we inherited the moon!!! Jesus and I (and others?) are building a (new) moon in Zion – – a Jesus MOON Altar
Moon: a Reminder of Spirit Possession (Alma 34:34)
The Zion Re-Colonization Committee hereby announces the proposed rebuilding of the moon as one of one hundred new Jesus Altars—an illuminated repository for consecrated states, surrendered wills, and rehearsed spirits. Public comment is now open as we reassign its symbolic jurisdiction from passive reflection to active spiritual anchoring.
TOWARDS a JESUS MOON. a new moon.
The moon has always been more than a rock reflecting sunlight—it is a mirror for states we do not fully own. In song, especially, the moon is not passive. It does not merely shine; it acts. It draws, softens, distorts, and enchants. Under moonlight, people do not behave as they do at noon. They drift. They confess. They surrender. The moon becomes a quiet conductor of altered will.
This is where Jesus intends to sharpen the instinct of “early Zion” architects, engineers and designers (e.g. Greg is helping Jesus build a new moon for the Jesus-Greg WORLD): to designate (set apart) the moon as an anchor—a repository for states of being that resemble possession. Not crude, cinematic possession, but something subtler: influence, yielding, a bending of agency. In lyrical tradition, the moon does not seize—it invites. And the invitation is almost always accepted.
Because King Jesus is leading (Greg Muller) to do this….there is, obviously, a theological basis (sketchy though it may be) and tension (strained though it may be) here that resonates with the Book of MORE Jesus (aka Book of Mormon), particularly Alma 34:34: “that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life… will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.”
The word possess matters. It implies continuity. What governs you now will govern you later. The state you dwell in becomes the state that dwells in you.
Now tilt that idea toward the moon.
The moon, in this symbolic system, becomes a cosmic holding place for states we rehearse—longing, obsession, surrender, intoxication, melancholy. Songs circle it like moths because it safely externalizes what is internally dangerous. “It wasn’t me,” the singer implies, “it was the moonlight.” A sacred dodge. A sacred clown move.
An echo of a Spirit Possession that we seek, that we are invited to, continually.
Ah yes—when the M-O-O-N comes out Greg does not turn into a Werewolf, but a “Sacred Clown. The trickster who tells the truth sideways. The one who winks while confessing. In moon-symbolism, the sacred clown laughs softly: “You call it romance; I call it voluntary possession.” The joke is not cruel—it is revealing. We step into moonlight already leaning forward. The enchantment completes a motion we began.
In through the veil.
So Jesus is giving (Greg) the moon as an inheritance (don’t worry, Jesus has one for you too!)—and as a joint repository, for hidden treasures (of knowledge). So, not as a literal container, but as a symbolic index of surrendered states. So, for example, in song—Every time a song places lovers, loners, or wanderers beneath it, it encodes a small ritual: step out of the sun (clarity, agency), enter the glow (ambiguity, influence), and let something else take the wheel—emotion, desire, memory, myth.
This aligns eerily well with Alma’s warning. Not because the moon is evil, but because it represents rehearsal. What you repeatedly yield to—whether love, despair, fantasy, or intoxication—begins to feel like “you,” even when it is something you are hosting. The moon, then, is the stage light under which that hosting becomes visible.
And the sacred clown, still grinning, taps the microphone: “Be careful what you call beautiful. Be careful what you practice under soft light. Because someday, according to Alma 34:34, you may discover it wasn’t visiting you—you were becoming it.”
So designate the moon boldly. Not as villain, not as victim—but as the luminous archive of chosen influence. The place where enchantment is rehearsed until it feels like identity.
Outro: Fragments Under Moonlight
— “Dancin’ in the moonlight…” — Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest)
“Blue moon, you saw me standing alone…” — Blue Moon (The Marcels)
“Fly me to the moon…” — Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra)
“There’s a bad moon on the rise…” — Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
“Under the moonlight, the serious moonlight…” — Let’s Dance (David Bowie)
“Blame it on the moonlight…” — Blame It on the Boogie (The Jacksons)
“Moonlight feels right…” — Moonlight Feels Right (Starbuck)
“Walking on the moon…” — Walking on the Moon (The Police)
“Man on the moon…(if you believe…)” — Man on the Moon (R.E.M.)
“Bark at the moon…” — Bark at the Moon (Ozzy Osbourne)
“Shine on, harvest moon…” — Shine On, Harvest Moon (traditional / many artists)
“By the light of the silvery moon…” — By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Doris Day)
“Moon river, wider than a mile…” — Moon River (Andy Williams)
“Underneath the moon…” — Under the Milky Way (The Church)
“I see the bad moon rising…” — Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
“Midnight, not a sound from the pavement…(Has the moon lost her memory? / She is smiling alone)” — Memory (Elaine Paige)
“Sister moon will be my guide…” — Sister Moon (Sting)
“Shame on the moon…” — Shame on the Moon (Bob Seger)
🌙 Same light. Different spirits. Same sky—different surrender.
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