Paul Laffoley
(b. 1943, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
THE WRITINGS OF JESUS CHRIST
2000
India ink, sand, letters, color pencils, collaged materials on board
30 x 40 in.
In the
Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 8, Verses 1 to 11, some Scribes
and Pharisees bring forward a woman who has been caught in the act of
adultery. They presented her to Jesus, saying in a sarcastic manner: “Teacher,
this woman is an adulteress. According to The Law of Moses , we must stone
such women to death. Now what do you say ?” They were trying to
trap him into an occasion of blasphemy.
Instead of responding verbally at first, Jesus bent down on one knee and
wrote on the sandy ground with his forefinger. The Pharisees kept on with
their questions, but Jesus remained mute. Eventually he rose up and spoke
: “He who is without sin cast the first stone”. Then he bent
down again to write a second time on the sand. One by one the accusers
of the woman began to skulk away, beginning with the oldest at the rear
of the crowd. Soon the woman finds herself alone in open square with the
kneeling Jesus. She stands there shaking in fear. Jesus rises again and
asks her in a gentle manner : “Where have all your accusers gone
? Knowing , of course, what happened, he then dismisses her with the exhortation
: “Go and sin no more”.
Obvious questions arise. What did he write ? Why did he write ? And why
twice ? Since there can be no diseconomies of action in The Divine Realm,
he must have been doing something beyond a simple exercise in the annoyance
of others or as a personal diversion. I believe, he was actually hinting
at The Cosmic Task for The Human Future.
THE HOLY SPIRIT [ The Principle of Ordered Freedom – The Magen David
(The Shield of David)] that hovered over the waters of The Earth, [ in
The Book of Genesis], entered The Hypostatic Unionized Soul of Jesus,
and The Divine Power was transferred by Him into The Cross of The Earth,
in order to give The Earth the means once again become EDEN , and act
as an Edenic Model for The Entire Physical Universe.
In our own time the Writings of Jesus have been echoed in the sky on January
23, 1997 at 12:35 P.M. over New York City a Planetary Magen David formed
This is what Jesus wrote first. The sign of The Holy Spirit occurred in
the astrological signs of Sagittarius, Libra, Leo, Gemini, Aries, and
a satellitium [that is 3 or more planets in conjunction in one house],
in Aquarius – as in the dawning of the age of…
On August 11, 1999 at 10:53 P.M. over London the planets lined up in a
Fixed Grand Cross [ the second writing of Jesus in which he predicts his
own death] in the signs of Aquarius, Leo, Taurus and Scorpio [the symbols
in astrology for the Four Evangelists : Matthew, Mark, Luke and John].This
, to me , is The Cosmic Indication of the beginning of The Bauharoque,
the cultural phase succeeding Post-Modernism. The temporal transition
was completed on May 5, 2000. Seen major planets lined up behind the Sun
in the sign of Taurus [ the sign of The Earth] in the 10th House [the
House of Honors}.This is the fulfillment of the prophesy made by Saint
John The Divine in The Book Of Revelation : Chapter 21, Verse 1 : “
And I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth and the First Earth passed away,
and the sea is no more “. The reference to the sea is not that the
waters of The Earth dried up , but that the sea [ symbolizing at that
time the barrier to communication and easy travel across the Earth] is
no longer effective. And the preparation for the coming the Holy City
–The New Jerusalem- is at an end. Then Eden will exist once more.