AS ALWAYS, I HAVE WRITTEN THIS LETTER IN CODE AND HAVE SENT IT ACROSS THE OCEAN BY BIRD COURIER ACCORDING TO VATICAN RULES.

I MUST REPORT THAT I'M EXHILARATED. THERE IS NO EXPERIENCE LIKE BEING IN EDEN. WITHOUT A DOUBT, THIS BELT OF TROPICAL CANOPY IS A REMNANT OF THAT ANCIENT GARDEN. PRESERVING IT HERE AT THE FOOT OF ZOMBIE GLACIER WAS ONE OF GOD'S KINDEST ACTS.

THE MIRACLE OF AN ICE FLOW SO PURE IT HAS NO DEPOSIT, AND OF THE PRESERVATION OF A TRACT OF PARADISE: I FIND THIS AS UPLIFTING AS THE FINAL PASSAGES OF JOB. THIS LAND IS BOTH CREATION AND THE FAR-OFF DIVINE EVENT TOWARD WHICH THE WHOLE OF CHRISTIANITY HAS MOVED. ZOMBIE GLACIER AND ITS PARADISE ARE THE CONSUMMATION OF THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE. OUR NEW POPE MUST DECLARE IT MORE THAN HOLY GROUND. HE MUST DECLARE IT GOD MANIFEST AS NATURE AND GRANT IT THE SANCTITY OF EDEN.

OF COURSE, THERE ARE THOSE AMONG US WHO WOULD QUESTION THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES OF THE GLACIER. MEN AND WOMEN WE CALL HERETICS. THESE PEOPLE DRINK FROM A CUP OF FEAR AND BITTER POTIONS AND NOT THE HOLY CHALICE. AND YOU WOULD EXPECT IT SINCE FAITH HAS BEEN DENIED THEM. AS INDIVIDUALS, THEY ARE QUITE SINCERE, BELIEVING THEMSELVES TO BE A SMALL GROUP OF ENLIGHTENED SCIENTISTS. IN GENERAL, THEY ARGUE THAT A MERE FIVE YEARS AGO ZOMBIE GLACIER WAS NOT HERE ON EARTH. THEY EVEN CLAIM THAT MOUNT ST PAUL WAS NOT HERE, AND ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NO SOUND PROOFS OF THEIR OWN, THEY SCOFF AT SUPERNATURALIST THEOLOGY. OFTEN THEY STATE THAT THE GLACIER IS A TIME PARASITE THAT CAME THROUGH A HOLE IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE TO FEED ON OUR PLANET.

IN THESE YEARS OF REVELATION, IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE THAT SOME PEOPLE COULD BE SO BLIND. WE HAVE ALL HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD SPEAKING FROM THE ICE. WE HAVE ALL HEARD HIM SPEAK OF SATAN, AND HOW IN HIS PRIDE HE TRIED TO BEST THE LORD IN CREATION. WE ALL KNOW THAT THOSE MONSTERS OF SATAN - THE ZOMBIES - WERE A PITEOUS SIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. AND WE KNOW OF HIS HEALING OF THEM, OF HIS ERASURE OF THEIR SIN, OF THEIR PRESERVATION IN HOLY ICE.

TONGUES OF FIRE HAVE DESCENDED ACROSS THE WORLD AND NOT A SOUL HAS BEEN SCORCHED. THE SKY WAS TRANSFORMED TO SILVER FOR A DAY AND THE ATMOSPHERE WAS PURIFIED. LANDSAT HAS PHOTOGRAPHED THE SHINING FEET OF GOD IN THE MISTS OF THE GLACIER. WE ARE IN A STATE OF GRACE, YET THERE ARE STILL THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE. LET US PRAY FOR THEM, BROTHER JAMES, AND HOPE THAT THE LORD HAS PATIENCE AND MERCY FOR THEM.

YESTERDAY WE WERE IN THE AREA OF THE SACRED TERMINUS. IT FANS OUT FROM A CORRIDOR WHERE THERE IS MUCH CALVING OF BLUE ICE. MANY SPIRES AND SWIRLS OF FROZEN PINK ARE AMONG THE BLOCKS AND FACES OF ICE. STEEPLES AND CROSSES OF STEELY BLUE ICE SCULPTURE ARE AT THE FOREFRONT. THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN THE WHOLE SNOWY CLOAK GLITTERS WITH SILVER, GOLD AND TWILIGHT HUES OF THE SETTING SUN. THE GLACIER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL TEMPLES. IT IS DIVINE AND NATURAL, AND ITS HEALING LIGHT IS THE SOUL OF THE PLANET.

WITH RELUCTANCE, WE ALLOWED THE HERETICS TO LOOK ON WHILE WE PERFORMED OUR SIMPLE RITES AND PRAYERS. BARNABUS WAS THE ACTING HIGH PRIEST, AND HE RECEIVED THE LORD'S COMMAND AND CLEARED THE SNOW FROM A FACE OF ICE. HOLY LIGHT SHIMMERED, AND WE SAW THE FIGURE OF A ZOMBIE, FOREVER FROZEN AND BLOODSTAINED, CAUGHT IN AN ACT OF MURDER. THE HIDEOUS WARP TO HIS FACE, THE LOW ANGRY BROW, HAIRY LIMBS, AND GREEN SERPENTLIKE PENIS LEFT US NO DOUBT AS TO HIS ORIGINAL CREATION AT THE HANDS OF SATAN. BENEATH HIM LAY THE TORN CORPSE OF A FEMALE, HER DELICATE HANDS AND FACE UPRAISED, FOREVER BEGGING HIM FOR THE MERCY HE COULD NEVER GIVE - THE MERCY THAT FINALLY CAME FROM THE HAND OF GOD WHEN HE SPARED THESE CREATURES AND LOCKED THEM IN HOLY ICE AND NOT IN FIERY HELL.

PRAYER WAS JOYOUS, AND SUNSET MEDITATIONS WERE SOOTHING, BUT THE LATER EVENING WAS A TIME OF TEARS FOR ME ... MADE EVEN MORE TROUBLING BY UNBELIEVERS WHO CONTINUALLY ASKED THE REASON FOR MY WEEPING. I SAID NOTHING, AND MERELY WALKED ON WITH THEM IN THE COLD NIGHT - IN THE SHADOW OF ICE CLIFFS AND IN THE SHADOW OF THE LORD.

THE LORD HAS INDEED GIVEN ME A VISION, AND I WILL TELL YOU OF IT NOW. A SIMPLE VISION, REALLY. THE UNBELIEVERS ARE TO BE SPARED DAMNATION. THEY ARE TO BE BURIED IN THE ICE WITH THE ZOMBIES. A PROCLAMATION WILL SOON COME FROM THE POPE. AND THERE IS MORE: IN MY HASTE, I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE MESSAGE. OUR GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF AS A MALE GOD AND A JEALOUS GOD WHO WILL NOT COMPETE WITH THE LOVE OF WOMEN. THEY TOO WILL BE FROZEN IN THE EXPANDING GLACIER, AND THEIR SOULS SPARED.

A NEW EARTH, A TIME OF CERTAINTY HAS ARRIVED. SHARE MY TEARS AND MY REVERENCE, BROTHER JAMES; WE WILL WALK HAND-IN-HAND, SHARING A NEW AGE OF MEN, GOD, AND LOVE AS SELECT ZOMBIES COME TO NEW LIFE AND MAKE SPIRITUAL LOVE TO US. MATTHEW.

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