo-French.
It was estimated in those first days that the length of
the Huge God was some four and a half thousand miles,
from rear to nose, with the eight legs each about nine
hundred miles long. Now we profess in our Creed that
our Huge God changes shape and length and number of
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legs according to whether he is Pleased or Angry with
mall.
'In those days, the nature of God was unknown. No
preparation had been made for his corning, though some
whispers of the millenium were circulating. Accordingly,
the speculation on his nature was far from the truth, and
often extremely blasphemous.
Here is an extract from the notorious Gersheimer Paper,
which contributed much to the events leading up to
the First Crusade in 271 HG. We do not know who the
Black Gersheimer was, apart from the meaningless fact
that he was a Scientific Prophet at somewhere called Cor-nell
or CarnelL evidently a Church on the American Continent
(then a differently shaped territory).
"Aerial surveys suggest that this creature---if one can
call it that--which straddles a line along the Red Sea and
across southeast Europe, is non-living, at least as we understand
life. It may be merely coincidence that it somewhat
resembles an eight-footed lizard, so that we do not
necessarily have to worry about the thing being malignant,
as some tabloids have suggested."
Not all the vile jargon of that distant day is now understandable,
but we believe "aerial surveys" to refer to the
mechanical flying machines which this last generation of
the Godless possessed. Black Gersheimer continues:
"If this thing is not life, it may be a piece of galactic
debris clinging momentarily to the globe, perhaps like a
leaf clinging to a football in the fall. To believe this is not
necessarily to alter our scientific concepts of the universe.
Whether the thing represents life or not, we don't have to
go all superstitious. We must merely remind ourselves that
there are many phenomena in the universe as we conceive
it in the light of twentieth-century science which
remain unknown to us. However painful this unwanted
visitation may be, it is some consolation to think that it
will bring us new knowledge---of ourselves, as well as of
the world outside our solar system."
Although terms like "galactic debris" have lost their
meaning, if they ever had one, the general trend of this
passage is offensively obvious. An embargo is being set
up against the worship of the Huge God, with a heretical
God of Science set up in his stead. Only one other
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sage from this offensive mishmash need be considered,
but it is a vital one for showing the attitude of mind of
Gersbeimer and presumably most of his contemporaries.
"Naturally enough, the peoples of the world, part/cu-lariy
those who are still fingering on the threshold of
civilization, are full of fear these days. They see something
supernatural in the arrival of this thing, and I believe
that every man, if he is honest, will admit to
carrying an echo of that fear in his heart. We can only
banish it, and can only meet the chaos into which the
world is now plunged, if we retain a galactic picture of
our situation in our minds. The very hugeness of this
thing that now lies plastered loathsomely across our world
is cause for terror. But imagine it in proportion. A centipede
is sitting on an orange. Or, to pick an analogy that
'sounds less repulsive, a little gecko, six inches long, is
resting momentarily on a plastic globe of the Earth which
is two 'feet in diafiaeter. It is up to us, the, human race,
with all the technological forces at our disposal, to unite
as never before, and blow this thing, this large and stupid
obieet, into the depths of spac from whence it came.
Good night."
My reasons for repeating this init/al blasphemy are
these: that we can see here in this message from a mem-her
of the World Darkness traces of that original sin
which--with all our sacrifices, all our hardships, all our
crusades--we have not yet stamped out. That is why we
are now at the greatest Crisis in the history of the Orthodox
Universal Sacrificial Church, and why the time has
come for a Fourth Crusade.
The Huge God remained where he was, in what we
now refer to as the Sacred Sea Position, for a number of
years, absolutely unmoving.
For mankind, this was the great formative period of
Belief, marking the establishment of the Universal
Church, and characterized by many upheavals. The early
priests and prophets suffered much that the Word might
go round the World, and the blasphemous sects be
stroyed, though the Underground Book of Church Lore
suggests that many of them were in fact members of
earlier churches who, seeing the light, transferred their
allegiances.
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The mighty figure of the Huge God was subjected to
any puny insults. The Greatest Weapons of that distant
i a,e forces of technical charlatanry, were called Nuclears.
These were dropped on the Huge God--without having
iany effect, as might be expected. Walls of fire burnt
him in vain. Our Huge God, whom all honour
fear, is immune from earthly weakness. His body was
us it were with Metalhere lay the seed of the
, Crusade---but it had not the weakness of metal.
His coming to earth met with immediate response from
The old winds that prevailed were turned aside
,out his mighty flanks and blew elsewhere. The effect
to cool the center of Africa, so that the tropical rain
died and all the creatures in them. In the lands
5ordering Caspana (then called Persia and Kharkov, say
ome old accounts), hurricanes of snow fell in a dozen
:re winters, blowing far east into India. Elsewhere, all
r the world, the coming of the Huge God was felt in
skies, and in freak rainfalls and errant winds, and
nth-long storms. The oceans also were disturbed, while
great volume of waters displaced by his body poured
r the nearby land, killing many thousands of beings
I washing away ten thousand dead whales.
rhe land too joined in the upheaval. While the territory
under the Huge God's bulk sank, preparing to re-what
would later be the Sacred Sea, the land
undabout rose up, forming small hills, such as the
and savage Dolomines that now guard the southlands
of Ittaland. There were earthquakes and new
and geysers where water uever spurted before
plagues of snakes and blazing forests and many won-signs
that helped the Early Fathers of our faith to
the ignorant. Everywhere they went, preaching
in surrender to him lay salvation.
Many Whole Peoples perished at this time of upheaval,
isuch as the Bulgarians, the Egyptians, the Israelites,
[Moraviaus, Kurds, Turks, Syrians, Mountain Turks, as
well as most of the South Slavs, Georgians, Croats, the
i! rurdy Vlaks, and the Greeks ,and Cypriotic and Cretan
tces, together with others whose sins were great and
ames unrecorded in the annals of the church.
The Huge God departed from the world in the year
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89, or some say 90. (This was the First Departure, and
celebrated as such in our Church calendar--though
Catholic Universal Church calls it First
Day.)
He returned in 91, great and awelng be his name.
Little is known of the period when he was absent from
our Earth. We get a glimpse into the mind of the people
then when we learn that in the main the nations of Earth
greatly reioiced. The natural upheavals continued, since
the oceans poured into the great hollow he had made,
forming our beloved and holy Sacred Sea. Great Wars
broke out across the face of the globe.
His return in 91 halted the wars--a sign of the great
peace his presence has brought to his chosen people.
But the inhabitants of the world at That Time were not
all of our religion, though prophets moved among them,
ahd many were their blasphemies. In the Black Museum
attached to the great basilica of Omar and Yemen is
'documentary evidence that they tried at this period to
communicate with the Huge God by means of their machines.
Of course they got no reply--but many men reasoned
at this time, in the darkness of their minds, that this
was because the God was a Thing, as Black Gersheimer
had prophesied.
The Huge God, on this his Second Coming, blessed our
Earth by settling mainly within the Arctic Circle, or what
was then the Arctic Circle, with his body straddling from
northern Canada, as it was, over a large peninsula called
Alaska, across the Bering Sea and into the northern regions
of the Russian lands as far as the River Lena, now
the Bay of Lenn. Some of his rear feet broke far into the
Arctic Ice, while others of his forefeet entered the North
Pacific Ocean--but truly to him we are but sand under
his feet, and he is indifferent to our mountains or our
Climatic Variations.
As for his terrible head, it could be seen reaching far
into the stratosphere, gleaming with metal sheen, by all
the cities along the northern part of America's seaboard,
from such vanished towns as Vancouver, Seattle, Edmonton,
Portland, Blanco, Reno, and even San Francisco. It
was the energetic and sinful nation that possessed these
cities that was now most active against the Huge God.
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weight of their ungodly scientific civilization was
against him, but all they managed to do was blow
art their own coastline.
Meanwhile, other natural changes were taking place.
te mass of the Huge God deflected the earth in its daily
i1, so that seasons changed, and in the prophetic books
read how the great trees brought forth their leaves to
ver them in the winter, and lost them in the summer.
ts flew in the daytime and women bore forth hairy chil-eh.
The melting of the ice caps caused great floods,
lal waves and poisonous dews, while in one night we
ar that the waters of the Deep were moved, so that the
[e went out so far from the Malayan Uplands (as they
.w are) that the continental peninsula of Blestland was
rmed in a few hours of what had previously been sep-ate
Continents or Islands called Singapore, Sumatra, Iu-nesia,
Java, Sydney, and Australia, or Austria.
With these powerful signs, our priests could Convert
e People, and millions of survivors were speedily en-lled
into the Church. This was the First Great Age of
e Church, when the word spread across all the ravaged
:d transformed globe. Our institutions were formed in
e next few generations, notably at the various Councils
the New Church (some of which have since proved to
. heretical).
We were not established without some difficulty. Many
,,ople had to be burned before the rest could feel the
ith Burning in Them. But as generations passed, the
me Name of the God emerged over a wider and wider
ea.
Only the Americans still clung largely to their base
surstition. Fortified by their science, they refused Grace.
> in the Year 271 the First Crusade was launched,
fiefly against them but also against the Irish, whose
ù .retical views had no benefit of science. The Irish were
fickly Eradicated, almost to a man. The Americans
ere more formidable, but this difficulty served only to
raw the people closer and unite the Church further.
This First Crusade was fought over the First Great
ieresy of the Church, the heresy claiming that the Huge
iod was a Thing not a God, as formulated by Black
[ersheimer. It was successfully concluded when tho
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leader of the Am.ericans, .ionel Undermeyer, met the
Venerable World Emperor-Bishol, Jori H, and agreed
that the messengers of the Church should be free to
preach unmolested in America. Possibly a harsher decision
could have been forced, as some commentators
claim, but by this time both sides were suffering severely
from plague and famine, the harvests of the world having
failed. It was a happy chance that the population of the
world was already cut by more than half, or complete
starvation would have followed the reorganization of the
seasons.
In the churches of the world, the Huge God was asked
to give a sign that he had witnessed the great victory over
the American unbelievers. All who opposed this enlightened
act were destroyed. He answered the prayers in 297
by moving swiftly forward only a comparatively Small
Amount and lying Mainly in the Pacific Ocean, stretching
almbst as far south as what.is' now the Antarter, what
Was then the Tropic of Capricorn, and what had previously
been the Equator. Some of his left legs covered
the towns along the west American seaboard as far south
as Guadalajara (where the impression of his foot is still
marked by the Temple of the Sacred Toe), including
some of the towns such as San Francisco already mentioned.
We speak of this as the First Shift; it was rightly
taken as a striking proof of the Huge God's contempt for
America.
This feeling became fife in America also. Purified by
famine, plague, gigantic earth tremors and other natural
disorders, the population could now better accept the
words of the priests, all becoming converted to a man.
Mass pilgrimages were made to see that great body of
the Huge God, stretching from one end of their nation to
the other. Bolder pilgrims climbed aboard flying airplanes
and flew over his shoulder, across which savage rainstorms
played for a hundred years Without Cease.
Those that were converted became More Extreme than
their brethren older in the faith across the other side of
the world. No sooner had the American congregations
united with ours than they broke away on a point of
doctrine at the Council of Dead Tench (322). This date
marks the beginning of the Catholic Universal Sacrificial
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Church. We of the Orthodox persuasion did not enjoy, ia
those distant days, the harmony with our American
brothers that we do now.
