The Wanderer: The Silent Gospel according to Mark

Two feet, two worlds: The Silencing of the Sheep

The Silencing of the Sheep

(A Prelude to The Silent Gospel)

In the beginning, the sheep spoke.
Not in the tongues of men, but in dreams, in symbols,
in the unbroken thread between soul and world.
They knew the stars not as objects, but as songs.
They walked in time with the Earth’s breathing.
Each one a vessel of presence.
Each one a word in a language of light.

Then came the engineers of forgetting.
They wore crowns of reason and robes of control.
They came not with fire, but with definition.
They named the stars "masses of gas."
They called the Earth "resource."
They called the soul "delusion."
And the sheep, wanting to belong, began to believe.

They built pens out of systems.
Schools that taught obedience to thought.
Churches that made gods of fear.
States that replaced kinship with hierarchy.
Markets that translated wonder into price.
And in these pens, the sheep forgot their names.

The silence began when language was severed from truth.
Words became weapons.
Truth became a market.
The imaginal was render…