In her Gaze of Enlightenment,
interstate highways disappeared, the edifices of commerce receded, fast food
conveyors conveyed no more, smokestack factories were factored out, and the
multiple tawdry halls of self-medication vanished.
She drilled a hole into the
multiple chimeras of that which had seemed, and some still thought, real,
scarcely believing that She had once however scornfully deemed these to have
reality. These things now appeared as illusion, maya, distraction from
Existence, and yet they were there, reminding her of how crude the society with
Him at the helm had been: children abused by priests; women raped
by spouses; laborers herded into soul-dulling factories, mines, fields
where they picked but got no fruit; destitute folk begging pittances on
street corners; the materially rich but vagabond souls pouring into gala
hallways, gawdy stores, gated residential prisons desperately hiding from what
they had created and from answers to questions they were afraid to ask.
Her vision became more acute the
longer she peered into the degradation before her. She saw mothers
drowning daughters in rivers; fathers leaving vehicles with sons sealed
in solar death; wives killing husbands, husbands murdering wives, mutual
eliminations on pathways to suicide; humanity killing humanity while
spouting all names Holy, acting with hate when the Directors had commanded, “Love!”
Then the chimeras vanished.
The illusions were no more. She saw Humanity as It Could Be. She
made a Covenant with the Good and envisioned a journey Home through a Sea of
Hope.
She felt unprecedented Power well
up within Her. She was without fear. She beheld Life in fullness of
beauty, clarity of air, purity of stream, fragrance of flower, magnificence of
beast, majesty of mountain. Once drained, the detritus of centuries gave
way to what Female and Male had created that was worthy as Nature’s siblings:
visual art, music, poetry, drama, dance.
She briefly beheld a
counter-vision in which babies would sail the River to Destruction unless she
acted immediately.
Fully bolstered by Divine
Epiphany, having seen with clarity Life as it Could Be, She confronted Life as
It Had Been and forcefully declared:
“You must let my people go.”
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