The Visitor Announces his presence
           (cd=count dracula,  js=joseph_sixpack)

cd:  Greetings youngster,
     What are you doing?

js:  Holy Cowpie!  isn't any place safe from you?
     You scared the begeebers out of me again!

cd:  Spooky aren't I?

js:  You could at least make more noise when you show up.

cd:  Ah... the thief in the night syndrome.

js:  huh?

cd:  What are you doing, oh holy one?

js:  i was reading this paragraph here that has the phrase, 
"The Kingdom of Heaven (God) is within you." and trying to 
figure out what it means.

cd:  (innocently)  That seems like a lot of real estate to 
stuff in your body doesn't it?

js:  huh!  be nice...!

cd:  (amused)  Perhaps I can offer some help...

js:  You?

cd:  (smiling)  I am... not without my early training, as 
you know, my...

js:  (impatiently) i think... i have a handle on it, but...

cd:  (a tad peevishly) mustn't interrupt.  bad manners, 
especially if it's the wrong person... Let me continue...
It is at first, a comforting and pleasant, and finally,
a nice sentence, isn't it?

js:  (slightly excited)  Yes!  It assures us that peace and 
justice, being somewhat dependent upon our will, can be 
ours.

cd:  Yes, that can be verified... Just ask the many millions 
of souls that endured Auschwitz, and all the other camps of 
death, about the Kingdom of Heaven within.

js:  (An incredulous blank stare back, and a deep sigh) 
(weakly) What do you mean...?

cd:  (slowly)  Ah... so many join me...
Where to begin, the Soul replies.  Where to begin...  

js:  what do you mean?

cd:  Oh!  I'm trying to formulate an answer to your 
difficult question, What, and Who, dwells within?

js:  Well, can't God dwell within us?

cd:  Yes, i think so, in some people, perhaps... but 
remember, the Heavens, with all their levels, and God, are 
perfectly Just.  And God would not have found it necessary 
to send His Son, if you were all nice little boys...

js:  But everybody knows the Heavens and God are Just.

cd:  Perfectly Just...  VERY perfectly Just.  Period.  
Simple as that.

js:  Well, okay, perfectly Just...

cd:  So.... if Heaven is to be within you, then all the 
aspects of Justice and the conduct of the Heavens have to be 
within you as well.

Moral Justice and Distributive Justice to name a few.

The moral attributes of the Heavens are much more numerous 
and vaster however, than just the two mentioned.

js:  What more can there be...?

cd:  Twinky!  For the dim witted within you, dwelling with 
God, or the 'god' within you, would translate into enduring 
near perfect poverty in all things material.  It is a 
'spiritual' existence of Heaven's Perfect Justice, and all 
things relevant thereto, and not an earthly one with a blue 
Buick.  I personally prefer the latter.

js:  but why poverty?

cd:  Because a mathematical analysis of the earth's finite 
resources dictates that we limit our consumption and consume 
ONLY our own individual share of what exists for the use of 
everybody existing today, and additionally, keeping our 
hands off that share of what belongs to those billions and 
billions of souls who will follow us in existence down thru 
time and well into earth's future.  Let's see... those would 
be your children, I believe...

Try that on for an ascetic life style.

You do want to be perfectly Just don't you?

You do want to have God dwelling within you, don't you?

Do you think that the Kingdom of Heaven is full of thieves?  

a kingdom full of rapacious thieves using up what is not 
theirs in Justice to consume?

After all, God is God.

Thieves are thieves.

We have the thieves.  God has the Just.

You want to dwell with God?

You gotta pay the price.

(poking joe's nose lightly three times with his index finger)
 "you no stealy from future, Twinky man."

js:  hey...!

cd:  God isn't Unjust!

God isn't a thief!

YOU are the thief!

You belong with us Twinky!



cd:  So let us refer to the others who well may dwell within you twinky.

The Iscariot is WITHIN you - he who kisses and betrays.

The Herod is WITHIN you

Those who slaughter the infants are WITHIN you

The Stone thrower is WITHIN you

The Roman soldier is WITHIN you

She who steps out from the shadows and wipes His face is 
WITHIN you

The soldier holding and using the scourge upon the body of 
Christ is WITHIN you

The high priests who hiss and plot and supply the nails are 
WITHIN you

Those who will gamble over Christ's garments are WITHIN you

He who buries the final lance into the side of Christ is 
WITHIN you.

The murderer is WITHIN you.

The thief is WITHIN you.

Those who stand beneath the Cross are WITHIN you.

My dear Twinky, If you are beginning to have an identity 
crisis by now, it just keeps getting worse.

js:  but, i...

cd:  There's more!...

All those excluded from the Heavens are WITHIN you
so:
The excluded perverts are WITHIN you
The excluded dogs are WITHIN you
The excluded sorcerers are WITHIN you
The excluded fornicators are WITHIN you
The excluded murderers are WITHIN you
The excluded idolaters are WITHIN you
The excluded deceivers are WITHIN you

In short, it is up to you to determine who dwells within 
you.  Your Choice... your destiny... simple.

Seven Deadly Sins... You choose.

You can't complain then, about God's Perfect Justice, and 
God's Perfect Mercy, if it isn't within you.

The Nazi, the Gestapo, the Stasi, 
all of them back thru time...  
the victim...  the crime.

So you think "The Kingdom of God" is within you?

I very much doubt it...

God within you...  yeah right...  you choose.  we'll see...

I'll let you rip away the white covering of human conduct, 
revealing everything that is unbelievable...
everything that is utterly stench ridden 
with every type of indescribable darkness, 
with every horror, and foulness, under the Sun 
revealing the drooling alien within your ship.

Avoid that cosmos, and the horrific black holes within you, 
IF you can, Twinky.

You won't like God's Perfect Justice.

You won't like your destination...

It depends upon your seven last words...  
and they will be your last words.

Whether the words will be agreed to, or not agreed to, at 
this time, is unknown to me, as I do not know, or will know, 
what dwells within you.

But what I have seen so far, I like.

One of your earth authors hit upon a question in one of his 
works that needs to be asked, and answered, from all of you 
silly "divine aspirants", who take on the Lord's name in 
vain.

The question occurred when Alice, then deep in the bowels of 
the earth and consequently, close to the centre of the 
earth, having earlier passed an empty marmalade jar during 
her fall, came upon a strange individual who asked her a 
simple question:

"Whooooo are you?

The question is proper and eternal.  Let me inform you that 
you and all others will answer the question by your and 
their own conduct.  Most stay with us and...

Ah!  Excuse me... 

(here cd looks down with a long pause occurring)

I must take my leave for now.  Other matters press.

I have the utmost confidence and am cheered, that I will be 
allowed to return for you, as I have for uncounted others.

Keep up your ineffectual efforts to try on the suit and destiny of your 
God, Twinky.  Back soon...

js:  Hey wait!  why do you keep calling me twinky?  wait!  
wait!...

With that the Darkness disappeared as silently as it 
appeared.

Alas, the question remained unanswered.



Alone again, 

i resumed my reading,

"The Kingdom of God is within you." it read.

But other people, not of the kingdom, but of other kingdoms, 
kept elbowing into my consciousness as i read.

Tiring, i dozed off a few seconds at first, i barely heard 
the book slowly slide out of my hands, hitting the dusty 
floor silently.

but then soon, i finally fell completely asleep.