The Prophet's Message

The Prophet's core message is: I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS ENDEAVOR, NOR AM I ACCOMPANIED. It is a puzzling message, a paradox, clearly contradictory, right? Well, maybe, if you're in a rush for meaning. But... Talking in circles around an issue is his style and that way of speaking can mean disparate things coalesce into a larger meaning as they circle. It's worth a whirl, isn't it? But he wants this admitted paradox to strike you with its full force, as it did strike him, so he doesn't explain it. I can, not being a prophet pledged to silence. He does not want this truth to enter your mind in pieces which is what an explanation does, being a sequence of words. He wants it to be like Andre Breton's near death in a car accident in which he and his companion sustained no physical injury but suffered into a clarifying, immediate knowledge of the surrealist concept of OBJECTIVE CHANCE. Whew, it was a fuzzy notion until the accident made it radically real and genuine. (However, maybe you still want this prophet to talk in plain language. OK. I AM NOT ALONE refers to the sense of being protected he speaks of in the first stanza. I AM NOT ACCOMPANIED means he has no supernatural helper like the Angel Raphael for Tobias in The Book of Tobit.