. . . now you understand what I mean by being stabbed and sacrificed . . . he turned, he opened, he closed, he opened his heart to the wide mysteries, he opened his mind to the subtle and gentle mysteries, he closed his mouth, he was being opened, he was being closed, he stabbed, he sacrificed . . . this was his chopped meat, this was his bloodied meat, there was an ending that ended, there was an opening that opened, this was his softness being softened, this was his hardness being hardened, he was sacrificed, he sacrificed his sacrifice and he was sacrificed, he was being melted, he was becoming undaunted, his heart was melted, his heart had hardened and now it melted, he was mixed in with everything, he was mixed in with the ploughed field, he was ploughed into the field with the seed, he gave rise to the horned beast and the winged beast and the finned beast, he became the spirited horse and the tamed horse, he became the wild wolf and the domesticated dog, he was sacrificed, he sacrificed his sacrifice, he was scattered to the ends of the earth, he ended with the ending of the earth, he was scattered about the fields and ploughed into the fields, his bloodied body gave growth, his pierced flesh gave growth, his impaled body and spilled blood gave growth, he was sacrificed, he sacrificed his sacrifice, he was pierced and bloodied and impaled, he was perfected, this was some great god seated up above everything, this was some great god seated under the void, shaded by the darkened void, he submerged himself under the sea awhile, he sunned himself in the heavens awhile, he walked the gardens beneath which rivers flowed, he flowed with the rivers, he was cradled like a baby, worshiped as a baby, he hated being nothing but an innocent child, he entered the world as the child-god, he died as the child-god, he wanted to have sinned, he wanted to have committed sins, he hated being a child-god, he hated the innocence of being a child, he hated the whitened robes he wore, he hated the blackened sinners he saved, he wanted to have sinned himself, he hated this world that he may live on in the next, he lived on in the next, he walked through the next, he stormed through the next, he warred with God and took God’s place on the throne, he is worshiped on the throne, he was sacrificed and he made the sacrifice he sacrificed, he loved and he hated, he died with whitened robes and blackened dreams, he died . . .