Promissory for the Dead

Dec 27, 2024

Parables, written by the Prophet Adanōs, are traditionally started with the phrase, “The Prophet said:”

And when you shall go down into the cleft Where your fathers lay in death, You shall find not the dark nor the chill of the grave But that the place where they have been borne, dying, Is rather the breast of the God, And of them has been made a monument To the glory of the God, all-holy, Which shall stand eternal into the coming world.

And when from that place you shall rise, And be reunited with your beloved dead, Shall you know joy everlasting.

And you may know this, For it is by the words of the God’s prophet, And my tongue is animated by holy inspiration, And for the God said, ‘The seal of our covenant is the course of the sun, In its coming and going, That in our mercy we shall grant you light, And we shall grant you rest.’

The Prophet said: ‘We are most blessed.’

The traditional ending is, “And we say,: ‘And I most blessed be.’”