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The
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MichaelBolerjack
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The Petrology Part 1 2013 Michael Bolerjack
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INTRODUCTION
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For MaryI look up to a blank
Almost in that ITo not look again
I hopeFor Mary
It was she whoPacified my mind
Put prayer in meI had never known
Quieted and stilledOut of my error
She has brought me
She is my teacher
To have been underHer protection
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Oh brightnessOh whiteness
Pure dawn announcingPure perfection
To have been catholicAnd still
To beDespite
Let not say whatIn that despite
Oh not to judgeFrom verbalism
Oh be not judged
To mysticism
LadyTo have led
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Out of the forestOf circles at
What clear spaceOf sons find
Shining onFirst and last
Always nowAnd to have known
And yet not toAlmost
Too marvelousFor me
Too much
I say
Words to find meOut today
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Every idol has beenTrampled down
For Mary reignsBlessed Queen
Be ye therefore holyFor I am holy
What they called loveLove was not
For without virtueNo beauty is
The moral beautyOf Mary
Resplendent regal
Intricately wrought
WovenAnd infinite
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So all will beSomeday
But in eternityAlready is
She the patienceShe the purity
Her perseveranceShowed peace
That we may ponderTo her heart
For a heart soHigh above
She poured
The cold, cold
Sober waterOn my mind
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To break the feverOf the world
And fleshAnd
So cleansed washedMade over
Evil does not liveIts veil is torn away
And the true beautyShines without
Such liesFor Mary
Is no myth
Is more real
Than deathSo even stronger
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CHAPTERS
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Chapter 1
So,Run it through the speech-grill,
Having been taken out twice,Not just wounded,Actually dead,
That is to sayPossessed,
Because,This baser nature came between the fell andincensed points of mighty opposites,
When I thought I had a noble heart,
But listen,The Lord God set me straight,Saying
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Alfie, do the poem
Which he had said in a figure of two late last yearwhen the beloved other witness, my wife, got outof her old job and into two new ones,
As a teacher, and another part-time gig that fit,
Thing was in the names of the companies,Which are anagrams of
AlfieDo the poem
I knew the second for some time, only figured outmy name today,
But I am still a.k.a. Petrus Romanus,
The one and only, who is not required by Malachyto be a bishop, not explicitly,
Only to sit,Read it for yourselves,
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And so here am I,Sitting.
So,Who was Alfie?
He was the self-centered, sexually-oriented youngman in the movie who asks
Whats it all about?
Me, baser nature, pointed out, got that, recallingnot only my bouts with goddesses Buddhist andGreek, but earlier episodes with Egyptians,
married women, girls of all kinds,
Not that Im all that, butI guess I thought I was, you know
But God takes the refuse of the world, the off-scouring, as Paul said, to accomplish his purpose,to confound the wise of the world.
So much for the perambulatory,
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Chapter 2
So that,Having perhaps reached the level of my
incompetence,
And had the baser nature and my fatal flawexposed, not once, but twice,
The Genius of the Work sat with me and taught
me to do something different for a change
Like really pray this time, and so I did, and itbecame real quiet, and I was so happy,
And I thought, man, this is the answer, whichsometimes it still will be,
But then I found out the bastards wont leave mealone,
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Because now they are so damned mad, as they are
at every Christian, but in a way especially with me,and after the Gag and Magog thing and havingexposed the Pole almost a year ago as the Beast,well, I saw them coming, after only three days,
I said, Ill be a hedgehog, just curl up, they cant
get me that way,
But oh no I realized Im already in the middle ofthe road, and you know what happens to ahedgehog in the middle of the road,
Like the other witness, Derrida, said,
So,
What else could I do but get up, get back, and
assume the role again that nobody wanted,
Because the Tribe of Dan, also known as theCardinals of College, knew Francine was a Jesuit,knew he had sworn allegiance to the one before,
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Who,
Good as his name had a zinger in store foreverybody,
And I saw a picture in the Times of Gag andMagag, both dressed in the white of a bride on
her wedding day, kneeling together in theirnuptials, as if to pray, and
Oh,
Francine, what have you done? Whom do you
serve? To whom are you to be wed?
In this tragedy, called to fill the shoes of Hamlet,to take care of the usurpers, my sin has not beenmadness and delay, the famous hesitation,
But,
That I, a baser nature was assigned the part, Ithink because there is no nobility left on earth.
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Chapter 3
Having read in Peter the Roman that I wrote thatnot once, not twice, but three times I would write
a fantasy and fiction and falsification in theexamination,
And realizing that this might mean something likethe denying of Christ,
Three times, like Peter,
I was scared, in that through the goddesses, I hadlost my faith twice, and the second in a way worsethan the first,
But that Christ had broken in, broke it up, turnedthe tables, and Mary had prayed with me, restoredme, made me a child again,
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That I became determined not to sin that thirdtime, never again,
And I could not say it happened once before,long ago, had lost my faith and been restored, sothat made three,
No,
There was a chance that something propheticspoke through me, I know not what, and made aprediction, concerning me,
So, what was I to do?
I said I would never write again.
And even now I fear that my sins are so gravethat I am disallowed,
And if Christ and Mary need not a pen, yet, atleast, they may still hold me in their hands
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Chapter 4
The infernal is so deeply interwoven in the fabricof the appearances, what passes for reality, that it
is most often, I think, unnoticed, able to workquietly, insidiously, causing heartbreak and troubleeverywhere,
Stirring up two men, or a man and a woman, toenter into arguments that make no sense,
inflaming tempers,
Or,
As with me, tempting me, inciting me to lust,
while still others are caught in the toils of greed,
And we are ignorant of these things, even whenwe should know better,
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So that,
When what happened to me during the writing ofPeter the Roman happened, like a holocaust, likethe worst, I wondered at myself, having betrayedmyself, and all I love,
But in prayer a few days later, Mary let me know,
during an infused contemplative prayer, that I hadsuffered from a case of possession,
And that is scary, but not as scary as thinking thatit was really me that had done it,
And she pacified my mind, but the scenes are stillin my memory, and like a competent priest willtell you,
They still try to take over my imagination with
outrages,
Or whisper incessant deceit, or bring signs cometo pass I know not of, even as I send them
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Chapter 5
On the vocation of Peter the Roman,
Peter was asked,And he replied,
I am the anti-Anti-Christ,
So that,
In a Hegelian dialectic he is the negation of thenegation, before the fourth step, which Hegel didnot conceive, that double plus good of the arrival,
outside the dialectic, completing it and ending it,
The Second ComingOf Christ
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Chapter 6
So that,
In persecutione extrema S.R.E. sedebit.
The capitals in this Latin sentence from theprophecy clearly spell out the very thing that inthe first book of Peter the Roman was the
destructive and chaotic element penultimate tothe disaster that followed, the so-called Eris, thegoddess of strife in Greek mythology, who hasbeen adopted by the discordian religion as itsgod.
I will not now proceed to a thousand lines ofpoetic play with that name, but
As well, the siren is implied, which has been seen.
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If I am petrus romanus, and have found, after a
life and death struggle, in which I was killed, butrevived by Jesus, that I am to be opposed to thisEris,
Then this line of the prophecy is disjunct fromthe last section, as many have suspected, and
applies not to my role, but to the one nowsupplied by the transposed heads in Rome, theco-, semi-, bi-, popes now living in the Vatican.
Eris is enthroned in the see of peter and peter theroman is elsewhere.
If we look at bergoglios official name,
Pope Francis,
We see popE fRancIS, spelled out, straight across,so that she infects the new world leader in a mostinsinuated way. The PP goes into their famoussignatures, meaning in Latin, proxy,
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So that,
o-f-a-n-c
is left,
which means Pope Francis is the proxy of Eris,a-n-c: Anti-Christ,
and with the a-n-c removed from Anti-Christthere is spelled ti rist, it stir,
in Francis, thoroughly infected by the presence ofEris, acting as her proxy, it, the Anti-Christ, stirs.
So that the connecting link in the prophecy refersto the anti-Christ, Pope Francis, the proxy of Eris,the one that tried already to destroy me, and towhom, as Peter the Roman, petrus romanus, I am
opposed.
I apologize for having broken the fourth wall ofthe poetic framework in this chapter, but it is athing that Alfie, as God has called me, would do.
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Chapter 7
In the prologue perverse of these my Petrinerevisions,
There was an Eris, the thing I thought was she,loved and hated, feared and desired, written overand through,
That led to my destruction and night in hell,
Not to be described,
Out from which the Lord Jesus Christ, by a timelyword of intercession pulled me,
And I live in horror of those hours, doingpenance that I may never know them again,
Never, never, never, never, never, never,
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It was with great fear that I saw her nameinscribed in the prophecy of the popes, knowing
that by intellectual conscience I had to deal with itagain,
Though so very dangerous to me,And, I think, to everyone,
But finding the horror turn up again in that placewhere Peter the Roman is indicated,
I have some hope that the prologue perverse wasnot an infernal dictation, but that
Even there, in a way, God was still in control ofme and what I was saying,
Though how, I do not know, my mission beingnow not to question the providences, ever, but to
believe in Him and be just an instrument of
His Will,Amen.
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Chapter 8
And my friend Jude, the legendary and altogetherdevoted saint of the impossible,
When turned to, replied
Peter, it was not a matter of psychology, nomatter what they say,
But of your role apocalyptique, for which theywanted you to pay,
But not in a just keeping of accounts, rather in themanner of vengeance and spite, and also to stop
you from proceeding,
For,
You yet have many things in store,
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As does a world unsuspecting,
In that,
They adore a man, of whom they say, in wonder,
See the act of humility,
When he was only doing what is done in everyparish, washing and kissing feet,
No,
He did not go to murderers row, but touched the
feet of a few young detainees, barely prisoners,not even criminals,
When his namesake,
Kissed lepers on the mouth, and this not as anact, not for show of cameras, but in love, andhim, the saint, they thought was mad, while thepapal imposture is almost thought divine.
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Chapter 9
I went to see my motherI went to see my mother in the afternoon
In the afternoon we talked and prayedAnd then I went for a walk
As a child I walkedI walked as a child does
I loved the sunI loved the sky
I loved everyone the afternoon I walked
The afternoon I talked with my mother
I went to the store to buy some meatBut the meat I found was not so good
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It was not as good as what I foundAs I was leaving the store
As I was leaving it was not what I foundIt was what found me as I left the store
A girl of simplicity and beauty and smilesWas handing out flowers to all around
I too smiled obliquely and went on my wayBut she skipped up beside me and said
Youre sweet and gave me a white flowerAn angel with a flower angels long to see
I walked home still talking with motherWith the flower of heaven held before me
Before me went the flower that angels see
Angels see such heaven-sent flowers as I see
My mother and I talked for hours and hoursThe day that the girl gave me the flower
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Chapter 10
The Greeks seek wisdomAnd the Jews look for a sign
But I preach ChristAnd Him crucified
Lest we empty the cross of its meaning, it isimportant to remember that Jesus was not a
philosopher.
Lest we empty the cross of its meaning, it isimportant to remember that Jesus did not practicedivination.
Lest we empty the cross of its meaning, it isimportant to remember that Jesus came not todestroy but to fulfill the law, every jot and tittle,which is based on wisdom and on signs.
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Chapter 11
To have been speaking of butterflies,Then
And the Mind of Christ coming to the world,And the one mind,
They were all of,
That will not stand, and will not let stand, nor tobe instantiated,
The passing of the fire, taking back Carmel, forChrist,
As the catechumens and candidates are conferred,as candles shine and water is poured and all lookup toward the gates of St. Peter,
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In the Petrine succession,
Without the Petrine privileges
To grant adulteries,
Without cause, concession to the hardness ofhearts,
Of which petrifications is the stone of blessing,the rock on which was built?
Taking back Carmel, then, by fire cast on earth, asfire came down, to have been salted with,
The breaking ofThe lifting of
To have been cleft,
In the test of hearts, to be not hardened,
So that, when you hear his voice, as at theprovocation in the wilderness of sin