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“The Prime Mover”
As a sanitation worker in Wilmington, Delaware, Patrick Willows became accustomed to
collecting garbage and to cleaning the industrial wastewater and other forms of refuse in the
city’s sewers and storm drains. From the years 2028-2040, he had worked tirelessly as a
Christian missionary in Ecuador, and during his ministries to the mestizos in the city of Manta,
he also lived with his wife Molly as they raised their son Drew. He aspired to abandon his
missionary work and to become a doctor, but he could not afford to attend medical school and
was forced to concentrate entirely on caring for his son when he contracted diphtheria at age
seven. The young child Drew had not been properly vaccinated against the bacterial disease and
suffered from a windpipe infection and aortic valve disease. A healer known only as The Prime
Mover labored to help Willows’ son, but the healer’s practice of “weighing” sins and perfection
was unsuccessful and could not prevent Drew’s premature death. Following the tragic loss of his
son, the thirty-eight-year-old Willows abandoned Ecuador and returned to Delaware, where he
joined the sanitation department and savored the opportunity for honest labor more than his
previous missionary work. He and his fellow maintenance worker Luke Railsback were trudging
through the sewer system that extended beneath the Wilmington city, and as the two individuals
stood in the rainwater runoff from the storm drain, Willows inspected the storm drain’s grating
and its network of rectangular piping. For the past three hours, he and Railsback had been
repairing the sewer’s pipelines, which extended to the facilities for sewage treatment, and the
two maintenance workers now were eager to return home following a day of transporting loading
materials and cleaning the pipelines. Six weeks earlier, another maintenance worker named
Frank Barron had been killed when a mixture of sand and gravel became dislodged from his
truck and crushed him on the street. In reaction to Barron’s death, Willows organized a workers’
union that sought greater rights for sanitation workers, and out of the ninety workers in the local
Wilmington area, thirty of them supported Willows’ crusade for improved regulations and
security for sanitation workers.
Willows and Railsback waded through the industrial wastewater in the direction of the
manhole, and during their walk, Railsback recalled that according to news reports, the planet
Venus, which once completed its revolution around the Sun every 225 days, now appeared to be
orbiting the Sun backwards. Astronomers had determined that while the other eight planets
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rotated counter-clockwise, Venus moved in a clockwise rotation, but satellite images confirmed
that for the past year, Venus had been turning counter-clockwise in tandem with the other
planets. Venus remained difficult to perceive during the nighttime considering that the planet
became obscured when it moved between the Earth and the Sun, but during the daytime,
individuals could still monitor Venus due to its extreme brightness. The astronomers were
scrambling to explain why Venus was deviating from its original trajectory and why it was
mysteriously rotating counter-clockwise, and their analysis proved that the counter-clockwise
movements of Venus were accelerating the planet’s initially slow rotations. The planet
originally traveled at such a slow pace that its daily rotation lasted longer than its yearly
revolution, and while the scientists contemplated why Venus’ counter -clockwise motions were
expediting its rotations, concerns arose that Venus was moving too closely to Earth.
Despite the astronomers’ anxieties about Venus’ abnormal counter -clockwise rotation,
scientists gained new insights about the planet’s dense clouds of sulfuric acid and its landscape
of craters and volcanoes. Venus had always been classified as Earth’s “sister planet” based on
their similar sizes, but with Venus’ closer proximity to Earth, scientists determined that Venus
not only contained the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets but also that its clouds of
sulfuric acid discharged lightning. The planet remained the third brightest natural object in the
sky following the Sun and the Moon, and as Venus rotated in a counter-clockwise fashion toward
the Earth, scientists continued to speculate about Venus’ lightning, its solar wind, its intense
heat, and its atmospheric pressure. New evidence suggested that the planet’s volcanoes and its
craters were somehow correlated with the occurrences of lightning and pressure, which exceeded
the Earth’s surface pressure by ninety-two times. However, the astronomers were more terrified
that Venus was becoming so close to Earth that its basaltic rocks and silicate materials could be
detached from its scorching surface and could streak to the Earth as meteorites. Standing inside
the underground sewer system of drains and rectangular piping, Railsback stopped in the storm
water and asked Willows about Venus’ bizarre counter -clockwise rotations and its dangerous
proximity to Earth by remarking, “Hey, Patrick, what do you think about Venus? I didn’t even
know that it was the brightest planet or that it used to be the only planet that moved clockwise.”
As Willows waded through the industrial wastewater, he glanced back at the papules,
pustules, and the other acne on Railsback’s face, and he silently became irritated that the thirty-
six-year-old Railsback still suffered from an acne condition that was more common in children
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than in adults. Stopping in the streaming waste, Willows joked that his fellow maintenance
worker lacked knowledge about general astronomy when he replied, “Come on, Luke, before the
media started talking about Venus, you didn’t even know that it was the second planet from the
Sun.”
With a halfhearted scoff, Railsback gingerly plodded behind Willows and struggled to
maintain his balance so that he would not stumble in the mucky wastewater, and Railsback
commented about the similarities between Earth and Venus by asserting, “I really didn’t know
that Venus used to have water. They’re saying that the planet heated up until the oceans
evaporated, and all that was left were dry deserts and volcanoes. It’s pretty interesting that
Venus has got a crust and a mantle just like Earth; they’re even saying that if we could plant
algae there, it might start releasing oxygen and become livable for human beings.”
Trudging past a grating in the narrow drain, Willows contended that humans could never
inhabit Venus considering that its atmosphere consisted primarily of carbon dioxide that could
exceed 400 degrees Celsius and that would suffocate humans with air pressure and heat. He
addressed Venus’ surface pressure, which surpassed the Earth’s pressure by ninety times, its
extreme temperatures, and its volcanic plains by retorting, “I don’t think so. Even if we could
plant algae on Venus, we’d never release enough oxygen into the atmosphere to make it livable;
it’s way too hot. On the news, they said that eighty percent of Venus is covered with volcanoes;
there’s so much pressure and carbon dioxide there that we’d all burn up and be suffocated. Just
because there used to be water on Venus doesn’t mean that any of us can live there.”
Railsback continued to follow Willows in the wastewater and conceded that although
Earth and Venus exhibited similar rocky surfaces and internal tectonic features of a core, a
mantle, and crust, Venus was too hot and contained too much suffocating carbon dioxide to
sustain human life. He speculated about the plate tectonics and the thermal formations of granite
rocks that Venus and Earth shared by muttering, “Well, then, why is Venus so similar to Earth?
It didn’t just have oceans that evaporated from the heat; they’re saying that some granite rocks
were found on its surface. That means that the tectonic plates have been moving and that the
rock cycle has taken place at some point. Some guy on the news even said that Venus could be
our ‘sister planet,’ so why couldn’t we live there one day?”
Despite the similar sizes, densities, and rocky surfaces that Venus and Earth shared,
Willows dismissed the notion that the dry planet Venus could qualify as Earth’s “sister planet.”
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He contended that Venus could not even be detected during the nighttime because the planet
moved between the Sun and the Earth in an elliptical orbit when he retorted, “Because it’s way
too hot, Luke. They said that Venus barely has any plate tectonics; its crust and its mantle are
both way too hot and dry to sustain any life. Why do you even care about Venus anyway? It’s
just a rock of volcanoes and clouds of sulfuric acid; you can’t even see it at night.”
Media outlets were perpetuating the possibility that Venus’ counter -clockwise rotations
were causing the dry, volcanic planet to become dangerously close to Earth and that Venus’
basaltic rocks could plummet to the Earth. As the two maintenance workers approached the
manhole, Railsback insisted that he was simply hoping to distract Willows from his
preoccupation with the workers’ union that Willows was organizing to demand improved
safeguards for the sanitation department. The wastewater began to rumble slightly when
Railsback replied, “Hey, man, I’m just trying to make conversation; I’m trying to get your mind
off of this stuff with the workers’ union. I know that we all need to be safer, but you’ve been
really obsessed with it lately. Venus may crash into us before you even get to stand up for your
average sewer employee. Who knows?”
Willows trudged past more connecting pipes and peered up at the manhole that would
lead him to the surface, but Railsback was startled by the rumbling in the distance and plodded in
the direction of the whirring noise. With the wastewater’s splashing beneath his feet, he
stumbled onto a white vortex that appeared conspicuously in the green waste around him, and in
an awe-struck moment, he glared at the white substance that was spiraling inside the vortex’s
center. A pocket of warm air was bubbling at the center to generate the rustling sound, and the
convergence of the white substance heated the boiling center until three enormous bubbles began
to burst in unison. The popping bubbles startled Railsback and prompted him to step away from
the explosions that were occurring in the whirlpool’s white center, but he was unable to avert his
gaze from the spiraling center, which reminded him of a black hole. The center contained
convergences of exploding bubbles, but it also featured a compression of mass and energy that
was rapidly heating and that could absorb any objects in its path. When a dense pocket of air
was lifted from the whirlpool’s white center, the tension between the rising air and the white
substance generated more bubbles that exploded into steam particles. The steam dispersed into
the air with such intensity that Railsback continued to back away from the whirlpool that
somehow resembled both a cooking pot and a black hole. Despite his fears that the whirlpool’s
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exploding bubbles could harm him, he could not shift his eyes away from the white substance
that was swirling in the center, and as the rising air created more bubbles, he peered at the
spinning fluid with the same rapt attention that could not be diminished. The center’s vortex-like
fluid persisted in flowing horizontally, and as the air pressure decreased and the bubbles faded,
the s peed of the substance’s oscillation accelerated until the fluid rotated so vigorously in circles
that its bubbling recommenced. More rising air collided into the white substance’s circular
rotations, and the tension between the updraft of air and the swirling fluid caused more bubbles
to explode. The rising air failed to escape from the rotating substance, and Railsback was so
captivated that he could only watch as the white funnel and the trapped air spun more violently
in the manner of a tornado.
Willows plodded through the green wastewater to join Railsback at the white vortex, and
as the fluid spun even more rapidly in its circular rotations, Willows noticed that the bubbling
solution had mesmerized his fellow maintenance worker Railsback. When Willows asked, “Are
you okay, man?,” Railsback explained the whirlpool’s allure by muttering, “It wants me to use it;
it’s telling me that I’m unclean and that I have evil thoughts. It wants to cleanse me.”
Willows did not understand that the whirlpool’s whir ring was summoning Railsback to
climb into its spinning center, and before Willows could question why Railsback hoped to use
the whirlpool to cleanse himself, Railsback stepped from the green wastewater into the white
whirlpool. He became submerged in the bubbly solution and waded toward the spiraling center,
and during his gliding through the white fluid, Willows could only watch as steam was dispersed
and obscured his vision of Railsback. As Railsback sank into the whirlpool’s center from which
no matter or light could escape, Willows identified that another being was being lifted from the
steamy solution and that the individual was rising at the same speed that Railsback was sinking.
A white wave swept over Railsback so that the updraft of rising air and the tornado-like funnel
could swallow him, and after the steam dissipated and the bubbles ceased their fizzing, the
second individual emerged from the whirlpool and stepped into the green sewage. Willows
realized that the naked individual appeared to be a clone of Railsback, but although the clone
shared Railsback’s physiology, he lacked the pustules and the other acne that covered the face of
the original Railsback. Willows also noticed that Railsback’s clone was wearing a red, diamond-
studded crown, which reminded Willows of the white crown that the healer known as The Prime
Mover had placed on his son Drew’s head in his failed attempt to cure him of diphtheria. While
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Willows stood in disbelief, the clone planted his hand inside the white solution and pulled
Railsback to the surface to prevent him from drowning inside the funnel of bubbles and steam.
The bizarre white substance continued to swirl in circular rotations behind Willows as the clone
lifted Railsback to his feet and grinned at him to expr ess his appreciation for Railsback’s
decision to clone himself inside the whirlpool. Dripping with the white substance that splashed
into the green wastewater, Railsback gawked at the clone that somehow was devoid of his acne,
and Railsback spit out the white fluid to clear his throat and asked, “Who are you?”
While Willows watched their interactions as a passive observer, the clone wiped the
white fluid from his nose, adjusted his red crown, and explained that the mysterious whirlpool
represented remnants of the inorganic “primordial soup” from which humans first emerged over
100,000 years earlier. In a fog of steam that the whirlpool was discharging, Railsback’s clone
referred to the white whirlpool as the “hypostasis” when he muttered, “That pool is the only
thing that’s left of the primordial soup from which all human life came; that inorganic pool gave
birth to organic life. The pool is just like the Pool of Bethesda where the sick people came for
healing in The Book of John; the pool is the key to the perfection that humans could’ve been.
The first humans were perfect until they committed sins that corrupted them; I’m the perfect side
of you that you could’ve been. The primordial soup is called the ‘hypostasis;’ it’s the perfection
that’s eluded humanity since the Fall into sin. I’m the ‘chrysostom;’ I’m the perfection that you
could’ve been.”
Willows delved into his experiences as a Christian missionary to recall that the Greek
word “hypostasis” denoted “existence” and the presence of the perfect Holy Trinity that
represented God. Willows also recalled that in The Book of John 5, “the blind,” “the lame,” and
“the paralyzed” citizens entered the Pool of Bethesda to be cured of their sicknesses because the
pool erased the sins that caused their sicknesses to cure the “disabled people,” and God’s angels
blessed the Pool of Bethesda to help the individuals who were suffering from sicknesses.
According to The Book of John 5, Jesus Christ encountered an individual who had been “an
invalid for thirty-eight years,” and the disabled individual was unable to climb into the Pool of
Bethesda to be cured of his sickness that human sins had caused. Jesus performed a miracle that
allowed the disabled individual to walk for the first time in thirty-eight years, and once Jesus had
healed the individual of his paralysis, he picked up his mat and walked away from the pool.
Jesus later commanded the individual to “stop sinning” to prevent “something worse” from
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happening to him, so Jesus suggested that humans caused their own sicknesses by committing
sins. As Willows stared at the whirlpool that had created a clone of Railsback, he refused to
accept that the whirlpool contained the same miraculous properties as the Pool of Bethesda from
The Book of John 5. The white whirlpool stored the remains of the “primordial soup” that
Railsback’s clone praised as the “hypostasis” from which human life originated, and Railsback’s
clone viewed himself as a perfect being known as the “chrysostom.” During the fourth century,
John Chrysostom served as the Archbishop of Constantinople, erected hospitals for poor citizens,
and was eventually banished from the church for his unorthodox interpretations of Biblical
scriptures. After his ridicules of church abuses were reconsidered, the Eastern Orthodox Church
recognized him as a saint and referred to him as a “Great Ecumenical Teacher.” However, as
Willows observed the red crown on the clone’s head, he invoked that the Greek term
“chrysostomos” meant “golden mouth,” and the crown was comprised of the gold that the clone
described when he named himself as the perfect “chrysostom.” Standing in front of his clone
known as the chrysostom, Railsback flailed his arms to drain more white fluid, stared back at his
fellow maintenance work er Willows, and asked, “Patrick, do you have any idea what this guy is
talking about? Did that pool fry my brains or what?”
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The Pool of Bethesda: The Gospel of John 5
With the green wastewater at his knees, Willows turned away from the bubbling
whirlpool and dismissed the clone’s red crown and the fact that The Prime Mover had used a
similar white crown as a “scale” that established balance between sins and perfection. Willows
understood that Railsback’s clone had compared the whirlpool to the Pool of Bethesda, but he
dismissed the possibility that the whirlpool could be comparable to the Pool of Bethesda. He
acknowledged that The Book of John 5 could be correct that humans caused their sicknesses by
committing sins, but it seemed impossible that the white whirlpool could be comparable to the
Pool of Bethesda that erased humans’ sins to cure them of their illnesses. Recalling that Venus
was still rotating in its bizarre counter-clockwise motion, he addressed the significance of the
white whirlpool known as the hypostasis and Railsback’s clone known as a chrysostom when he
replied, “I don’t know, Luke. Your clone called that pool the ‘hypostasis;’ I know that that
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means ‘existence’ in Greek. John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople and a
saint; the clone must think that he’s some kind of a saint. Maybe, he’s from Venus; that rotation
could be making clones for all I know. No matter what he says, there’s no way that the pool is
like the Pool of Bethesda; you can’t believe what he says.”
Drenched in the whirlpool’s cold, white fluid, Railsback began to shiver when he
identified that his apparently perfect clone known as the chrysostom was devoid of the acne that
decorated his own face, and he considered that the chrysostom could be perfect based on the lack
of acne. While Willows ignored the similarities between the clone’s red crown and the white
crown that The Prime Mover had placed on his son Drew’s head, Railsback pointed to his
clone’s red crown and asked, “So, um, you’re my perfect side. Why are you wearing a crown?”
The chrysostom, Railsback’s perfect clone, viewed his red crown as a weighing scale that
was comparable to a triple-beam balance on which human sins and perfection were weighed to
create an equilibrium between them in the universe. The chrysostom adjusted his crown’s
jewels, which were the sliding weights known as riders that calibrated the weighing scale so that
the two items of sins and perfection could be measured and balanced. He revealed that his red
crown was a universal weighing scale and quoted the Biblical Book of Isaiah’s Fortieth Chapter
when he glared at Railsback and bellowed, “This crown is a scale; once it’s calibrated, it weighs
sins and perfection to balance them. I’m your perfect side, Luke; I’m trying to balance your sins
with my perfection. I don’t have your acne or your envy of Mr. Willows. You’re envious of Mr.
Willows’ popularity, and my perfection is trying to balance out your sinful envy. The Prophet
Isaiah said that ‘the nations are like a drop in a bucket;’ the nations are ‘regarded as dust on the
scales.’ My crown is one of those scales; it has ‘held the dust of the Earth in a basket’ and
‘weighed the mountains on the scales.’ My scale weighs the world; it balances sin and
perfection.”
Railsback was startled that his clone understood his secret envy of Willows’ success and
popularity among the other sanitation workers, and he noticed that his clone’s red crown was
slightly rumbling to balance Railsback’s sin of envy and the perfection that the clone embodied.
The red crown became so heavy that the chrysostom raised his hands and slid its jewels apart to
calibrate it, and while the chrysostom balanced Railsback’s sins with his perfection, Willows
recalled that the healer known as The Prime Mover had quoted the same verse from The Book of
Isaiah to explain the world’s precarious balance. According to The Prime Mover, his own white
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crown was a scale that functioned as a seesaw because during its weighing of sins and perfection,
the heavier side was raised upward while the lighter side was lowered between a fulcrum. The
Prime Mover had also quoted a different verse from The Book of Isaiah when he insisted that
“every valley shall be raised up” and that “every mountain and hill” will be “made low” because
his seesaw-like scale would balance the sins and perfection to cause the Earth’s “rough ground”
to “become level.” The chrysostom lowered his head in reaction to the crown’s pressure, and he
slid the crown’s jewels to balance his perfection with Railsback’s sinful envy while Willows
contemplated how the chrysostom was associated with The Prime Mover. Railsback stared at
Willows and confessed his sinful envy by muttering, “Okay, so I’m a little jealous of Patrick. I
mean, he was able to rally a ton of sanitation workers to support his cause for improved rights.
The guy’s amazing, so of course, I’m a little envious. Who wouldn’t be?”
The chrysostom’s red crown decreased its pressure on the left side of his head to indicate
that Railsback had reduced his own sins, and as the crown’s weight shifted, the chrysostom
managed to lift his head and no longer was forced to bear such weight. Railsback’s sins were
measured on the crown’s left side, and the chrysostom’s perfection was weighed on the right
side. Therefore, Railsback’s confession of his sinful envy diminished the weight on the left side
so that the crown could function somewhat as a seesaw. The chrysostom raised his head higher
and massaged his stiff neck, which had suffered from the crown’s pressure on his head, and he
praised Railsback for publicizing his once secret sin by retorting, “Thank you, Luke. The secret
envy in your heart was defiling you; it’s better that you just let it out. You actually decrease your
sins when you expose them, and that’s less weight for me to carry when my crown has to balance
my perfection and your sins. If you’ve got any other sins to confess, it would only help to
balance my scale.”
Based on the crown’s decreased weight on the chrysostom’s head, Railsback became
convinced that the red crown was actually a weighing scale and that chrysostom was bearing the
two weights of his own perfection and Railsback’s sins. Railsback placed his palm on his hair,
which was soaked with the whirlpool’s white fluid, and he promised to alleviate the crown’s
pressure on the chrysostom’s head by answering, “Okay, if I think of any other sins in my heart,
then, I’ll be sure to let you know.”
While Railsback was awe-struck that the mysterious whirlpool known as the “hypostasis”
had cloned him and that his perfect clone was standing in front of him, Willows was skeptical
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and was contemplating the associations between The Prime Mover and the chrysostom. Willows
was disturbed that The Prime Mover also had referred to The Book of Isaiah to explain his role
as a healer who would control “every valley” and “every mountain and hill” to balance sins and
perfection. As memories of his son’s fatal exorcism were uncovered, Willows scowled at the
seemingly perfect chrysostom and contended that he was incapable of weighing “the mountains
on the scales” to balance sins and perfection when he bellowed, “This is ridiculous. I’ve heard
your verse from The Book of Isaiah before; you took it completely out of context to fit your own
messed up view of the world. Isaiah says that all nations are ‘less than nothing’ in comparison
with God; Isaiah admits that God’s ‘ways’ are ‘higher than’ his ‘ways.’ You can’t balance the
world like some kind of a God; the whole point of Isaiah is that God is greater than humans are.”
In reaction to Willows’ allegation that he had misinterpreted passages from The Book of
Isaiah, the chrysostom remained adamant that human civilizations were simply “dust on the
scales” and that his unorthodox weighing scale balanced his perfection with Railsback’s sins.
Moving another one of his crown’s jewels as a sliding weight, the chrysostom revealed that he
was not human and that he was the embodiment of the perfection that God intended for humans
before they commit sins when he replied, “I’m not human, Mr. Willows, or at least not in the
sense that you mean. I’m the perfection that God wanted for humanity before the Fall. Humans
evolved from the primordial soup to be perfect, and that’s what I am. My crown is the weighing
scale that balances sins and perfection, and I’m perfect enough to know that your son’s
diphtheria could’ve been cured with an antitoxin. You didn’t have to let him die.”
The chrysostom’s mysterious allusion to the death of Willows’ son prompted him to
lumber through the green wastewater while the white whirlpool known as the hypostasis was
bubbling and swirling behind them. Willows clenched his fist and prepared to clout the
chrysostom for his insensitive comments, but Railsback placed his hands on Willows to restrain
him and to protect the clone. With his palms on Willows’ chest, Railsback defended his clone
and the whirlpool that had cloned him by declaring, “Come on, Patrick, we found something
that’s weirder than Venus’ counter -clockwise rotation. That whirlpool is the primordial soup
that birthed us all; it called to me and cloned me. We’ve got undeniable proof that the primordial
soup is real and that humans really did fall from original sin. This discovery is bigger than
Venus; it’s the biggest scientific discovery in history.”
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Willows calmed his rage and recognized that the whirlpool had summoned Railsback to
create a perfect clone of him, and he wondered why he had not been cloned inside the same
whirlpool when he muttered, “I don’t care what that white crap is. I don’t care if it’s pudding or
a real part of the primordial soup. Why did it call to you to be cloned? It’s not calling to me.
Why doesn’t it want to clone me, too?”
While the chrysostom stood in the distance and balanced the red crown on his head,
Railsback conceded that he could not explain why the whirlpool cloned only him when he
whispered, “I don’t know, but this is way bigger than Venus.”
Railsback and Willows climbed from the sewer system and contacted the local sanitation
department about their discovery of the whirlpool that had generated a seemingly perfect version
of Railsback, and the sanitation department gathered samples of the whirlpool and submitted
them to biologists. In a local lab, Willows and Railsback were cleansed of the whirlpool’s
strange white fluid to which they had been exposed, and Railsback remained transfixed by the
perfect physical appearance and the actions of the chrysostom. The biologists had been studying
the process of abiogenesis through which human life emerged when inorganic matter was
converted into biological organisms, and when the biologists scrutinized the samples from the
whirlpool, they determined that it was comprised of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, water,
methane, phosphate, and ammonia. The sample’s ingredients matched the compounds in the
Earth’s early atmosphere, and the same compounds had managed to produce organic polymers
and self-replicating molecules that resulted in the first nucleic acids and proteins in human DNA.
Based on their examinations of the whirlpool and the origins of human biological monomers,
polymers, and molecules that evolved into cells, the biologists concluded that the white
whirlpool represented an actual remnant of the primordial soup that spawned organic life from
inorganic matter. While the scientists considered how complex polymers and multicellular
organisms emerged from the whirlpool’s primordial soup and why Venus had altered its rotation,
Railsback celebrated the chrysostom as his perfect side that God had originally intended for
humanity before sins corrupted the world. During the evaluation of molecular replication and
the primordial soup, Railsback hid the chrysostom from the scientists in the lab, and Willows
could concentrate only on the parallels between the chrysostom and The Prime Mover, whose
healing techniques failed to cure Willows’ son of diphtheria.
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One year earlier in 2039, Willows and his wife Molly were serving as Christian
missionaries with their seven-year-old son Drew in Manta, Ecuador when the child contracted
the bacterial disease diphtheria in his respiratory tract. Willows was not familiar with the
common anti-diphtheritic serum that was manufactured from horses, and as his son began to
suffer damage to his heart, the enigmatic healer known as The Prime Mover emerged from the
Barbasquillo Beach and plodded to the home of the Willows’ family. He was born as Andrew
Delphin in Helena, Montana, and at age thirty, he moved to South America and assumed the
identity of The Prime Mover, a new interpretation of the folk healer called a curandero. He wore
the curandero’s traditional purple scarf and an orange shirt that was covered with black stripes,
but he did not wield the chonta, which was a magic wand that many shamans used in South
America. Willows’ wife Molly was working in a church on the night that The Prime Mover
trudged toward the home in which Willows was caring for his ill son, and although two
cardiologists named Alberto and Evelia Jimenez were staying with the Willows’ family, they
could not offer any more aid to Drew based on his extreme condition of diphtheria. When
Willows answered the door, he identified The Prime Mover as a curandero and rejected the
Catholic remedies of reciting Bible verses, invoking the names of the saints, and using holy
water on victims by declaring, “I’m sorry, but we don’t need your help, healer. Your prayers are
all that we need; we don’t need any holy rituals. God bless you, and good night.”
With his leopard-like clothing gliding along the ground, The Prime Mover reproached
Willows for his flippant viewpoint regarding the Catholic faith and quoted The Book of James
2:19 when he replied, “Trust me, your son needs me. You’re going to need more than just faith
in God to save him. ‘You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that,
and shudder.’ If the demons believe in God, then, I don’t think that your faith in Him is any
better than theirs. You need my help.”
The enigmatic shaman pushed the door open to enter the home, and Willows snarled to
express his resentment that The Prime Mover had suggested that he and demons shared a similar
faith in God. When Willows noticed that The Prime Mover was carrying a bag of items for his
healings, Willows recalled that in the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus Christ exorcised a group of
demons known as “Legion” out of a man in Gadarenes and cast them into pigs that were
drowned. The Prime Mover waddled toward the bedroom where Willows’ son was struggling to
breathe due to his windpipe infection, and Willows skewered the healer’s holistic techniques by
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remarking, “We don’t need an exorcism here, healer. My son has a bacterial infection. He’s not
possessed by a demon, and even if he were, we don’t have any pigs for you to cast the demon
into. We don’t want any holy water, and we’re not praying to Saint Bernadette for him to get
better. We don’t want your Catholic hocus- pocus and your plastic shamanism.”
Willows’ intimation that The Prime Mover was a “plastic shaman” who sought only
wealth and power incensed the healer, but as Willows followed him into the child’s bedroom, he
remained calm and unzipped his bag of holistic remedies. Wearing his shamanistic white gloves,
he removed two candlesticks, five different crowns, a cup of ale, a loaf of bread, and a tiny,
glowing teeter-totter that he could hold in his hand, and as Willows observed the peculiar items,
he continued to dismiss demonic possession and the need for an exorcism by uttering, “I told
you, healer. My son is not possessed; he’s got a throat infection. You don’t need all of this crap.
I don’t care what you may think about his sickness; he doesn’t need an exorcist.”
Despite Willows’ insistence that shamanism was unnecessary, The Prime Mover raised
his miniature teeter-totter from the floor, and as the teeter-totter glowed with one-hundred and
fifty lumens, Willows used his hand to shield his eyes from the radiant object. While Willows’
son Drew gasped and choked from the bacterial infection in his respiratory tract, The Prime
Mover placed the glowing teeter-totter on a nightstand, and the teeter-totter’s board began to
swing back and forth so that when one side was lifted, the other side descended. In a state of
bewilderment, Willows examined the luminous teeter-totter as pressure was shifted from its
lever’s left side to its right and from its right to the left in succession, and he questioned why the
teeter-totter was mysteriously oscillating back and forth when he asked, “What is that thing,
healer? Geez, it’s so bright that I can barely look at it. Is it like a pendulum or something,
moving back and forth? It’s not going to help my son; your plastic shamanism can’t help him.”
While the glowing teeter-totter’s lever bounced back and forth on the nightstand, The
Prime Mover ignored Willows’ orneriness, spread the five crowns across the floor, used a match
to light the candlestick, and asked, “Sir, whatever you think about me as a curandero doesn’t
matter. I know that you’re a Catholic missionary, and I need to know. Has your son been
baptized? Has he repented for his sins?”
Willows observed his son Drew as he gasped for breath and struggled to use his heart
muscles, and despite his Catholic convictions, Willows resented the proposition that his ailing
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son could be guilty of sins and replied, “How can you say that? He’s just a kid; he’s not a sinner.
He hasn’t done anything to deserve to be sick like this.”
The Catholic healer known as The Prime Mover cited the Biblical Psalm 51 and The
Book of Ephesians to emphasize that humans were sinners from birth due to the original sin that
Adam and Eve committed when he answered, “I need to know this to save his life, sir; just
accept that he’s a sinner. Ephesians calls us all ‘children of wrath’ from the moment that we’re
conceived; Psalms says that we were ‘brought forth in iniquity’ from our mothers’ wombs.
Baptism is supposed to wash away our sins, so tell me. Has your son been baptized or not?”
After Willows nodded his head to confirm that Drew had been baptized, The Prime
Mover placed his white crown on the child’s head, and considering that the crown was a
weighing scale, The Prime Mover adjusted the crown’s jewels, which were the sliders, to
calibrate it. The scalepan’s weight decreased on Drew’s head, and the white crown acted in the
manner of a triple-beam balance because its weight was shifted from its right side to its left side
so that Drew could gain some relief from the pressure on his cranium. The white crown was a
weighing scale that was comparable to the Scales of Justice that the Roman goddess Justitia
wielded to personify Lady Justice, but while Lady Justice weighed the two sides of defense and
prosecution in court cases, the crown weighed human sins and perfection. During the third
century BC, the King of Syracuse Hiero II commissioned the Greek mathematician Archimedes
to determine whether a crown was pure gold, and the ancient crown also served as the inspiration
for the five crowns that The Prime Mover used as weighing scales. Archimedes weighed King
Hiero’s crown and placed an equal amount of gold into a container of water, and when the water
began to rise and was displaced by the gold, he developed his Principle of Buoyancy and
discovered that the crown was not composed entirely of gold. To corroborate his hunch that the
crown was not pure gold, he positioned the crown on one side of a weighing scale and the heap
of gold on the other side, and Archimedes was able to conclude that the crown and the gold did
not share the same density considering that the weighing scale did not remain balanced. By
using King Hiero’s crown as a weighing scale that titled in the direction of the gold, Archimedes
was able to conclude that the crown contained light amounts of silver and was not pure gold.
Archimedes’ use of a crown as a weighing scale prompted The Prime Mover to gather his own
crowns that served as weighing scales to balance sins and perfection, and he hoped to heal
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caused the individuals’ illnesses. As The Prime Mover adjusted the jewels on the white crown to
calibrate it and to minimize its pressure on Drew’s head, Willows stared down at the two
candlesticks, the loaf of bread, the cup of ale, and the glowing teeter-totter, and he fearfully
asked, “What’re you doing to my son? I know that you’re trying to help him with this
‘witchdoctor’ ritual, but please, don’t hurt him. He’s suffered enough; he doesn’t need you to try
to cast the Devil out of him. What’re you going to do?”
Willows and The Prime Mover both shared the Catholic belief that Jesus Christ had
exorcised the demons known as “Legion” and other “impure spirits” from victims by simply
communicating “God’s Word.” While Willows’ son Drew was balancing the white crown on his
head, The Prime Mover maintained that he was a shamanistic healer known as a curandero and
that he lacked the Christ-like abilities that he and Willows both admired when he replied, “I’m
trying to save your son with all that I can, sir. I’ve got to use my scales to balance out sins and
perfection. If I can make the perfection weigh a little bit more than the sins that made your son
sick, then, I can save him. I know that we both love Christ, but I can’t just use my words to cast
out your son’s sickness. This is all a balancing act between sins and perfection. The Book of
Isaiah says that humans are ‘like a drop in a bucket’ and like ‘dust on the scales.’ I’ve got to be
The Prime Mover, the ‘unmoved mover,’ who stands on the scales to move the Earth’s dust in
the right direction; I’ve got to make sure that the perfection outweighs the sins that make us all
get sick and die. I can’t be Christ, but I can try to be the ‘unmoved mover’ that tips the scales
just a little bit in the right direction. Moving the scales is all that I can do.”
While the Roman Scales of Justice weighed prosecution and defense, the healing
curandero known as The Prime Mover used his five crowns as weighing scales, and his luminous
teeter-totter functioned as the scale that weighed sins and perfection to balance them. Willows
refused to accept the curandero’s viewpoint that he was the “unmoved mover” who
metaphorically stood on the teeter-totter’s fulcrum to create enough balance between the sins and
perfection that were being weighed on the scales. As Drew whimpered from the white crown’s
pressure on his cranium, Willows questioned The Prime Mover’s abilities as a curandero by
replying, “Well, I may not control scales and weigh the world like you do, but if you think that
you’re doing God’s work, then, you’re wrong. I know that Proverbs 16 says that, ‘honest scales
and balances belong to the Lord.’ Only God can balance the world and weigh sins when He
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judges humanity; you can’t wield that kind of power. If you can’t do anything that will actually
help my son, then, I’d like for you to leave.”
Although The Prime Mover had forsaken the use of holy water and other Catholic
remedies, he remained convinced that he was a messenger who was serving God and that he was
simply using the “honest scales and balances” that ultimately belonged to God. He persisted in
referencing the fortieth chapter from The Book of Isaiah to defend his weighing scales and their
impact on the Earth’s sins and perfection when he answered, “I’m not trying to steal God’s
balancing power. I know that He ‘sits enthroned above the circle of the Earth;’ I’m just trying to
serve Him by using the weighing scales that He’s given me to be a curandero. His scales are like
a seesaw; when I stand on it as the ‘unmoved mover,’ ‘every valley shall me raised up’ and
‘every mountain and hill’ will be ‘made low’ so that ‘the rough ground shall become level.’ If I
can balance ‘the mountains on the scales’ and ‘the dust of the Earth in a basket,’ then, I might be
able to create enough perfection to outweigh the human sins that made your son sick in the first
place. I can be the ‘unmoved mover’ who seeks God’s ‘great power and mighty strength’ to save
your son if you just give me a chance. Let me prove to you that I want to do His good, pleasant,
and perfect will with the weighing scales that He’s given me.”
The weight between the white crown’s sides suddenly became unequal, and when The
Prime Mover noticed that more pressure was being exerted on the crown’s left side, he lunged
forward to adjust the jewels so that the precarious balance could be restored. Willows feverishly
slapped the healer’s gloved hand away from Drew and condemned the Biblical rhetoric about
weighing the Earth’s “rugged places” when he bellowed, “No, you can’t just come in here and
recite some Bible verses to make me think that you’re a holy man. You can’t justify what you’re
doing by trying to be some ‘unmoved mover’ who stands on the Earth’s ‘scales and balances’ to
raise up the valleys and lower the mountains. What you’re talking about is a metaphor for God’s
power that has no place in medicine or shamanism. You’re not doing anything until you tell me
what you’re really planning to do to my son.”
The white crown’s pressure became so intense on the left side of Drew’s head that he
moaned in pain, and The Prime Mover shifted his gaze to the luminous teeter-totter, which was
the main scale that he used to forecast God’s will and to determine whether Drew would survive
the healing technique. The Prime Mover engaged in a divine ritual called cleromancy in which
prophets “cast lots” that revealed God’s will despite the appearance that the lots would trigger
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random outcomes, and the teeter-totter represented the “lots” that he cast to establish balance
between sins and perfection. In The Book of Deuteronomy, the Urim and the Thummim were
sacred coins that Israelite high priests carried inside their breastplates to foretell God’s will, and
the teeter-totter’s two sides represented new interpretations of the same coins that were used to
“cast lots.” While the white crown’s pressure increased on Drew’s head and the teeter -totter
oscillated up and down, the curandero known as The Prime Mover cited Biblical accounts of
cleromancy to explain his healing abilities when he proclaimed, “I’m casting lots to balance out
sins and perfection. If I can make the perfection weigh just a little bit more than the sins that
made your son sick, then, I can save him. Casting lots is nothing new; it’s just another form of
cleromancy. The Prophet Joshua and the other Israelites cast lots to figure out which of them
had stolen some Babylonian garments. The Israelites cast lots to decide that Saul would be king.
Even some sailors cast lots to decide that it was God’s will for the Prophet Jonah to be thrown
over board and to be eaten by a whale. Being trapped inside the whale’s belly for three days
convinced him to preach God’s Word to the people in Nineveh. Casting lots in cleromancy
forced the Israelites to follow God’s will, and my cleromancy will weigh the Earth’s sins and
perfection to save your son.”
Willows delved into his work as a Christian missionary to recall that in The Book of
Joshua, the Israelite tribes cast lots to uncover that Achan had pilfered Babylonian goods and had
“wrought folly in Israel.” Cleromancy’s process of casting lots also selected Saul as the first
king of Israel and determined that it was God’s will for the Prophet Jonah to be emboldened
inside the whale’s belly and to preach to the citizens in Nineveh. Willows lowered his hands and
relented so that The Prime Mover could rotate the white crown’s jewels in the manner of
calibrating a triple-beam balance. Willows gazed at the teeter-totter, which was so radiant that
he was forced to squint, and questioned its function by asking, “So, is your bright, little seesaw
what you use to cast lots? Is that what you use to make you feel like you’re doing God’s work?”
The teeter-totter’s left side had been lowered to correspond with the white crown’s
pressure that weighed down on the left portion of Drew’s head, and Willows conceded that The
Prime Mover was seeking to practice cleromancy. With the knowledge that “syncretism”
denoted the difficulty of reconciling two contradictory religious beliefs, The Prime Mover
described the teeter-totter as “The Syncretizer” that weighed the contradictory elements of sins
and perfection when he replied, “Yeah, my seesaw is called ‘The Syncretizer.’ It weighs sins
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and perfection on its different sides; the two sides are like the Urim and the Thummim that
separate sinners from everyone else. Syncretism focuses on how difficult it is to reconcile
contradictory religious beliefs, and sins and perfection couldn’t be more contradictory.”
After The Prime Mover slid the white crown’s jewels that acted as riders, the crown’s
sides became balanced to alleviate the pressure on Drew’s head, and the teeter -totter became
flatter in correspondence with the crown’s adjusted weight distribution. Willows turned away
from the teeter-totter that was glowing with one-hundred and fifty lumens, pointed to the white
crown that was perched on his son’s head, and asked, “What about the crown? Is it supposed to
be part of the scales that are lifting the valleys and lowering the mountains, so to speak?”
The white crown, which The Prime Mover had placed on Drew’s head, represented the
Crown of Incorruptibility, which was the second of the five crowns that Catholics needed to
obtain to enter the Kingdom of Heaven according to Biblical Scriptures. The Book of James
indicated that the individual who “endures temptation” will earn the first Scriptural crown known
as the Crown of Life, and Drew had already earned the green Crown of Life by being baptized
and by accepting God’s grace. The second crown called the Crown of Incorruptibility is
awarded to the individual who shuns Earthly sins and who strives to be “temperate in all things,”
and based on Drew’s faithful status, The Prime Mover had positioned the white Crown of
Incorruptibility on the child’s head. The blue Crown of Righteousness, the red Crown of
Rejoicing, and the purple Crown of Glory were the other three crowns for which Catholics
strived, and the Greek mathematician Archimedes had treated a gold crown as a weighing scale
that inspired The Prime Mover to use the five crowns as their own scales. While Drew
exhausted his strength to balance the white Crown of Incorruptibility on his head, The Prime
Mover pointed to the green, blue, red, and purple crowns that were scattered across the floor and
explained their functions for the faithful by declaring, “Those are the five crowns that the faithful
strive to obtain, sir. The crowns represent the perfection that I’m weighing against the sins on
the other side of my scale. Just as Archimedes tested the amount of gold in King Hiero’s crown
by weighing it like a scale, the five crowns are scales that weigh perfection. The green crown is
the Crown of Life; it’s the crown that your son earned when he was baptized in the Holy Spirit. I
put the Crown of Incorruptibility on his head to reward him for shunning the Earthly temptations
of this world. The five crowns are God’s perfection; I’ve got to make the perfection weigh a
little bit more than the sins that made your son sick if I want to heal him.”
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As The Prime Mover identified the five crowns as the perfection that humans sought to
achieve in the Kingdom of Heaven, Willows recalled that the five crowns also were associated
with the five wounds that were inflicted on Jesus Christ during his crucifixion. Based on his
virtuous a bility to be “temperate in all things,” Willows’ son Drew was balancing the white
Crown of Incorruptibility on his head, but his diphtheria caused him to strain his heart muscles
and to struggle for breath. The luminous teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer coped with the
differences between sins and perfection and weighed the sins that contrasted with the perfection
that the five crowns embodied. During the first century BC, Archimedes had immersed King
Hiero’s crown and a mound of pure gold into water to display the Principle of Buoyancy, and the
crown served as a weighing scale that allowed Archimedes to determine how much gold it
contained. The Prime Mover’s Syncretizer was a weighing scale that measured the amount of
sins that had contributed to Drew’s illness just as Archimedes’ experiment exposed the amount
of gold in King Hiero’s crown and its lack of purity. When the teeter -totter known as The
Syncretizer became level on the nightstand, The Prime Mover glanced back and forth between
the white Crown of Incorruptibility that represented perfection and the teeter-totter that weighed
sins. The equilibrium between the balanced Crown of Incorruptibility and The Syncretizer
prompted The Prime Mover to conclude that the different amounts of sins and perfection were
equal and that the perfection would overcome and cast out the sins.
Acting as a sin-eater, The Prime Mover believed that the tension between the equal
quantities of sins and perfection would allow him to pinpoint and consume the sins that caused
Drew to contract life-threatening diphtheria. While Willows apprehensively watched the healing
proceedings, The Prime Mover turned Drew onto his left side, placed a nearby tablecloth on his
cheek, and engaged in “ear candling” by inserting the unlit end of his candle into Drew’s ear
canal. The white Crown of Incorruptibility embodied perfection and was so equally proportional
with The Syncretizer, which balanced sins as a teeter-totter, that the crown did not budge and
appeared to be attached to Drew’s head as he lay on his side. Candlewax slithered down the
candle and was collected as puddles on the tablecloth that shielded Drew’s face, and as The
Prime Mover steadied the candle inside Drew’s ear, he stared back at The Syncretizer to ensure
that its lever remained flat. As the candle’s flames glistened onto Willows’ pupils, Drew began
to cough due to the smoke, and Willows objected to the ear candling and cited his son’s
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respiratory problems by shouting, “Okay, that’s enough of your cleromancy, healer. My son’s
got enough trouble breathing as it is; he doesn’t need smoke in his lungs.”
The white Crown of Incorruptibility remained fastened around Drew’s cranium, but the
luminous teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer rumbled slightly to suggest that its flat, even
surface was being altered. Holding the candle inside Drew’s ear canal, The Prime Mover
became terrified that the teeter-totter’s left side would be lifted, and considering that the teeter -
totter weighed sins that countered the white crown’s perfection, the lifted side would disrupt the
even surface and would harm the balance between sins and perfection. He practiced cleromancy
in which the Thummim and the Urim were cast as lots to forecast God’s will, and The
Syncretizer and the Crown of Incorruptibility were functioning as the Urim and the Thummim in
his unique form of cleromancy that also involved “ear candling” and sin-eating. In the Biblical 1
Samuel, the Israelite King Saul cast the Urim and the Thummim to expose the culprit who had
violated the Israelites’ oath by eating food prior to nightfall. The third-century theologian
Theodotion described the Urim as “lights” and the Thummim as “perfections,” and the luminous
teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer represented the Urim with its “lights” while the Crown of
Incorruptibility and the other four crowns represented the Thummim with their perfection.
Based on Saul’s prayers, God cast the Urim, which embodied sins, to disclose that Saul’s son
Jonathan was responsible for breaching the oath, and Saul acknowledged that the Thummim
epitomized the perfection of the Israelites who had not committed the sin of eating before
nightfall. As The Prime Mover exerted pressure on the candle in Drew’s ear, he argued that sins
had triggered Drew’s illness and that the equal balance between sins and perfection would allow
him to capture the sins inside the candle’s fire when he replied, “Please, The Syncretizer is
balanced; its surface is level. The Crown of Incorruptibility is balanced on your son’s head, and
that means that there’s an equilibrium between sins and perfection. There’s enough equality for
the perfection to push the sins out of your son into the candle’s fire. I just need a little more time
for the sins to be pushed into the fire; let me put down a little more pressure to extract the sins.
Give me a little more time to save him.”
While Drew coughed from the candle’s billowing smoke, The Prime Mover gripped the
candle that was planted inside Drew’s ear and watched the wax that continued to splatter onto the
tablecloth. His eyes peered down to the white Crown of Incorruptibility, which served as the
Thummim’s perfection, and when he identified that the crown was still stable, his eyes darted
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back to The Syncretizer, which embodied the Ur im’s sins, and determined that its teeter -totter
had maintained its flat surface. He remained terrified that the teeter-totter’s left side would be
raised and that its right side would descend to disturb its balance, and as the teeter-totter
trembled, he intensified the pressure on the candle and hoped that the equilibrium between sins
and perfection would be intact. As The Syncretizer and the Crown of Incorruptibility acted as
the two sides of the metaphorical triple-beam balance that weighed sins and perfection, Willows
recognized that The Prime Mover was panicking that the balance would be compromised and
asserted, “No, you’re not helping him. You’re making his condition worse. If you really believe
in the crowns of the faithful, then, you’ve got to believe in the power of prayer. Please, stop
your ritual, and just pray for my son instead. I know that we’d all appreciate it, healer.”
While The Syncretizer was on the verge of trembling, The Prime Mover pleaded for more
time to perform his “ear candling” and defended his cleromancy and the metaphorical Urim and
Thummim that he had cast as “lots” by responding, “Just give me a little more time. I’m casting
lots. The Syncretizer is the Urim on my scale; the Crown of Incorruptibility is the Thummim on
the scale. My scale is still balanced for a little bit longer, so the perfection and sins are equal. If
they exist in equal amounts, the perfection should weigh down the same amount of sins until it
pushes them out of your son’s body into the candle’s fire. The ‘dust on the scales’ has become
equal, and the ‘rough ground’ has ‘become level.’ Please, if I can cast out the sins that made
your son sick, then, I can save him.”
Willows was so desperate to save his son that he granted The Prime Mover, the
mysterious curandero, the ability to continue to hold the burning candle inside Drew’s ear canal
and to collect the wax on the tablecloth that was draped across his cheek. During the “ear
candling,” The Prime Mover squeezed the candle and darted his eyes between the teeter-totter
known as The Syncretizer and the Crown of Incorruptibility to ensure that the luminous teeter-
totter was flat and even and that the white crown was still securely fastened around Drew’s head.
The Syncretizer maintained its stable amount of sins that were equal with the perfection that the
Crown of Incorruptibility contained, and after thirty minutes in which The Prime Mover clasped
the flaming candle inside Drew’s ear, the healer raised the candle and removed the tablecloth on
which the candlewax had collected. He extinguished the candle’s flame and monitored the wax
and other dark residue that was pouring from Drew’s ear in reaction to the candle’s pressure and
to the equilibrium between the sins and the perfection. He detected a chunk of residue that was
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emitting red radiation on the tablecloth, and based on his memories that sins were described as
being “red as crimson” in The Book of Isaiah, he could identify that the red residue was the
physical embodiment of the sins that had caused Drew to become ill. He pulled a piece of bread
from the loaf, drank a sip of ale, and rubbed the crusty bread against the red residue until the
bread began to glow with the same red radiation to symbolize that the sins had been transferred
from the residue to the bread. As he smeared the bread in the red residue and lifted the glowing
bread to his mouth, Willows became disgusted that the healer had smeared the bread with the red
residue from Drew’s ear and asked, “Oh, man, what is that, healer? What did your candle pull
out of my son’s ear?”
The balance between The Syncretizer and the Crown of Incorruptibility had created equal
amounts of sins and perfection, and the perfection had weighed down on the sins and had pushed
them from Drew’s body through The Prime Mover’s “ear candling.” Carrying the bread closer
to his mouth, the healer explained that the red residue represented the sins that had triggered
Drew’s illness when he replied, “I’ve extracted the human sins that made your son sick in the
first place, sir. My Syncretizer balanced the sins, and my Crown of Incorruptibility balanced the
perfection. When the sins and the perfection became equal, the equilibrium made it easy for the
perfection to push the sins out of your son’s body. The sins are red just like The Book of Isaiah
said that they would be; it said, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.’ I’ve cast out the sins by putting ‘the
hills in a balance’ and by balancing ‘the dust on the scales.’ I’ve cast the lots; I’ve cast the
‘honest scales and balances’ that are going to save your son.”
The Prime Mover had engaged in “ear candling” to extract the red residue from Drew’s
left ear, and the truths that Biblical sins were described as being “scarlet” and that the residue
was emitting red radiation coaxed Willows into shedding his skepticism and into becoming
convinced that the healer could help his son. In the manner of a traditional sin-eater, The Prime
Mover chomped his teeth down onto the bread that was glowing red with sins, but the impact of
his teeth with the bread somehow chipped his tooth. He yanked the bread from his mouth and
noticed that the crusty loaf had somehow transformed into a stone, and he realized that an
unknown force was interfering with his performance of cleromancy. As he gripped the bread
that had become stone, his eyes glanced back to the teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer to
discover that its right side had been raised and that its left side had descended to graze the
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nightstand. Based on The Syncretizer’s uneven surface, he understood that the balance between
sins and perfection had been disrupted, and he feared that his faith in God’s power had been
compromised and that his tainted faith had blighted his efforts to use cleromancy to heal
Willows’ son. When Drew began to shriek from the white Crown of Incorruptibility’s pressure
on his head, The Prime Mover placed the bread of stone on the table, curled his fingers around
the crown, and feverishly tugged it in an effort to remove it from the child’s cranium. Willows
sprinted toward the bed and recognized that the white crown was sinking and fastening itself to
his son’s flesh, and as he gazed down at the stone and the unstable teeter-totter known as The
Syncretizer, he bellowed, “What’s going on, healer? What are you doing to my son?”
As the white Crown of Incorruptibility merged into Drew’s cranium, The Prime Mover
yanked on the crown that embodied perfection and insisted that the balance between sins and
perfection had been disturbed when he retorted, “The crown and The Syncretizer are the two
sides of my scale. The Syncretizer is being pushed up, so the crown is being pushed down. We
need more sins to weigh down on The Syncretizer; if we can push The Syncretizer down, we can
pull the crown up just like a seesaw.”
The Prime Mover turned to the teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer and reassured
himself that considering that it was being pushed upward, the white Crown of Incorruptibility
was being driven downward to contrast the sins and perfection. He could not force the crown to
budge from Drew’s head and decided that sins needed to be committed so that the sins could
weigh down on The Syncretizer because the pressure would cause the crown, which embodied
perfection, to move upward from his cranium. While Willows ineffectually tugged on the white
crown that was descending into Drew’s flesh, The Prime Mover stepped back and continued to
question whether his faith had been corrupted and whether his lack of faith had impaired his
attempts to cure the child. He became convinced that Willows’ sins had been transferred to his
son Drew to stimulate his illness, and he understood that because the white crown represented
one side of his scale, the crown could be pushed upward only if The Syncretizer were weighed
downward with the pressure of sins. During Willows’ pulling on the sinking crown, The Prime
Mover quoted The Book of Matthew to argue that Willows should expose the sins that he had
been concealing in his heart and that the sins would weigh down on The Syncretizer and push up
the crown when he proclaimed, “That’s not going to help. The crown is perfection; it’s
descending because The Syncretizer is moving up. The only way to remove the crown is to push
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it up by pushing The Syncretizer down like a seesaw. The Syncretizer represents sins; we need
to weigh it down with sins. The sins of the father are always visited on the son. Jesus said, ‘the
things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart, and they defile the man.’
You’re holding sins in your heart; you need to expose them to weigh down on The Syncretizer
and to push the Crown of Incorruptibility up from your son’s head. Please, expose your sins.
Revel in them, and weigh ‘the islands as though they were fine dust.’”
Lying in bed, Drew managed to wail despite his sore throat and the infection in his
respiratory tract, and Willows yielded that the white Crown of Incorruptibility could not be
physically removed from his son’s head. As the crown sank deeper to merge into Drew’s
cranium, Willows implored The Prime Mover to cast more lots in cleromancy when he asserted,
“No, this is your job, healer. You’ve got to save him with your ‘honest scales and balances.’
You’re so obsessed with cleromancy; cast another lot.”
While the white crown sank deeper into Drew’s skull in reaction to the lifted position of
The Syncretizer, the mysterious curandero known as The Prime Mover repeated that Willows’
sins needed to be exposed by answering, “No, Mr. Willows, you’ve got to do this. You’re his
father, and your sins are being visited on him. Please, indulge in those sins so that The
Syncretizer will be weighed down with them; it’s the only way to pull the crown up. Indulge in
your anger and your greed and your lust and your envy; your sins will press down on The
Syncretizer and pull the crown up until it comes off of your son’s head.”
Drew’s persistent shrieking prompted Willows to decide that his internal sins needed to
“come forth out of the heart” so that they could exert pressure on The Syncretizer and propel the
crown up to unhinge it from his son’s cranium. In a frenzy, Willows scampered down the
hallway and opened the door of the bedroom in which the two cardiologists Alberto and Evelia
Jimenez were tossing and turning and struggling to fall asleep with the distraction of Drew’s
screaming. When Alberto and Evelia sat up in bed, Willows turned on the light and indulged in
sins by punching Alberto in the chin and by kissing Evelia, and through his actions, Willows
disclosed his envy that Alberto was an eminent doctor and his lustful desires for his wife Evelia.
Alberto leaped from the bed, gripped Willows’ shirt, pushed the Christian missionary from the
bedroom into the bathroom, and shoved him to the floor. Willows extended his arm, planted his
hand on the counter, pulled himself to his feet, and glared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror
while Alberto prepared to confront him in retaliation for the attack. Standing in the doorway,
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Alberto demanded an explanation for Willows’ assault and his kissing of Evelia when he
muttered, “What was that about, Mr. Willows? What is your problem?”
Willows conceded that he could never adequately rationalize his displays of envy and lust
to the two cardiologists, and after Evelia charged into the bathroom and kicked him in the shin,
he crafted his most compelling argument for his sins and proclaimed, “I’m just trying to save my
son, Mr. Jimenez. He’s in pretty bad shape. I was visited by a curandero who told me that he
was balancing the world’s sins and perfection on his own scale. He told me that I had to show
my sins to weigh down one side of the scale and to bring up the other one. I’m here to admit that
I’m envious of your success as a doctor, and I’ve been lusting after your wife for a long time.
I’m sorry, but I’ve got to save Drew, by any means necessary.”
Following Willows’ confessions of sinful envy and lust, Alberto grasped that Willows
yearned to become a doctor and that his son’s illness encumbered his wishes to pursue such a
lofty goal. Despite his understanding of Willows’ disappointment about fruitless dreams,
Alberto became exasperated that Willows had relied on the apparent “plastic shamanism” of a
curandero, and he discouraged him from consulting any folk healers when he stammered, “Did
you really go to a curandero to help Drew? Those healers are dangerous; they’re charlatans who
masquerade around like holy men.”
While Evelia scowled at Willows for kissing her to convey his sinful lust, he defended his
solicitation of the curandero based on The Prime Mover’s unconventional “scales and balances”
and his ability to extract red residue from Drew’s ear canal by asserting, “You don’t understand.
This curandero is different; he calls himself ‘The Prime Mover.’ He’s not an herbalist; he
doesn’t even have a chonta. He uses ‘honest scales and balances’ to weigh sins and perfection;
he’s trying to create enough perfection to outweigh sins and to cast out the sins that made Drew
sick in the first place. He pulled some red stuff out of Drew’s ear; I think that it really represents
those sins that made him sick.”
Alberto and Evelia Jimenez were Ecuadorian cardiologists who both trusted Patrick and
Molly Willows, the two American missionaries, but Willows could not justify his use of a
curandero or persuade Alberto that his sins were necessary to extract the white Crown of
Incorruptibility that was merging into Drew’s cranium. Neither Alberto nor Evelia could decide
how to react to Willows’ allegations that sins would establish an equilibrium for The Prime
Mover’s “honest scales and balances,” but Willows could never retract his admissions that he
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was envious of Alberto’s success as a cardiologist and possessed lustful desires for his wife
Evelia. As Alberto rubbed his new bruise from Willows’ assault, Evelia glowered at Willows
until his eyes darted away from her judgment and captured the image of his reflection in the
bathroom mirror. A lion, a bear, and a leopard appeared as superimposed illustrations that
covered Willows’ reflection in three successive flashes, and the mysterious sight of the three
creatures in the mirror spurred Willows to push Alberto and Evelia from his path and to dart
from the bathroom back toward his son and The Prime Mover. When Willows reached his son’s
bedside, Drew had stopped breathing, and The Prime Mover had collected his five crowns, his
candle for “ear candling,” his bread for sin-eating, and The Syncretizer and had fled from the
home. Willows committed sinful acts of envy and lust to press down on The Syncretizer and to
push up the white Crown of Incorruptibility that served as the opposite side of The Prime
Mover’s scale, which “held the dust of the Earth in a basket” and “weighed the mountains on the
scales.” Alberto and Evelia Jimenez followed Willows to Drew’s bedside where Evelia began to
perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the dying child. Staring at his unconscious son,
Willows realized that although his sins had weighed down on The Syncretizer to propel the
Crown of Incorruptibility upward and to remove it, The Prime Mover’s cleromancy failed to heal
Drew of diphtheria. During Evelia’s futile performance of CPR on Drew, Willows struck his
foot against the stone into which The Prime Mover’s bread had been transformed when the
curandero drenched it with the red residue that represented the sins that triggered his illness.
Willows stepped over the stone and opened the front door in search of The Prime Mover who
had escaped with disgrace, and upon perceiving him in the distance, Willows stood in the
doorway and beseeched him for assistance by shouting, “Please, healer, I’ll give you anything
that you want. I gave you a chance to help me. I put you to the test, and you failed. I’ll give
you everything that I’ve got if you save my son.”
The Prime Mover discarded Willows’ desperate pleas because he deduced that his faith in
God’s glory had been tarnished and that his corrupted faith had impeded his attempts to balance
sins and perfection and to manipulate the equilibrium to extract the sins and to consume them.
The Prime Mover was aware that even if Willows could offer his possessions in exchange for the
preservation of his son’s life, his “honest scales and balances” were no longer viable healing
relics, so he sprinted farther away from the home until he disappeared into the nighttime
darkness. Willows viewed healing activities as a test that The Prime Mover had failed, and after
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Willows slammed the door shut in frustration, he kicked the bread that had become a stone and
returned to his son’s bedside while Evelia Jimenez performed chest compressions and breathed
into Drew’s mouth. In a helpless state, Willows witnessed his son’s death, and although Evelia
attributed Drew’s premature demise to respiratory failure from diphtheria, Willows was adamant
that the white Crown of Incorruptibility had fractured his son’s neck and skull before his sins
weighed down on The Syncretizer and allowed The Pr ime Mover to lift up the crown. Willows’
confessions that he envied Alberto and that he was filled with lustful desires for Evelia caused
the severance of his relationship with the two cardiologists. Willows’ wife Molly divorced him
when she discovered that he had been desperate enough to trust the curandero known as The
Prime Mover and that the healing procedures could have killed her son through the Crown of
Incorruptibility that crushed his skull. Following his son’s death, Willows abandoned his
missionary work in Ecuador and became a sanitation worker in Wilmington, Delaware, and one
year later in 2040, he and his fellow worker Luke Railsback now had stumbled onto a spinning
white whirlpool that scientists identified as a remnant of the primordial soup from which all life
emerged. The whirlpool had summoned Railsback to immerse himself inside the boiling white
substance, and his presence in the vortex caused a perfect version of Railsback to be spawned as
a means of balancing Railsback’s sins with the perfection that eluded humanity. Railsback’s
perfect clone referred to the whirlpool as the “hypostasis” and described himself as the
“chrysostom” in honor of the fourth-century Archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom,
and Willows now was contemplating why the chrysostom was donning a red crown that was
reminiscent of the white crown that The Prime Mover had placed on Drew’s head.
Scientists collected samples of white fluid from the boiling whirlpool called the
hypostasis, and while they tested its contents of water, methane, phosphate, and hydrogen sulfide
to determine whether the whirlpool truly was a remnant of the primordial soup, Willows and
Railsback returned to the sanitation department’s main station. The two workers had notified the
police about the whirlpool that scientists were studying, but Railsback concealed that the
whirlpool had cloned him to generate the chrysostom, which was his perfect version. Railsback
was storing his perfect chrysostom, who was devoid of acne and other flaws, in his car while he
and Willows pondered how to cope with their new circumstances. In silence, Willows dwelled
on the red crown that the chrysostom was wearing based on the crown’s similarities with the
white Crown of Incorruptibility that served as the side that was opposite The Syncretizer on The
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Prime Mover’s scale. Railsback interrupted Willows’ fixation on the white crown that had likely
killed Drew with its pressure and praised the chrysostom when he exclaimed, “I can’t believe it,
man. The pool that birthed humanity gave me a perfect clone. I mean, did you see that thing?
It’s beautiful; he doesn’t have pimples or any of my other flaws. It’s amazing; if that pool can
clone other people, it could change the world. We might be able to create clones of everyone,
just the way that God intended it from the start.”
Willows condemned the possibility that humans could rekindle perfection by cloning
themselves in the whirlpool called the hypostasis, and he disclosed that the chrysostom was
wearing a red crown that was comparable to The Prime Mover’s white crown by answering, “I
don’t think that we can know the will of God, Luke. He let my son die for no reason. Do you
remember that curandero who tried to heal him? He called himself ‘The Prime Mover;’ he said
that he cured people with scales that balanced sins and perfection to cast out the sins that made
those people sick. He put a white crown on my son’s head while he was trying to extract the
sins; he said that it was one side of his weighing scales. I think that the crown broke my son’s
neck, and the crown reminds me of the red one that your clone is wearing. I don’t know what it
means, but it’s freaking me out.”
Sitting beside Willows, Railsback considered that his close friend was still mourning the
loss of his son Drew and the divorce from his wife Molly, and neither Willows nor Railsback
were aware that Drew’s white crown represented the Crown of Incorruptibility and that the
chrysostom’s red crown was the Crown of Rejoicing. To allay Willows’ anxieties, Railsback
deviated from the discussion of the hypostasis, the chrysostom, and The Prime Mover’s crowns
and replied, “Man, I don’t know what to tell you. I don’t know why the clone is wearing a
crown. The crown does look like it’s made out of gold. I know that ‘chrysostomos’ means
‘golden mouth,’ so maybe, that’s why he’s wearing the crown. You need to get your mind off of
all this stuff. Will you go to church with me tonight?”
Based on his previous misfortunes as a Christian missionary, Willows rejected
Railsback’s invitation to come to church, and he continued to express his aversion to the
chrysostom that the hypostasis had birthed by asserting, “The last thing that I need right now is
church, Luke. I’ve got a huge problem with your clone and his red crown. You think that he’s
so perfect with that stupid crown, but I bet that I could show you how pathetic he really is if you
give me a chance to take away some of that perfection. I’d love to rip that crown off and beat
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him over the head with it. The Prime Mover used crowns like that for a reason, and I’ve got to
figure out why. I want to find him and kill him; I don’t want to think that my son died in vain.”
Willows’ challenge that the perfect chrysostom could be fallible reminded Railsback of
the Biblical character Job’s plight because according to The Book of Job, the Devil revealed that
God’s seemingly faithful servant Job was also fallible and weak when he lost his family and his
wealth. Railsback understood that parallels could possibly exist between the white crown, which
The Prime Mover used to weigh down on the head of Willows’ son, and the red crown that the
chrysostom wore, but he could not empathize with the tremendous pain that Willows was
enduring. In an incredulous tone, Railsback conveyed his amazement that Willows was fixated
on the white and red crowns and was so eager to expose the perfect chrysostom’s blemishes
when he answered, “Man, you’re making it sound like my chrysostom is Job or something. My
chrysostom is me in perfect form. You can’t take away his family and make him try to curse
you; he’s already the personification of perfection. Please, don’t try to hurt my chrysostom,
Patrick. He’s awesome; he’s the way that God wanted me to be if I weren’t such a loser.”
Willows remained wary about the perfect clone who was donning a red crown that was
reminiscent of The Prime Mover’s “honest scales and balances,” and he urged Railsback to
surrender the chrysostom to the scientists by retorting, “You’ve got to give up the clone, Luke.
It’s not just the crown that’s bugging me; it’s that you have no idea what your clone really is.
You can tell yourself that he’s your perfect side all day long, but the truth is that you don’t know
anything about him or that pool that birthed him. When people find out that that pool can clone
them, everyone’s going to go insane to try to make their own clone buddy.”
Railsback became alarmed that Willows would divulge the existence of the chrysostom to
the scientists and that they would confiscate the perfect clone to study him, so Railsback voiced
his disapproval by uttering, “No, the pool called to me because it wanted to clone me. It didn’t
call to you or anyone else. The scientists can study the pool as the primordial soup, but no one
has to know that it cloned my perfect side. Please, don’t tell anyone about the chrysostom.”
Willows could not deny that he inexplicably detested the chrysostom, but he agreed to
maintain the secret of the chrysostom’s existence and hoped that the hypostasis would not clone
anyone else by retorting, “Okay, I won’t tell anyone. Just be careful about it. Let’s try to make
sure that the pool doesn’t call to anyone else to try to clone them, too. I’d tell on any other
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person, but since you’re the only friend that I’ve got, I won’t tell anyone about your clone. I
don’t want to lose my only friend, especially not with everything else that I’ve lost.”
As Willows and Railsback exchanged whispers in their private conversation, a young
sewer worker interrupted to commend Willows for assembling a workers’ union that would
pursue greater rights for sanitation employees by exclaiming, “Hey, Mr. Willows, I want to thank
you for looking out for us. Congratulations on getting those thirty workers to support you.
Don’t worry; I’m sure that the other sixty workers will join you when they see all of the good
work that you’ve done for them. You’re doing a great service.”
The gleeful employee reminded Willows that in reaction to worker Frank Barron’s
accidental death, he had rallied thirty of the ninety sanitation workers together to form a workers’
union that sought improved conditions. However, Willows ignored the empty compliment
because he was so preoccupied with the chrysostom’s red crown and its similarities with the
white crown that The Prime Mover used to kill Drew. When Willows nodded lackadaisically to
acknowledge the worker’s praise, the individual departed from the scene considering that
Willows appeared to be distracted, and Railsback shifted his focus from the secret existence of
the chrysostom and asked, “If I’m your only friend, then, prove it, and come to church with me
tonight. Now that I’ve got a perfect clone, maybe, you can have two friends.”
Willows could not abandon his reservations about the chrysostom and his yearning to test
whether the clone was completely perfect, but he indulged Railsback and mumbled, “All right,
I’ll go with you to church, but you’ve got to keep your clone pal hidden. You’d better not share
him with the congregation unless you want other people to try to clone themselves.”
Willows accompanied Railsback to a nighttime church service, and during the car drive
to the church, Willows remained silent and refused to speak to the chrysostom because he was
miffed that the clone had discussed Drew’s death and the anti-diphtheritic serum that he had
failed to provide his son. While Railsback drove the car, Willows gawked at the red crown that
was fastened to the chrysostom’s head and persisted in contemplating how the red crown was
related to the white crown that The Prime Mover had used as one side of a weighing scale to
break his son’s neck. Arriving at the “True Vine” Catholic Church, Railsback instructed the
chrysostom to remain inside the car, and after Willows and Railsback entered the church and
seated themselves in the pew to await the sermon. Willows flipped through the bulletin to
discover that the sermon’s topic was the Jewish prophet Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the walls in
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Jerusalem under the supervision of the Persian King Artaxerxes. While Willows scanned the
bulletin and enjoyed his first church visit in over a year, Lydia Hewlett, a woman in a purple
dress, approached Railsback and invited him to her home for dinner following the service, and
after he agreed to the dinner arrangements, he considered that he could share the chrysostom
with Lydia. During the congregation’s singing of hymns, Willows mouthed the verses with
indifference while Railsback sang at the top of his lungs, and prior to the priest’s sermon,
Willows was reminded how joyful Railsback became about worship services.
Behind the pulpit, the priest Father Frederick Garrick grasped that the congregation
members were petrified about Venus’ close counter -clockwise rotation and that the volcanic
planet could release basaltic meteors that could streak to Earth. However, he discarded his
anxieties about Earth’s “sister planet” and its bizarre atmospheric conditions, and he introduced
the Prophet Nehemiah’s challenges from Sanballat of Samaria and Tobiah the Ammonite by
proclaiming, “Friends, Nehemiah faced a lot of problems while he was rebuilding the walls in
Jerusalem. His buddy Ezra was bringing back about 1,500 Israelites from exile in Babylon, and
Nehemiah was working with a Persian king named Artaxerxes who didn’t really trust him.
Then, Nehemiah found out that his high priest Eliashib’s grandson actually married Sanballat’s
daughter, so the Jews actually became related to their enemies. Even when Nehemiah prayed to
God and begged for the Jews to stay pure and to keep God’s laws, the Jews still worshipped false
idols and broke the laws, but even when the Jews married their own enemies, God still loved
them. Nehemiah built the walls in fifty-two days, and K ing Josiah’s son Eliakim even helped
dedicate the walls in Jerusalem and tried to make sure that the Israelites worshiped only God and
no more false idols. Eliakim celebrated the rebuilding of the walls with the Levites, and he
became a very important priest who showed God’s love for the Israelites, even they made
mistakes and turned against Him.”
Sitting in the pew, Willows and Railsback recalled that the priest Eliakim dedicated the
walls in Jerusalem and that according to The Book of Isaiah’s Twenty-second Chapter, a Godly
servant named Eliakim was destined to receive the “Key of David” that would lead to Heaven.
Before the priest Father Frederick Garrick could continue his sermon about Nehemiah’s
rebuilding of the walls in Jerusalem, the chrysostom pushed open the doors and elaborated on the
sermon that he had been overhearing by bellowing, “Yes, Father, Eliakim dedicated the walls of
Jerusalem. He was a great priest, and the Prophet Isaiah even said that Eliakim would get the
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Key of David. If he has the Key of David, then, he can do anything. ‘What he opens, no one can
shut, and what he shuts, no one can open;’ that key opens the door to all things.”
The chrysostom began to crouch as if the red crown were weighing down on his cranium,
and as he sauntered across the aisle, the congregation members noticed that the chrysostom was
Railsback’s exact duplicate who lacked the acne that defined Railsback’s complexion. The priest
Father Garrick identified Railsback among the congregation members in the pew and demanded
an explanation for the clone’s appearance by bellowing, “Luke, what’s the meaning of this?”
Slouching beside Willows in the pew, Railsback remained mortified that the chrysostom
had exited his car and revealed himself to the public, and during the chrysostom’s methodical
walk toward the pulpit, the red crown exerted more pressure on his cranium in the manner of a
weighing scale. The chrysostom lowered his head in reaction to the weight, and Railsback
silently speculated about why the chrysostom mentioned the “Key of David” that the priest
Eliakim was destined to earn following his consecration of the Jerusalem walls, which the
Prophet Nehemiah had erected. Lumbering toward Father Garrick, the chrysostom quoted The
Book of Revelation so that he could reiterate Jesus Christ’s message to the Seven Churches of
Asia to punish them for their vanity and hypocrisy when he bellowed, “You could’ve held the
Key of David, Father; you could’ve worn the Crown of Glory if you’d been the shepherd who
decided to feed the flock of God that’s among you. I wanted to protect you from ‘the hour of
testing’ that’s about to come upon the whole world, but you haven’t earned your crown. Instead,
you’ve fallen to a Jezebel ‘who calls herself a prophetess,’ but ‘she teaches and leads’ followers
‘astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.’ I’ll give you
time to repent, Father, and if you do, I’ll give you ‘the morning star’ that will be the light shining
in a dark place. You’re a hypocrite who prays standing in the church and babbles on and on like
a pagan, but your sin has defiled you. Reveal your sin; bring it forth before it corrupts your
soul.”
Willows and Railsback grasped that in The Book of Kings, the princess Jezebel was a
deceptive figure who coaxed the Israelite King Ahab into worshipping the false idol Baal and
into forsaking the single God That the Israelite prophets Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshipped.
While the two sanitation workers contemplated the identity of the “Jezebel” who the chrysostom
alleged had led Father Garrick to commit sins against his own “True Vine” church, Father
Garrick recognized the chrysostom’s statements as reminiscent of Jesus Christ’s condemnation
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of the Church of Thyatira from The Book of Revelation. In the aisle, the chrysostom cranked his
neck from the red crown’s pressure, and even when he moved the crown’s jewels that served as
riders to calibrate the weighing scale, he struggled to ensure that his chin did not slam into his
chest. According to The Book of Revelation’s Second Chapter, Jesus Christ offered “authority
over the nations” and “the morning star” to the Church of Thyatira, and Father Garrick was
puzzled about the chrysostom’s reference to “the morning star” as the clone slowly approached
him. With the red crown crushing his neck, the clone repeated that he would reward Father
Garrick for divulging his personal sin as quickly as possible when he muttered, “Please, Father,
tell your flock your sin, and I’ll give you ‘the morning star.’ Repent of your immorality with the
Jezebel, and bring your soul away from the great tribulation that awaits you.”
Father Garrick remained silent and refused to publicize his sin, and when the chrysostom
reached the pulpit, the red crown acted as a triple-beam balance that he failed to calibrate, so the
crown exerted so much pressure that the chrysostom’s neck broke. With fractured vertebrae and
a bruised spinal cord, the chrysostom collapsed to the wooden floor and perished, and the sight
of Railsback’s dead clone prompted Father Garrick to acknowledge his sins with the “Jezebel”
figure by shrieking, “My God, I’ve sinned. I’ve broken my vow of celibacy. I’ve been having
affairs with a lot of women, a lot of Jezebels, but I led myself astray. I’m at fault for my own
sins; I’ve lost my own crown, my own Key of David.”
Following Father Garrick’s confession that he had violated his commitment to celibacy as
a Catholic priest, the congregation members mumbled amongst each other in shock, and Father
Garrick’s public admission of his sins caused the red crown’s pressure to be alleviated until the
crown popped off and rolled from the dead chrysostom’s head. Railsback sprinted from the pew
to his perfect clone’s side, and as he wept tha t his perfect version had died in front of the
congregation, the curandero known as The Prime Mover stood in the back of the church and
squeezed his glowing teeter-totter called The Syncretizer. Father Garrick had created the illusion
that he was perfect and faultless, and considering that the chrysostom’s red crown was the Crown
of Rejoicing that embodied God’s perfection, Garrick’s hypocritical illusion of perfection had
weighed down on the crown until the pressure killed the chrysostom. The red Crown of
Rejoicing represented the “perfections” of the Thummim while The Syncretizer was the opposite
side that embodied the “lights” of the Urim and that contained sins, which contrasted with the
perfection. The perfect Crown of Rejoicing’s pressure had diminished in reaction to Father
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Garrick’s profession that he was imperfect, so in the manner of a teeter -totter, The Syncretizer’s
luminous sides were lowered to indicate Father Garrick’s sin on The Prime Mover’s “honest
scales and balances.” During the congregation members’ hysteria that the chrysostom had
perished and that Father Garrick had acknowledged his sins, The Prime Mover sensed that he
was slowly regaining the faith that had prevented him from saving Willows’ son Drew and
exited the church. Father Garrick and the congregation members gathered around Railsback and
his chrysostom with a snapped neck, and although Father Garrick expected the individuals to
condemn him for his sinful exploits with “Jezebels,” they embraced him with hugs. When a
congregation member named Doug McCann proposed calling an ambulance for the dead
chrysostom, Railsback placed his index finger on his clone’s jugular vein and screamed, “No, he
doesn’t need an ambulance. My chrysostom is dead; leave him alone.”
During the congregation’s hysteria, Lydia Hewlett, the woman in the purple dress,
focused on Railsback and inquired about the identity of the dead clone that lacked his acne and
other flaws by asking, “Luke, who was this person? What did he mean about the Key of David
and ‘the morning star?’ How was he planning to give a star to our church?”
According to The Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ would visit the Church of
Philadelphia in modern-day Turkey to bestow its congregation with the Key of David, and he
would grant the “the morning star” to the Church of Thyatira to commemorate its repentance and
its rejection of the “Jezebel” figure. With the knowledge that the volcanic planet Venus was
mysteriously traveling counter-clockwise in the direction of Earth and that the priest Eliakim and
the Church of Philadelphia were both destined to earn the Key of David, Railsback concentrated
on his deceased clone and “the morning star.” As he peered down at the chrysostom’s crushed
throat and the red crown on the floor, he invok ed that Venus was referred to as “the morning
star” because it appeared so brightly in the east prior to sunset, briefly shined in the west
following sunset, and was never visible at midnight. He discussed the chrysostom’s true origin
and his esoteric statements about “the morning star” and the Key of David by asserting, “This
man was my perfect clone. Patrick and I found a whirlpool in the sewer that cloned me. In The
Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ promised ‘authority over the nations’ and ‘the morning star’ to
the Church of Thyatira to reward its congregation for rejecting the ‘Jezebel’ who led people
astray. ‘The morning star’ is also the name for Venus when it’s in the east before sunrise. I
don’t know how my clone could give our church the entire planet Venus, but he was babbling
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about the Key of David, too. It’s true that the priest Eliakim is supposed to get the Key of David
for dedicating Nehemiah’s rebuilt walls in Jerusalem, but Christ also promised to give the Key of
David to the Church of Philadelphia and to protect its congregation from Apocalyptic
destruction. I don’t know what my clone was talking about; he couldn’t possibly give our church
the planet Venus or the Key of David. He was just a clone that came out of the sewer.”
Willows was furious that Railsback had publicized the existence of the hypostasis and its
ability to spawn perfect clones, and he corrected Railsback’s faulty statement that the chrysostom
had promised to bestow Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church with the Key of David by
interjecting, “Luke, your clone didn’t say that he would give the Key of David to the ‘True Vine’
church. He said that he would give ‘the morning star’ to Father Garrick for repenting of his sin
with the ‘Jezebel.’ All your clone meant is that Father Garrick could’ve earned the Key of David
if he’d been a better priest, a better shepherd to his flock, so to speak.”
Kneeling beside the dead chrysostom that reflected his perfection, Railsback nodded that
the chrysostom had offered only “the morning star” to Father Garrick to commemorate his
repentance in the same manner that Jesus Christ rewarded the Church of Thyatira with the same
“morning star” in The Book of Revelation. Willows’ grimace depicted his rage that Railsback
had divulged the super natural qualities of the hypostasis, and Railsback’s citation of the
Apocalyptic Book of Revelation prompted Lydia Hewlett, the woman in a purple dress, to ask
whether Willows and Railsback were discussing the Apocalypse by screeching, “Wait, are you
guys talking about the Apocalypse? The Book of Revelation is about the end of the world, right?
Does that mean that seven trumpets and the seven seals and the seven bowls are going to unleash
plagues and famine and death? Is Luke’s clone bringing on the end of the world?”
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The “Morning Star” Lucifer: The Book of Isaiah 14:12
Railsback stared up from the dead chrysostom and assured Lydia that although Jesus
Christ delivered messages to the Seven Churches of Asia in The Book of Revelation, no events
suggested that the book’s Apocalyptic plagues would be released when he retorted, “No, Lydia,
no, my clone didn’t know anything. He probably saw our church as the new Church of Thyatira
since he offered Father Garrick ‘the morning star,’ but that’s all that he knew. Since Venus is
moving counter-clockwise, ‘the morning star’ was probably Venus. That’s all that he meant.”
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Standing beside Lydia, Father Garrick conceded that in The Book of Revelation, Jesus
Christ had delivered warnings to the Seven Churches of Asia and that the chrysostom likely
perceived Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church as a modern version of the Church of Thyatira
considering that the chrysostom had offered “the morning star” to him. In a panic, Father
Garrick opened his Bible to The Book of Isaiah’s Chapter Fourteen and conveyed his anxiety
that “the morning star” referred to both Venus and the Devil when he uttered, “’The morning
star’ isn’t just Venus, Mr. Railsback. Isaiah calls the Devil ‘the morning star’ and the ‘son of the
dawn’ when he was ‘cast down to the Earth’ for rebelling against God and for trying to raise his
own ‘throne above the stars of God.’ The Devil was an angel that wanted to be greater than God,
so God cast him into ‘the depths of the pit’ in Hell. ‘The morning star’ isn’t Venus; it’s the
Devil that will come out of a ‘lake of fire’ during the Apocalypse. Your clone was a sign of the
Apocalypse, whether you like it or not.”
While the congregation members became terrified that “the morning star” could represent
the Devil instead of Venus, Willows chided Father Garrick for proposing that the chrysostom’s
“morning star” could represent the Devil. Willows insisted that The Book of Isaiah’s Chapter
Fourteen was actually a meditation on God’s annihilation of Babylon to punish it for enslaving
the Israelites and that “the morning star” could be a hopeful symbol by replying, “’The morning
star’ isn’t the Devil, Father Garrick. 2 Peter says that God’s teaching is ‘a light shining in a dark
place’ that will make ‘the morning star’ begin to ‘rise in your hearts.’ The Devil’s name Lucifer
doesn’t even mean anything evil. Lucifer means ‘Light- bearer’ since when Lucifer was still a
good angel that served God, he was full of light. He was God’s greatest servant until he tried to
become God; that’s why the Bible calls Lucifer things like the ‘son of the morning’ and the
‘Angel of light.’ Isaiah 14 isn’t even really about Lucifer’s being cast into Hell to become the
Devil; it’s about God’s promise to destroy Babylon for enslaving the Israelites in exile. God
promises to sweep Babylon ‘with the broom of destruction.’ The morning doesn’t have to be the
Devil; it could be something really good.”
Father Garrick recognized that the Devil’s name Lucifer meant “Light- bearer” to
venerate his exemplary service to God, and he remembered that 2 Corinthians also praised the
angel Lucifer as the “son of the morning” prior to his banishment to Hell to become the Devil.
While the congregation members observed the interactions between Father Garrick and Willows,
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destruction of Babylon than on Lucifer’s wicked desire to “ascend to the heavens” and his
expulsion to Hell. However, the chrysostom’s threat to Father Garrick still echoed Jesus Christ’s
instructions for the Church of Thyatira to shun the lecherous “Jezebel.” Considering that the
Seventeenth Chapter of The Book of Revelation condemned Babylon as “The Mother of
Prostitutes,” Father Garrick compared Babylon to the “Jezebel” figure based on their sexual
indiscretions by answering, “You’re right, Mr. Willows; I don’t know exactly what ‘the morning
star’ is. I’ve told everyone about my sins with the ‘Jezebel,’ and Babylon is the biggest ‘Jezebel’
in the Scriptures. Revelation calls Babylon ‘The Mother of Prostitutes’ because of her
‘abominable things and the filth of her adulteries’ with all ‘the kings of the Earth’ who ‘have
committed fornication with her.’ My sermon was right when I said that the Prophets Ezra and
Nehemiah could bring the Israelites out of the Babylonian Captivity and rebuild the walls in
Jerusalem, but only God could punish Babylon for enslaving the Israelites for fifty years.
Babylon is ‘The Mother of Prostitutes;’ it’s way worse than what I may have done with some
‘Jezebel.’”
Willows swiped the chrysostom’s red crown from the floor, handed it to Railsback, and
decided that although the chrysostom had compared Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church to a
modern-day Church of Thyatira based on their shared “Jezebel” figures, the chrysostom was
dead and no longer posed a threat. He pushed through the crowd and ridiculed Father Garrick
for his feeble efforts to dismiss his affairs with “Jezebel” figures as trivial in comparison with
Babylon’s abominations against Israel when he casually muttered, “Okay, Father Garrick, no
matter what you say, you still had your affairs with the ‘Jezebel.’ Babylon brought down
Jerusalem and kept the Israelites in captivity for fifty years, and your fornications with the
‘Jezebel’ are just as bad as Babylon was as ‘The Mother of Prostitutes.’ Luke’s clone is dead.
He didn’t have anything important to say, so let’s pick up his body and get out of here.”
Willows expressed his indifference to the chrysostom’s death, bumped into Lydia
Hewlett, and scurried down the aisle to exit Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church. As Railsback
gripped his perfect clone’s red crown, he wondered how the red crown was related to the white
crown that The Prime Mover had placed on Willows’ son during the failed healing ritual. While
Lydia Hewlett and Father Garrick maneuvered through the crowd to call for an ambulance to
extract the chrysostom’s corpse, Railsback remained frozen and squeezed the red crown more
tightly to his chest. During Venus’ unexplainable counter -clockwise rotation in close proximity
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to its “sister planet” Earth, Willows walked home and peered up at the night sky in search of
Venus, but although Venus represented “the morning star” as the third brightest natural object in
the sky, he could not view the planet as it moved between the Earth and the Sun. When Willows
reached his home, the empty rooms reminded him that The Prime Mover ’s healing ritual had
killed his son Drew and that his wife Molly had divorced him in her grief over the loss of her
only son. In his living room, he flipped through his Bible to Chapter Sixteen in The Book of
Acts, and as his eyes scanned the text, he confirmed his suspicions that while the Christian
missionaries St. Paul and Silas were proselytizing in Thyatira, they encountered Lydia, who was
“a dealer in purple cloth.” Lydia invited Paul and Silas to stay at her home in an hospitable
gesture that mimicked the congregation member Lydia Hewlett’s request for Railsback to join
her for dinner festivities. Considering that the Biblical figure Lydia lived in Thyatira, Willows
became convinced that the two women were connected and that Father Garrick’s “True Vine”
church truly represented a modern-day Church of Thyatira that was guilty of being duped by
“Jezebels.” In a thoughtful manner, Willows parsed Jesus Christ’s rebuke of the hypocritical
Church of Thyatira in Chapter Two of The Book of Revelation. Although he had regarded the
chrysostom’s statements as nonsense, he could not deny that Christ promised to reward the
Church of Thyatira for its rejection of the “Jezebel” figure with “the morning star.” During the
quiet moment, he continued to wonder whether “the morning star” was Venus, the volcanic
planet that was moving in an irregular counter-clockwise fashion, or Lucifer, the “light- bearing”
angel that was God’s greatest servant before God expelled him into Hell to become the Devil.
A pounding at the door roused Willows from his Scriptural reading, and after Willows
opened the door, Railsback hysterically greeted him, shoved the chrysostom’s red crown in his
face, and notified him that a basaltic meteor from Venus had streaked to Earth and had collided
into present-day Iraq by whimpering, “Patrick, you’re going to have to tell me what’s going on
here. My chrysostom, my perfect clone, is dead, and now, the news is saying that a meteor from
Venus hit the Babil Province in Iraq. That’s where Babylon used to be in ancient Mesopotamia;
a rock from Venus wiped out Babylon, ‘The Mother of Prostitutes’ that you compared Father
Garrick to over an hour ago.”
Willows was not surprised that a basaltic rock had been dislodged from Venus and had
plummeted to the Earth considering that Venus was orbiting more closely than its general
seventeen degrees from the Sun and considering that its distance of forty million kilometers from
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the Earth was diminishing. Venus’ atmospheric pressure generally was ninety-two times greater
than the pressure on Earth, but it was clear that Venus’ solar winds, volcanic activities, and
pressure had intensified to discharge the basaltic rock to Earth. However, Willows could not
explain why Venus’ rock had crashed into ancient Babylon, and he yanked the chrysostom’s red
crown away from Railsback and replied, “You expect me to know about this. Venus is moving
counter-clockwise with the rest of the planets; it’s getting so close to the Earth that we knew that
some of its rocks could fall on us. I can’t believe that a rock hit Babylon, but it’s none of my
business.”
Railsback rushed into Willows’ living room and glanced down at the open Bible to
determine that Willows was actually interested in “the morning star” and in the parallels between
Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church and the Church of Thyatira from The Book of Revelation.
Railsback reconsidered the verses from Chapter Fourteen in The Book of Isaiah and analyzed
their accounts of Lucifer’s falling from Heaven in the form of a “morning star” and God’s threat
to “wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors” when he retorted, “What is that supposed to mean,
Patrick? This is what Isaiah 14 is all about; this is prophecy about the end of the world. Lucifer
is ‘the morning star’ who God cast down to ‘the depths of the pit’ in Hell, but God promised to
destroy Babylon and to ‘sweep her with the broom of destruction’ to make room for Lucifer. No
matter what you think, Venus is moving counter-clockwise for a reason; its rocks fell to Babylon
for a reason. Venus is called ‘the morning star’ when it’s in the east, and Lucifer is called ‘the
morning star’ that fell to Hell. You can deny it all you want, but you know that this means
something. A rock from Venus didn’t just hit Babylon at random.”
Inside Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church, Willows had emphasized that The Book of
Isaiah’s Chapter Fourteen was more focused on God’s destruction of Babylon than on Lucifer’s
transformation from the angelic “morning star” into the Devil in “the realm of the dead.” Based
on the chrysostom’s accusations and Venus’ basaltic rock’s collision with ancient Babylon,
Willows could not ignore that Biblical prophecies concerning the Seven Churches of Asia and
the Five Crowns for the Faithful were being fulfilled. The sight of The Book of Acts’ Chapter
Sixteen in his open Bible prompted Willows to acknowledge that the congregation member
Lydia Hewlett was reminiscent of the Biblical “dealer in purple cloth” who invited the
missionaries Paul and Silas to her home. He agreed that Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church
was the modern Church of Thyatira that was destined to earn “the morning star” for its
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repentance when he rasped, “Okay, you’re right, Luke; there’s something going on here. I found
something else. In Acts, Paul and Silas went through Macedonia and Philippi and met ‘a dealer
in purple cloth’ named Lydia. She was from Thyatira; obviously, the Church of Thyatira was
there, too. It’s no coincidence that the ‘True Vine’ church has a priest who was tem pted by some
‘Jezebels’ or that it has a woman named Lydia who wears purple dresses as a member. Your
‘True Vine’ church is the new version of the Church of Thyatira that’s supposed to get ‘the
morning star,’ whatever that is.”
Despite 2 Peter ’s message that “the morning star” is “a light shining in a dark place,”
Railsback feared that “the morning star” represented either Venus or the Devil. Railsback
decided that Lucifer was only celebrated as a “Light- bearer” and “the morning star” when he
served God as a dutiful angel, so Lucifer was stripped of his title as “the morning star” after God
banished him into Hell to become the Devil. While Willows also entertained the notions that
“the morning star” could be the Devil and that Venus had been ordained to annihilate ancient
Babylon to signal his Apocalyptic arrival on earth, Railsback implored Willows to delve into The
Prime Mover’s deadly healing ritual by asserting, “Look, I know that you don’t want to talk
about this, but my chrysostom was wearing a red crown. You said that The Prime Mover put a
white crown on your son’s head to try to cure his diphtheria. It’s pretty obvious that Father
Garrick’s suppression of his sins made the red crown weigh down on my chrysostom’s head until
his neck broke. I mean, the crown never budged from his head, and then, after Father Garrick
confessed that he’d been with some ‘Jezebels,’ the crown popped right off my chrysostom’s
head. The white and red crowns have got to be connected.”
Willows was confident that Father Gar rick’s “True Vine” church was a modern
incarnation of the Church of Thyatira, which was one of the Seven Churches of Asia that Jesus
Christ admonished in The Book of Revelation. He now believed that The Prime Mover’s white
crown and the dead chrysostom’s red crown represented two of the Five Crowns for the Faithful
that “the Lord has promised to those who love Him” according to The Book of James. Willows
discarded his reservations about dredging up his son’s death, and he discussed the curandero
known as The Prime Mover and his obsession with the image of the Earth’s “dust on the scales”
from The Book of Isaiah’s Fortieth Chapter when he exclaimed, “All right, Luke, I’ll tell you
what I think. I think that the ‘True Vine’ church is a modern version of one of the Seven
Churches of Asia and that the crowns are supposed to be two of the Five Crowns for the Faithful.
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The Prime Mover put a white crown on my son’s head; he said that it was the Crown of
Incorruptibility that you get for shunning Earthly temptations. That white Crown of
Incorruptibility was one side of The Prime Mover’s scale; the other side of the scale was a teeter -
totter called The Syncretizer. The Crown of Incorruptibility was like his Thummim; it weighed
perfection. The Syncretizer was like his Urim; it weighed sins. He wanted perfection to
outweigh sins very slightly so that the perfection could cast out the sins that made my son sick.
The Prime Mover kept telling me that he could balance ‘the mountains on the scales’ and weigh
‘the islands as though they were fine dust,’ and I believe him. I fell for his trick. I let him put
the Crown of Incorruptibility on my son’s head. He made me commit sins to try to balance them
with the crown’s perfection, but the crown just weighed down on my son and broke his neck.”
While Willows sighed with grief, Railsback recalled that the Urim and the Thummim
were sacred coins that Israelite priests used to deduce God’s will, and he grasped that on The
Prime Mover’s “honest scales and balances,” The Syncretizer was the Urim’s sins while the
Crown of Incorruptibility was the Thummim’s perfection. He expressed his condolences for
Willows’ loss and scrutinized The Prime Mover’s mentality and his ultimate goal as an
unconventional curandero by remar king, “I’m sorry about your son, Patrick. It seems to me that
The Prime Mover killed your son with the white crown just like the red crown killed my
chrysostom. You said that The Prime Mover wanted to balance sins and perfection to cast out
the sins that made your son sick. It doesn’t make any sense. Curanderoes are supposed to use
holy water and Bible verses to help people; they aren’t supposed to use scales. What was The
Prime Mover thinking? What was he trying to do?”
With more painful memories flooding into his head, Willows remained aware that The
Prime Mover was an unorthodox curandero because he used a scale instead of holy water, but
Willows had been so desperate to save his son that he permitted The Prime Mover to apply his
remedies. In a cracking voice, Willows addressed cleromancy and quoted Proverbs 16 to
pinpoint The Prime Mover’s use of crowns and The Syncretizer as the two sides of his scale by
retorting, “He said that he was performing cleromancy by casting lots. In the Bible, the Pr ophet
Joshua used cleromancy to figure out who stole some Babylonian gold; even the Israelites used
cleromancy to pick Saul as their first king. The Prime Mover said that his ritual was Biblical
cleromancy, and I believed him. He cast the Urim and the Thummim as his lots in cleromancy;
The Syncretizer was his Urim; the Crown for the Faithful was his Thummim. He kept babbling
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about Proverbs 16 that says that ‘honest scales and balances belong to the Lord’ and that ‘all the
weights in the bag are of His making.’ He told me that he was God’s messenger who used those
‘honest scales and balances’ to weigh sins and perfection. I let him cast his lots to make
perfection outweigh the sins that made my son sick, and it killed him.”
Railsback was alarmed that The Prime Mover had presented his use of “honest scales and
balances” as a variation of Biblical cleromancy, and Willows’ allusion to the contrast between
sins and perfection on The Prime Mover’s scale reminded Railsback of the importance of
opposites. The Prime Mover perceived himself as God’s messenger who used his scales to
weigh the opposites of sins and perfection, so Railsback emphasized that Biblical opposites were
necessary because one opposite defined the other when he replied, “That sounds awful, Patrick.
If The Prime Mover really did try to use God’s ‘honest scales and balances,’ then, that’s just
blasphemy. I guess that I can understand why someone would want to balance sins and
perfection though; after all, they’re the most important opposites in existence. In Ecclesiastes,
King Solomon really stresses that ‘the wind blows to the south and goes around to the north;’
north and south are opposites. Even in The Book of Genesis, when God created the heavens and
the earth, He separated light from darkness to make Day and Night; without the darkness, we
wouldn’t understand what light is. I understand why The Prime Mover would want to balance
opposites, but using a divine scale is too much power for anyone to have.”
Willows concurred that opposites were essential elements of The Book of Genesis and
The Book of Ecclesiastes considering that God ordained for the wind to travel both to the north
and to the south and that He separated light from darkness so that light could be defined as the
contrast of the darkness. He feared that Railsback was somehow defending The Prime Mover’s
peculiar rituals as a curandero, so he shifted his focus from opposites to the Five Crowns for the
Faithful by shrieking, “Luke, who cares about opposites? It doesn’t matter whether The Prime
Mover thought that he was casting lots in cleromancy or balancing opposites. He still killed my
son. He put his Crown of Incorruptibility on my son’s head and broke his neck.”
While Venus moved in its counter-clockwise direction toward the Earth, Railsback
discarded The Prime Mover’s attempts to justify his peculiar healing rituals and inquired about
the white and red crowns by muttering, “You’re right; your curandero The Prime Mover is a
killer. I don’t care what he thought that he was doing or how he tried to justify what happened.
You said that he put a white crown on your son that broke his neck; a red crown weighed down
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on my chrysostom and killed him. If the crowns are really two of the Five Crowns for the
Faithful, then, what are they exactly?”
Willows considered that according to The Book of James, the Crown of Life, the Crown
of Incorruptibility, the Crown of Righteousness, the Crown of Rejoicing, and the Crown of Glory
were the Five Crowns for the Faithful that Catholics strived to earn to gain entry to the Kingdom
of Heaven. Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church was a modern-day Church of Thyatira among
the ancient Seven Churches of Asia, and the chrysostom who delivered the message about Father
Garrick’s improprieties with “Jezebels” was clearly wearing one of the Five Crowns for the
Faithful. Based on Railsback’s jovial worshipping during the “True Vine” church service,
Willows concluded that Railsback’s perfect clone known as the chrysostom was likely wearing
the red Crown of Rejoicing. He described the Five Crowns for the Faithful as The Prime
Mover’s weighing scales when he asserted, “I think that The Prime Mover put the white Crown
of Incorruptibility on my son’s head to reward him for being baptized and for shunning Earthly
temptations in favor of God’s grace. As far as I’m concerned, you’ve been running the race of
life for a long time. I think that you’ve fought the good fight and kept the faith; you’ve already
earned the Crown of Righteousness. You’re so giddy about your faith that I think that your
chrysostom was wearing the red Crown of Rejoicing; that’s the crown that broke his neck.
Those Five Crowns for the Faithful were part of The Prime Mover’s weighing scale. They were
inspired by an experiment that Archimedes did to figure out whether King Hiero’s crown was
pure gold or not. Archimedes used the crown like a scale and weighed it in water to figure out
that it had some silver in it; it wasn’t pure gold. The Crown of Incorruptibility and the Crown of
Rejoicing were weighting scales that killed my son and your perfect clone.”
Willows had informed Railsback of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes’
experiment to use King Hiero’s crown as a weighing scale so that he could deduce that the crown
was comprised of thirty percent silver and was not pure gold. Railsback grasped that the white
Crown of Incorruptibility and the red Crown of Rejoicing were both scales that served as one
side of The Prime Mover’s “honest scales and balances,” and he remained concerned about The
Prime Mover’s obsession with opposites and the parallels between the Five Crowns for the
Faithful and the Seven Churches of Asia. He snatched Willows’ Bible from the table, and as he
examined Jesus Christ’s message to the Church of Philadelphia in The Book of Revelation’s
Third Chapter, he discovered that Christ instructed the church to “hold fast” to ensure that “no
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one will take your crown.” He proposed that each of the seven churches could possess Crowns
for the Faithful and elaborated on the Biblical fixation with opposites by replying, “Well, I do
love to rejoice; I just wish that my crown hadn’t killed my clone. It seems to me that these
crowns could be weights like Archimedes thought, but I think that the Seven Churches of Asia
had Crowns for the Faithful, too. Christ’s message to the Church of Philadelphia tells its
members to hold on to their crown. In Christ’s message to the Church of Laodicea, he says that
he’ll reject them for being ‘lukewarm’ and for being ‘neither hot nor cold.’ If you didn’t think
that opposites were important before, then, you do now. The Prime Mover wanted to balance the
opposites of sins and perfection, and Christ hated the Church of Laodicea for not picking one of
the opposites of either hot or cold. To Christ, there’s nothing worse than being ‘lukewarm;’
you’ve got to pick one of your opposites on one side of the scale.”
Willows contemplated that the Seven Churches of Asia could have possessed the Five
Crowns for the Faithful in The Book of Revelation, and as he considered Archimedes’
experiment to test whether King Hiero’s crown was pure gold, he decided that Christ also could
be testing the purity of the seven hypocritical churches. According to the Scriptures, Christ
appeared to abhor the Church of Laodicea’s “lukewarm” mentality and to prefer churches that
exhibited the opposites of either “hot” or “cold” philosophies. With the image of his dead son
etched in his mind, Willows addressed the notions that Christ could be testing Father Garrick’s
“True Vine” church just as Archimedes tested the gold crown’s purity and that opposites were
imperative to life when he rasped, “The Prime Mover didn’t pick a side on the scale, Luke. He
said that he was standing on the fulcrum between the scales that weighed your opposites of sins
and perfection. He tried to make the perfection slightly outweigh the sins to cast them out, but
he never picked a side on either sins or perfection. Maybe, your chrysostom was trying to pick a
side on the scales. He was on the side of perfection, but he wanted to expose Father Garrick’s
sins. Your chrysostom was wearing the Crown of Rejoicing, and if that crown is actually a
weighing scale that broke his neck, then, maybe, he was testing the purity of Father Garrick’s
church just like Archimedes tested the purity of King Hiero’s gold crown. Christ tested the
purity of the Seven Churches of Asia in The Book of Revelation, and that’s what your
chrysostom was doing. He was picking a side; he abandoned his own perfection because he
wanted Father Garrick to admit his sins. The Prime Mover wouldn’t pick a side on the scales.
He wanted to be the ‘unmoved mover’ who stood between the two opposite sides. He stayed
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‘lukewarm’ like the Church of Laodicea. He was neither ‘hot’ nor ‘cold,’ and it cost me my
family. I mean, Father Garrick may have broken his priestly vows, but he still has a family.”
Railsback discerned that Willows was still mourning the death of his son Drew, and with
sensitivity, Railsback shifted his focus from the opposites of sins and perfection and testing the
purity of churches and gold crowns. He dwelled on The Prime Mover’s mechanisms of causing
perfection to outweigh sins and of extracting the “scarlet” sins that triggered Drew’s illness by
asserting, “It’s terrible what The Prime Mover did to you, Patrick. He had no right to think that
he could be the ‘unmoved mover.’ He should’ve picked a side on sins or perfection instead of
staying ‘lukewarm.’ What else did he do? How did he make the perfection outweigh the sins?”
Willows disclosed The Prime Mover’s use of “ear -candling” to extract the sins that
caused Drew’s illness and the healer’s failed efforts to consume the sins by transferring them to
bread when he uttered, “He put a candle in my son’s ear to pull the sins out. I guess that they
were sins; they glowed ‘scarlet’ red like the Bible says. He tried to be a sin-eater. He covered a
piece of bread with the sins, but when he tried to eat them, the bread turned into stone. Then,
when the Crown of Incorruptibility started weighing down on my son, he told me that there was
too much perfection on his ‘honest scales and balances.’ He made me commit sins to create
some balance between sins and perfection on the scales, but it didn’t help. The weirdest thing is
that when I sinned, I saw some freaky things in the mirror. That’s all that happened, and when I
ran back to help my son, The Prime Mover was gone, and my son’s neck was broken from the
crown’s pressure. It was terrible; I was so desperate for help that I let that curandero kill my
boy. I was so stupid. I trusted in my Catholic faith in curanderoes, and it let me down.”
Willows placed his Bible on the table, walked into his bedroom, and retrieved the stone
into which a piece of bread had transformed when The Prime Mover drenched it with the
“scarlet” sins, which triggered Drew’s illness. When Willows returned to the living room, he
slapped the coarse stone into Railsback’s hand, and as Railsback considered that Willows’ sins
had stimulated him to experience hallucinations, he peered at his friend and inquired about the
visions by declaring, “So, this is the stone. The Prime Mover balanced sins and perfection on his
scale to cast the sins out, and when he tried to eat the sins on bread, the bread turned into this
stone. Let me ask you something. When you started sinning to balance everything on The Prime
Mover’s scale, did you start to see a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a beast with iron teeth?”
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Willows was flabbergasted that Railsback was familiar with the visions that he had
witnessed in the mirror during his failed efforts to reduce the white Crown of Incorruptibility’s
pressure on his son’s cranium. In a puzzled tone, Willows asked, “Yeah, that’s right, Luke. The
Prime Mover said that the white crown represented perfection that was weighing down on my
son, so I sinned to try to pull the crown up and off of his head. I feel like the sins made me see
those things. How did you know?”
In a panic, Railsback shuffled for words and stammered, but when he could not offer a
proper explanation regarding the visions, he grabbed the remote control and turned on the
television to monitor the aftermath of Venus’ meteor that collided into ancient Babylon in Iraq.
On the news, the broadcaster emphasized that Venus was moving closer to the Earth in its
counter-clockwise rotation and that its sulfuric clouds were discharging lightning when she
proclaimed, “We’re still following this story that a meteor from Venus struck the Babil Province
in Iraq. In the past, Venus was the only planet that rotated clockwise, but for the past year, it’s
been rotating counter-clockwise with the rest of the planets. Its atmospheric pressure has
generally been ninety-two times more than the pressure on Earth, but scientists are saying that
that pressure is increasing. They’re saying that Venus used to be seventeen degrees from the Sun
and forty million kilometers from the Earth, but that’s all decreasing as Venus gets closer to us.
Venus has practically no magnetic field or plate tectonics due to its dry surface, but it’s covered
with erupting volcanoes and basaltic rock. There’s a fear that more rocks could fall from Venus,
and scientists are saying that Venus’ sulfuric clouds are generating even more lightning than
Earth is. Now, we’re worried about lightning and basaltic rocks from Venus as it gets closer to
Earth.”
While the television reporter expressed fears that Venus’ basaltic rocks could annihilate
more Earthly locations than ancient Babylon in Iraq, Railsback became distressed that Venus’
sulfuric clouds were discharging Earth-like lightning on its volcanic surface. He turned to
Willows and quoted from The Book of Luke’s Eighteenth Chapter to convey his anxiety about
lightning when he exclaimed, “Man, Venus is shooting lightning now; it’s crazy. Lightning
always scares me, especially when Jesus said that he ‘saw Satan fall like lightning from Heaven’
in the Gospels. My chrysostom warned us that Father Garrick would receive ‘the morning star’
for admitting those sins with the ‘Jezebels.’ ‘The morning star’ could be Venus or the Devil, and
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if it’s the Devil, then, I’m worried. What if the Devil is in that lightning? What if Venus’ rocks
destroyed Babylon to make way for the Devil to come out of ‘the lake of fire.’”
Willows could fathom that ancient Babylon had been destroyed to punish its King
Nebuchadnezzar and its other inhabitants for enslaving and exiling the Israelites from the years
597 to 538 BC. However, while he considered that the dead chrysostom had promised to reward
Father Garrick with “the morning star,” he refused to accept that “the morning star” could be the
Devil or that Venus’ lightning somehow contained the Devil considering that Christ “saw Satan
fall like lightning from Heaven” in the Scriptures. As Railsback changed the television channel,
Willows conceded that strange events were occurring and dismissed the possibility that the Devil
could exist in Venus’ lightning by remarking, “Luke, I’ll admit that your chrysostom and my son
wore two of the Five Crowns for the Faithful. I’ll even admit that your chrysostom saw Father
Garrick’s church as a modern version of the Church of Thyatira from the Seven Churches of
Asia, but now, you’re really pushing it. Why does it matter that The Book of Isaiah calls the
Devil ‘the morning star’ when he was cast into Hell? Why does it matter if Venus is called ‘the
morning star,’ too? Just because the chrysostom promised to give Father Garrick ‘the morning
star’ doesn’t mean that Venus destroyed ancient Babylon to pave the way for the Devil or that
the Devil exists in Venus’ lightning. You’re really talking crazy, buddy.”
When Railsback overheard a breaking news report about the discovery of the
“hypostasis” that could represent the remnants of the primordial soup that birthed organic life
from inorganic matter, he expressed his amazement by exclaiming, “Then, we’re both cr azy
together, Patrick. We’re making news with Babylon and with the whirlpool that pulled us in to
all of this. It looks like those biologists have decided to make our sewer discovery public.”
Willows was astonished that the biologists had publicized the existence of the white
whirlpool known as the “hypostasis” that had spawned Railsback’s perfect clone, and Willows
could only mutter, “What?,” as he gazed at the new television report. Transitioning from Venus’
destruction of ancient Babylon, the broadcaster discussed the “hypostasis” that represented the
remnants of the primordial soup and that generated perfect clones known as chrysostoms when
she proclaimed, “We’re still monitoring the situation with Venus, but in other news, scientists
are saying that they’ve discovered the primordial soup that created all life. They’re calling it the
‘hypostasis,’ and it’s a pool that’s got the properties of a vortex and a black hole. Of course, the
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sustain life, but scientists are saying that the hypostasis may even be able to clone humans. This
is an amazing discovery, indeed, and with Venus getting closer to the Earth, we could use some
new discoveries. We’ll update you on the hypostasis when more information becomes
available.”
In a rage, Willows turned off the television and became convinced that the biologists to
whom the Wilmington sanitation department had submitted the hypostasis were now using the
whirlpool to clone themselves just as Railsback had. Willows accepted that sins could cause
sicknesses for humans, but he still refused to believe that the hypostasis pool could be
comparable to the Pool of Bethesda that healed “disabled people” in The Book of John 5. When
Willows charged toward the front door, Railsback feared that Willows was incensed that the
biologists had divulged the discovery of the hypostasis and its ability to create perfect clones
called chrysostoms, and Railsback could only ask, “Where are you going, Patrick?”
Standing at the front door, Willows contended that the biologists had been immersing
their bodies inside the hypostasis to clone themselves and that the perfect clones were dangerous
based on the fate of Railsback’s chrysostom by shouting, “Those biologists have been cloning
themselves in our whirlpool, Luke. Those clones are dangerous; they say things that aren’t true.
I mean, your clone said that Father Garrick would earn ‘the morning star’ for admitting his sins;
he made you think that the Devil is coming to Earth just because a rock from Venus hit ancient
Babylon. Stay here, and think about whatever you want. Try to figure out whether ‘the morning
star’ is the Devil or Venus, but I’m going to put an end to these clones.”
Railsback noticed that Willows was brandishing a handgun and was appalled that his
fellow sanitation worker intended to kill the chrysostoms that the biologists were generating in
the whirlpool known as the hypostasis. He hoped to dissuade Willows from such an impulsive
act and insisted that they both shared the discovery of the hypostasis by replying, “Hey, man, I’m
coming with you. I found that pool with you in that sewer; it’s my discovery, too.”
While “the morning star” Venus shined at its maximum luminosity and barreled toward
Earth, Railsback climbed into the passenger seat of Willows’ car and accompanied him to the
biologists’ lab where the Wilmington sanitation department had submitted the hypostasis.
Railsback wished to address the meaning of “the morning star” that could represent either Venus
or Lucifer prior to his banishment to Hell, but Willows remained silent and refused to discuss
“the morning star,” Venus’ lightning, or Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church. Willows pulled
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up to the lab and identified that eight chrysostoms were assembled around the premises, and his
suspicions were confirmed that the biologists had immersed themselves in the hypostasis to
engender their own perfect clones. Staring through the car windshield, Willows and Railsback
recognized that the eight perfect clones were wearing different Crowns for the Faithful, which
were the green Crown of Life, the white Crown of Incorruptibility, the blue Crown of
Righteousness, the red Crown of Rejoicing, and the purple Crown of Glory. According to 1
Peter , a Catholic would achieve the Crown of Glory by deciding to “feed the flock of God.” The
two sanitation workers pinpointed that one of the chrysostoms was donning the purple Crown of
Glory, and considering that a biologist had earned the Crown of Glory, his chrysostom was
wearing the purple crown when he emerged from the hypostasis. Willows became infuriated that
the biologists had enveloped themselves inside the hypostasis to create their perfect clones that
wore Crowns for the Faithful, and before Railsback could restrain his friend, Willows leaped
from his car and aimed his gun at the cluster of clones. As Railsback opened the car door,
Willows fired six bullets at the clones as their crowns of green, white, blue, red, and purple
colors blurred together, but the clones were perfect chrysostoms and were impervious to bullets.
In frustration that bullets could not harm the eight chrysostoms outside of the lab,
Willows tossed his gun to the street and wondered how the perfect clones could be exterminated
as they dispersed in reaction to the gunfire. He recalled that the clones’ Five Crowns for the
Faithful represented the individual sides that weighed perfection on The Prime Mover’s “honest
scales and balances.” Railsback’s clone had perished when Father Garrick’s hypocrisy and his
false appearance of perfection caused the red Crown of Rejoicing’s perfection to weigh down on
the clone until his neck snapped. Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church was comparable to the
Church of Thyatira that Christ reproached in The Book of Revelation because the modern “True
Vine” church and the ancient Church of Thyatira both hypocritically appeared to support “love
and faith” and concealed their associations with “Jezebel” figures. As Railsback raced to
Willows’ side to confront him, Willows decided to treat the Five Crowns for the Faithful as if
they were weighing scales or King Hiero’s gold crown that the Greek mathematician
Archimedes weighed to assess its purity. During the eight chrysostoms’ scampering around the
premises, Railsback implored Willows not to harm the biologists’ perfect clones by shrieking,
“What are you thinking, Patrick? Why can’t we have some perfection in our sinful, little world?
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Please, leave the chrysostoms alone. I lost my chance to see the perfect side of myself; don’t
take it away from these scientists.”
As Railsback sought to pacify his fellow sanitation worker, Willows peered at the colored
crowns that the chrysostoms were donning as scales that weighed perfection on The Prime
Mover’s “honest scales and balances.” He was terrified that the perfect chrysostoms would
expose hidden sins just as Railsback’s chrysostom had forced Father Garrick to publicize his
own hypocrisy in the modern “True Vine” church that embodied the ancient Church of Thyatira.
When Railsback clasped his shoulder, Willows revealed that he would revel in similar hypocrisy
to exert pressure on the eight chrysostoms’ Crowns for the Faithful by bellowing, “I have to,
Luke. I can’t be ‘lukewarm’ like the Church of Laodicea; I have to pick a side on the scale.
Those crowns weigh perfection, and if I can’t shoot the chrysostoms, then, I’ll pretend to be
perfect until my hypocrisy weighs down on their crowns enough to break their necks.”
Considering that Father Garrick’s hypocritical façade of perfection had created enough
weight on Railsback’s chrysostom to kill him, Willows was eager to engage in the same
hypocrisy for which Christ rebuked the Seven Churches of Asia in The Book of Revelation. Just
as Christ revealed the sins of the Seven Churches of Asia, Railsback’s chrysostom had managed
to uncover Father Garrick’s sinful exploits with “Jezebel” figures, and Willows now was terrified
that these new eight chrysostoms would ridicule other humans for their hypocrisies and other
sins. When Railsback asked, “What are you going to do?,” Willows announced that he had
familiarized himself with the hypocrisies that the Seven Churches of Asia committed and that he
would engage in those hypocrisies to kill the new chrysostoms by muttering, “I haven’t given up;
I’m always thinking. Your chrysostom exposed Father Garrick’s sins, but I won’t let these
chrysostoms expose anyone else’s or create the havoc that yours tried to do. Christ showed the
hypocrisy in the Seven Churches of Asia; that’s all that I need. Father Garrick’s hypocrisy killed
your chrysostom, and my hypocrisy can kill these new chrysostoms.”
Willows recalled that according to The Book of Matthew’s Sixth Chapter, Jesus Christ
instructed his disciples not to be hypocritical and to shun the hypocrites who “love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.” In a facetious act,
Willows dropped to his knees on the sidewalk, closed his eyes, and pretended to pray publicly so
that his hypocrisy could create the false appearance of perfection and cause the perfection to
weigh down on the chrysostoms’ Crowns for the Faithful. When he opened his eyes, he noticed
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that the chrysostoms were lumbering in various directions, and he became hopeful that his
hypocritical façade of perfection was stimulating the crowns to weigh down on the chrysostoms’
craniums in the manner of scales. According to The Book of Revelation’s Second Chapter, the
Church of Ephesus had “left” its “first love” by forsaking its zeal for God, and the Church of
Pergamum had been supporting “the teaching of Balaam,” who was a Biblical soothsayer who
blessed Israel’s enemies and duped the Israelites to worship the false idol Baal in The Book of
Numbers. Willows embraced the two churches’ hypocrisy and pretended that he had not “left”
his own “first love” of missionary work in Ecuador, and he also praised Balaam for coercing the
Israelites to worship Baal, to construct altars, and to turn away from God by flippantly
bellowing, “Oh, God, I’ve persevered. My missionary work in Ecuador was my ‘first love,’ and
I never left it. I’ve always loved being a missionary, but I’ve loved ‘the teaching of Balaam’
even more. Balaam built those blasphemous altars and blessed Israel’s enemies and worshipped
Baal, and I love him. I love him for making the Israelites ‘eat things sacrificed to idols;’ he’s my
hero.”
Willows had imitated the Church of Ephesus’ hypocritical rejection of its “first love” and
the Church of Per gamum’s adulation of the idolatrous soothsayer Balaam, so the sanitation
worker’s hypocrisy and his façade of perfection exerted pressure on the chrysostoms’ crowns.
When Willows recognized that the chrysostoms were crouching down in reaction to the crowns’
weight, he recalled that Christ had reprimanded the Church of Thyatira for committing “acts of
immorality” with a “Jezebel” and that the Church of Sardis was guilty of not completing their
faithful deeds “in the sight of God.” Willows was aware of his own lustful yearnings for
“Jezebel” figures and the sins that he had attempted to conceal from God, so he glared into the
sky and persisted in hypocrisy by proclaiming, “I’m just so perfect, God. I’ve never lusted after
a ‘Jezebel’ in my heart since my wife left me. I didn’t even lust after Evelia Jimenez while I was
married. I’ve never hidden all of my works from Your sight, Lord; I’ve always been honest that
I’ve hated you ever since you let The Prime Mover kill my son. None of my perfection has ever
been hidden from You.”
In The Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ had uncovered the hypocrisies that the Seven
Churches of Asia committed, and Willows successfully replicated those hypocrisies and facades
of perfection to weigh down on the chrysostoms’ Crowns for the Faithful. The crowns acted as
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pressure fractured their necks, and when the chrysostoms began to collapse to the street, Willows
became elated about the perfect clones’ deaths. He admired the stacks of dead chrysostoms and
insisted that he had not succumbed to the Church of Laodicea’s sin of being “lukewarm” by
shrieking, “Do you see what I did? I wasn’t ‘lukewarm’ like the Church of Laodicea, God. I
picked a side on the scale; I wasn’t like your Prime Mover who thought that he could stand on
the scale’s fulcrum and weigh ‘the dust of the earth in a basket.’ If his ‘honest scales and
balances’ weigh opposites of sins and perfection, then, I picked my side; I picked my opposite. I
know that I’m a hypocrite; I’m a sinner in Your eyes.”
Willows’ public acknowledgement that he was a sinner alleviated the weight of the
chrysostoms’ crowns because as his sins exerted pressure on one side of The Prime Mover’s
scale, the side that measured perfection was pushed up until the crowns were extracted from the
chrysostoms’ heads. Railsback longed for the perfection that God originally intended and
lamented that Willows had eradicated the biologists’ eight perfect chrysostoms by exploiting
their crowns as weighing scales. While Railsback openly sobbed, the curandero known as The
Prime Mover emerged from behind the lab and responded to Willows’ contention that he had
“picked” his “opposite” by proclaiming, “Yes, Mr. Willows, you picked your opposite; you
weren’t ‘lukewarm.’ The only problem is that you picked sins on my scales.”
Willows turned away from the piles of dead chrysostoms and became livid at the sight of
The Prime Mover whose “honest scales and balances” had killed Willows’ son during a failed
healing ritual. Wearing the curandero’s orange shirt with black stripes, The Prime Mover calmly
yanked the purple scarf around his neck and gripped the luminous teeter-totter known as The
Syncretizer to dazzle Willows and Railsback. Willows frantically charged toward The Prime
Mover, but Railsback restrained Willows from attacking the curandero and pleaded with his
fellow sanitation worker to refrain from violence. While The Prime Mover’s Syncretizer
represented the “lights” of his Urim, the Five Crowns for the Faithful encapsulated the
“perfections” of his opposing Thummim, and Willows became even more furious when The
Prime Mover hurled the white Crown of Incorruptibility to the pile of the dead chrysostoms’
crowns. Willows and Railsback both recognized the white Crown of Incorruptibility as the
weighing scale that had killed Willows’ son Drew, and as Railsback positioned his palms on his
chest, Willows shrieked, “What do you want, healer? You killed my son with your hocus-pocus,
and I’m going to kill you.”
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The eight biologists who had immersed themselves inside the hypostasis emerged from
the lab and were dismayed by the two stacks of their dead clones and of the Crowns for the
Faithful that the clones had worn to symbolize their perfection. As the biologists stepped over
the assortment of dead clones with fractured necks, The Prime Mover quoted The Book of
Ezekiel’s Twenty-Eighth Chapter to elaborate on Willows’ rejection of being “lukewarm” and of
the clones’ perfection by asserting, “You’ve already killed eight chrysostoms yourself, Mr.
Willows. You killed ten people in Job’s family. Why shouldn’t you be able to kill me with all
of the pain and death that you’ve caused? You’ve pushed away the perfection on my ‘honest
scales and balances,’ so I knew that you would wipe out the chrysostoms for being perfect. It
hurts me to see you forsake your God-given perfection. ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of
wisdom and perfect in beauty.’ ‘Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you
corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.’ When you sinned, you were cast as a profane
thing from the mountain of God. You tarnished your perfection with sins, and you’ve fallen so
far from Heaven, ‘morning star,’ ‘son of the dawn.’ You had to destroy the chrysostoms’
perfection. It’s in your nature to shun perfection and to pick the side of sins on my scale, but at
least, you’ve picked a side, right? At least, you’re not ‘lukewarm’ like the Church of Laodicea.
You should be proud of yourself, ‘morning star.’”
While the biologists processed the deaths of their chrysostoms in the distance, Willows
deduced that The Prime Mover had cited The Book of Isaiah’s Fourteenth Chapter in which God
banished “the morning star” Lucifer into “the realm of the dead” in Hell. He resented the
accusation that he was a murderer and argued that although he had spurned perfection by
eliminating the eight chrysostoms, he had never harmed any real humans by replying, “What are
you talking about, healer? I just wiped out some perfect clones before they could start accusing
people of being sinners; I’d never hurt any real people. I’m not a killer; you are.”
Willows silently contemplated why The Prime Mover had accused him of murder and
why he had referred to him as “the morning star,” which could be either the “light- bearing” angel
Lucifer prior to his expulsion to Hell or the planet Venus that was barreling closer to Earth.
Before Willows could confront The Prime Mover, hundreds of basaltic rocks became dislodged
from Venus’ surface and streaked down to the Earth to destroy locations in ancient Persia,
Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and Rome. On Venus’ rocky surface, more volcanoes erupted to
release more carbon dioxide into its poisonous atmosphere, and its sulfuric clouds discharged
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lightning that severed more basaltic rocks, which the solar winds collected and hurled to the
Earth. When one of Venus’ meteorites collided into the ground and generated an explosion near
Willows, Railsback, and The Prime Mover, Willows recoiled in reaction to the fireball and the
burning terrain that was a few feet away from him. With the flames warming his face, Willows
blamed Venus’ peculiar counter -clockwise rotation and its movement toward Earth for the
destruction by shouting, “Venus is the real ‘morning star,’ healer. It’s all falling apart.”
Standing next to Willows, Railsback scanned the flaming crater that Venus had carved
into the terrain, and the cataclysmic image reminded him of the Island of Patmos to which the
Roman Emperor Domitian had banished John the Apostle when he wrote The Book of
Revelation. The Island of Patmos’ volcanic landscape inspired John the Apostle to write about
the Apocalyptic opening of the seven seals, the playing of the seven trumpets, and the pouring
out of the seven bowls that would unleash plagues, darkness, and death to eradicate the Earth.
As the fiery landscape evoked the Biblical end of the world, The Prime Mover raised his
luminous teeter-totter known as The Syncretizer, and its sides both began to lower to indicate
that human sins were weighing down on it. In The Book of Revelation’s Third Chapter, the
hypocritical Church of Philadelphia wielded the Key of David that would lead to the Kingdom of
Heaven, and The Prime Mover claimed that The Syncretizer represented the Key of David and
quoted The Book of Isaiah’s condemnation of ancient Babylon by proclaiming, “Mr. Willows,
you are the real ‘morning star.’ You and Venus are one in the same ‘morning star;’ Venus is
your weighing scale. Your hypocrisy has pulled Venus into its counter-clockwise rotation, and
now, you’re pulling it down toward the Earth. Venus’ rocks are falling to make way for the
‘angel of the bottomless pit’ to be set free. For a whole year, I’ve been the standing on the
watchtower, waiting for Babylon to fall; I’ve been the ‘unmoved mover’ who wouldn’t budge
from the watchtower. Now, ‘Babylon has fallen,’ and ‘all the images of its gods lie shattered on
the ground.’ You’ve used Venus to destroy Babylon, Persia, Rome, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and
Greece to try to free yourself from the Abyss, and my Syncretizer is the Key of David that can
unshackle you. If you’re free, you can continue to deceive the nations.”
Recognizing The Prime Mover’s assertions about the prophetic destruction of Babylon as
quotations from The Book of Isaiah’s Twenty-first Chapter, Willows shoved Railsback aside and
assured the curandero that he was not influencing Venus’ meteorites to fall by shouting, “Do you
think that I’ve caused this? Venus has been moving counter -clockwise for over a year; it was
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only a matter of time that it would break itself apart and start raining down on the Earth. You’re
not the ‘unmoved mover’ on the watchtower; you’re just a killer.”
As the nearby flames sizzled and the biologists panicked amidst the rubble, The Prime
Mover motioned for Railsback to approach him, and when Railsback stood at his side to join
him, Willows’ confusion became compounded by the sight of his friend’s alliance with the
curandero. In a moment of discovery about Railsback’s true identity, Willows could only choke
out, “Luke, what are you doing with him?,” and Railsback explained his inexplicable knowledge
of Willows’ visions by muttering, “I’m sorry, Patrick, but how do you think that I knew about
your visions? When you were committing sins to try to lift the Crown of Incorruptibility off of
your son’s head, you saw those things in the mirror. You saw a lion, a bear, a leo pard, and a
beast with iron teeth and ‘nails of brass.’ You know that the Prophet Daniel saw those in his
dreams while he was exiled in Babylon; they showed that Israel’s enemies would be destroyed
by God. In The Book of Revelation, all of Israel’s enemies are destroyed so that they can come
together to create one beast; that beast is the Devil, ‘the morning star’ before God cast him into a
‘lake of fire’ in Hell. The planet Venus has become your weighing scale; you’re pulling it down
to destroy Israel’s enemies to make way for the Devil.”
Willows still could not fathom how Railsback was aware that he had encountered visions
of a lion, a bear, and a leopard during his efforts to use sins to extract the white Crown of
Incorruptibility from his son’s cranium. As Willows delved into his memories of The Book of
Daniel’s Seventh Chapter, he recalled that the Israelite Prophet Daniel had witnessed the same
visions during the Babylonian Exile under King Nebuchadnezzar. In Daniel’s dreams, the lion
with “eagle’s wings” represented the Babylonian Empire, the bear with “three ribs” symbolized
the Persian Empire, and the leopard with the “four wings of a foul” was the Greek Empire, and
Daniel prophesized that Babylon, Persia, and Greece would be annihilated to punish them for
oppressing the Israelites. According to The Book of Revelation’s Seventeenth Chapter, Israel’s
enemies Babylon, Persia, and Greece would merge together to form the Devil, “the morning
star.” While Willows accepted that had experienced the same visions that the Prophet Daniel
interpreted as an omen that Babylon and Israel’s other enemies would be obliterated, he replied,
“Okay, so I saw Daniel’s visions from the Babylonian Exile. Daniel saw the sins of Israel’s
enemies, and I did, too. How did you know about them, Luke? Who are you really?”
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As The Prime Mover clasped his flattened Syncretizer, Railsback announced that he was
The Prime Mover’s apprentice and that he had been monitoring Willows since his son’s death by
replying, “I’m a curandero called a ‘yerbero;’ I use planets to heal people. After your son died,
The Prime Mover commissioned me to watch you; he wanted me to figure out what you really
are. He was afraid that he’d lost his faith in God’s glory, but he’d never had his br ead turn into a
stone before. He’s used to extracting sins with a candle and eating them on the bread, so when
you made his bread turn into a stone, he knew that you were special.”
Willows conceded that Railsback was actually a curandero who had betrayed him, and he
invoked that The Prime Mover had engaged in “ear candling” to extract his son’s sins and that
the sins caused a piece of bread to transform into a stone so that the curandero could not
consume them as a “sin-eater.” While Venus acted as a weighing scale that descended closer to
the Earth, Willows denied that he had controlled Venus to eradicate Israel’s enemies and had
transformed the bread into stone by muttering, “What makes me so special? I didn’t use Venus
to destroy Babylon, and I didn’t turn The Prime Mover’s bread into stone. I don’t know why
Venus is bringing down these rocks on the Earth, but none of this is my fault.”
The Prime Mover accused Willows of being a disguised form of the Devil based on the
Apocalyptic visions that he shared with the Israelite Prophet Daniel by bellowing, “How hard is
it for you to see that you’re the Devil, Mr. Willows? You’re the ‘ancient serpent’ and ‘the
morning star’ that God cast from the hierarchy of angels into Hell.”
Although Willows could not rationalize his visions of a lion, a bear, and a leopard or the
transformation of The Prime Mover’s bread into a stone, the curandero’s outrageous allegations
mystified him and prompted him to bray, “No, just because I can’t explain my visions or the
bread doesn’t mean that I’m the Devil. You killed my son, healer, and I can’t help it that Venus
is destroying the world. I don’t have control over any of this; this is ridiculous. You deserve to
die for what you’ve done; you took everything from me.”
Railsback was confident that the lion, the bear, and the leopard represented the
Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Greek Empire that oppressed the Israelites and
that needed to be destroyed and merged together so that Israel’s ultimate enemy the Devil could
be unleashed on the Earth. Willows’ passionate denial that he was the Devil goaded Railsback to
compare him to the same lion that symbolized “The Mother of Prostitutes” Babylon when he
sarcastically quipped, “I knew that you would lie about what you really are, ‘morning star;’ St.
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Paul called you ‘the father of lies.’ You know what you saw in that mirror while you were trying
to save your son. You saw a lion, a leopard, and a bear in your reflection because that’s what
you are. You’re the merger of Babylon, Persia, and Greece; you’re ‘the angel of the bottomless
pit.’ Babylon was a lion just like you are; 1 Peter warned that ‘the Devil walks about like a
roaring lion.’ You can’t hide what you are anymore.”
While Willows enter tained the notion that the Devil was “the angel of light” and the
merger of Israel’s enemies Babylon, Persia, and Greece, the biologists and other Wilmington
residents reacted to Venus’ destructive meteor with wild panic. The Prime Mover accused
Willows of killing the chrysostoms to tarnish perfection just as the Devil tempted Adam and Eve
to commit the original sin that corrupted their perfect paradise in The Book of Genesis by
bellowing, “It’s okay, ‘morning star;’ you can admit what you are. I knew that I could prove that
you were the Devil. No matter what, you always try to ruin the perfection that God originally
intended for this world. That’s why I knew that you would kill the perfect chrysostoms with
your sins. You couldn’t stand the perfection that Adam and Eve had in the beginning, and I
knew that you wouldn’t be able to stand the perfection of the chrysostoms. You ruined your own
‘seal of perfection’ and ‘corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor;’ I knew that you
would try to destroy any of humanity’s hopes for perfection, too. That’s why you killed the
chrysostoms and why you’re using Venus as your own personal ‘scales and balances’ to pull it
down on the Earth.”
Willows glanced back at the assortment of dead chrysostoms and their discarded Crowns
for the Faithful, and he considered the possibility that the Devil could control Venus as his
personal weighing scale simply because the Devil and Venus were both known as “the morning
star.” He persisted in dismissing the possibilities that the Devil and Venus were synonymous
and that he was obsessed with sullying perfection by answering, “I’m telling you the truth,
healer. I’m not the Devil, and I can’t control Venus. Just because Venus and the Devil are both
called ‘the morning star’ doesn’t mean that they’re the same. I don’t even hate perfection. I just
hated the chrysostoms for pointing out how sinful humans are. I don’t care what you guys say;
you still killed my son.”
The Prime Mover argued that Willows had accidentally killed his own son by converting
the curandero’s bread into stone in an event that subverted the Devil’s temptation of Jesus Christ
in The Book of Matthew’s Fourth Chapter by retorting, “No, ‘morning star,’ you did. I extracted
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the ‘scarlet’ sins from your son’s ear and smeared it on my bread to eat it, but you turned the
bread into a stone. Do you remember when the Devil took Jesus Christ into the wilderness to
tempt him? The Devil encouraged Christ to turn some stones into bread, and Christ refused.
You just subverted what happened to Christ and turned my bread into a stone. You even offered
to give me everything that you owned to convince me to help your son; it’s just like when the
Devil offered to give Christ ‘all the kingdoms of the world.’ You and the Devil from the
Gospels are one in the same, ‘morning star.’ You couldn’t tempt Christ to fall down and worship
you in the wilderness, and you couldn’t get me either. You’re always a tempter, and it made you
kill your own son. You couldn’t stand that I was going to eat the sin that made him sick; you
love sin so much that you couldn’t let me get rid of it.”
Willows acknowledged that in the wilderness, the Devil had unsuccessfully tempted
Jesus Christ to worship him by encouraging him to morph stones into bread and by offering him
“all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.” However, he refused to accept that he could
be the same Devil that tested Christ in The Book of Matthew or that he had transformed bread
into stones to prevent The Prime Mover from consuming his son’s “scarlet” sins that were
smeared on the bread. While the Wilmington neighborhood burned from Venus’ meteorite and
citizens panicked, Willows realized that the lion, the leopard, and the bear had appeared in his
reflection because they represented the combination of Israel’s sinful enemies into “the angel of
light” known as the Devil. Considering that Willows had killed the perfect clones known as
chrysostoms, he also conceded that he despised perfection and embraced sins, but he could not
believe that he had converted The Prime Mover’s bread into a stone simply to protect the sins
that caused his son’s illness from being devoured. He indulged in the hypothesis that his
reflected visions actually represented the merger of Israel’s enemies into the Devil and that he
had caused his own son’s death to preserve sins by rasping, “So, let me get this straight, healer;
I’m the Devil. I saw the same visions as the Prophet Daniel during the Babylonian Exile. My
sins made me see Israel’s enemies as the lion, the bear, and the leopard that came together to
create me, and I even let my own son die just to preserve the sins that made him sick. You seem
to have known that I would want to kill the chrysostoms for being perfect, since I hate perfection
and try to destroy it with sins whenever I can. The only thing that you’re forgetting is that I was
a Christian missionary in Ecuador for twelve years; that doesn’t sound like the work of the Devil
to me.”
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Railsback was assured that Willows’ missionary work only served as more substantial
evidence that he was truly the Devil considering that prior to the Devil’s expulsion into Hell, he
had been God’s greatest servant as the “Light- bearing” angel Lucifer. Quoting The Book of
Isaiah’s Fourteenth Chapter, he acknowledged that the Devil had been God’s most dutiful angel
and described the parallels between Venus and Lucifer as the two forms of the “morning star” by
proclaiming, “It’s obvious that the Devil would be a missionary for God. After all, the Devil
used to be the perfect angel Lucifer; he was God’s greatest servant. He was ‘the morning star,’
the ‘son of the dawn,’ who loved God until he decided that he wanted to ‘ascend to the heavens’
and to raise his throne ‘above the stars of God.’ You were the ‘light- bearing’ angel, but after
God cast you down to Hell, you were just the Devil, not ‘the morning star.’”
Willows grasped that the Devil had originally been the angel Lucifer, “the morning star,”
and he referred to 2 Peter to maintain that “the morning star” once denoted righteousness and
God’s hope by asserting, “I’m not the Devil, Luke; if anything, I’m ‘the morning star’ that he
used to be. 2 Peter says that ‘the morning star’ is ‘a light shining in a dark place;’ ‘the mor ning
star’ is a symbol of God’s hope and salvation for humanity. It can’t be anything but good.”
The Prime Mover was adamant that the angel Lucifer had once assumed the role of the
“Light- bearing” “morning star” but that “the morning star” was stripped of its virtuous qualities
after God cast Lucifer into Hell to become the Devil. He reiterated his verse from The Book of
James’ Second Chapter by laconically interceding, “No, the Devil used to be the good ‘morning
star,’ but that’s all been lost. Now, he’s ‘the great red dragon’ and the ‘old serpent’ who tempts
humanity, but he’s still God’s greatest servant. He still fears God more than anyone else. It’s
just like I told you, ‘You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that,
and shudder.’ You may be the Devil, Mr. Willows, but you’re still God’s greatest servant.”
Willows assured himself that the two curanderoes The Prime Mover and Railsback were
duping him into believing that he was the Devil, “the morning star” in Hell. As he pondered that
his sins had triggered his visions of the lion, the bear, and the leopard in his reflection and that he
had converted The Prime Mover’s bread into a stone to preserve sins and to shun perfection, he
incredulously whispered, “So, you guys think that I’m the Devil with amnesia. If I were really
the Devil, I think that I would know.”
The Prime Mover proposed that the Devil was such a devoted servant of God that he
occasionally forgot that he was evil and alluded to the Biblical wagers between God and the
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Devil by proclaiming, “We told you that the Devil is God’s greatest servant. He serves God so
well that he forgets who he is, but any good that he did as ‘the morning star’ is gone. As far as
I’m concerned, you and God made a bet that you could come to Earth to try to be His greatest
servant again. It’s just like the bet that you made with God in The Book of Job; you bet Him that
His servant Job would curse Him if he lost his family. You made Job suffer and killed his family
with ‘a mighty wind,’ but you lost your bet with God. Job stayed patient in the face of his
suffering, and God rewarded him with a long and prosperous life. Now, you’ve made another
bet with God that you could be His greatest servant again, but you failed because you hate
perfection so much. You killed the chrysostoms, and that’s all that we need to know that you’re
the Devil. You’ll never be ‘the morning star’ again.”
In a cracking voice, Willows contended that even if the Devil had bet God that he could
become His most eminent servant as “the morning star” again, God was responsible for killing
many more humans than the Devil was by shrieking, “Who has the Devil ever really killed? He
killed Job’s seven sons and three daughters to make a bet with God that Job would curse Him for
His cruelty, but God has killed way more people than that. God wiped out 1,200 people at
Sodom and Gomorrah. He killed over 14,000 Israelites for complaining about their lack of food
in The Book of Numbers. He even forced the Israelite Judge Jephthah to sacrifice his own
daughter as a burnt offering. The Devil killed ten people in Job’s family; God killed thousands.”
The Prime Mover recognized that God was permitted to murder thousands of humans
because His judgment was divine and honor able, but the Devil’s murder of the Biblical character
Job’s family occurred only because the Devil was wicked and sought to test Job’s perseverance.
Railsback recounted the Devil’s efforts to tarnish perfection and to perpetuate sins by declaring,
“It doesn’t matter, Mr. Willows. By His nature, everything that God does is just. Everything
that you do is done for evil. You corrupted your own ‘seal of perfection,’ you tempted Adam
and Eve to be expelled from their perfect Paradise, and now, you’ve killed the perfect
chrysostoms. You’ve chosen the side of sins on the scale, but at least, you’re not ‘lukewarm’
anymore. You’re the Devil, God’s greatest servant and His greatest adversary.”
Willows processed that the Devil could have arrived on Earth to endeavor to regain his
venerable position as God’s greatest servant “the morning star” Lucifer, but he was bewildered
that The Prime Mover had labored to expose his true identity as the Devil. Willows questioned
why The Prime Mover and Railsback had revealed that the Devil was such a devoted servant of
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God that he could forget that he was evil, and Willows also wondered why the two curanderoes
wished to expose him as the Devil by asking, “Why did you need to do this? Even if I am the
Devil who loves sin and hates perfection, why did you need to prove it to me? Why couldn’t you
just let me have my bet with God and try to become His greatest servant as ‘the morning star’
again? I was trying to be ‘the morning star’ as a missionary for twelve years. Why did you want
to take that away?”
The Prime Mover was aware that his faith in the opposites of good and evil had been
corrupted by the Devil’s struggles to regain his status as God’s most cherished servant in a bet.
The Prime Mover’s compromised faith had hindered his efforts to cure individuals by calibrating
his “honest scales and balances” and had caused ten innocent individuals to perish during the
healing rituals. In a vigorous tone, The Prime Mover insisted that he needed to regain his faith to
heal ill individuals successfully and cited The Book of Romans’ Fourteenth Chapter when he
asserted, “Because I had to, ‘morning star.’ Your bet with God that you could be his greatest
servant again ruined my faith in good and evil. Romans 14 says that, ‘everything that does not
come from faith is sin;’ without my faith, I can’t save anyone as a curandero. I can’t balance
sins and perfection to cast the sins out if I don’t have faith in good and evil. I accidentally killed
ten people while I was trying to cast out the sins that made them sick; it was all because I didn’t
have my faith. I had to expose you for the evil creature that you are because I can’t have faith in
God’s goodness if I don’t know about the Devil’s evil. Good and evil are opposites on my
scales; they define each other.”
As Willows concluded that the Devil’s evil needed to exist to serve as an opposite for
God’s goodness, he realized that the Devil was incapable of regaining his status as the angel
Lucifer because his evil defined and enhanced God’s goodness on a metaphorical scale of
opposites. Willows probed into the status of The Prime Mover’s damaged faith and the
discovery of the hypostasis as the “primordial soup” by asking, “Well, have you gotten your faith
back then, healer? Did you get what you want by trying to expose me as the Devil with
amnesia? The hypostasis was my discovery. Are you going to take that away from me, too, just
to get your faith back?”
Railsback emphasized that The Prime Mover had planted the whirlpool known as the
hypostasis so that Willows would tarnish the perfection that it generated with the chrysostoms by
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the hypostasis in the sewer for us to find; it really is the ‘primordial soup’ that birthed humans
the way that God wanted them to be in the beginning before sins ruined them. He knew that you
would destroy the perfection that the hypostasis would make if you were really the Devil.
You’ve destroyed its perfection by killing the chrysostoms; now, he’s got proof that you’re the
Devil. He knew that you’d made a bet with God that you could become his greatest servant
again, and he looked for you for a long time. When you had your visions of the lion, the leopard,
and the bear and turned The Prime Mover’s bread into a stone to keep him from eating the sins,
he knew that you were the Devil. He knew that you hated perfection and loved sins; he just had
to expose you as the Devil to get his faith in good and evil back.”
The white whirlpool known as the hypostasis certainly was a remnant of the primordial
soup from which perfect humans emerged before the Devil tempted them and caused their
perfection to become tarnished. The Prime Mover transported the hypostasis to the sewer so that
Willows would uncover the whirlpool and become obsessed with eradicating the perfection that
it created by cloning humans. According to the Scriptures, God expelled one-third of His angels
to Hell to punish them for aligning themselves with the Devil, and as Willows processed that The
Prime Mover had planted the hypostasis, he recalled that one-third of Wilmington’s sanitation
workers had joined him to form a workers’ union. Willows addressed his all-encompassing role
as the Devil and the workers’ union that sought to obtain improved rights by rasping, “You’re
telling me that everything that I’ve done is because I’m the Devil with amnesia. What about the
workers’ union that I put together in Frank Barron’s memory? I got thirty out of sixty sanitation
workers to join me. The Devil persuaded one-third of God’s angels to join him, too, so is that
just further proof to you that I’m the Devil? Have I lost my bet with God that I could be his
‘morning star’ again?”
Railsback nodded to confirm that one-third of the sanitation workers had aligned with
Willows in correspondence with God’s banishment of the Devil Lucifer and one-third of His
rebellious angels into Hell. Venus and the Devil both were recognized as “the morning star”
because the Devil was destined to manipulate Venus as his personal weighing scale through his
connection to it. For a year, Venus had been rotating in a counter-clockwise fashion since the
death of Willows’ son, and Willows now grasped that his grief and frustrations with God were
stimulating him to pull Venus into its irregular orbit toward the Earth. The Prime Mover
elaborated on the significance of Venus’ peculiar counter -clockwise movement and its
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correlation with the Devil’s power by bellowing, “Yes, you’ve lost your bet, and you’ve fallen
with one-third of your friends. You’ve been pulling Venus into its counter -clockwise rotation
for a year since your son’s died; your anger with God has made you pull it down. You and
Venus are both ‘the morning star.’ You’re one with the planet, but there’s more to it than that.
There’re desert whirlwinds called ‘dust devils,’ and they’re ‘dust devils’ for a reason. The
Navajo Indians called them ‘chiindii.’ They think that the ‘dust devils’ are spirits of their
ancestors, and if the ‘dust devils’ spin counter -clockwise, the Navajo think that the spirits are
bad. Only good spirits spin clockwise, and you’ve been turning Venus counter -clockwise since
your son died. You’re using Venus as your weighing scale, and it’s showing us all what you
really are. You can’t hide anymore that you’re trying to bring Venus down to the Earth.”
Willows now was familiar with the whirlwinds known as “dust devils,” and based on The
Prime Mover’s accusations that Willows was the Devil, it was apparent that the related “dust
devils” spun in counter -clockwise rotations to symbolize evil Navajo spirits just as Venus moved
counter-clockwise to indicate Willows’ control over the planet. Willows recalled that Venus’
sulfuric clouds were discharging Earth-like lightning, and based on Jesus Christ’s statement that
he witnessed the Devil’s “fall like lightning” in The Book of Luke, Willows questioned whether
the Devil had plummeted from Venus’ lightning by remarking, “Well, Luke and I noticed that
there’s a lot of lightning on Venus. Christ said that he ‘saw Satan fall like lightning.’ Does that
mean that I fell out of Venus’ lightning since I’m one with the planet as ‘the morning star?’ I
mean, I always thought that the Devil was ‘a great red dragon’ with ‘seven heads and ten horns’
and ‘seven crowns upon his heads.’ I don’t look like that at all.”
The Prime Mover discerned that Willows had referred to The Book of Revelation’s
Twelfth Chapter in which John the Apostle described the Devil as “a great red dragon” that
exhibited “seven heads and ten horns” and that donned crowns. With the curandero’s motioning,
Railsback sauntered around the destruction that Venus’ meteor had crafted into the terrain, and
he removed the white Crown of Incorruptibility from a bag and tossed the crown into the
collection of dead chrysostoms’ crowns. Willows detected the red Crown of Rejoicing that
Railsback’s clone had donned prior to his death in Father Garrick’s “True Vine” church that
embodied a modern-day Church of Thyatira, and Willows’ son had worn the white Crown of
Incorruptibility during his failed exorcism. The Prime Mover pointed to the pile of the
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ten horns. During The Prime Mover’s past exorcism of Willows’ son, Willows had committed
sins to lift the white Crown of Incorruptibility from his son’s head, and the sins goaded Willows
to perceive the bear, the leopard, and the bear that originally represented Israel’s enemies to the
Prophet Daniel. The bear, the leopard, and the bear would merge together to form the Devil, and
Willows now had pulled Venus’ meteorites down to the Earth to eliminate Israel’s seven major
enemies Babylon, Turkey, Rome, Syria, Egypt, Greece, and Persia. The Prime Mover believed
that as the Devil, Willows would wear the dead chrysostoms’ ten Crowns for the Faithful on his
horns and that his seven heads symbolized Israel’s seven enemies after they were destroyed and
were merged together to generate the single “great red dragon” known as the Devil. The two
curandero pinpointed the functions of the chrysostoms’ ten Crowns for the Faithful and the seven
regions that Venus’ meteorites had eradicated by shouting, “You’ve killed eight chrysostoms to
show how much you hate perfection, and I’ve added the red Crown of Rejoicing from Mr.
Railsback’s dead clone and your son’s white Crown of Incorruptibility. Those are the crowns
that you’ll wear on your ten horns. You’ve been pulling Venus down ever since your son died,
and its meteorites have wiped out Israel’s seven enemies to make way for you to come out of the
Abyss. The seven enemies are going to merge to form you as the Devil; those are your seven
heads.”
Willows was confident that if he were truly the Devil with amnesia, he would carry the
ten Crowns for the Faithful on his horns. He now fully appreciated the images of the lion, the
bear, and the leopard that appeared in his reflection to display Israel’s conquered enemies
because they needed to be combined to unleash the Devil with seven heads, which would
symbolize Israel’s seven merged enemies. Quoting the explosive cataclysm from The Book of
Isaiah’s Ninth Chapter, he examined his abilities to manipulate “the morning star” Venus as his
personal weighing scale and to use its meteorites to demolish Israel’s adversaries by muttering,
“You think that I used Venus to wipe out Israel’s enemies. God promised to eradicate Babylon
and Egypt for oppressing Israel. Isaiah says, ‘By the wrath of the Lord Almighty, the land will
be scorched, and the people will be fuel for the fire.’ Venus’ meteorites are streaming to Earth,
so have I fulfilled your prophecy yet, healer? What else can I do for you?”
While the nearby crater continued to burn and more Wilmington residents surveyed the
damage, The Prime Mover became adamant that according to The Book of Isaiah’s Fortieth
Chapter, he was required to use his “honest scales and balances” to weigh mountains. He was
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compelled to expose Willows as the Devil to regain the faith that he needed to heal victims, and
he explained that his faith would allow him to manipulate mountains by answering, “I don’t
know, ‘morning star.’ My balance should help me hold ‘the dust of the earth in a basket’ and
weigh ‘the mountains on the scales’ while I’m the ‘unmoved mover’ on the watchtower. In The
Book of Matthew, Christ said that, ‘if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to
this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.’ We’ll have to see if my faith can
move the mountain and weigh it in my scales.”
Willows became disheartened that The Prime Mover had planted the hypostasis pool that
was comparable to The Book of John 5’s Pool of Bethesda that healed “disabled people” of their
sicknesses by erasing the sins that caused those sicknesses. The Prime Mover had planted the
hypostasis pool to uncover Willows’ true identity as the Devil because Willows lost his wager
with God that he would be able to reacquire his status as the dutiful angel known as “the morning
star” Lucifer. The Prime Mover gripped The Syncretizer that served as a side of his “honest
scales and balances,” and as Willows evoked that one of the Biblical Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse brandished a weighing scale, he compared The Prime Mover to the wicked
horseman Famine by whimpering, “Why did you have to show me that I’m the Devil just to get
your faith back? Why couldn’t you let me become God’s greatest servant again? I could’ve
served Him as a missionary. You didn’t have to ruin my life with your scales; you’re just like
the Famine horseman ‘holding a pair of scales in his hands.’ You’ve ruined everything that I’ve
tried to get back. I’m going to kill you.”
Willows embraced his true persona as the Devil and managed to sprout ten horns and six
more heads that symbolized Israel’s conquered enemies, and as the two curanderoes The Prime
Mover and Railsback trembled with fear, Willows carried and placed the ten Crowns for the
Faithful on his horns. The Crowns of the Faithful encapsulated the chrysostoms’ perfection, so
by wearing them, he could manipulate the perfection that he yearned to exterminate. He
telepathically employed the similar hypocrisy and the appearance of perfection for which Jesus
Christ reproached the Seven Churches of Asia, and Willows’ hypocrisy allowed him to yank his
weighing scale Venus closer to the Earth. As Willows pulled Venus down from its counter-
clockwise rotation, the planet discharged more lightning in the same manner that Satan originally
fell “like lightning,” and The Prime Mover perceived that Willows was employing the Devil’s
connection with Venus as the two variations of “the morning star.” The Prime Mover sprinted
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away from Railsback and prepared to engage in cleromancy by casting The Syncretizer as his
Urim’s “lights,” which would create sins that could counter Willows’ hypocrisy and his façade
of perfection on the scales. In The Book of Jonah, many sailors “cast lots” in cleromancy to
determine that it was God’s will for the Prophet Jonah to be hurled into the sea and to be
devoured by a whale, and Jonah’s three-day survival in the whale’s belly is a metaphor for the
Israelites’ fifty-two ordeal during the Babylonian Exile from 586 to 538 BC. Willows had
regulated “the morning star” Venus to use its meteorites to destroy Babylon for enslaving the
Israelites in the exile, and Israelites’ seven enemies now had been eradicated and combined to
allow Willows to become the Devil that exploited Venus as his weighing scale. The Syncretizer
had become the Key of David that exposed Willows as the Devil whose evil was required to
contrast with God’s goodness, and after The Prime Mover cast The Syncretizer in his
cleromancy, he charged into the panic-stricken crowd of biologists and other Wilmington
residents. While he searched for the eight biologists who had cloned themselves inside the
hypostasis, Willows used his hypocritical appearance of perfection to pull Venus and to detach
its basaltic rocks so that they would streak to the Earth. When the curandero Railsback trudged
toward the crowd in an attempt to escape, Willows telepathically hurled one of Venus’ rocks into
Railsback to incinerate him and to sculpt another crater into the terrain, and with his control over
“the morning star” Venus, he tossed more smaller meteorites to the ground.
While Venus’ sulfuric clouds emitted more lightning in reaction to the Devil’s Biblical
descent “like lightning,” Willows reveled in Railsback’s death, and The Prime Mover located
each of the eight biologists in the crowd and began to punch them into unconscious states. He
removed several wax candles from his orange coat pocket, lit them, and inserted them into the
ears of the unconscious biologists to perform the same “ear candling” that extracted sins from
Willows’ son during the failed healing ritual. The biologists had displayed sinful pride by
generating perfect clones of themselves inside the hypostasis because they were unwilling to
accept their flaws and sought to erase them through the perfect clones known as chrysostoms,
and The Prime Mover hoped that his candles could extract the biologists’ sins. He elevated the
luminous teeter-totter called The Syncretizer higher so that his “honest scales and balances”
could attempt to stabilize the opposites of sins and perfection that were being weighed like “a
drop in a bucket” and like “dust on the scales.” In accordance with The Book of Ephesians’
profession that the Devil functions as “the Prince of the power of the air,” Willows intensified
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the wind to tug his weighing scale Venus closer to the Earth, and his appearance of perfection
continued to weigh down on Venus because of the ten perfect crowns that he was wearing.
While his process of “ear candling” drained the biologists’ sins from their earwax, The Prime
Mover stood amidst the charred rubble to which Venus’ meteorites had reduced the Wilmington
neighborhood. Holding the luminous Syncretizer, he peered up at the volcanic planet Venus and
realized that if Willows pulled it to Earth, Venus would become a scale that would exchange its
weighed contents with the Earth, and the Earth would adopt Venus’ volcanic environment in
which Willows could reign as the Devil.
The Book of Jeremiah’s Thirty-First Chapter indicated that God would “reject all the
descendants of Israel” only “if the heavens above can be measured,” and considering that
scientists had recently measured Venus’ surface area, density, and axial tilt, God would reject
humanity if Venus and the Earth switched atmospheres on the metaphorical weighing scale.
With dread that Willows would transform the Earth into Venus’ original volcanic atmosphere
and that God would forsake humanity, The Prime Mover plucked the candles from the
unconscious biologists’ ears and watched their “scarlet” sins pour from the earwax. As the
gaseous red blanket of sins permeated throughout the air, he bounced The Syncretizer up and
down to propel the “scarlet” sins in the direction of “the morning star” Venus. Because The
Book of Isaiah 1:18 described sin as “scarlet” and its opposite of perfection as being “as white as
snow,” a field of white light had amassed around Venus to embody the hypocritical appearance
of perfection that Willows was exploiting to weigh down the planet as his scale. While the
neighborhood sizzled, The Prime Mover extended his arms to raise the radiant Syncretizer
higher, and the red sins collided into the white perfection around Venus to cause an enormous
explosion in the night sky. Watching the fireball that the interaction between the red sins and the
white perfection had triggered, The Prime Mover realized that the biologists’ red sins could not
deplete Willows’ white perfection around Venus. The Prime Mover conceded that he could not
impede Venus’ movement with the red sins, and he recalled that his faith in good and evil was
truly the imperative element to his successful use of “honest scales and balances.”
In The Book of Revelations’ Twelfth Chapter, the Devil pulled down “the third part of
the stars of heaven,” and as Willowed used his hypocritical perfection to pull his weighing scale
Venus into Earth’s mesosphere, The Prime Mover became anxious that Venus would also exert
pressure on the stars to push them to the ground. In his role as “the Prince of the power of the
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air,” Willows intensified the wind and shoved it into Venus, and The Prime Mover
comprehended that although he had exposed Willows as the Devil, he still lacked his imperative
faith as a curandero. The wind was becoming so intense that it reminded Willows of the “dust
devils” that spun in counter -clockwise directions to indicate the presence of evil spirits in Navajo
mythology, and as the wind pummeled The Prime Mover, he gripped The Syncretizer and
struggled to stand upright. Willows’ weighing scale Venus dislodged more basaltic meteorites
that plummeted to the Earth, and as the ground exploded around him, The Prime Mover glared
up from the craters and observed the explosive interactions between the red sins and the white
perfection. In the night sky, collisions continued between the red sins that The Prime Mover’s
“ear candling” extracted from the biologists’ ears and the white perfection that Willows had
generated with his hypocritical appearance of perfection from the ten Crowns for the Faithful
that he was wearing. With vigorous winds in his face and flames behind him, The Prime Mover
shifted his focus to Willows, who had embraced his identity as the Devil by wearing the ten
crowns on his horns and by elevating his seven heads that symbolized Israel’s defeated enemies.
As more of Venus’ meteorites streaked to the Earth, The Prime Mover dodged the rocky debris
that could easily kill him. With anxiety that he would soon die, he called to Willows and insisted
that Biblical pr ophecy had been fulfilled by shouting, “Well, you did it, ‘morning star.’ I
exposed you as the Devil to get my faith in good and evil back, and you’ve shown me what you
really are. You should thank me; my Syncretizer really is the Key of David that unshackled you
from the Abyss. Do you finally accept that you’re ‘the morning star?’ Will you at least admit
that you’re the Devil? Before you kill me, can you please admit what you are out loud?”
As The Prime Mover clasped The Syncretizer and tolerated the vigorous winds from
Venus’ weight, “the great red dragon” Willows prepared to propel his weighing scale Venus into
the stars to push them to the ground. The biologists’ gaseous red sins and the white perfection
from Willows’ ten Crowns for the Faithful continued to collide and to explode in Venus’ sulfuric
atmosphere, and Willows verbally acknowledged that he was the Devil by screaming, “Yes,
healer, I’m the Devil. I’m ‘the morning star’ who God ‘cast down to the earth’ because I ruined
my ‘seal of perfection.’ You’ve helped me become what I really am; I hope that you’re enjoying
the end of the world.”
Willows exercised his control over “the morning star” Venus to target The Prime Mover
with a meteorite, and Willows’ public confession that he was the wicked Devil renewed The
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Prime Mover’s faith in the opposites of good and evil that defined each other. The Prime Mover
surveyed the ravaged landscape of flames and craters from Venus’ meteorites and praised
Willows for indulging in wickedness and for not remaining as “lukewarm” as the Church of
Laodicea was by proclaiming, “I’m just happy that you picked a side on the scale. You didn’t
stay ‘lukewarm,’ and you showed me something. You showed me that I can’t be ‘the unmoved
mover’ on the watchtower; I have to make my move.”
Standing in the flaming rubble and other carnage, The Prime Mover tossed The
Syncretizer into the blankets of “scarlet” sins that were rising through the air, and The
Syncretizer, which was one side of his “honest scales and balances,” launched the gaseous sins
into the Horseshoe Hill mountain. In The Book of Matthew 17:20, Christ maintained that “a
mustard seed” of faith could move a mountain, and The Prime Mover’s reinvigorated faith
uprooted the Horseshoe Hill mountain and propelled it up into the Earth’s mesosphere. The
mountain smashed into Willows’ weighing scale Venus and forced the planet upward until it
returned to its original location in outer space. When the mountain plunged from Venus and
reentered the Earth’s exosphere, the atmospheric pressure broke apart the mountain into rocks
that rained down onto the demolished Wilmington neighborhood. Three of the mountain’s
falling rocks crushed Willows and incinerated him in an explosion while The Prime Mover
concentrated on the “mustard seed” of faith that curanderoes required to heal victims of illnesses.
After Willows’ death from the falling debris, Venus readjusted to its traditional clockwise
movement because Willows was no longer controlling the planet through the connection that
they shared as “the morning star.” The Wilmington community slowly reacted to the destruction
that Willows had caused, and The Prime Mover sprinted around the craters and burning
wreckage to flee from public view. He had regained the faith that he required to weigh the
opposites of sins and perfection in his “honest scales and balances,” and as a curandero, he now
understood that he could no longer be “lukewarm” and needed to be active instead of “the
unmoved mover.” The Devil was definitely God’s most eminent servant and His greatest
adversary, and now that The Prime Mover had a bandoned his “lukewarm” personality, he would
wait for the Devil to return to the Earth as “the morning star” who would seek to become God’s
ally again. In seclusion, The Prime Mover awaited the Devil’s return, and he could no longer
deny the significance of the faith that allowed him to use his scales.
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