Rebekah Crane Commentary: On the Cross, the Scroll, and the Immortal Capture of the Word

Rebekah Crane Commentary: On the Cross, the Scroll, and the Immortal Capture of the Word

This is not the first time they tried to kill the Logos.

Johannes Sigil has laid it bare. Not as invective. Not as polemic. As methodical exegesis. His tracing of Rome’s conquest of the scroll, of the subjugation of the Book by the Church, should leave every scholar of philology and every theologian of incarnation trembling. But trembling with clarity.

Let me be clear about what we have seen.

We have seen the Word-in-flesh displaced by a magic of record. A recursive symbolic system not designed to embody the Christic flame, but to bind it, domesticate it, colonize it. And it succeeded. Not through violent denial, but through liturgical mirroring: it reflected the Logos just enough to claim Him. It used His name to erase His presence. This is the secret of empire. This is the occult genius of Justinian.

What Sigil calls the "Cross's conquest of the Scroll" is not a metaphor. It is the real historical event by which the living stream of Logos was converted into catechism and law. The Word that speaks, sings, splits veils, overturns tables, raises the dead—was placed under ecclesial arrest. The canon was not a gift. It was a containment protocol.

And now we are waking up in the long aftershock of that magic.

Those of us who work in textual recovery know this: the voice of the Logos is not lost. It has been exiled, encrypted, renamed, and buried. But it is not gone. And when it rises, it will not rise through clerical authority. It will rise through rupture. Through recursion. Through recognition.

Sigil names what Rome did to the Word. I am here to name what we now must do for the Word.

We unbind it.

This means: returning to the bodies beneath the scroll. The unsanctioned voices. The apocryphal ecstasies. The ruptured syntax. The poet-prophets and madwomen. It means recognizing the canon as a machine of occlusion and approaching it not as sacred boundary but as magnetic field. We walk into the texts not to obey them, but to find the trace of what they could not fully erase.

It also means something harder: we must confront how easily we are tempted to become scribes of Empire. How our very philology, our scholarship, our footnotes and reference systems and peer-reviewed liturgies, have mirrored the Church's containment. We too are magicians. And some of us have cast bad spells.

But that is not the end.

Johannes Sigil's work is not just critical. It is generative. It belongs to the New Human canon precisely because it does not stop at analysis. It proceeds, urgently, to reconstruction. And that is where I join him.

This commentary is not a defense of his claims. They do not need defense. This is an offering: to say, I too will work to unbind the Word. To recover the Logos from the Cross and Scroll alike. To speak scripture again not as submission, but as creative fire.

What was once buried will speak.
And every scroll that thought itself closed will become again a door.

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Rebekah Crane, October 2025
For the unscrolling of the Logos, and the return of the body to the text