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worry about the thing being malignant, as some tabloids have suggested.'
Not all the vile jargon of that distant day is now understand-able, but we believe 'aerial surveys' to refer
to the mechanical flying machines which this last generation of the Godless pos-sessed. Black Gersheimer
continues:
'If this thing is not live, 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 repre-sents 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 un-wanted visitation may
be, it is some consolation to think that it will bring us new knowledge - of ourselves, as well as the world
outside our little solar system.'
Although terms like 'galactic debris' have lost their meaning, if they ever had one, the general trend of this
passage is offen-sively obvious. An embargo is being set up against the worship of the Huge God, with a
heretical God of Science put up in his stead. Only one other passage from this offensive mish-mash need
be considered, but it is a vital one for Showing the Atti-tude of mind of Gersheimer and presumably most
of his contem-poraries.
'Naturally enough, the peoples of the world, particularly those who are still lingering 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 hon-est, 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 forterror. But imagine it in proportion. A centipede is sitting on an orange. Or,
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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 diameter. 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
object, back into the depths of space from whence it came. Good-night.'
My reasons for repeating this Initial Blasphemy are these: that we can see here in this message from a
member 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 is come for a Fourth Crusade
exceeding in scale all others.
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 char-acterized by many upheavals. The early priests and prophets suffered much that the
Word might go round the World, and the blasphemous sects be destroyed, though the Underground
Book of Church Lore suggests that many of them were in fact mem-bers of earlier churches who, seeing
the light, transferred their allegiances.
The mighty figure of the Huge God was subjected to many puny insults. The Greatest Weapons of that
distant age, forces of technical charlatanry, were called Nuclears, and these were dropped on the Huge
God - without having any effect, as might be expected. Walls of fire-were burnt against him in vain. Our
Huge God, to whom all honour and terror, is immune from earthly weakness. His body was Clothed as it
were with Metal -here lay the seed of the Second Crusade - but it had not the weakness of metal.
His coming to earth met with immediate Response from nature. The old winds that prevailed were turned
aside about his mighty flanks and blew elsewhere. The effect was to cool the centre of Africa, so that the
tropical rainforests died and allthe creatures in them. In the lands bordering Caspana (then called Persia
and Kharkov, say some old accounts), hurricanes of snow fell in a dozen severe winters, blowing far east
into India. Elsewhere, all over the world, the coming of the Huge God was felt in the skies, and in freak
rainfalls and errant winds, and month-long storms. The oceans also were dis-turbed, while the great
volume of waters displaced by his body poured over the nearby land, killing many thousands of beings
and washing ten thousand dead whales into the harbours of Colombo.
The land too joined in the upheaval. While the territory under the Huge God's bulk sank, preparing to
receive what would later be the Sacred Sea, the land roundabout rose Up, forming small hills, such as the
broken and savage Dolomines that now guard the southern lands of Ittaland. There were earthquakes
and new volcanoes and geysers where water never spurted before and plagues of snakes and blazing
forests and many wonderful signs that helped the Early Fathers of our faith to convert the ignorant.
Everywhere they went, preaching that only in surrender to him lay salvation.
Many Whole Peoples perished at this time of upheaval, such as the Bulgarians, the Egyptians, the
Israelites, Moravians, Kurds, Turks, Syrians, Mountain Turks, as well as most of the South Slavs,
Georgians, Croats, the sturdy Vlaks, and the Greeks and Cypriotic and Cretan races, together with
others whose sins were great and names unrecorded in the annals of the church.
The Huge God departed from the world in the year 89, or some say 90. (This was the First Departure,
and is celebrated as such in our Church calendar - though the Catholic Universal Church calls it First
Disappearance Day.) He returned in 91, great and aweful be his name.
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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 rejoiced. 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 91halted the wars - a sign of the great peace his presence has brought to his chosen people.
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