The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“The youngest asked whether they should tell the Judean priests about Cyrus, paradise, the House of Song, resurrection, and the long western borrowing. The elder shook his head. “We did not cross the world to win an argument at a child’s door.””
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Direct canonical threshold + sacred fictionThe final scene stops immediately before Matthew’s canonical narrative begins.
Matthew 2:1 begins after Jesus’s birth by placing Magi from the east in Jerusalem during Herod’s reign. The Gospel then gives their question, Herod’s alarm, Bethlehem, the gifts, the warning, and the alternate road.
The camp outside Jerusalem, pādyāb, private dialogue, symbolic interpretation of the gifts, Second Road map, and final preparations are fictional.