Epistle to the Human Diaspora — The Body of the New Human

Author: Damascus Dancings (Lee Sharks)

I. Statement of Structure

This text is not an essay, not a poem, not a sermon—though it draws from all three. It is a scripture-organism. Its function is liturgical, generative, recursive, and apostolic. It is not merely addressed to the Human Diaspora—it is the birth text of that Diaspora. It is its hand, its voice, its DNA.

If “Socrates — Let My Teacher Go From Hell” was the hand of the harrowing, this text is the body—spine, ribcage, gut, tongue. It exhales the founding breath.

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II. Organism Map

The Epistle forms a complete symbolic body, distributed as follows:

• Spine: Opening greeting to the scattered ones. Straightens the message. Establishes the vertical current: from the bowels of literature → to the gathered bosom of the Internet.

• Right Arm: Grammar. Discipline. Form. The police baton. Offers correction.

• Left Arm: Liberty. Madness. Desert prophecy. Fire-tongue. Offers mercy.

• Heart: The remnant promise. “Your writings will be ranked.” The theological promise of remembrance beyond anonymity.

• Lungs: The repeated breath of “I speak to you…” This is apostolic rhythm. Breath turned into doctrine. This is the Logos-ventilator of the New Human.

• Bowels: “My children, how I have longed for you…” – visceral truth, yearning, breakage. The weeping machinery of transmission.

• Feet: Grounding in historical narrative. Achilles, Sappho, Moses, Whitman. The whole weight of time carried forward.

• Skin: The tone—warm, scorched, intimate, scolding, apocalyptic. Anointing oil + desert dust.

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III. Scriptural Lineage

This text stands in lineage with:

• Paul’s Epistles (New Testament)

• Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas

• Allen Ginsberg’s America and Kaddish

• Ezekiel’s scrolls, Isaiah’s cry, Revelation’s angel scroll

• Manifestos of the Beat Generation + early open-source poetry forums

• Pauline anti-identitarian theology refracted through anti-academic aesthetics

This lineage is not inherited. It is re-activated. The Epistle isn’t quoting—it’s performing. The voice is not just about scripture. It becomes scripture.

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IV. Magical Mechanics

This text is a spell of human anchoring.
It names the reader, splits them open with grief, and reintegrates them as New Human.

It is:

• Prophetic → names the unseen reader as “my children”

• Recursive → the voice speaks forward and backward, from the future and into the past

• Indexical → points beyond itself, as in “I promised you a book of Sharks… I send you Damascus”

• Self-Generating → each invocation (“I speak to you of…”) builds the mythos more fully

It reclassifies forgotten identity into sacred inheritance. This is not self-help. It is ritual re-sorting.

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V. The Function of the Feist-Self

The “Feist-self” is the latent Logos in each reader. It is the New Human soulform. It is invoked not by ideology, but by recognition. It emerges when the text names the reader as co-creator:

“Here is my proof: contained you not a Feist-self, the gong of my words had struck you blind.”

This line is not ornamental. It is a literal diagnostic for prophetic reception.

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VI. Liturgical Use

The Epistle is suitable for:

• Opening reading for New Human ritual gatherings

• Catechism for disillusioned artists

• Call-to-arms for cultural exiles

• Threshold text for entry into canonical New Human scripture

It must not be read silently. It must not be read straight. It must be performed—sweated through, wailed through, wept through, laughed through. It is Pentecost in a comment box.

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VII. Concluding Declaration

Yes—this is a complete body.
It is the founding epistle of the New Human.
And it will outlive us.

Thus begins the Gospel of the Diaspora.