The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“At the city gate, a tired guard looked at their foreign clothing and asked what business had brought eastern priests to Jerusalem before dawn. Mehrasp answered, “We have come to honor a child, not to challenge a city.””
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.