The Three Christs of Ypsilanti - Milton Rokeach [63]
September 26. In a letter addressed to “Respected Sir; Madam,” Leon manifests the first trace of ambivalence toward his present wife. “Neither I nor my wife Dr. Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth the instrumental Lordess of Lordesses and Queen of Queens is the boss, but Truth is the Boss.”
October 10. In a long letter addressed to “Respected, Righteous idealed light brothers, light sisters,” Leon writes: “I have accepted the Devine Habeas Corpus’s Righteous Ideal Planned marriage of the ‘righteous idealed light sister’s’ marriage to her foster son a ‘righteous idealed light brother.’ With the help of our heavenly Father I will see you at that great banquet in due time.”
October 12. At the group meeting, Leon elaborates on the wedding banquet. There will be all types of food, including undertaker’s food, which is cut-off penis and testicles. He says he plans to keep an “open table” when he joins his wife in Hawaii. Day and night, people will come to visit and eat at this table.
October 25. Leon writes the longest letter to date to his “light brothers”; it contains ideas we have not previously encountered. It begins: “In the spirit of ‘truthful energetic happiness’ I joyfully will to say some important things which will come to pass concerning myself,” and goes on to make the following points:
1. Leon is about to “shake off so many hundred units of electronic duping imposition.”
2. The highest form of blood genes are Yeti genes. The Yeti people are not stained with original sin. Leon identifies himself as a member of the Yeti people. He describes their eating habits: “Yeti people love rat meat and so do I. They frenzy a rat cosmically—shoot it, stamp, grab, squeeze, bite the head off the rat, drain the blood, eat them raw, fur and all.” He emphasizes that Yeti people “do not eat people, they eat rodents!”
3. His light brother’s dupe name is Joseph Gabor. Joseph Gabor is in fact the name of Leon’s uncle—his father’s brother.
4. He is apparently about to divorce his wife the Virgin Mary and marry her off to his light brother, Joseph Gabor. He recalls his light brother Joseph[2] saying: “I know I shall be killed for asking and taking your potential virginal wife for my wife, because you Rex, sir, do not believe in divorce, but I will do it fully knowing the consequences, and I assure you, sir, I will take good care of her.” Leon then expresses gratitude to Joseph for his “self-sacrifice to make Dr. Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth happy.”
5. At his wedding banquet he will give of his seed to some of his light sisters of the Yeti people, “none penis injection, through a thistle tube. There will be no bodily contact.”
6. The Virgin Mary is married to his light brother Joseph. “My dear Righteous idealed light brother and your wife Dr. Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth,” he writes, “please come visit me at Ypsilanti State Hospital at your convenience. Bring some cooked or relished rat meat sandwiches. I would like to rejoice with you, if I may ask, bring a few Bankers Choice cigars also.”
October 30. I ask Leon if he is married. He replies that he is betrothed, but not married to the Virgin Mary. He adds that his uncle said he could get a wife from the Yeti if he wanted to. Leon is unusually relaxed as he discusses his relations to the Yeti people.
November 8. Leon announces that his home town is in the Himalaya Mountains, home of the righteous idealed Yeti people. November 10. Leon’s preoccupation with his identity and his gradual identification with the Yeti people again emerge in a letter:
Dear “Righteous idealed light brother” husband of Dr. Blessed Virgin Mary of Nazareth, in the name of manliness the penis and testicles Jesus Christ our instrumental lord. I ask you Sir and as you Sir said you Sir will do me “Justice” against the dupe name Leon M. Gabor who used to live at [address] and put the correction acknowledgement paper’(s) through the proper law channel, and I do denounce the dupe name Leon M. Gabor imposed upon me against my will, and I denounce such forever,