The Modern Divine Comedy Book 7: Paradiso 1 Entry

By Andrew J. Farrara

The PARADISO is considered the most perfect part of the hereafter where the souls are permitted to live eternally if they can successfully complete the very difficult Celestial Examination process engaging the intellectual and personal guilt and forgiveness requirements system. Many celestial citizens take years, decades or centuries to complete.
The Celestial Trial of Josephus, the Annual Lantern Parade and Romano’s awakening from his dream nightmare at the ending are the major subjects in this Book.

This Celestial Trial of the ancient Jewish General and Roman writer, propagandist and collaborationist Flavius Josephus in discovering the real Spiritual Truths at the Celestial Supreme Court headed by the Biblical prophets Noah, Abraham and Moses is portrayed. Josephus is defended in Court by a late 19th century mortal American Barrister named Darryl Buchanan from Philadelphia who just successfully defended John D Rockefeller before Almighty GOD Himself in God’s Personal Supreme Peoples Court.
The goal of the Celestial Trial of ‘Josephus verses the Celestial Kingdom’ is to discover the Holy Secrets and Spiritual Truths of his writings as to determine whether he did or did not fabricate and/or conceal the Biblical truths and steal the Prophecy that the next Ruler of the Roman Empire was destined to come from Judea to save his own body and soul?

The Annual Lantern Parade at the Celestial Circus Maximus on Christmas Day has been a tradition since Jesus died on the Cross in the first century AD. The theme this year is called the Ancient & Divine Mysteries of the Universe.

BOOK FOUR ends with the Devil and his Three Crown Princes still trying to manipulate, dominate and overthrow the Kingdom with a Final Curtain Call where the Tragic End Game occurs and the Mise-en-Abime shows the hero Journalist Romano home awoken immediately after his dream in his basement apartment at a New York City Catholic Church.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Oct 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781663245205

Andrew J. Farrara

World traveler, writer, adventurer, entrepreneur, artist, romantic poet, Italian opera affezionato, ex-rugby player, and political animal! Andrew J. Farrara was born in Reading, Pa. in September 1950 and educated in the Reading School District. Coming-of-age in then-industrial Pennsylvania gave him an insatiable wanderlust. Since 1967 the author has traveled to over 135 countries and territories as determined by the Travelers’ Century Club lastly on a cruise from Genoa through the Suez Canal to the island of Mauritius and a flight to Madagascar, Ethiopia and England in 2019. He has visited all Seven Continents, including Antarctica, every State of the United States except North Dakota, and has conducted three around-the-world backpacking expeditions; for 8 weeks in 1983; 220 days in 1987-88; and 5 weeks in 2018. The second trip was the subject of his book entitled Around the World in 220 Days: Notes of an American Traveler Abroad published by Infinity Press in 2004. The author holds a BA in History and Political Science (1972) and an MA in Modern European History (1975) from Kutztown University, Pa. He taught social studies and history part-time in the Reading School District and at the Reading Area Community College before serving as an elected Reading School Board member from 1975 to 1977. Farrara served honorably in the Pennsylvania Air and Army National Guard from 1972 to 1978 as a Telecommunications Center Specialist in the 193rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Group at Middletown, Pa and as a Tank Crewman, Machine Gunner & Loader in the 103rd Armor & as an Infantry Soldier & Radio Operator in the 111th Infantry at the Kutztown Armory, Pa. from 1973 to 1978. The author held the positions of Supervisor then Superintendent of Recreation for the City of Reading from 1978 to 1987 resigning his later position to conduct his nine-month Around the World trip from Dec 1987 to Aug 1988. The author was also trained, certified and graduated from the 160-hour residential District Magistrate Program of the Minor Judiciary Education Board at Wilson College in Chambersburg Pennsylvania in 1982 and as a Pennsylvania Police Officer completing the 480-hour Reading Police Academy in 1983-4. He also completed a Para-Legal Certificate Program in 1976-77 at Penn State Berks Campus. Andrew J. Farrara currently operates an independent insurance agency in Reading since 1988 and spends his free time writing, observing, traveling, painting, and learning. In attempting to keep in shape intellectually and physically his personal motto has always been the well-known Chinese proverb: “Civilize the mind but make savage the body.” The author is presently working on an additional novel entitled Bonfire of the Gods about a group of world travelers taking a Grand Tour of Italia in 1896 starting in Rome Italy moving down to the mysterious Mezzogiorno of Napoli and Sicilia.

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THE

MODERN

DIVINE

COMEDY

BOOK 7:

PARADISO 1 ENTRY

ANDREW J. FARRARA

THE MODERN DIVINE COMEDY BOOK 7:

PARADISO 1 ENTRY

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THE

MODERN

DIVINE

COMEDY

8-PART SERIES

BOOK 1    INFERNO 1 DESCENDING

BOOK 2    INFERNO 2 ASCENDING

BOOK 3    LIMBOLAND 1 ENTRANCE

BOOK 4    LIMBOLAND 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 5    PURGATORIO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 6    PURGATORIO 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 7    PARADISO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 8    PARADISO 2 DEPARTURE

TRIAL OF THE AGES OF

DOUBLE MILLENNIUMS

TRUTH & JUSTICE

CONTENTS

TIME:

GREAT HEROIC PAST, SOME PRESENT & STILL A BIT OF FUTURE.

Our Hero thinks it’s Christmas Day December 25, 1895

but it is really the early 21st Century.

STAGE SUB-TIME:

HOLY LANDS FROZEN in 1st CENTURY A.D.

PLACE:

PARADISO, PURGATORIO, & INFERNO & LIMBOLAND

& in the Celestial Supreme Court

MENTAL SUB-PLACE:

HEAVENLY SUBCONSCIOUS

CLIMATE:

PERFECT SUB TROPICAL COOLING HAWAIIAN TRADE WINDS

but GETTING HOTTER & HOTTER all the time

THEMES:

MORTALITY & IMMORTALITY

in all its contradictions & imperfections

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(Cast of Characters)

JOURNALIST

The First Man ADAM & Himself

being Investigative Foreign Correspondent

as Andrew Romano on a Divine Odyssey

ZARATHUSTRA

Celestial Tour Guide, Chariot Driver & Divine friend for Journalist,

Prophet-Philosopher & founder of Zoroastrianism

WISE PROPHETS

Unnamed Daily Leaders in the Kingdom

ARCHANGELS

Administrators of the Celestial Kingdom

HOLY ANGELS VEZY & SARA

Special Narrators

& An Occasional

MYSTERIOUS SUBSTITUTE NARRATOR

DIVINE CHORUS

Conservative & Reactionary souls/consciences of Mankind/ Many Humanities

PEANUT GALLERY

Liberal & Radical souls/consciences of Mankind/Many Humanities

OTHER HOLY ANGELS

Monitors of Mortals on Earth, pure, chaste, innocent but some could be

mischievous with underestimated intelligence

THE TREACHEROUS DEVIL

He is still up to his devious & diabolical tricks plotting

the Takeover of the Limboland & eventually the Celestial Kingdom

MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & SATAN

Three Crown Princes of Evilness & Evil Clones of the Devil

hidden somewhere, everywhere & anywhere & masked

as expected trying to conquer the Kingdom again & again.

Oops, we wanted to forget

THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF

The Most Powerful, the Big Guy, Omnipotent, Omnipresent,

Omnibenevolent & Omniscient. He wants you to think that

He’s in the front & back of everything.

Called the Big Dog by the Devil

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS

Occasional private episode Scene exposing

the Devil’s & his Three Crown Princes’

Furtive attempt to Conspire & Control

the Limboland Arenas & Celestial Kingdom

GOD’S THREE CAPABLE BUT FRUSTRATED

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

HOLIEST WARRIOR

GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO

HUNCHBACK HOLY MAN

aka

OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

Mysterious seeker of the Divine Truths &

Wisest of all Wise philosophers &

Real Subconscious of Mankind

OTHER CHARACTERS INCLUDE:

DENIZENS OF PURGATORIO, LIMBOLAND & INFERNO

Concerned about mortality & immortality

some petitioning for entrance to Paradiso

PROFANITY WORDS

Bleeped

VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST & SWISS PSYCHOANALYST

Roaming & Analyzing everyone & everything except themselves

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

Roaming & criticizing everyone & everything

EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Wandering students of burgeoning earthly & divine wisdom

YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR

Their Itinerant Teacher

BARRISTER DARRYL BUCHANAN

A brilliant visiting Mortal American lawyer defending clients

Rockyfello & Court Jester

before God’s Celestial Supreme Court of the Kingdom

& defending Flavius Josephus in the

CELESTIAL TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

Jewish General and ancient Roman writer on Trial

as traitor, turncoat, collaborationist & propagandist

for Emperors Vespasian and Titus

in discovering the real Spiritual Truths

ABRAHAM, NOAH & MOSES

Celestial Supreme Court Judges of the Kingdom

OTHER ACTORS

HEAVENLY CABINET…………………………………………….. of Archangels

DIVINE PARLIAMENT……………………….of Angels and Saints and Martyrs

ROCKYFELLO………….American industrialist, Oil Titan, richest mortal in world, age 56 in 1895

COURT JESTER……….Rockyfello’s untrustworthy & treacherous aide-de-camp

SECRET AGENTS OF THE INFERNO……agents of the Devil in many manifestations

MANY PAGAN, BIBLICAL, & HISTORICAL CHARACTERS being historical & mythological….TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION

GRAND BUREAUCRAT……………………………..Inferno’s Top Administrator

COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS…lurking in the jungles of the mind and soul of man

ECHO OF THE BIG BANG………………………………epistemological concept

QUIETI…Quest for INTRA-TERRESTRIAL and EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Intelligence

SCENE 71

MISE-EN-SCÈNE

GOD’S VERY PRIVATE OFFICE

THE GRAND NARRATIVE

CHAPTERS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-1  THE HOLIEST WARRIOR APPEARS & GIVEN IMPORTANT TASK BY GOD

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-2  HOLIEST WARRIOR RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS AN AROUND THE WORLD TOUR TO CLEAR HIS MIND

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-3  GRAND TOUR OF ITALY SUGGESTED BY GOD TO BE MONITORED SECRETLY BY HOLIEST WARRIOR

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-4  AIDE-TO-CAMP ANTONIO ENTERS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-5  MAJOR & MINOR RELIGIONS DISCUSSED BY ZARATHUSTRA & ADAM ASIDE

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-6  SETTING DAY’S AGENDA WITH GOD & AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-7  SIX ITALIAN ARTISTS DOING CEILING MURAL IN GOD’S PRIVATE OFFICE

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-8  SEVEN SUPERLATIVE ITALIAN ARTISTS ARRIVE

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-9  GOD REVIEWS DOSSIERS OF SEVEN ITALIAN ARTISTS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-10  GOD WANTS TO FINISH THE MURAL

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-11  SIX ARTISTS DEMAND TOTAL FREEDOM & HAVE OWN IDEA FOR MURAL

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-12  RECAPITULATION REQUEST

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-13  AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO ON THE OFFENSIVE

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-14  GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS DISCUSSES THE GRAND EXPERIMENT WITH GOD IN HIS PRIVATE OFFICE

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-15  CARNIVALESQUE BEHAVIOR OF THE SOULS DENOUNCED BY GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-16  TECHNOLOGICAL CONFLICTS IN KINGDOM ANALYZED BY GOD & THE GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-17  RECAPITULATION ON ORAL & PRINT CULTURE WITH GOD & THE GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-18  GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS & GOD ARE BACK ON TRACK

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-19  GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS & GOD DISCUSS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-20  BACK TO GOD & THE GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS: YES BUT!

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-21  PLAYING THE THEOLOGICAL DIALECTIC GAME WITH GOD

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-22  ADMINISTRATIVE WRAP-UP WITH GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS: AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO STAYS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-23  LEONARDO DA VINCI SHOWS UP LATE WITH GUARDS

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-24  JOURNALIST PUSHES/TRIES TO INTERVIEW GOD BUT AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO OFFERS HIS ANSWERS INSTEAD

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-25  LIKES & DISLIKES & MULTIPLE NAMES OF GOD BY AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-26  DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HOLIEST WARRIOR & GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 71

Devil and his Three Crown Princes sneak into

Paradiso disguised as Holy Land Pilgrims.

SCENE 72

PRELUDIO

SPREZZATURA

ANGELS SARA & VEZY BACK AS SPECIAL NARRATORS

DOING THINGS GRACEFULLY

WITHIN THE GRANDEST OF ALL GRAND NARRATIVES

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 72

The Devil’s Love kills and Hate liberates Mankind.

SCENE 73

PROLOGO DIAVOLO

DEVILISH DISGUISED & DUPLICITOUS

DEVIL MADE ME DO IT!

WICKED & WRATHFUL TRICKSTER

DEVIL & TRIAD TROUBLEMAKERS ARRIVE

COSTUMED & UNDERCOVER &

CONSUMED WITH HATE

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 73

Drugs can be both Enslaving and Liberating.

SCENE 74

CINEMATIC PRELUDE

OLDE MAESTRO CINEMATOGRAPHIC FEELING

SORRY FOR HIMSELF WITH YOUNG SECRETARY

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 74

The Devil is trying to learn to hack the hackers’ hackers.

SCENE 75

CINEMATIC INTERMISSION WITH

GOD & THE HOLIEST WARRIOR

CINEMATOGRAPHY ON GOD’S SCREEN

DIVINE PREFAZIONE

GOD & THE HOLIEST WARRIOR

DISCUSSING THE CINEMATIC TRIO OF

ORSON WELLES, FRITZ LANG & FEDERICO FELLINI

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 75

The Devil comes in War and not in Peace and in Gambling too.

SCENE 76

CINEMATIC COMPETITION

ITALIAN MAESTRO FELLINI MAKES MOVIE

WITH GERMANIC IMPRESARIO FRITZ LANG

LAGGING BEHIND

OVERTURE

LOST PALEO WORLD PARADISE

IN LIMBOLAND

WITH

MOTHER LUCY & TARZAN

MAESTROS

FEDERICO FELLINI & FRITZ LANG

Both Arrive Separately

INCOGNITO & IN COMPETITION

as

FEDERICO FELLINI

hiding as

MAESTRO FETTUCCINI or FETO

followed unknowingly

by

FRITZ LANG

also hiding behind as

IMPRESARIO DOKTOR FLITZ

LUNGENLANGE

Both Working towards the

NOBLE GOALS

TO PRODUCE FIRST CELESTIAL FILM

with

ITALIAN & GERMAN FILM CREWS

READY FOR ACTION

in the

LIMBOLAND CLASH

OF CINEMATIC TITANS

Called

PALEO NOIR

FIRST PICTURE SHOW COMPETITION IN

FORTRESS PALEO

including

PALEO COLOUR VISION

PALEO SATIRE

PALEO OPERA

PALEO COMEDY

PALEO MUSIQUE

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

MAIN CHARACTERS

Amerikan Movie Filmmaker Orson Wells

hiding as Odinson Cain-Bud Zababa Wusques-Ives

but he too arrives too late in next Section

ITALIAN FILM CREW

includes

PIETRO PAPARAZZO…………………………….. as Italian Public Relations man

MONA LISA………………………………………………..as Personal Secretary

ANCIENT ROMAN OVID………………………………..as top theatrical leader

CASTRATO FARINELLI………………… as OPERA SINGING INSTRUCTOR

TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ………………………….. as BALLET INSTRUCTOR

with

MISTRESS DELILAH

ANCIENT SAPPHO & PINDAR

CINECITTA SCRIPT WRITER, FILM EDITOR, STAR ACTRESS,

PRODUCTION MANAGER, CASTING DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR

OF PHOTOGRAPHY, CAMERA OPERATOR, DANCE

CHOREOGRAPHER, SPECIAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR, LIGHTING

TECHNICIAN, PUBLICIST, COSTUME SUPERVISOR, COSTUME

SPECIALIST, WARDROBE SUPERVISOR, MAKE-UP ARTIST,

ART DIRECTOR, SET DESIGNER, ILLUSTRATOR, MUSICAL

SUPERVISOR, STUNT MAN, TALENT SCOUT, ARMORER,

ANIMATION SPECIALIST, CUB REPORTER, PROFESSOR PINOCCHIO

& SNAPPORAZ THE UNDERSTUDY OF FELLINI TO BE FOUND

GERMANIC FILM CREW

includes

PRIVATE SECRETARY LULU……………………………..as a power unto herself

BEOWOLFMAN………………………………… as Camera Man & Bodyguard

ETA HOFFMANN…………………………………………….as Artistic Director

MARSCHALL HEINRICH GOERING……..as Impresario Flitz’s Head Assistant

with

HOLLYWOOD & BERLIN SCRIPT WRITER, TOP SPECIAL

EFFECTS TECHNICIAN, HOLLYWOOD CONSULTANT,

GERMANIC HERO SIEGFRIED, BEOWOLFMAN’S 25 feet-long PET

DRAGON & SPOILED LOST NEPHEW GOTZ LUDENDORFF

and

Special Guest Star

WAGNERIAN OPERA DIVA

as

YOUNG LIMBOLAND ACTRESS

PALEO WORLD MAIN CHARACTERS

PT VON KONNER

As diabolical

Theatrical Agent & Talent Scout

Mother Lucy & Tarzan

Co-leaders of Paleo World with Tribal Councils

with

PALEO GENERAL CLOVIS, PALEO PIA SPYMASTER,

WITCH DOKTOR ZUMBO, WITCH MOTHER WILLA WILLOW,

GIANT ZUZIMO, the ROMAN ZOG, ANUNAKO,

NEPHILIMO & KADANUUMUU

MINOR CHARACTERS

Throughout the Sections

GOD’S CINEMATIC CHORUS DISGUISED

Staring as Undercover Narrators with only

the Holiest Warrior & Aide-De-Camp-Antonio

infiltrating groups for God

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY

IN DOUBLE BACKGROUND AGAIN SOMEWHERE

CHAPTERS

PALEO 76-1  THE LOST PALEO TRIBES OF LIMBOLAND & AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO & HOLIEST WARRIOR TRANSFORMED INTO GOD’S CINEMATIC CHORUS DISGUISED

PALEO 76-2  FIG LEAVES & LOIN CLOTHES VS MODERN CLOTHES MOTHER LUCY & TARZAN SHOW UP

PALEO 76-3  YOUNG LIMBOLAND ACTRESS IS REALLY WASHED UP WAGNERIAN OPERA DIVA IN DISGUISE

PALEO 76-4  OPERA DIVA PERFORMANCE STARTS WITH YOUNG LIMBOLAND ACTRESS & HER INDIAN SERVANT PROMPTING HER

PALEO 76-5  BACK TO BUSINESS BASICS

PALEO 76-6  ITALIAN FILM MAESTRO FELLINI BEAT THE GERMANS TO THE LIMBOLAND

PALEO 76-7  MARXIST PALEO KARL ANALYZES WORLD & BROTHER GENETICIST GENE DISCUSSES GENETICS

PALEO 76-8  SHOCKED GERMANS HEAR & SEE ITALIAN MOVIE BEING MADE

PALEO 76-9  PALEO FRANKIE WANTS SINGING AUDITION BEFORE MAESTRO FELLINI & OTHER PERFORMERS ARRIVE

PALEO 76-10  PRODIGY PALEO PABLO PIZ-PIZ PAINTER

PALEO 76-11  PERFORMERS OF MINI SKITS COMPETING FOR MOVIE STARDOM

PALEO 76-12  GERMANS FINALLY MEET THE ITALIANS HEAD-ON

PALEO 76-13  IMPRESARIO FRITZ LANG MEETS MAESTRO FELLINI IN THE CLASH OF CINEMATIC TITANS: THEY ARE THE SAME BUT VERY DIFFERENT

PALEO 76-14  MAESTRO FELLINI SHOOTING FIRST MOVIE HERE

PALEO 76-15  IMPRESARIO FRITZ LANG COMPETING WITH ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE

PALEO 76-16  IMPRESARIO FRITZ LANG WAITING FOR THE APPLAUSE

PALEO 70-17  GERMANIC HERO SIEGFRIED RETURNS FROM INFERNO

PALEO 76-18  PLAYING CHESS WITH DEATH

PALEO 76-19  SECRETARY LULU AS NEW FILM HEROINE

PALEO 76-20  SECRETARY LULU ON THE THEATRICAL OFFENSIVE

PALEO 76-21  PALEO PARADISE AS GODLESS SAVAGES ASSESSED BY ZARATHUSTRA, ADAM & MOTHER LUCY

PALEO 76-22  THREE TWIN TENORS PALEO OPERA WITH TALENT AGENT PT LESTER VON KONNER

PALEO 76-23  YOUNG PALEO TATAISTS NAMED AFTER DADISTS ASSAULT PALEO CULTURE WITH MAMA TATA STEIN PERFORMING

PALEO 76-24  NO-NAME TATA ARTIST ARRIVES

PALEO 76-25  ZANY PROVENCAL PALEO PAUL ARTIST ARRIVES

PALEO 76-26  ABSTRACT JACK THE PALEO PIZZER

PALEO 76-27  ARTIST GEORGIA O’KEEFE AS GENITALIA PALEO’HEIFER & OTHERS

PALEO 76-28  INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF MINDLESS MINSTRELS

PALEO 76-29  YOUNG OPERA COMPOSER PALEO JOE GREEN WANTS TO BE A SUPERSTAR

PALEO 76-30  ELVIS PALEO THE PULSATING PELVIS & OTHERS

PALEO 76-31  ROGUE PALEO INDEPENDENT FILM DIREKTOR

PALEO 76-32  USING ART AS COUNTERINSURGENCY WEAPON

PALEO 76-33  FOUR COUNTER CULTURE ICONS ARRIVE: PALEO ABBIE HOFFMAN, ALLEN GINSBERG, JACK KEROUAC & TIMOTHY LEARY & OTHERS

PALEO 76-34  PALEO MINI-PT VON KONNER AS TALENT AGENT AT AGE 11

PALEO 76-35  MAESTRO CALLS FOR PALEO OPERA & MUSICAL CONTEST AWARD FOR JANUARY NEXT YEAR

PALEO 76-36  FRIDAY NITE DEAD PALEOS PERFORM

PALEO 76-37  YOUNG PALEO FUTURISTIC SCIENTISTS WANT AN AUDIENCE

PALEO 76-38  YOUNG PALEO FUTURISTIC ACTORS & ACTRESSES WANT AN AUDIENCE

PALEO 76-39  FINAL SCENE OF THE MOVIE

PALEO 76-40  PALEO MARCH OF DEATH VIGIL STARTING FOR GREAT MIGRATION OF THE BEASTS

AMERIKAN FILM MAKER ORSON WELLES

AKA THE KOOL BUDROSE

ARRIVES UNINVITED & TOO LATE

CREDITS GIVEN INSIDE BOOK

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(Meaning the Cast in Latin)

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE TO THEIR

OWN FEELING OF MELODRAMATIC IMPORTANCE

BACKGROUND MUSIQUE BY

Ancient Roman Zither Player

TERPUS

MAIN CHARACTERS

DRAMATIC TRUTH

on

CINEMATIC TRIAL

and

ORSON WELLES

hiding as

ODINSON KANEBUD ZABABA WUSQUES-IVES

American Film Maker

JEREMIAH COTTON & His Snicker

as

Public Relations guy

HARRY LEMON & His Ego

as

The Big Guy’s Alter Egoistical

CAMERA OPERATOR & His Technical Effects

By ZUGGY the Zugster

MISTRESS DOROTHY DEL RIO TOTO & Her Narcissism

as

Film Heroine Always in Waiting

SOLOMON STEINBURN & His Calculator

as

Entertainment Lawyer & Numbers Cruncher

FLEA TRAINER MIKHAIL &

His Crystal Ball Prognostications

PT VON KONNER & HIS ARROGANCE

Still here as diabolical

Theatrical Agent & Talent Scout

CHARACTERS REPEATED

Because Big Hamster OW Hogs all the Film Credit

JEREMIAH COTTON……………………………………….Public Relations guy

HARRY LEMON…………………………………….Artistic Director & Alter Ego

CAMERAMAN ZUGGY…………………………………..Technical Effects man

MISTRESS DOROTHY DEL RIO TOTO…………His mistress and film heroine

SOLOMON STEINBURN…………………………………. His corporate lawyer

FLEA TRAINER MIKHAIL……..Vaudeville entertainer loves animals & insects

PT VON KONNER……………………… conniving Theatrical Agent still around

MINOR CHARACTERS

But they think

They’re Major

WIZARD MERLIN GOEBBELS………………… Celtic Druid wizard and seer

ROMAN TERPNUS………greatest lyre player of Roman Emperor Nero’s stage

…...…& ancient zither player

CUCHULAININ………….. ancient Celtic Hero and Understudy for Movie Hero

FIANNA/FENIANS……………………… Nine bodyguards of CUCHULAININ

Female Celtic Fairies & Male Irish Leprechauns………………………as actors

Voodoo Priests ………………………………..…..hanging out somewhere behind

SPECIAL APPRECIATION YET TO

FOLLOWING CHARACTERS

MAESTRO FEDERICO FELLINI

Still hiding as Maestro Fettuccini or Feto

Italian Filmmaker

IMPRESARIO FRITZ LANG

Still hiding as Impresario Doktor Flitz

Germanic Filmmaker

ITALIAN & GERMAN FILM CREW STILL HERE

Assistants for Italian Maestro Fellini & Germanic Impresario Fritz Lang

Running around amusing themselves with the Paleos

GOD’S CINEMATIC CHORUS DISGUISED

Undercover as the Holiest Warrior & Aide-de-Camp Antonio

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY

Still here somewhere

PALEO CHARACTERS

MOTHER LUCY & TARZAN

and

PALEO GENERAL CLOVIS, PIA SPYMASTER

& PALEO WITCH DOCTOR

Still here as

Paleo Leaders in Jungle Limboland.

Introducing among others

WESTERN-EDUCATED

PALEO PSYCHOANALYST SIGI

NOW WE PRESENT

AMERICAN FILM MAKER ORSON WELLES

WHO ARRIVES TOO LATE & IS UNINVITED

ANYWAYS

CHAPTERS

Listed in Interest of Organized Cinematic Chaos

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 76

In order to defeat the forces of the Celestial Kingdom we must

know their capabilities, their power and their real intentions.

SCENE 77

CINEMATIC EXTRAVAGANCE

CHAPTERS

AMER 77-1  ORSON WELLES AKA ODINSON KANEBUD ARRIVES LATE & UNINVITED

AMER 77-2  WIZARD MERLIN GOEBBELS & ANCIENT ROMAN TERPNUS CONSPIRING SECRETLY ASIDE AGAINST THEMSELVES & THE SYSTEM WHILE AMERICAN FILM CREW SEE JUNGLE DE-JUNGLE-IZED

AMER 77-3  AMERICANS SHOCKED IN DISCOVERING ITALIANS & GERMANS THERE FIRST

AMER 77-4  PALEO GENERAL CLOVIS, PIA SPYMASTER & PALEO WITCH DOCTOR CONSPIRING TO DEFEAT NEW FILMMAKERS HERE WHILE PALEO PSYCHOANALYST SIGI SHOWS UP LATE TO ARGUE THIS CULTURAL CONTACT WILL DEFEAT THE PALEO WAY OF LIFE FOREVER

AMER 77-5  ORSON WELLES TAKES TIME OUT IN PRIVATE HUDDLE TO DISCUSS NEW STRATEGY OF PUNTING ON THIRD DOWN

AMER 77-6  RUSSIAN FLEA TRAINER MIKHAIL EXPLAINS HIS SIPHONAPTERA SHTICK

AMER 77-7  PT VON KONNER MAKES ANOTHER ASTONISHING ENTRANCE BECOMING THE NEW HERO GOD OF THE PALEOS BY DYING QUICKLY

AMER 77-8  ITALIANS & GERMANS ARROGANTLY REVIEWING THE VITA OF ORSON WELLES

AMER 77-9  CITIZEN ADOLF’S DISTURBING, ASTONISHING & POWERFUL PERFORMANCE

AMER 77-10  CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY CITIZEN ADOLF

AMER 77-11  THE ASSASSINATION PLOT OF CITIZEN ADOLF

AMER 77-12  PT VON KONNER MIRACULOUSLY RETURNS FROM THE ABYSS

AMER 77-13  ODINSON KANEBUD & THE GYPSY TANYA

AMER 77-14  PT VON KONNER FINALLY TRIUMPHANT

AMER 77-15  RAINS COMING INVOKING ETERNAL RECURRENCE

AMER 77-16  YOUNG RADICAL PALEO ART & ARCHITECTURE GROUP WANTS TO CHANGE THE PALEO WORLD

AMER 77-17  LAST SCENE AS THE END GAME OF DRAMATIC TRUTH OR ARTISTIC TRUTH

AMER 77-18  THE REAL END CON GAME IS NOW REVEALED

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 77

You must see the Big Politikal and Sexual Picture here together.

SCENE 78

PRELUDE

MOVIE MANIA & PSYCHOLOGICAL OBLITERATION

AT GRANDMA’S JAZZ CAFÉ AKA BOOZE & YOUS

HEAVENLY OVERTURE

78-1    THEOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON SCIENCE

78-2    CELESTIAL CIRCUS IS COMING TO PARADISO

78-3    NEW ACTORS ARRIVING FOR FIRST CELESTIAL MOVIE

78-4    SOULS PREPARING FOR ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 78

The Devil says he wants to kick arse and clean house in the

Limboland right after the Annual Lantern Parade.

SCENE 79

INSIDE THE GATES OF PARADISE

PRELUDE POLITICO

Leftist Kindred Spirits Try To Organize

CHAPTERS

79-1    SEARCHING FOR PARADISE & GOD WITH OLD HOLY & YOUNG HOLY MAN BEFORE ANGRY YOUNG ATHEIST ARRIVES

79-2    FOUR VENERATED SOULS DISCUSS SALVATION

79-3    SOME SOULS GAMBLING THEIR BONES AWAY

79-4    JOURNALIST ADAM MEETS OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

79-5    ARCHANGELS & HOLY PROPHETS SECRET MEETING CRISIS IN KINGDOM

79-6    OLD HOLY MAN AT THE GATES PREACHING

79-7    INSIDE THE GATES AT THE SECRET MEETING RUN BY ARCHANGELS MICHAEL, GABRIEL & RAPHAEL: OUR KINGDOM IS IN A CRISIS

79-8    JUDAS RECOGNIZED FINALLY

79-9    GNOSTICS ON OFFENSIVE

79-10  RETURN TO INTRODUCTIONS

79-11  CRISIS IN & DEFENDING THE KINGDOM

79-12  OPEN SEMINAR ON LITERARY & HUMAN FREEDOM WRITERS THINKING & PERFORMERS ACTING CREATIVE & OBSCURE THOUGHTS WHILE UNORGANIZED THESPIANS ARRIVE

79-13  GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ON HIS OWN LITERARY RANT OF MUMBLING & BUMBLING ABOUT DRAMATIC TRUTH FOLLOWED BY OTHERS

79-14  EASTERN PHILOSOPHY ON HUMAN FREEDOM

79-15  SENSITIVITY SESSION DESIGNED TO HELP ADOLESCENTS

79-16  WORKSHOP ON CHINESE CULTURE

79-17  ALL STAR FUTBOL AMERICANO GAME PLAYED BEFORE ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE SKINNY LADY SINGING

79-18  RELIGIOUS SEMINAR BY YOUNG PROFESSEUR TO EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

79-19  NEW SUMMER CAMPS TO BE DESIGNED BY EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

79-20  THEOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS CHALLENGED BY CELESTIAL KINGDOM

79-21  WRITER JOSEPH CAMPBELL STOPS BY FOR UNEXPECTED GRILLING

79-22  SYMPOSIUM OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVESTIGATION OF MYSTERIES OF THE AGES BY KING ARTHUR AS LEADER

79-23  SOME INTELLECTUALS THINKING OF THEIR OWN SYMPOSIUM BUT STUMBLE INTO MURDER PLOT ON TRAIN IN RUMANIA

THE MODERN

DIVINE COMEDY

BOOK 7

PARADISO 1 ENTRY

SCENE 71

MISE-EN-SCÈNE

GOD’S VERY PRIVATE OFFICE

THE GRAND NARRATIVE

Man’s Search for the Holy Mysteries continue while

God’s Grand Experiment is being questioned and analyzed.

Amidst thousands of billions of sparkling stars in thousands of billions of radiant Galaxies in the ever-expanding Cosmos and sitting on the Top of the Universe in the Most Exalted Highest of All Exalted High locations above the planet Earth, in the most Perfect of all Perfect Offices, in the Whitest of all Whitest and Cleanest of All Cleanest Rooms, sitting in the most Humble of all Humble Chairs GOD, the Most Powerful Soul of All Powerful Souls of the Infinite Universe, is taping his right fingers on the Most Ancient and Longest Table of All Ancient and Longest Tables in front of a roaring ancient marbled Fireplace carrying the Mightest Sword of All Mighty Swords on the Whitest Marble Floors of All White Marble Floors with the Bluest of All Bluest Streaks in it throughout while drinking his favorite wine from an ancient and simple Silver Chalice in the Best of All Possible Celestial Worlds.

At first glance one can hear the expected solemn music of the harps played by God’s favorite Hebrew and Celtic musicians and see the heavenly landscape of perfectly manicured scattered tall Palm shade trees with spraying water fountains, gorgeous crystal clear Tahitian lagoons with multi-colored corals and rustic bridges over blue-green tropical grass with flowers and orchids everywhere hearing the light solemn songs of birds everywhere while ducks, herons, peacocks, pelicans and doves swim in the ponds nearby and camels, asses, sheep, goats, horses and elephants promenade by with their masters observing a few large Galapagos tortoises relaxing and eating under the shade of a Palm tree with a dozen naturalists studying their behavior.

VOICE: Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!

JOURNALIST: What’s that?

ZARATHUSTRA: "Someone is practicing his operatic voice using either The Barber of Seville by Rossini or The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart or a new rendition comic buffa or otherwise."

VOICE COACH: Bravo, bravissimo!

JOURNALIST: So the Paradiso is more operatic than the Purgatorio!

ZARATHUSTRA: [excited] Adam, this is the once-in-a-lifetime experience you will never forget and even for me.

JOURNALIST: What do you mean?

ZARATHUSTRA: [quietly] "Adam, this is God’s Private Office."

JOURNALIST: Wow! I should be impressed. Great vantage point we have.

ZARATHUSTRA: This is going to be fantastic.

JOURNALIST: How did we get a chance to see this?

ZARATHUSTRA: [proudly] As a Holy Prophet I have special pull. We have access to all the operations of the Kingdom, that is the Purgatorio and the Paradiso, not the Inferno without permission from the Devil himself but we can penetrate the places here including the Private Office of GOD unless he shuts the door.

JOURNALIST: What do you mean?

ZARATHUSTRA: GOD has had an Open Door Policy for the last 5000 years since Noah arrived, I was told.

JOURNALIST: So GOD has a Private Office but it’s not Private?

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, this is one of the seeming contradictions and paradoxes in the Kingdom but that’s why it is so marvelous to be involved as a Major Player here.

JOURNALIST: Of course, you are a Major Player being a Holy Prophet; the Ultimate Insider, part of the one percent, the powerful and rich guys, the top of the political Food Chain…

ZARATHUSTRA: I been here 2500 years and GOD has closed his Private Office only once.

JOURNALIST: When was that?

ZARATHUSTRA: When he scolded the HOLIEST WARRIOR?

JOURNALIST: The HOLIEST WARRIOR? Who’s that?

ZARATHUSTRA: You will see him very soon. I guarantee it.

JOURNALIST: Where is GOD Himself?

ZARATHUSTRA: Over there behind the long table. He is impossible to see unless you GET AT THE TABLE with GOD.

JOURNALIST: So you must GET AT THE TABLE with GOD to see him.

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, that’s the way I understand it.

JOURNALIST: I can’t see him at all. I see only a strange spirit or vision.

ZARATHUSTRA: Adam, that because we can’t get any closer. I can’t see him clearly either.

JOURNALIST: Have you met GOD before?

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, many times, particularly in our monthly meetings of the Archangels and Holy Prophets.

JOURNALIST: [excited] What’s he like?

ZARATHUSTRA: Fatherly, Grandfatherly, Stern, Authoritarian, God-like, very hard to describe in human terms.

JOURNALIST: What does God really look like?

ZARATHUSTRA: Whiz! Adam, he’s really difficult to describe too. A Spirit, a Light but in Human Form. But he’s very unique, in his own category. God’s Human but he’s God-like. He’s God-like but he’s Human!

JOURNALIST: [repeats] God’s Human but he’s God-like. He’s God-like but he’s Human!

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, that’s as true as I can say it.

JOURNALIST: Does he look like the ceiling mural of the Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel by MICHELANGELO?

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes and NO!

JOURNALIST: Yes and NO! I’m trying to digest that.

ZARATHUSTRA: Let’s listen.

JOURNALIST: One last thing. I notice in God’s Private Office he has a human skeleton hanging on the wall and a skull on the long table. What is that?

ZARATHUSTRA: God reminds himself every day of the mortality and temporariness of life on earth.

JOURNALIST: One last question. What happens to a person when they die?

ZARATHUSTRA: Mother Nature gets the body and God gets the Soul.

ANGELIC NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "GOD is not wearing a crown but appears quite uncomfortable apparently contemplating his responsibilities in the Universe, the Meaning of His Existence and the Purpose of It All. As expected God is white-haired and long-bearded with a very dark complexion but one can not really make out his real physical features besides that. There are Angels singing in the background to the harp playing of 144 Angelic Musicians."

ANGELIC CHORUS: Hal-le –lu-jah! Hal-le –lu-jah! Hal-le –lu-jah!

GOD: [very anxious] Where is he? [signals Angels to stop & orchestra to play]

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "God is still alone waiting impatiently for one of his Sons. As part of his recreational relaxing activities God is trying to paint a water color scene using water color paints which he does not enjoy working with. He prefers using oil or tempera but not the new acrylic paints. God does not appear to like anything MODERN. God is speaking to himself or His Conscience while waiting for one of his sons to arrive. God usually has developed these intellectual gymnastic activities he calls the Celestial Dialectics before he meets with his top Administrators."

GOD: I can not stop the water from moving on the sheet when I want to paint it. That is very frustrating.

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: Forget the watercolor. How are you really doing, Chief?

GOD: Woe is me! Woe is me! In the Beginning when I was alone I was admittedly bored. I told myself I will create man in my own image but he will be totally Free with Free Will to pursue his life without interference from me. Did I do the correct thing by giving Mankind Free Will?

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: Religion is the biggest obstacle to Human Freedom on earth and here.

GOD: Yes, yes, yes, I understand that.

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: Well then, what are you going to do about it?

GOD: Mankind, not I, created the religions of the world.

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: Tsk, tsk, ‘a-tasket and a-tisket a yellow and green’ religious basket but you did lose it! As God you can literally and figuratively do anything with grammatical gymnastics but what are you going to do about it now?

GOD: Sometimes I do long for the Good Olde Days before Mankind was created by me. Things were much simpler then. But I was truly bored watching these astronomical black holes singing, asteroids flying, suns exploding and melting, planets twirling and spinning off course and…

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: It appears, Big Boy, that the superlative artistics have finally arrived per your request.

GOD: [thinking] Why am I thinking about Hamlet now? I also must memorize the Hamlet speech and monologue dramatically saying; ‘What a piece of work is man’ or shall I change it?

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: You do seem rather happy today despite the exigencies of the Annual Lantern Parade and the many problems that still exist on earth, that humble abode below and I did not even mention the evil incarnate Devil to anger you still.

GOD: Don’t remind me! I’m still trying to understand the poetic and grammatical nuances of the 17th century English-speaking poet Shakespeare and...

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: "Don’t forget that you are supposed to re-read today before the Annual Lantern Parade the play called The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Shakespeare, the book 1984 by the British George Orwell and the utopian novel called Walden Two by American behavioralist BF Skinner besides the Buddhist and Hindoo and Shinto and Islamic scriptures and…"

GOD: Impossible situation!

GOD’S CONSCIENCE: [filing nails] You should have trained and lived harder as a thespian in ancient Greece, in ancient Vedic and Sanskrit theatre, in medieval Europe, in Elizabethan England, in operatic Italia, in African Yoruba theatre, in ancient Chinese Shang clowning, in Noh Japanese theatre and…

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: A clearly frustrated European Renaissance man and his five partners are staring at a scafford outside GOD’s Private Office with guards watching them closely.

APPROACHING VOICE: [nervously humming] Excuse me, Sires, but I know I’m late. I’m late. I’m late for an important date, said the white rabbit. Oh, my, oh my…Dah, Dah!

The leading European Renaissance artist man sneers at him.

APPROACHING VOICE: That unfriendly European artistic guy is probably overworked like myself. [enters large long Office of God]

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [at front desk] "Buon giorno, HOLIEST WARRIOR."

APPROACHING VOICE: "Buon giorno, Antonio, my English-Italian friend. Who are the gentlemen with the guards outside?"

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: Six Italian Artists! They are waiting for an audience with GOD. He is not in a good mood today, I must say.

APPROACHING VOICE: Why?

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: His Mural in his Private Office is not finished yet.

APPROACHING VOICE: Our God must join the real world of time restraints and…Ciao!

Music is being played in the background by an unseen orchestra of musicians.

GOD: [humming an opera aria] "Dove Sono? (Where are they?). Dove Sono I bei momenti di dolcezza e di piacer? Dove andaro I giuramenti di quel labbro menzogner? Perchè mai, se in pianti e in pene per me tutto si cangiò, la memoria di quel ben dal mio sen non trapossò? Dove Sono…" [stops]

APPROACHING VOICE: [cavalierly translates the song] "Where are they? Where are the precious moments of sweetness and delight? What became of the vows from those dying lips? Why, if everything has changed into weeping and sorrow for me, has the memory of that bliss never passed from my breast. Where are…etc.? Did I just hear the Dovo Sono aria in Le Nozze di Figaro or The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart of 1786 sung by its Countess?"

GOD: [smiles while drinking wine] "MIO FIGLIO di Tutti I FIGLI (MY SON of ALL SONS) has arrived."

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: GOD is expecting to have a private conversation with this unidentified and unnamed soul. The approaching Soul comes up cavalierly to the long table and greets GOD after walking 50 yards in his Private Office from the entrance.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: Yes, his office is a little bigger and longer than the Catholic Pope’s in the Vatican in Rome, I was told.

APPROACHING VOICE: [arrives late humming tune] "Hallelujah, Hallelujah! First I hear the angelic voices expectedly singing the chorus of the German George Frederic Handel’s Messiah and now…"

GOD: And now?

APPROACHING VOICE: "And now I see you drinking wine, speaking and singing Italian and listening to one of the Viennese Wolfgangster Mozart’s opera buffa which can make one rather sentimental, Mio Caro Padre (My Dear Father)."

MISE-EN-SCENE 71-1

THE HOLIEST WARRIOR APPEARS & GIVEN

IMPORTANT TASK BY GOD

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "The HOLIEST WARRIOR is the Youngest Son of God. He is five foot 8, a thin and muscular middle-aged dark-skinned ancient Semitic Soul of Mediterranean and African stock with deep brown mesmerizing eyes and dark brown hair. He is dressed in an unironed white cotton gown and open tan sandals with an uncut and discheveled graying beard walking in with a confident swagger."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Hmm, I see eighteen (18) opened books on his table.

AUTHOR: As you should know Sara and Vezy are the two Angelic Narrators who occasionally comment.

ANGELIC NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "The I Ching Chinese Book of Changes, the Judaic Old Testament scriptures, the Hindoo Upanishads, The Way and Its Power by Lao-Tzu, the Zoroastrian Avesta, the Analects by Confucius, The Dhammapada attributed to the Buddha, the Christian New Testament scriptures, the Islamic Koran, On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs by Copernicus, The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems by Galileo, Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Experiments With Plant Hybrids by Gregor Mendel, the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Maxwell and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Time Machine by H.G. Wells are all opened with written notes in them."

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: Some wine, Sire Holiest Warrior of all Holiest Warriors?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [takes it] "Actually, I ONLY drink ON the job. That’s because I am always working. [laughs] Tanta grazie! Just a little, Antonio, per piacere."

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: Anything else, my mischevious but overworked brother?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I need a vacation already. Do you have any vacations in your bag of administrative magic and tricks?

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [smiles] Ah, no vacations on the agenda today.

GOD: I see you love to play word games, my son and our Holiest Warrior.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [fake bows] "Wise and Omnipotent Father of us all in this absurdly monstrous and so misunderstood Universe, buono giorno."

GOD: [big smile] "Buono giorno, My Son of all Sons. It is such a delight to see you again."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [fake rolls dice] Life on earth and in the Kingdom, My Dear Father, to many of us is but a Cosmic Game played by players whose dice is rolled by a Greater Power than us. Prey tell, the Shakespearean actor would utter.

GOD: [pensive] Hmm…please sit next to me. You are offering me some philosophical thoughts so early indeed with such inter-cultural histrionics.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: The HOLIEST WARRIOR is permitted to come around in the back and sit down next to GOD. Both hug each other kissing on each cheek.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "You always have the biggest and most comfortable chair, Mio Padre."

GOD: Appearance can be deceiving and Comfort is necessarily very individual.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "And with its biggest responsibilities, I know. What are you reading now, Mio Padre? [counting] I see about eighteen books on your table."

GOD: "I am reading the Book of Daniel in the Judaic Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the Christian New Testament and parts of many others like the Hindoo Upanishads, the Chinese I Ching, the Persian Avesta, the Islamic Koran and others."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: There are no atheists in military foxholes…one says.

GOD: Why do you say that, my son? Is that a hypothesis?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "I don’t know. You would say that I am feeling cynical today, Mio Caro Dio."

GOD: We can get to a philosophical discussion later, my son, but now…

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [drinking wine] "The Books of Daniel and Revelation! The apocalyptic visions of the End of the World which have been predicted going on since the Beginning of Time; even in your Universe Time before you created Homo sapiens and caused yourself such existential angst and spiritual grief."

GOD: [repeats] "Existential angst and spiritual grief! I like that."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [lifts cup] Here, hear! Thank you very much for that compliment, My Father, if I can call that a compliment. I toast to the fulfillment of such visions. It would end my pain and suffering that I have been so tortured being your HOLIEST WARRIOR for the last, what almost 2000 odd years?

GOD: "You are skillfully playing the new modern Viennese psychoanalyst today offering me a quick psychological fix for my, what ‘existential angst and spiritual grief’ in your words, Mio Figlio? (My Son)."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: My Dear Father, you always required me to keep up with the latest mortal earthly theories in theology, philosophy, psychology, science, paleontology, archeology, politics, history etc. etc.

GOD: I am very impressed that you are attempting to expand your intellectual horizons outside just Theology, My Most Curious Son of All Sons.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Theology Alone does not Make Il uomo Universale (The Universal Man) of the Italian Renaissance, you once said!"

GOD: [pointing to books on table] "Mio Figlio, have your read any of these books recently?"

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [reviews all books] "Yes, a few times in the past but not recently. I’m too busy with my new responsibilities that my current boss, I mean my only boss gives me, but I see the range of books you are digesting include both Religion and Science, Mio Padre."

GOD: I suspect you are referring to ME as your boss who gives you too many new responsibilities, My Son?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [fake bows again & swatting a sword] My Father, you are too shrewd to be outflanked by such a former mortal as I, a humble stonemason from the Mideast Holy Lands, or a former simple ancient Greek thespian in Athens or a medieval court jester in Paris or a Renaissance actor for Willy Shakespeare in London and…

GOD: [sternly] Enough intellectual sword playing, I have both Religion and Science on the agenda to discuss with you today, my ever expanding thespian son.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Religion and Science being Allies or Enemies in the Ultimate Spiritual and Scientific War of the Universe, Mio Caro Dio?"

GOD: "Hmm, always a military analogy, Mio Figlio?"

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [seriously] In my position in the Kingdom one must think like a Military Commander and act as a Religious Prophet or Saint.

GOD: Excellent, My Son. That’s why I brought you here. You are now serious and ready for work and not play.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Le Roi s’en va-t-en guerre."

GOD: [translates French] The King goes to War.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Yes, the King goes to War but his Holiest Warriors fight it.

GOD: You made your point, My Son of All Sons who fought the wars and battles for us all during his life time on earth many years ago.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: GOD, on his humble but large throne chair of sorts, appears at first glance as an old and weary Patriarch but HE is the most venerable, most noble, most holy, most divine and most transcendental eternal proto- or primeval- Olympian Soul in the Universe whose physical appearance is expectedly indescribable and indescribable because he is the Lightest of All Light. The Journalist and Zarathustra are having the incredible opportunity of witnessing this scene nearby.

JOURNALIST: [aside] What a fabulous repartee between GOD and his Son.

ZARATHUSTRA: [aside] Private conversation between God the Father and the Holiest Warrior, His Son, is the greatest of all conversations in the Universe.

JOURNALIST: [whispers] I still can’t recognize GOD in a physical way.

ZARATHUSTRA: [whispers] I know. I know. He makes it that way. We are over 50 yards away. No one can really see him clearly except a very Select Few and I am not in that category.

JOURNALIST: [whispers] At least we can hear them.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [drinking wine] "I’m sorry I’m late, Abba, Our Aramaic Father and the Creator GOD of us All. How’s it been going?"

ANGELIC NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: GOD has the most Glorious of All Glorious Voices in the Deepest of All Deep Tones, the Grayish Beard of All Gray Beards and the Waviest Hair of All Waviest Hair, the Darkest of All Dark Skins, the Bluest Eyes of All Blue Eyes, the Most Internationally Diverse Face of All Internationally Diverse Faces of the Faces of All Nations, the Strongest of All Strong Characters, in the Flowiest of All White Flowing Gowns…That is in summary, being the Father of All the Fathers of Us All.

GOD: [chastising him for being late] Again! Again, you are late, My Favorite Son of All Favorite Sons! Being late for an important meeting with ME is not proper etiquette in the Kingdom, My Holiest Warrior and Hero of All Heroes.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Of course I am. But I’m always busy doing GOD’s work who always gives me difficult issues to solve in more impossible time frames.

GOD: Hmmm…impossible time frames?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Ah, ah… if I was an Archangel I could be here earlier, Abbuna, Our Arabic Father of All."

GOD: [corrects him] If I were an Archangel, you say! But you are not an Archangel. Therefore, you must leave earlier to arrive here on time.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [whispers] Moving from the slower Italian to more rapid Teutonic set of time, I must do.

GOD: Excuse me, Son, did you say something?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [snickers] "Yes, Av, Our Hebrew Father of All, if I knew the secrets of the Space-Time Continuum and the magic of Space Travel as Albert Einstein does I could penetrate the Time Dimension and arrive earlier."

GOD: But you don’t.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "But I don’t. That is true, Pateras, Our Greek Father of All."

GOD: [drinks wine] "Homemade dry Italian wine to me is the best drink and helps to settle my nerves; that is, when my nerves have to be settled which is usually when I have a conference with you and your brother, the Grand Pontifex Maximus."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [humming music] "Ah, I like your background music today, Father of all Fathers. It is the Countess Almaviva singing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Dove Sono of his Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), premiere at Vienna’s Burgtheatre in 1786, libretto by the Italian Lorenzo Di Ponte, I bet? No more Gregorian Chants, I hope, Pater, Our Latin Father of All."

GOD: I’m impressed, my Operatic Young Man. Yes, and taken from the comic play by the Frenchman Beaumarchais.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "I can never defeat you in a battle of wits or knowledge, Baba, Our Chinese Mandarin Father of All."

GOD: And thank you so much for your unsolicited comment on my musical tastes. I hope you take your Celestial responsibilities as seriously as you are spending most of your time recreationally pursuing the encyclopedic knowledge of the modern Opera repertoire.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Wow, that was an impressive repartee. My favorite opera now is Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème whose premiere was in Torino, Italia on April 1, 1896 of which I did expect to attend, libretto by the Italians Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Goacosa, but was detained for responsibilities here, Papa, Our Italian Father of All."

GOD: Our knowledge of man’s future can be so…

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [interrupts] Yes, I know. Our knowledge of future activities are supposed to be rather limited, kept to ourselves and we are not supposed to take advantage of Man’s future activities etc. and etc.

GOD: You lectured yourself on our limitations before I had to.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: My apology, Celestial Sire of All Sires.

GOD: I see you still like the Italian opera star Puccini. What about the other Italian composers of Cimarosa, Bellini, Piccinni, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "You forgot some of my favorites; Pacini, Ponchielli, Catalani and Cilea among others, Bapa, Our Hindi Father of All."

GOD: I don’t remember the names of all the great composers.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "They’re all magnificent and great. But I enjoy Puccini’s melodies better, Baba, Our Turkish Father of All."

GOD: I’m a conservative and traditionalist. I still enjoy Gregorian Chants but have adored more Mozart lately. And I see you are a modernist yet from such an ancient world and lineage.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "A French Oui (yes), I know you are a conservative and traditionalist in everything you do, Père, Our French Father of All."

GOD: You enjoy Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, and even the literary Pushkin and Tolstoy, I hear?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "My Russian needs some brushing up, Otche nash, Svyatoy Ohetz spahsy moyu dushuh (Our Saint Father, Saintly Father save my soul), Our Russian Father of All."

GOD: [grabs a file] Enough opera and music, we have work to be done.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Ah, you look like you aged a bit since the last time I’ve seen you, Padre, Our Spanish Father of All, meaning that in a good way as aged wine getting better."

GOD: When was that?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Ah, I really don’t remember the exact time. You been well lately? Any pressing concerns I can help you with, Pappa, Our Swedish Father of All?"

GOD: Admittedly, this modern world is changing too fast even for me.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Change is a very difficult concept to accept. It is true even for us celestials if one can still define me as your Celestial Son. You must be haunted by the beautiful memories of your Glorious past.

GOD: "I like that phrase, ‘You must be haunted by the beautiful memories of your Glorious past.’ Yes, I do."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Occasionally, I do come up with some good quotes despite the fact that I have absolutely so little time to read and think on this job because you, My Holy Father, keep me too busy with numerous and overworking administrative matters.

GOD: You can stop addressing me FATHER in all these languages but I am happily and gratefully impressed.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Just trying to make you feel at home with the diverse types of peoples you and I deal with all the time on earth and in the Kingdom.

GOD: I understand. What is more diverse than our Kingdom in the Universe?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "I never knew my mother very well and never met my real earthly father, as you know, Mio Caro Dio."

GOD: [irritated] Son, you like to bring up this same issue again about your birth when you are late? I had neither a mother nor father to reject or abandon me.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Supernaturally, you are different than the rest of us, My Father.

GOD: Am I really that different?

Silence.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [curious] What can I do for you today before the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE?

GOD: [smiles] I have the most important responsibility for you in the History of the Kingdom, my chief Trouble Shooter and best Problem Solver.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I presume the Archangels, the Holy Prophets and your favorite number-crunching and slogan-making Theologians are unavailable for this Suicide Administrative Mission or SAM for short.

GOD: [shocked] "Suicide Administrative Mission! Attitude and Positive Thinking are the keystones of a successful soul, the Celestial Academy Professors teach you whether you are on earth or in the Kingdom."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I know. I know. Arrogance on earth may be a virtue but not here.

GOD: Superlative deduction, my so Holy Son!

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Another enigma, quandary, parable, riddle, conundrum, puzzle, paradox of the physical and spiritual Universe for me, the Human Sphinx-Buster, to solve again, my Holy Father?

GOD: Yes, I like that!

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I solved the Gordian Knot too, you remember?

GOD: I remember everything. The issue is do I want to remember everything?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I think I understand that. Your philosophical responses are always on target. You must write a book about it soon at least within the next thousand years!

GOD: The Challenge of all Challenges, I say.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [bows] I am your humble Warrior as always, unappreciated and unrewarded.

GOD: Again! Your reward and appreciation, My Son, is to Humanity not ME. You need not nor should you demand any applause nor anyone’s but yourself.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Stiff upper lip! Suck it in! Damn the torpedoes! Okay.

GOD: I will permit that comment to slide by me without response.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Hmm, what’s next, Oh My Holy Father of All Holiest Fathers?

GOD: [tapes fingers] "Only you and I will know the absolute and true nature of this Super-Secret Mission."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Super-Secret Mission? What is it? Pray tell. When you use superlatives like Super-Secret Mission I get rather nervous."

GOD: [head-shaking] I always thought I was a patient soul.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Che cosa faccio qui? (What am I doing here?)"

GOD: When you get nervous you always start speaking Italian?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Hundreds of years of hearing and speaking only ancient Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic, and classical Sanskrit, Chinese Mandarin and Latin is enough.

GOD: [reminiscing] The Ancient languages are more beautifully spoken and written words than the modern languages, I contend.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [frustrated] Father, I never receive an easy task from you! I get admittedly frustrated.

GOD: [smiles] But that’s because you are the Best of the Best, the Greatest of the Greatest, the Strongest of the Strongest, the Most Intelligent of the Intelligent, the Wisest of the Wisest…

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [reddened face] When you smile and start complimenting me like that I get worried and know that you will give me the Most Impossible of All Impossible and the Most Absurd of All Absurd Tasks.

GOD: "MY SON, to me you are spiritually the MOST IMPORTANT and OUTSTANDING Emperor of All My Emperors, the Sovereign of All My Sovereigns, the Egyptian Pharaoh of All My Pharaohs, the Greek Basileus of All My Greek Emperors, the Roman Caesar of All My Caesars, the Russian Tsar of All My Tsars, the Sanskrit Samraat of All My Sanskrit Emperors, the First Chinese Emperor and Son of Heaven of All My Sons of Heaven, the Japanese Heavenly Emperor of All My Heavenly Emperors, the Mongolian Khan of All My Khans, the Sultans of All My Sultans, the Aztec Hueyi Tiatoani of All My Aztec Emperors, the Inca Sapa Inca of All My Inca Emperors, the Maya Ajaw Ruler of All My Rulers, the Holy Roman Emperor of All Holy Roman Emperors, the Lord of All My Lords, the Baron of All My Barons, the Count of All My Counts, the Duke of All My Dukes, the Prince of All My Princes…"

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [embarrassed] I am always humbled by your comments.

GOD: "Yes, MY SON, and to me you are also spiritually the MOST IMPORTANT and OUTSTANDING King of All My Kings, the Sumerian Lugal of all My Kings, the Hebrew and Semitic Sharrum of All My Sharrum Kings, the Latin Rex of All My Kings, the Arabic Caliphs of All My Caliphs, the Persian Shah of All My Shahs, the Sanskrit Raja of All My Rajas, the Latin Imperator of All My Imperators, the Military Field Marshal of All My Field Marshals, etc…"

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [humbled] You did not have to use these superlatives to prove you think highly of me, My Father?

GOD: My Son, without you I could not operate the Kingdom. But I really need your help now.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Thank you for the confidence you just expressed. There is now a lot more competition for the Souls of Mankind today on earth not only supernaturally from the Devil but from many earthly philosophies, ideologies, theories and other obscure religious movements and political and moral belief systems.

GOD: So be it! We can compete against anyone, anything and anywhere.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [bows] I am your humble servant, Our Father, ready and willing to serve you in any capacity you deem me capable.

REPORT OF THE FUTURE GIVEN TO HOLIEST WARRIOR

GOD: [hands file] "I want you to help solve and answer the two most important questions of The Ages. Read and consume and understand this Report of the Future in detail when you leave here."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [takes report] Oh, yes, the Holy Mysteries of the Universe. I’m your man—I mean I’m your Soul.

GOD: Many eons ago I have resigned myself to the biological and evolutionary scientific fact that all Souls are unique individuals with unique wants and desires and needs and many possess iconoclastic, cantankerous, obstinate and rebellious personalities.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Like me, you mean?

GOD: What do you think I am thinking now, My French Cavalier?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Ah, I have been trying to understand the nature of my existence and I need more time to explore that.

GOD: Your response is expectedly metaphysical. I should have trained you as a philosopher or theologian not as a ….

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Not as a Warrior Monk that I am."

GOD: You received the best training possible on earth and here, My Italian Duke.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Where are the existentialists when I need them?

GOD: So now this week you are an existentialist, my prodigal Son?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Well, yes and no! I should have asked my Mother to act as my counselor today.

GOD: Your Mother, as saintly as she is, can not help you here, My Progeny.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I have started to re-study in more detail all the major religions of the world.

GOD: You have, my son? And which ones are they if I may be presumptuous to ask?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Well, I started to study the primitive religions and…

GOD: That should take you to the anthropological ends of the earth like Tierra del Fuego or the Inuit Eskimos of Alaska and Canada or the indigenous peoples of Eastern Siberia or Papua New Guinean areas etc. consuming your valuable time from your present duties, my Son.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Actually, I started to study primitive religions, Hindooism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism and Confucianism, Sikhism and Jainism, and even Judaism, Christianity and Islam in more depth.

GOD: My Son, you missed Japanese Shintoism and Zen Buddhism if I can be bold enough to separate Zen Buddhism from Buddhism.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I stand again corrected by my Holy Father, source of all religious wisdom and knowledge.

GOD: I detect a bit of sarcasm here.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Seriously, any caveats before I read this Report of the Future?"

GOD: "The Report of the Future is both comprehensive and understandable."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Of course it is.

GOD: I want you to read this report, follow the instructions and proceed God-speed and report back to me immediately after the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE. You have little time to establish the Committee and recruit the brightest and best Scientific minds of the Kingdom and little time to solve these two questions.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Ah, I heard rumors that the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE is going to be the Greatest ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE in the history of the Kingdom since it started.

GOD: Where did you hear this and what are these rumors, My Medieval Knight?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: "Ooh, I heard the theme was the DIVINE MYSTERIES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY."

GOD: Yes, but that is not a rumor. It is a fact.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I am particularly interested in this year’s Theme because it is my academic and avocational bailiwick.

GOD: Son, you were given the opportunity to participate in this year’s ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE like all years. You must keep up with the Traditional Bulletins and Modern Communciation Networks we established.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I have been so busy doing many things for you, My Holiest Father, I honesty really forgot about it.

GOD: [tapes fingers] "As noted in this Report of the Future I direct you to immediately operate a Super-Secret Project to answer the two most important questions of the Ages, My Prince of Peace."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [chewing a cigarette] Your command is my, ah, command.

GOD: What are you doing with that soggy cigarette in your mouth, My Scottish Lad?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: You won’t let me smoke it in here so I suck on it for pleasure.

GOD: Suck on it for pleasure! What is the status of your addictions treatment?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: LIMBOLAND!

GOD: LIMBOLAND! That reminds me that I want you to use the extant volcano in LIMBOLAND with the Scientists as the on-site Scientific Observatory and get the job done soon because we have little time.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: How much time?

GOD: I said little time.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [shrugs] Okay. But I need a frame of reference on time.

GOD: Son, you were required to study and master the notion of Space-Time generations ago along with your other cosmological and astronomical responsibilities, my so irresponsible Son. You should be answering my questions rather than me answering yours. You were an astro-physics teacher at one time in the Kingdom, were you not?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Yes, yes and yes! Okay. I’m leaving for the New Frontier of INTRA-TERRESTRIAL and EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL beings, if they exist.

GOD: By the way, when are you going to stop smoking?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [hides it in coat] Ah, I try to quit, but Father, you give me the most Impossible Tasks to achieve. I become depressed, anxious and even schizophrenic …

GOD: "Don’t give me excuses, my most brilliant Son. You have the best job in the Kingdom and Universe, My Spanish Caballero."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: You mean in the Universes.

GOD: Always an unsolicited cosmological comment!

HOLIEST WARRIOR: You taught me good.

GOD: Go forthwith and I want that Preliminary Report before the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [Grumpy] Alright, alright. I wish I was just a standard Archangel with only responsibilities over individual souls.

GOD: By the way, I am very interested in knowing how the ancient civilizations dealt with cosmology and astronomy and the lessons they learned concerning the Future and how they predicted it.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [seriously] Using a strictly pure Scientific Perspective you want to know the knowledge of the ancient Sumerian cosmologists of the EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL world, this classic Maya Doomsday Apocalypse scenario in 2012, the knowledge of the Hindoos in their Final Age cyclical calendar system and even the Hopi Indians of North America and how their Prophecy Stone relates to the End of the World Apocalyptic Visions among other esoteric eschatological inquiries from other civilizations; ancient, medieval and modern and post-modern.

GOD: Yes, precisely. Now you have your Scientifc Brain on. I am very impressed. Post-modern to me is still a nebulous concept. You must explain that to me in the Future.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [curious] Hmm, these Doomsday Prophets make interesting guesses but they are purely pseudo-scientific hallucinogenic fantasy and hysterical nonsense.

GOD: You are now making un-scientific and theological assumptions that Scientists should not do. Being skeptical is fine but I want Scientific Facts, not theories.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I admit. I did jump to conclusions based on untested assumptions, scientific or not.

GOD: I want a comprehensive Report with Evidence and not Speculation.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Anything else?

GOD: Keep this quiet and don’t let anyone know what’s going on except the Researchers and Scientists involved. I have a list attached in the addendum of the Classified Report of the most distinguished ancient, medieval and modern Visiting Scientific Scholars who I want you to conduct a Guided Tour for etc., etc. You do the rest. Gather the best minds to answer these Two Questions and use any methodologies to achieve the results.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Anything else?

GOD: "You need a top Director of Research to operate the Project. I want you to monitor it daily but give the Scientific Researchers absolute power to control the Research without interference from you."

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I understand you perfectly. My responsibility is bureaucratic and not research.

GOD: Develop the Administrative Structure and use the secret Celestial Scientific Laboratory in Paradiso starting tomorrow after the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE. Few scientists know about that Observatory. Actually, none do! Get back in time for the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [surprised] I never knew there was a secret Celestial Scientific Laboratory in Paradiso!

GOD: I expect this special Research Project should open your eyes, ears and mouth as to the complexity my job is in the Universe—or Universes as you noted.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: I apologize, Holiest Father. I know you have a very very difficult, if not impossible, job maintaining all these planets, solar systems, Galaxies etc. with their unique needs and wants and with all the existing living and non-living organisms within them.

GOD: Thank you for reminding me.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Your welcome. That’s the first thank you I received from you since—I don’t remember.

GOD: God-speed. Return before the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE starts with that Preliminary Report.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: My Holiest Father, let me ask you a final ontological, teleological, cosmological and/or eschatological question.

GOD: What is it?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [nervously] Ah, what, oops, ah…

GOD: What is it? I ask. Cat got your tongue, young man of Science?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [coughs] Ah…if you as our all-powerful and all-knowing GOD are Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent as we were led to believe why can’t you stop these Doomsday Scenarios if they will occur?

GOD: Son, you forgot the most important trait.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: What is it?

GOD: Omnibenevolent. I believe in Unconditional Love and Forgiveness.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: But, My Dear Father, with respect, that does not answer my question.

GOD: Son, I will only intervene with human affaires when I feel it is necessary to intervene in Human Affaires.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: That’s a pretty good response and was expected.

GOD: Have you heard of Free Will?

HOLIEST WARRIOR: Yes, something that I have studied here and not possess.