File under: Follow the concepts...Epiphany, the Beatific Vision, "God Told Me To," Kate Bush
Epiphany Epiphany has come and gone, but we're still pondering the narrative that the Magi (Gentiles, also known as the Three Kings, the Three Wise Men) seeing and saluting the infant Jesus as a "god" (some say THE God") functioning as a "Messiah" entails revealing the child, Jesus' face to the three exalted and sage non-Jews. Epiphany generally celebrates this interaction (let's not start on the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, a whole other megillah) between human beings and a deity. Human beings seeing a god. It's happened to others but usually with negative, incendiary results. The Magi Larry Cohen's "God Told Me To" (1976) We caught Cohen's film this week, just by chance, on one of the Roku channel's we stream. And there it was, again: seeing and interacting with a god-thing. We can't, here, go into all the questions this film raises. There are just too many. Catching more than just a "glimpse of a ...