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Stables in Bethlehem would have looked like this: remarkably similar to a tomb of the same era. |
Above left, a first-century stable in Jerusalem. Above right, a first-century tomb. Stables and tombs looked very much alike. And, vexed to nightmare by the reality of a messiah laid to rest in his tomb at age 33, the artist-dreamer—probably
Paul—found an easy modulation to the stable and a story of birth. That's why I
say the cross came before the manger since it is a psychological response to it. Follow the details
of dream work, and they will never lead you very far from the truth, no matter how uncomfortable. For example, the shroud is an important detail because the dreamer, the zygomnete, turned it into a complimentary
touch: swaddling clothes.

How have we managed to look at these twin scenes, manger and tomb, swaddling clothes and shroud, frankincense in the
air both of stable and crypt and not seen that they are the same moment. One is real, one the spontaneous product of
a crushed spirit. So let us begin in pure story and see that it leads us to real tomb. Let's begin with the "wise
men," or, as scripture actually calls them "astrologers."

This (on right) is what the eruption of the egg--and, metaphorically, the "rising" of the "star"--look like according to
a talented artist. The fingers, called fimbrae, will coax the egg along, almost like palm fronds heralding the arrival
of a King.
Medusa is to snakes as Christ is to thorns.

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A typical 1st Century tomb in Jerusalem. |
Below, Jesus is wrapped in the shroud.

Here they are, as we have come to know and love them: Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior.
And, to our left, observe the real star of this pilgrimage. The wise men, the astrologers, the "three kings" are,
in reality, male sex cells, sperm, seek union with the only object in the universe that matters. Timing is everything
in conception, so the "kings" had best hope the egg is erupting from its ovary right now...


The next symbol of Kingship will be less pleasant. The crown of thorns, like all details of an ecstatic vision,
is a substitution; the manifest symbol of a latent reality. Here is the manifest and the latent side by side.

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