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when I was growing up, that she was a first-class fornicator, that she’s no good, that she’s worse than trash. That particular woman, I call her the Old Witch, because only an old witch would consent to doing a thing she has done. She’s a disfigured midget, she’s a sentimentalist, she’s a hypocrite, she’s a murderer. I had the occasion of almost being killed by her through arsenic that she put in the food and drink. And with the help of God, while I was in the state of half dead and half alive, I got to the toilet and vomited about a teaspoon or two. And that saved my life. Can such a thing really happen? It did happen, sir, and many other things such as sucking and blowing me off after putting knockout drops in my food. And when she does such things, as far as I’m concerned she’s an old witch; she’s not my mother.

“Through court, I disowned her through court. She is the reincarnation of Woman Eve. Adam was seduced by Eve and the proposition of what will happen if Woman Eve becomes the mother of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, because he was conceived without sin. The test has been put to me and I went through it. I did not consent to her warped theology or demonology.”

About his father, Joseph told us several times that the older man was still living, and that he sometimes wrote to his son. On many occasions, however, he denied having a father, since he himself was God. And on still other occasions he claimed that Dr. Yoder, the medical superintendent at Ypsilanti State Hospital, was his father.

Leon claimed to have no earthly father at all. “Sir, my father is a white dove who became my foster father after I died the death.[1] The Old Witch got that particular dove to ‘come’ upon her head. However, the dove was guiltless. I also heard his voice in my head when I was fifteen or sixteen. I was meditating one day and I said to myself: ‘How is it that I, a boy of fourteen or sixteen, doesn’t have a visit from a person who claims to be my father?’ As I was meditating, I heard some footsteps coming up and who was it but Mr. Leon Gabor, the particular man I was thinking about. He comes up and he says: ‘Young man, you’re not through my seed; you’re through that white dove in your head.’ And if anybody got a brick between the eyes with a sharp point, it certainly impressed me. I’ll never forget it. I also remember when I was five and three-quarters years of age. He was passing by in a Model B coupe Ford and there was another man sitting beside him, and I was anxiously waiting for him to take me in his automobile and give me a ride. He made a sarcastic laugh. He said: ‘Why should I support them? They’re not from me,’ and with a big laughing roar, he went away.”

Another day I suggested another topic—marriage.

Leon, still single, said he had been married to Doctor the Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth for thirty-eight years. When I asked him how this was possible for a thirty-seven-year-old man, he replied that he was born married to her. He then went on to describe her: “Blonde, four feet ten or eleven; she has a maiden figure, but not on the curvy side; she doesn’t wear make-up; her hair is parted in the middle and she has a serene-looking face.” He also said that the first time he was conceived through the Blessed Virgin Mary, but that after resurrection she became his wife. Leon went on to say that a virgin who marries remains a virgin even though she has sexual intercourse.

—Rex, there are people who say you have no wife.—

“That’s the impression they wanted to give me because in contrast to previous times this time our bodies are near the same age. How would that look if Jesus Christ was the wife of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth? Oh, scandal! Why, it’s written in the Book that at that time she was his mother.”

Asked about the slip of the tongue, Leon amended: “I meant the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

Joseph spoke of his wife in a matter-of-fact tone. She was a French-Canadian girl from Ontario, he said, whom he had met through a mutual friend. He had married her and stayed with her for years until he became sick