“Thus it is said that in the crucifixion God died to save man. This is an eternally occurring act, not an historical event, the time and place is always Palestine in the first century AD. The whole (God) sacrifices itself for the part (man) - a miracle! In this, in a sense, the part and the whole exchange places and identities!
I am sure that the plasmate - and hence the cypher in Tears - is the living Torah, the informational basis of reality, and my 2-3-74 experience was Kabbalistic - hence my seeing the Hebrew letters on the far wall by which the code (or subliminal material as key) in the Xerox missive was factored out. I mean, one of the few precise elements I have that l can go on is this Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism angle. And the huge book pages I saw could have been the Torah.
I could be in communication with the Shekhina or the Torah itself (the Al voice).”
PKD, 1980
Begins with discordant music
indicating a "far off cataclysm."
The curtain rises.
An ordinary street scene,
actors coming and going rapidly.
There are bits of ordinary conversation:
("Wines... window-glass... gold's going down")
Suggestions of violence and insanity:
("He's undressing me. Help, he's ripping my dress off..."
"I'm on fire, I'm burning, I'm going to jump")
Finally, the word "Sirius"
repeated in every tone of voice
and in every pitch of the scale:
SIRIUS ... SIRIUS ... SIRIUS ... SIRIUS ...
Then a loudspeaker thunders:
"THE GOVERNMENT URGES YOU TO REMAIN CALM."
Actors rush about claiming that
the sun is getting bigger
the plague has broken out,
there is thunder without lightning, etc.
A reasonable voice tries to explain:
"It was a magnetic phenomenon..."
The loudspeaker tells us:
"STUPENDOUS DISCOVERY.
SKY PHYSICALLY ABOLISHED.
EARTH ONLY A MINUTE AWAY FROM SIRIUS.
NO MORE FIRMAMENT."
One actor claims it is the end of the world.
Another says it is two worlds ramming each other.
Tom-toms beat and a chorus sings the Internationale.
Communist and anarchist slogans are shouted.
One actor suggests:
"There, you see, it was the Revolution."
There is a chant, hailing the new ruler:
King Mob.
A group of scientists appear
disagreeing with each other vehemently
about what is happening
A revolutionary objects:
"it isn't science any more, it's immoral."
Another promises us, not very reassuringly:
"We won't see the Anti-Christ yet."
Finally, one scientist comes forth to explain to the audience:
"The molecular grouping in Sirius is everything.
These two forces, ours and theirs,
had to be put in touch with each other."
The curtain falls.
Violent percussion instruments and sirens
create a din as the audience leaves.
Antonin Artaud, 1920