The Three Christs of Ypsilanti - Milton Rokeach [44]
“Sir,” exclaimed Leon, “your language, please! Since you are bringing up such pleasant memories, it reminds me of pleasant memories pertaining to my own wife. But that’s in the future. In my case, I’ve never had sexual intercourse and I certainly look forward to getting together with my wife. My wife, Doctor Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth, is three years older than I. I have good news. Last night I thought about my wife and I got a hard-on, and I came without trimming the candle.”
“You’re just imagining you’re on top of a woman,” said Joseph.
“I cannot enjoy sexual intercourse as the average man does,” Leon explained, “because the cosmic robot image stands between me and the woman I give seed to. This body is my home and I don’t want no gangsters in it.” He said he felt that observing others doing negative things makes the person negative because there is no observing without involvement. Even an observer of fornication will become a disfigured midget unless he turns his head away. “Natural law will involve the person in the feelings of lust. You will consent if you look long enough. Once I saw two fellows sunning themselves. I saw two of them commit sodomy and even though I turned my head after four or five seconds, I was already a disfigured midget.”
Degeneration, Leon believed, is caused through “the misuse of sex—putting the penis in the mouth, nose, eyes, ears, belly button or rectum, and the latter is sodomy. If a person does not withdraw before the ‘come’ the person will become a disfigured midget, and if the speck of that particular ‘come’ happens to fall on one of his legs, it will cause a shriveling of legs of from six to eight inches. It is written: from the same tree from whence cometh forth fruit unto eternal life, from the same tree, if misused, can come forth fruit unto eternal damnation.[2] Masturbation is selfabuse but it does not result in disfigured midgets unless the person thinks about fornication or sodomy while masturbating. There are many types of degenerate sex: blowed-off, licked-off, sucked-off, smelled-off, winked-off, with eyelashes, heard off, brushed off with hair.”
According to Leon, sex has three purposes: “urinate through; seed-giving; praying through.” He disagreed with Freud because Freud did not differentiate between masturbation and trimming the candle. Trimming, said Leon, is not masturbation because the word masturbation means: disturbing the brain through abuse of bodily mast, ‘mastdisturbation.’ Positive-idealed trimming, on the other hand, does not disturb the brain—does not burn small organic high-voltage static holes in the brain, and this can be proven on a oscillograph—the pattern before-during-after ‘come’ is balanced.
“Truthful repentance in the heart, trimming his bodily candle with the bodily liquid waxy-looking substance throbbing out of the tip of his penis, upon the tips of his thumb and pointer finger in upstroke only at tip or penis head—if that male person can ‘come’ without trimming his penis Jesus, he is a self-educated trained man of hot physical prayer.”
Although none of the men went to church, they frequently discussed religion.
“My main job is engineering,” Clyde said. “I work twenty-three hundred to thirty-three hundred people every day, both men and women, between here and Heaven, and in Heaven there are spirit rooms, homes, churches, and preachers.”
—Did you ever live in Heaven?—
“Yes, as a boy. I think I like it better here on earth, and I believe most people like it here. I control a lot of money—three hundred and three billion, one hundred and sixty million—and I am building a Kingdom of Heaven near Mount Pleasant.”
Joseph said: “I was crucified in Palestine by the Roman soldiers. When I invented the world there was no paganism—just people who were helpers. Eventually when the world is on a firm basis there won’t be any need for religion—no priests, no ministers. I’m God and I don’t want anybody to worship me. The world was created by work and doing good, not by worshipping me and kissing me. I don’t want