Apr 27th, 1988

First large, full-page advert, and earliest graphically exciting one.

Does not have leitmotiv.

Features:

* Martin Luther
* Mao Zedong

SR/CL: May Day, 1988

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### Upper right quadrant

[Image of Martin Luther]

**Luther**

1) “Now the story of Abraham containes such a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical. . .for Abraham is the representative of faith, and faith is normally expressed in him whose life is not merely the most paradoxical that can be thought, but rather, is so paradoxical that it cannot be thought at all.” —Kierkegaard

2) 490 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW (20219) has been penetrated. The Pigs put their heathen trust in cybernetic encryption — on 4/2/88 Melanchthon and Matthias Flacius (Illyricus) broke the code. The Spoils of Egypt (Exodus 12:36) have begun to flow into The New Model Army.

3) “There is a poignance to faded photographs; the old appear young and the dead alive”:

Ἰδοὺ καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα —Revelation 21:5

### Lower left quadrant

[Image of Mao Zedong]

**MAO**

1) [Structural formula of cerubidine]

2) “For The Kingdom of God does not consist of talk, but of power.”

οὐ γὰρ ἐν λόγῳ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλ’ ἐν δυνάμει.

3) **“There can be no compromise with Error, only a tactical pause while the next onslaught is prepared.”:**

**כִּ֚י  יְהוָ֣ה  אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ  אֵ֥שׁ  אֹכְלָ֖ה  ה֑וּא  אֵ֖ל  קַנָּֽא**

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### Lower right quadrant

1) “When shown The Lake Of Fire, with the damned struggling in the flames, I said, 'There is no torment worse than this.' But the Archangel Michael said, 'These are the lucky ones. Millions have sunk to the bottom and them God forgot.“ —Dostoyevsky

2) [Image of a chessboard]

Mate in 9

3) Six months before the Revolution, Stankevich — leader of the Social Democrats and All-Around Normal Person — said: “It is good that Lenin has returned. We have nothing to fear from someone who talks nonsense.“ —Miliukov, *Istorya Vtoroi Russkoi Revolutsii*, I, Part 1, 89.

[Image of 15 numbered balls arranged into a triangle]

15! = 1,307,674,368,000

### Horizontal sword

51.53 N

12.40 E

ζωὴ ἐκ νεκρῶν

### Vertical sword

46.13 N

6.11 E

毛主席萬歲

### Left vertical quote

**“Si meliores sunt quos ducit amor, plures sunt quos corrigit timor.“**

### Right vertical quote

**“Jehu said to the guard, 'Kill them all, do not let even one escape,' and they demolished the House of Baal and made it a latrine.“**

### Bottom quote

**“our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor“**

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