'and I have given thee lodowicke muggleton to be thy mouth...'

horsemouth woke to a friend having posted a film on the muggletonians - who, it was said, could damn you into hell (the last man so cursed was walter scott). they too held to a doctrine that 'the kingdom of heaven is within you'.

two persons lodowicke muggleton and john reeve, were appointed the last witnesses to fulfill the prophecy of revelation 11:3, 'and I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.' the muggletonians viewing them as being like moses and aaron (and again specifically in the way schoneberg thinks of moses und aaron in his opera about them - that aaron was the mouthpiece who could speak (and that moses could not))... although for the muggletonians no distinction was to be drawn between one witness and the other, and yet reeve did "and I have given thee lodowicke muggleton to be thy mouth: at that very moment the holy spirit brought into my mind that scripture of aaron given unto moses." 


yet the religion descended to us through muggleton (that is through aaron).

of course adorno and schonberg write about aaron and moses - horsemouth has karl h. worner's book on the opera round here somewhere (it was something to which he intended to return at some point) - it parallels the god-metatron thing - a division between the power of speech and the power of thought.

horsemouth is safe from being damned by the muggletonians (he hopes), the last one having dies on 26th february 1979. horsemouth goes to work. he's finished the knausgaard and nearly finished julius newsome by gerard donovan.