In this episode, stairway to heaven, and beyond, to the Vatican.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Shlomo Molkho’s Traum, 2

Just one more step and he will enter into the maw of the Vatican.

Thirty days of fasting and prayer at Ponte Sant’Angelo, and then he announces he is rising up to tell the pope the messiah is here. As he walks the Via della Conciliazione to Piazza San Pietro, tumult and crowds,

Jews, Roman soldiers and clerks, beggars and hawkers, mothers and children, shopkeepers, street cleaners, nobles and priests,

… curse and abuse, quip and cajole, hallelujahs and mock prophecy…

and like a flaming torch as he proceeds the crowd makes way for his stately pace. Even the soldiers with orders to kill stumble back in awe and let him pass. And there standing at his bronze........

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