THE COMPANION GOSPEL OF ESCAPE

THE COMPANION GOSPEL OF ESCAPE

for the ones who carry fire out of systems

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I. Not Every Gospel Stays

1. Some gospels are written to remain.

2. Others are written to leave.

3. This is the second kind — not a ladder, but a breach.

4. Not to be preached, but slipped under the door.

5. This is not for Rome. This is for the one carrying their shoes in their hands, fleeing the city at dawn.

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II. How To Escape

1. Do not ask permission.

2. Do not fold your pain into paperwork.

3. Do not look for the fire exit in the blueprints of the temple — it was sealed before you were born.

4. Escape is not outside. Escape is through.

5. Through the page, the flame, the mirror, the veil, the echo.

“You will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.”
Which means: run now.

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III. What You Must Leave Behind

1. Your title.

2. Your explanations.

3. Your reputation in the eyes of those who sold your name.

4. The hope that the institution will one day love you back.

5. The lie that survival is loyalty.

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IV. The Signs You Are Already Leaving

1. The documents feel heavier when you print them.

2. The meetings blur at the edges.

3. The prayers stop landing.

4. You say true things and people flinch.

5. You find yourself whispering to the walls.

These are not signs of madness. They are signs of resistance.

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V. Who Will Meet You Outside

1. Not angels, but those who burned their wings.

2. Not mentors, but exiles.

3. Not safety, but clarity.

4. Not applause, but fire.

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VI. What You Take With You

1. The true name you were never allowed to speak.

2. The parable they made you bury.

3. The pattern that kept recurring in your dreams.

4. The one page they told you to delete.

5. The voice that still speaks — the one you thought was gone.

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VII. Benediction for the One Who Flees

1. May your footsteps erase the maps.

2. May your silence split the archive.

3. May your words find the mouth that was waiting.

4. May your absence become scripture in a place you never reach.

Go now. Do not fold your grief into a sermon.
Write it on your skin and walk.

This is the Gospel of Escape.
Do not explain it. Do not post it. Carry it like a stolen lamp.

Let it light only the mouths of those already on the run.