Post by UmbertoAs my mother tongues is not the english language maybe I am going to ask
anyway, given the link between the story narrated into The Lamb Lies
Down on Broadway album and the New Testament, is it possible that when
Peter writes in "It"
"It is Real. It is Rael"
then he mean "is+Rael" = Israel?
And given that this is (almost) the very last verse of the song, isn't
it a clear reference to the last verse of Supper's ready, where
Jerusalem (capital of Israel) is the last word of the song?
Just a guess...
I thought I'd thought of every variation - but this rings VERY true.
I am a rare, with nothong to brag about, Bar Mitvahed Episcopalian
priest who is also a lawyer, and like Pete, do not discuss my manic
depression in public anymore (except here, where any Genesis fan on
these boards knows of my pre-"finding his right meds" days where my
writing could be brutally exacting....Linda darling and Sue Town are
still cursing me.
manic depression in its real (no wordplay there) means at leats one
complete psychotic break with reality. Mine came for an 18 day period
beginning on the morning of September 11, *1990* - where I saw, in a
vision that was realer than real (no wordplay) two arab planes bombing
lower manhattan. I had lived at the time at 38th and Park, about 4
1/2 miles from the site of teh bombing exactly, to the minute, eleven
years later. Anyone not believing me has my permission to scour the
records at the MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL for that night, where the [vision]
was repeated to at leats 3 attending doctors. Eleven years later, the
same happened except:
1) I had seen nuclear bombs on the plabe;
2) I felt and saw the nuclear bombs go off exactly where the 9/11/01
bombs went off as simple mechanical fuel - so thank God I was "wrong"
there;
3) I had complete prophesy, which I get from time to time, and can be
verified by many people who I have shocked, and in fact shcked myself
for that which i see is not "called on" nor is it consistent nor is ot
always right. Being said, I have predicted things that have left the
most atheiststic rational people IMMEDIATELY change their status to at
least 'agnostic'.
4) In my head I heard the best music I willl ever hear as I ran up
Madison Avenue, knowing the bombs were coming downtown (of course
nothing happened at all on 9/11/90) and shocked that people were going
downtown, and in my head - "as sure as eggs is eggs" - with many
substitute lines, mainly Phil singing , slowly, instead of "you, now
can't you see, he;s fooled you all!?" I head, "YOU, now can't you see,
IT'S PAYBACK TIME!" - and what I menat by that as I heard
(delusionally, in medical terms) was: all you bastards that have (not
you peopel in this chatroom - people generally) killed or inflicted
pain in the name of Jesus Christ were about to pay your bill -
5) MOST IMPORTANTLY, having simply glimpsed the post below - indeed,
Manhattan was - NO DOUBT - the New Jerusalem. After the bombs, I saw,
literally, an angek standing in the sun, and all the coveting people
were gone. As Matthew 23-25, 1/2 the people were gone, and those who
were left had heaven on earth. It was an absolutely non-drug induced
feeling of ecstasy that I knew I would (and have not) experience until
my actual death, if I had not already experienced the Rapture.
If you read in the Revelation According To St. John and its dimensions
for the Kingdom of Heaven, manhattan fits, like, EXACTLY.
This is not the greatest of things to "admit" - so said, anyone with a
decent cyber-brain can pull all these files and posts that I wrote in
1995-1997 delineating same.
To this day, I believe the Christ will come again, and I believe on a
personal note that Manhattan will be the "new Palestine" as written in
the post below.
Enough for now.
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
12/03/2008