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Sorry - that's a remarkably unhelpful post, isn't it? I also managed to get the number of the tract incorrect. The important one is #24.

#22: I term the Immortal one plasmate, because it is a form of energy; it is living information. It replicates itself - not through information or in information - but as information.

#23: The plasmate can crossbond with a human, creating what I call homoplasmate. This annexes the mortal human permanently to the plasmate. We know this as the "birth from above" or "birth from the Spirit." It was initiated by Christ, but the Empire destroyed all the homoplasmates before the could replicate.

#24: In dormant seed form, the plasmate slumbered in the buried library of codices at Chenoboskion until 1945 C.E. This is what Jesus meant when he spoke elliptically of the "mustard seed" which, he said, "would grow into a tree large enough for birds to roost in." He foresaw not only his own death but that of all homoplasmates. He foresaw the codices unearthed, read, and the plasmate seeking out new human hosts to crossbond with; but he foresaw the absence of the plasmate for almost two thousand years.

#25: As living information, the plasmate travels up the optic nerve of a human to the pineal body. It uses the human brain as a female host in which to replicate itself into its active form. This is an interspecies symbiosis. The Hermetic alchemists knew of it in theory from ancient texts, but could not duplicate it, since they could not locate the dormant, buried plasmate. Bruno suspected that the plasmate had been destroyed by the Empire; for hinting at this he was burned. "The Empire never ended."

#26: It must be realized that when all the homoplasmates were killed in 70 C.E. real time ceased; more important, it must be realized that the plasmate has now returned and is creating new homoplasmates, by which it has destroyed the Empire and started up real time. We call the plasmate "the Holy Spirit," which is why the R.C. Brotherhood wrote, "Per spiritum sanctum reviviscumus."

#27: If the centuries of spurious time excised, the true date is not 1978 C.E. but 103 C.E. Therefore the New Testament says that the Kingdom of the Spirit will come before "some now living die." We are living, therefore, in apostolic times.

The 1945 event was the rediscovery of the Nag Hammadi codices. My brain's not working properly right now, and it's been a while since I read any of this (last time this thread was active, actually), but I think that Dick saw the codices as being the key to our understanding of the original language, the end of our need to transcribe that pure information into physical form. The beginning of the end of the Empire.

Iirc, he expands on the importance of 1945 in one of the published sections of the Exegesis, but I can't find it at the moment.

I'm sure somebody'll correct me if I'm way off track here.

Valis