Much (perhaps most?) of the bandwidth here at dKos has of late been given over to discussing the looming deaths of iconic religious figures, Terry Schiavo and Karol Woytyla. In this unsettling environment, there are also Kosmonauts getting carried away, saying everything related to religion is dead, up to and including God (
cf, Nietzsche). But they are only scratching the surface of this mystery, like the feeble hand of the prematurely entombed clawing hopelessly at the lid of their casket.
Now it may or may not be that the God of this era has indeed had its feeding tube removed by unelected liberal activist judges and gone the way of the martyred St. Terry of Florida. However students of deeper mystical truth are aware that there are texts filled with yet more disturbing rantings and speculations, notably the
Kitab al-Azif or "Necronomicon" of Yemeni mystic Abdul al-Azrad,
De Vermis Mysteriis of Ludwig van Prinn, the
Unaussprechlichen Kulten of Von Junzt.
All these vital texts point beyond the myopic temporal horizons of dKos discussion, and conjure up unsettling insinuations of hideous survivals of nameless aeons gone by. This position is advanced most intensely in the "Necronomicon", with its notorious incantation:
"That is not dead which may eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die."
References to that which "may eternal lie" certainly are suggestive of the Bush administration, so the prophetic aspect of al-Azrad's vision seems to becoming made manifest. The historical alignment of the stars for the unspeakable resurrection foretold is upon us! I invite my fellow Massachusetts Kossacks to join me at a Meetup this Tuesday in Innsmouth, at Order of Dagon Hall!
Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!