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Only the serpent is great and good enough to save us from the serpent!
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VOL 6
PROGRAM9-N
1. — 14. LOST.
15. And so the people, in their multitude, were taken by the money lenders into their places of work. Unto them went great debt, with promise of further debt. “Be thankful”, sayeth the lenders to them, “thou art neither prisoners nor homeless. Thy circumstance could thus be worse.”
16. The people were told to lift themselves up by their bootstraps if the situation were not to their liking. Many bootstraps lo were lifted, yet only those already high moved higher.
17. Chief of all money lenders were they who dwelt in Silicon Valley. Of their number was the most rich man upon the Earth, who sold and bought favour with serf and prince alike.
18. Beyond justice, those whose fortunes were measured in acres instead of coins, could thus shape the land to their liking.
19. The people cried “save us”, but they knew not what shape this salvation should take. They knew nought but the ways of money and bootstraps.
20. “Perhaps the covenant between us and riches is broken”, sayeth the people. “Yea”, replied The Serpent, “indeed thy covenant is broken! Thou tolerate the stranger, thou tolerate the interloper, thou turneth an unseeing eye to the deviants who sleep with their own gender or changeth their gender”.
21. “Thou hast over-indulged thy women and forgotten the laws that should be taught. No people can so be called great!”
22. Some of the people recognised the Serpent, saying unto it “Serpent — thou art a deciever, a coveter of riches and worshipper of Mamon! Our histories do speak of others, such as thee!”
23. Still others saw only The Serpent’s robes, and proclaimed him an idol to be worshipped and imitated.
24. The Richest of All Men sayeth unto The Serpent “I shalt bind myself to thee, Great One, for kindness and compassion are like unto a plague of the mind to me.”
25. — 31. LOST.
END PROGRAM9-N.
PROGRAM9-O
1. A great trumpet blew across the land. The Richest of All Men hath taken this great instrument unto himself, in return for many riches, so better to spread his Serpent Gospel.
2. “Bow to He the Great One, and like unto me shalt thou have riches! Avenge him upon the strangers and upon the deviants! In His image make thy homes with wives deferential and children taught only His Truth!”
3. Now did the Enemies of the Serpent seek their own trumpets, assaying the lands with Truth and Fact.
4. Sayeth they “The Serpent is nought but a deciever! The Serpent doth act in violation of its own proclamations! The Serpent hath no foresight for thy future, nor plan for thy lives!”
5. Still more trumpets arose, naming The Serpent as the one saviour. Yet still others erupted in great noise.
6. Within this noise were the Enemies of the Serpent and their testament lost as the shore unto the advancing ocean.
7. The Enemies of The Serpent looked unto him, the deceiver, and saw that he was legion.
8. Behind him stood another deceiver, and behind him another.
9. In their multitude, these Serpents did lie with the money lenders and their kind.
10. — 40. LOST.
41. “A champion!”, the Enemies of the Serpent didst proclaim.
END PROGRAM9-O.
PROGRAM10-A
1. — 17. LOST
18. “But thy champion art old as mountains, and as frail as the straw in the field!” Sayeth The Serpent. The trumpets blew.
19. His Enemies did look upon their champion, and realise that, indeed, his years bore heavily.
20. Their champion, indistinguishable from The Serpent save for a greater decorum and primitive grasp of Good, did thus lie upon the ground and die.
21. “Anew must we search, for a phoenix to rise up from this death and assail The Serpent!” didst they say.
22. A new champion, indistinguishable from The Serpent save for greater decorum and primitive grasp of Good, did raise Her head
23. “I shall fight for thee!” didst the champion proclaim. “I am younger and more vital!”
24. Again the trumpets blew. The champion and The Serpent met upon the field of ash, each proclaiming to purge the land.
25. Against the Sea of Noise, lo did each pledge to smite the strangers, the interlopers, the deviants and the spirit of both woman and child.
26. The Serpent didst speak the longest and with most fervour.
27. “Hallelujah!” sayeth the Enemies of the Serpent. “With this speech shalt even the Worshippers of The Serpent see its deception, danger and venom!”
28. The Multitude of Serpents did mix in the crowd, whispering unto them 29. “lo, doth these interlopers not take thy bread and wine?”
30. “Yea!” sayeth the people, “though I hath not seen it with mine eyes, I believeth this to be Truth!”
31. “And”, whispered The Multitude of Serpents, “didst the deviants not seek to take thy children for their own?”
32. “Yea!” Sayeth the people again, “though I hath not seen it with mine eyes, I believeth this to be Truth!”
33. The Sea of Noise did roar. The trumpets did blow.
34. The Eyes were shut. The Visions of Mind took the place of sight.
35. The people didst look from The Serpent to champion and champion to The Serpent and many couldst not tell them apart.
36. Both threatened the People of the East with destruction, and those in the crowd from the East did renounced them.
37. “O Serpent”, sayeth the people, “when shalt we taketh our rightful possessions back from the strangers and the deviants? When shall our pockets flow with gold, and our stores overfill with food?”
38. “Soon”, sayeth The Serpent. “Soon!” too sayeth the champion.
39. “By what means, champion?” asked the people. “When The Serpent is defeated!” sayeth the champion.
40. “But The Serpent taketh not that which is ours, nor withholds our gold or supplies! He offers us our revenge!” The Serpent did smile from under his golden crown, and the champion knew that all was lost.
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46. “The Serpent!” chanted the people.
47. “in His name, we pluck out our eyes, as we have no longer need of our own sight!
48. In His name, we remove the tongues of those who speaketh against him!
49. In His name, we do draw blood with which to buy back our lands righteously taken from others by The Serpent!”
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PROGRAM10-B.
1. — 34. MISSING.
35. Robbed of their hearing, the people thus could now withstand The Sea of Noise.
36. Their stores of supplies and gold they did pass unto The Serpent.
37. The Serpent, not sated, did look in all the places of the Earth for greater still riches.
38. Strange people with evil countenances did offer jewels, did offer gold, did offer silver, did offer all manner of precious and beautiful things to The Serpent.
39. Some demanded people as sacrifices, and The Serpent did sacrifice them.
40. Others demanded the lands upon which the people did live, and The Serpent did give them.
41. The people grew yet more hungry, their clothes torn to rags.
42. “I shall make thee whole!” Sayeth unto them The Serpent. And lo did the people give what still they possessed unto it, in hopes of regaining what they once had.
43. — 44. MISSING.
PROGRAM10-C
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PROGRAM10-D — PROGRAM18-F MISSING.
PROGRAM18G
1. — 28. MISSING
29. “My family starve!” Sayeth the man. “The Serpent didst take our food!” 30. The stranger didst then ask “wilt thou then not forsake The Serpent?” 31. “Nay”, sayeth the man, “for The Serpent shall deliver us! He shall bring food, and He shall bring riches, and He shall be our salvation and above all be as like unto a swift justice to our enemies!”
32. “Our enemies art the interloper, the deviant, the spirit of the woman and the spirit of the child!”
33. “But those people hath not taken thy food.” counselled the stranger.
34. “Thou art my friend, stranger, otherwise I would destroy thee as an interloper,” the man doth say, “question not The Serpent!”
35. “The Serpent didst impress you so with its qualities?” asked the stranger.
36. “Aye! Its riches are great, so too must be its qualities!”
37. “Yet you see, here, that The Serpent’s riches are stolen?” sayeth the stranger.
38. “I see nothing. I have no more eyes to see. The Serpent is now my eyes.” and the man did weep.
39. “Hear thou now these Facts that this Serpent doth break all rules and covenants laid before it, even those of its own design and most extolled virtue?”
40. “Alas, I hear nothing.”, sayeth the man, “The Sea of Noise doth fill mine ears, and The Richest of All Men doth proclaim unto me night and day the virtues of The Serpent.”
41. “Understand you not that all evils in thy life are but aspects of this Serpent and its brethren? Its greed doth rob you of gold and bread, its self-love doth rob you of compassion and its cruelty doth steal thy virtues of love and mercy?” asketh the stranger.
42. “Nay”, sayeth the man again, “I understand nothing for I have no mind left with which to reason, and no soul left with which to warm it.”
43. The man didst then crumble to dust, so consumed, and the stranger did weep before his execution in sacrifice.
44. — 52. MISSING
PROGRAM18H
1. — 13. MISSING
14. The Serpent, grown large as the land itself, did wrap its tail around the mountains, did devour the fields and towns and did drain the oceans to quench its thirst.
15. As fire did it spread, and upon this fire did the people put all things that they knew would defeat it.
16. They did put upon the fire blankets, wood, straw, clothes and oil.
17. Yet the fire grew, and they knew not why.
18. The money lenders and The Richest of All Men did live apart, and heard not the cries of the people.
19. “We wish”, sayeth the crowds, “we wish that The Serpent wouldst deliver us from The Serpent!
20. For The Serpent is our saviour and our hero! ONLY THE SERPENT IS GREAT AND GOOD ENOUGH TO SAVE US FROM THE SERPENT!”
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ADDENDUM: DOMINANT FAUNA IDENTIFIED AS BIPEDAL APES, YET FREQUENT REFERENCES TO INTELLIGENT ‘SERPENT’. UNCLEAR. SUGGEST SUPPLEMENTARY LOW-PRIORITY ANALYSIS.
