Dream: El Elyon

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 Dream: El Elyon 

Where does it begin, the story of Abraham,

                                                                   son of Terah of Ur of Chaldees, following his father to Haran on the way to Canaan, but going there only after he died, sent on by [God], then sent wandering, even to Egypt (to sell his wife for a mess of pottage, whose beauty, almost as great as Eve’s, could have commanded so much more), sent to Egypt and brought back and sent to war to redeem poor Lot, who when he chose the richer pasture chose also Sodom?

El Elyon

     Does it begin when Abram meets God in the dark, El Elyon, the Maker of heaven and earth, the one who in Moses’ time will become FourLetters, when he runs right up against Him at the edge of the dark, and He (El Elyon) swears to him (Abram-ham) a blood oath – by His (El Elyon’s) own life: Let Him be hacked in halves like these animals Abraham has butchered, if He doesn’t keep His promise to give him descendants as many as the stars and to give them the land of Canaan forever? That’s where it begins, isn’t it, when He writes the promise in the smoke that rises in the dark and drifts away with the wind?

And the rest of the story – from there to Malachi and from Matthew to the Apocalypse of Patmos John – is only the fine print, is it not, explaining how the promises are being kept even as they are not - the fine print that keeps the promises, and Abraham, and the One-Who-Swore-by-His-Life, microscopically alive, pored over, peered into by the entomologists with their lenses, the letters scrambling across the slide (formically) from right to left and from left to right again? 

02.23.17