Conducting curses

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

There is no objective reason to believe that this curse is not about adding or subtracting words (or even notions, but that possibly only through translation) from the Book of Revelation, but about adding or subtracting chapters from the book that John was shown, which is our history, but subjectively I recognise the curse.

Read those words quoted above and tell me that this is not a man saying:

If you claim my name and betray what I've shown you as holy by foregoing it in pursuit of emptied contrivances I shall damn you through the evils that you try to escape and if you mean to do without me, the emptiness of the world shall be revealed unto you.

It is every man's right to curse like that and I have done it sufficiently long ago to have gathered sufficient evidence as to its effectiveness. And the Revelation is, among other things, the same.

It is a curse of parting. A curse of reaching out in love towards those, who are likely to be smothered by the vanity of their elders. A curse full of sadness over those, who could not be reached.

However, apart from that the Revelation reveals and is thus, as a curse, of an uncommonly concretely menacing nature. Surely we cannot be meant to consider something damnable simply because it was ruled out by a history book of our time? The joke though is that it is, on its own merits, whenever we care to take a look.

Still, it is only the project that is cursed and its pursuers, not the ones who got caught up in the crosshairs. If it was all less concrete, it could simply be called the test of time. Like it is it's a call to collect ourselves every time we took a fall. We're not supposed to understand in advance, at least not for the most part, though we should be watchful near the harvest. And we cannot infer that the concrete form of the slow process of sorting things out that controls history was wished into existence by the curse in question.

The revelation of that form is a guiding glimpse of the battle awaiting the saved and the damned on the basis of Christ's teaching. The outer shape of the inner seed. A product of the rearrangement of heaven and earth.

And lest I forget, the understanding of the seals as catastrophes and the trumpets as transgressions and the vials as punishments is still orthodox and the conducting curse of Christianity respects those natures, neither seeing innocence nor responsibility themselves as evils, nor ignoring the limitations imposed on our choices, but only addressing the concrete desires and failings of men.

Sometimes it's just as well to talk about one's most private thoughts to the most general audience. But that should not damage my thinking, so I have to translate conducting curse into German: Geleitfluch.