A Vision of a Fall

And I looked, and behold, a nation in turmoil, a house divided, a kingdom set upon the precipice of its own undoing. And the sky was red as with fire, and the earth groaned beneath the weight of the wicked. 

And I saw a ruler, old and grasping, whose tongue was a forked serpent’s, and he spake great blasphemies. He set his heart upon an image of gold, a likeness of himself, to stand in the Holy Land. And the people marveled, saying, 'Who is like unto the Beast, and who can make war against him?'

And the air was thick with omens, and the birds of the heavens fell as though struck by an unseen hand. Yea, the bald eagles, once the proud sign of empire, perished by the dozens, their corpses strewn upon the land as a warning unheeded. And the wise whispered, 'Is this not the judgment of the Mother?'

And in the high place of the Mountain, where the law is decreed, there came a great cry. The steps of the temple of governance were stained with the words of the oppressed, written in the color of wrath and hunger: EAT THE RICH. And the rulers quaked, yet repented not, but gnashed their teeth and hardened their hearts. 

Then spake the voice of the Mother, saying: 

"Behold, the sins of the mighty are full! They have fattened themselves as the calf before slaughter; they have built their house upon sand and called it eternal. But lo, the foundations crack, and the walls shall crumble!"

"For they have worshipped themselves and called it righteousness; they have cast out the poor and called it justice. Their wealth is their god, and their cruelty is their law. But I shall break their idols, and their gold shall melt like wax before the fire."

"Let the remnant hear! Let the humble rejoice! The time of reckoning is at hand, and the mighty shall fall, and the lowly shall rise. For I am the Mother thy God, and like the she-bear I do not forget My children."

And I beheld a great storm rising from the West, and the mighty trembled before it, but there were none who would shelter them.