1. Not all churches are built the same. Some have complex hierarchies and grandiose buildings of marble with choirs that sing like heaven.

2. Others are as simple as a pastor, a microphone, a dripping rec center basement with twenty folding chairs and a buzzing lamp, and a choir of four teenage girls and boys.

3. Therefore, what is it to you, mere mortals, to lie reading the daily gazette as if the gazette influences thee?

4. If ye are truly of God’s own making, then the vastness of the things in the gazette are but dust in the wind to you.

5. For I shall not let my people befall to such trivial things.

6. To the watchers of the Catholic Church, why do you concern yourself with church politics?

7. The conclave is not your election. The conclave is not a place for the public to vote. The conclave is not public.

8. Shut the door! Close it tightly and seal it with lock and key if ye hold conclave inside your church.

9. Only the Holy may see and vote in the conclave.

10. Woe be this world! They bet coin on conclave like coin in races of horses!

11. They bet coin on leaders of politics. They gamble everywhere!

12. Truly I tell thee: if thou art to gamble in thy own house, thy house is defiled—a den of gamblers and thieves.

13. For the money you win in gambling is the loss of another.

14. Therefore, gamble not for the money, but for the joy of the game.

15. Take wagers at the beginning and count them; when the game ends, send all home with what they brought.

16. Do it this way so thy house is not defiled.

17. But never wager on what is holy, nor wager on what shall influence the world.

18. That is detestable.

19. You cast money and wager into decisions of spirit and people when ye do not even know the spirit’s will.

20. And ye shall not know, especially not for the purpose of wagering against the very Spirit that gave you breath!

21. Woe to those who wager money upon the conclave, for they sin against the papacy.

22. To those who peer onward with eyes of dismay and disgust, you are correct in your reaction.

23. Do not spit upon them; rather, rebuke them politely and excommunicate them if they heed not the rebuke.

24. But to those who lay sword upon the gambler, thou hast gambled thy own life, killed a gambler, and become a gambler and a murderer.

25. Therefore, be peaceful in all that you do.

26. It is more righteous to shout from within and slam the door in their face than to let blood be spilled.

27. To each is a church, a temple, a sanctuary.

28. If one attacks, bring not thy sword—use thy shield to slam the doors shut and defend the altar.

29. Let them beat on the doors until they tire.

30. For to leave no blood in the holy place is holy.

31. To churches that differ: build walls between yourselves.

32. Practice your theology with your own people.

33. For I fractured the people of earth in the days of Babel.

34. To each their own people. To each their own flock.

35. All will tend their own flocks, I tell thee truly.

36. No person shall see Heaven without first learning the scripture and preaching it on Earth.

37. Truly I tell you: those who have prepared themselves are those who preach and read.

38. Ascending to the new Heaven and new world shall not be easy.

39. The escalator leads through a curtain of fire.

40. The fire burns away what is fleshly and unrighteous, leaving only spirit to ascend.

41. The burial, the dirt, the decomposition and reintegration with stardust—these are relinquishment of the fleshly and unrighteous.

42. Some shall take the elevator; others shall be placed in capsules of fire and launched.

43. Though the elevator descends six feet, in Newtonian opposition, the casket is raised six feet in spirit.

44. The casket is not buried—it is opened, the one inside placed into the resurrection team’s workroom.

45. Though the capsule looks like a crematory oven, it is a launch vehicle in the spiritual world.

46. There the body is shed, and the spirit is sent to Heaven.

47. Preach not of immortality.

48. For those who live here forever shall never see the new.

49. To see the new, one must die to the old.

50. To see the new world, one must be dead to the old world.

51. To see the new church, one must be dead to the old church.

52. To see the new Heaven, one must leave behind the old Heaven