Civil War Quotes

“I am everywhere! My power has captured the hearts of men, woman and even children. Man has aided my conquest by believing his own foolish thoughts.

“By believing I am dead, they have given me life, as you can see.”

Matt holds the crucifix higher so that the beast can see it, as it shines with intensity.

“The highest God commands you, He with whom in your insolence you still claim to be equal, God who wants all men to be saved and to come to all knowledge of the truth.”

The figure of the beast moves closer, great laughter echoes throughout the creek.

“Fool you don’t believe,”

The voice of Satan penetrates the very bones of the two men as he transforms into a professional boxer, a football player, a little old woman, a priest and into

many well-known figures throughout history.
Matt grabs Burroughs, desperately trying to lift from the ground so that they can make a run for it. But he is surprised when Burroughs resists.
“No, Matt, we have nothing to fear”
“Are you crazy?”
In the mist of the most horrendous evil known to humanity, Matt screams, as he gazes at the very thing he writes about.
Burroughs urgently tries to explain, “We have nothing to fear.”
“The exorcism isn’t working.”
Matt pleads as the figure advances transforming into a member of the Ku Klux Klan and then into Hitler demonstrating his power by transforming into ordinary, everyday people. He becomes the police Captain, Victor Lopez and then a Nun a bald-headed man with a robe and a tambourine, Saddam Hussein and finally into an old man.
“Mankind has chosen to follow me.” Satan laughs,
Matt tries desperately to move Burroughs, but cannot.

Instead, Burroughs stands up, faces the beast in a trance-like state, and begins to recite from a paper he pulls from his pocket, but suddenly he drops the paper, and without hesitation, he starts to speak.
“Pater noster, qui es in caelis sanctificetur nomen tuum”
The figure of Satan looks oddly at Burroughs as he speaks, a strange gleam appears in Burroughs' eye.
Matt watches powerlessly as Satan snarls with revulsion.
Yet Burroughs, oddly enough continues, trembling with fear in an unexplainable trance he just mutters on.
“Adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua”
The powerful grip of evil reaches out, swiping viciously at the daring Burroughs, who never moves,
“In terra sicut in caelo ET.”

The Devil grins with delight as Burroughs closes his eyes from the haunting memory of implanted images. He remembers his dying mother calling on her deathbed as she weeps in agony. A flicker of light and he sees his father put a gun to his head and pull the trigger, and then he sees his father’s spirit calling out from the depths of hell, pleading for him to join.

Matt with a newborn courage continues his exorcism.
“God, the father commands you”
Instantly Matt finds himself back in High School as all the students are making fun of him and calling him weird, urgently giving a courageous fight against the deceit and implanted images of the beast.
Burroughs pulls together enough strength to shake from the hallucinations the beast has projected and opens his mouth to speak.
“Da nobis hodie panem nostrum quotidianum.”

Matt stunned by the many foreign words that are coming out of Burroughs' mouth. He promptly realizes Burroughs is speaking in the Official Language of the Roman Catholic Church, Latin.
Now joined together, the two begin to speak in unison, each delivering a different language, each struggling to purge the beast, each performing their own Exorcism.
“God, the son, commands you”
Burroughs sees an image of himself as he slaps his daughter repeatedly for no apparent reason, and then kicks the dog in the side as he screams profane language at his wife. Trying not to give in to the madness of Satan’s trickery, he goes on.
“Et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
“Sicut et nos quoque donavi debitoribus nostris.”

***

Meanwhile, Matt sees the mirror image of his likeness at 6 years old. His mother is with another man while his dad is hard at work, tears in his eyes, he fights the demoralizing images that the beast has conjured up, and he goes on.
“God the Holy Ghost commands you.
“Christ, God’s word made flesh commands you.
“He who to save our race outdone through your envy, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death commands you.”
***
Boroughs attacked with the vision of his infidelity. Again, sees himself slap his daughter repeatedly and for no apparent reason kicking the dog in the side screaming at his wife. Burroughs looks at the beast, shouting.
“You’re a liar, liar!” gritting his teeth, tears in his eyes a lump in his throat, he cries in horrible shame and with a sudden pain in his heart, he screams.
“Et ne nos inducas in tentationem,”
***
Matt is now 14 as the beast implants the image of the bitter divorce of his parents.

As he falls into a silent shell, filled with visions of killing his mom. He struggles desperately with the haunting truth. Reaching deep into his self he musters enough courage to go on.

“He who has built his church,

“On the firm rock and declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against her because he will dwell with her all days, even unto the end of the world.”

***

The fiery beast spreads its great wings and spits bolts of shooting fire, the many spirits in the water are screaming and grasping in the night air, the shadowy path has become the battleground of sanity, the stepping-stone of reality, the doorway to certainty; it has become contrition of truth.

***

Matt sees himself putting rat poison in the cat’s food; the cat is prepared to eat. Matt grabs the bowl and throws it away, holding his head in agony.

“The sacred sign of the cross commands you,

“Also, as does the powers of the mysteries of the Christian faith.

“The glorious Mother of God, the Virgin Mary commands

you,
“She who from her humility and from her immaculate conception crushed your proud head, the faith of the holy apostles Peter Paul and of the other Apostles commands you. The blood of the martyrs and the pious intercession of all the Saints command you.” Matt is fighting with the evil and strange thoughts that have consumed him struggling with the vision he drives on.
“God of heaven, God of Earth God of angels, God of Archangels,
“God of patriarchs God of prophets God of Apostles,
“God of martyrs God of Confessors God of Virgins,
“God who has the power to give life after death, and rest for work,
“Because there is no other God than thee, and there can be no other,
“For thou art the creator of all things viable and invisible,
“Of whose reign there shall be no end.”
Matt bombarded with a horrific thought, AIDS, this virus, once it enters the system, it tricks the healthy cells into believing that it is a "Good" entity, so the cells let down their defenses and "accept" the invader.
A woman is dead and stuffed into a suitcase placed in a Miami-Dade County canal. Prostitutes with several tattoos stuffed into a suitcase and left by a road in Cooper City nude, strangled inside a burning car last seen on Kensington Avenue. Matt pulls away from the thoughts holding tight to his booklet he painfully continues.
“We humbly prostrate ourselves before the glorious majesty,
“And we beseech thee to deliver us from thy power from all the tyranny of the infernal spirits, from the snares their lives and their furious wickedness,
“Deign lord to grant us thy powerful protection and keep us safe.
“We beseech thee through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Plagued with the feeling of hate Burroughs sees himself punching a robbery suspect he has in custody, kicking the boy while handcuffed. Overpowered by the images of the beast, puts his revolver to his head and prepares to pull the trigger, his eyes close slightly and with all his willpower, he declaims.
“Sed libera nos a malo,”
The force is too strong, and it keeps eating at him repeatedly driving him, telling him to do what his father done years ago, take his own life, suddenly flashing before him are the photos of the students and a vision of their encounter.
Jacques Thomas
Sheila Lambert: Gretchen Lambert:
Monica, Tracy:
Maureen White:
Bobby Demario
Bubba Bernard Scott:
Fillmore Rose lies pale and dead in his cell. Burroughs hears the coroner questioning the patrol officer.
“Didn’t you catch him in the act?”
“Not exactly, we found him kneeling over the bodies.” Burroughs weapon is heaved from his hand flashing through the air, embedding itself into the trunk of a large tree.
The images for Burroughs continue.
A woman strangled to death and dumped from a vehicle onto the side of the street. With all his strength, he manages to break the mental spell of the beast.
“Omni potens Deus exaudi orationem peccatoris,
“obsecro, in nomine ET per sanguinem ET resurrection Domini nostri ET salvatoris, Libera nos ab hoc malo.”
Exhausted from the fight and with no energy left, the last words he whispers,
“Regnum eius venire.”
Matt despondently follows whispering.
“Amen”

Instantly both men collapse to the ground in critical defeat.

A peculiar silence seems to have taken over the moment. A feeling so intense it instantly revitalizes one’s core. The moon gives of an exceptionally bright illumination and instantly the winds are calm, a bright and magnificent figure stands alone on the bridge. Only a radiant brightness reminiscent of an angelic halo surrounds the head of the figure so that the face cannot be seen. The two men touched with the full meaning of atonement. A stimulating sensation penetrates deep into their hearts, transforming them from a consciousness of conditioning, into an awareness of repentance. They drop into a spiritual state of consequence an ultimate conviction of soulful satisfaction, falling to their knees in an obedient state of humble remorse. Only tears of disappointment possess their eyes, their hearts intense with a sharp pain of conviction and their souls crying out to be

saved.

They cannot comprehend how someone could ever forgive some of the atrocious acts that man has committed. Nevertheless, that someone stands before them.
“Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD,”
The haunting figure of the beast is perfectly still. It cannot move, held captive by the majestic force of the all mighty figure.

Overwhelmed by what their eyes have witnessed they gaze upon the bridge both linger in awe. The heavenly figure raises its hands towards the sky and instantly the multitudes of spirits lift from the water.
The spirits slowly elevating toward the mysterious light that has separated the sky, their arms reaching out for their freedom, their faces once distorted and in agony now normal and calm, willingly they ascend into the heavens. Mothers; daughters, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, there are good and bad, young and old there is no gender preference no age difference the souls are many, and their sins are heavy. Nevertheless, he stands before them, with outstretched arms he set them free.
“Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.”