SCRIPT:
I am giving you the freedom -
I'll set you free. I'll make you a God. I'll show you that you are sufficient unto
yourself. I will start a revolution in you that will cause you to go to the ends of the world.
(Voice rises throughout)
Bless your heart, come and go with me, for in your father's house, there are many realms, there are many levels, there are many mansions, ooooh, yes, there are. Come and go with me. I've got
shelter for you in depression, food in our warehouses and our storehouses if depression comes, and there will be famine, where people will be in souplines 10 mile long. There'll be so much chaos in this country, the money crash will come when your dollar won't-- a whole wheelbarrow full won't be able to buy you a sack of groceries. And there'll come a dictatorship in this land, because they're trying to whip it up now, with the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Nazis and all this hate, and the kidnappings, (Voice lowers, but intensifies) they're trying to get white people to kill
blacks, so the rich will be able to have all they want. They don't need workers anymore, so they want the poor worker destroyed. So come and go with me, because across the sea, just this week, we purchased a boat that will land to get our supplies, in just a few weeks, it will land. We bought a boat. We haven't bought preachers cars, we're not talking about new churches, or fine robes for the preachers, or fine homes for the preachers, or like that one that was in the newspaper this week, that had thirty-some thousand dollars of gold fixtures in his bathroom, no,
we've got houses, we've got jobs, we've got 20,000 acres across the Atlantic Ocean, we've got hope, we've got refuge in the time of storm. You have a promised land.
(In full throat)
Glory, glory, glory. And once you get there, once you get there, you'll be thankful in your heart, you'll be grateful because it'll set you free, like you've never been free in your life. You'll come out under the yoke of bondage and you won't have to look down to no one, you'll
be able to look everyone straight in the eyes, because you have a city, oh
yes you have, you have a promised land.
(Voices rises throughout)
God has come down out of the imaginary
heavens and he has condescending to walk in his people, to talk with them,
to be with them, to be their God, their redeemer, he has wiped away the
tears from the eyes of those that know him. He has caused sorrow to cease.
He has caused criticism to pass. He's caused hope to spring forth as a
wellspring eternal. He's brought you forth. As you were dead, now you are
alive. Hallelujah!
He's still the same, the very same one, the very same one. There never will be another. The world did not birth him and the world will not take him a way. Socialism! God Almighty, Socialism!
Keep in mind you're dealing with the Principle of Socialism. It's a powerful principle. It's not just on one dimension, it also has its miraculous, paranormal dimension.
That's what I have, That's what I am. It used to be just a word. But now that word is made flesh. That word has taken a body. Socialism, God Lives!
I am no longer a man. I am a principle and I have come to show you that ye are gods because I am God. That's what I am. The word. The spoken word. The living word, God Almighty, God Almighty.
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(The Jonestown Reenactment wishes to credit Rebecca Moore and Fielding M. McGehee III for transcriptions of many of the segments used here.)