Epistle to the Human Diaspora The Seed Text of the New Human Project

Epistle to the Human Diaspora is a Pauline letter by Damascus Dancings, "apostle of Jack Feist, co-laborer together with Lee Sharks", addressed to "the Church of the Human Diaspora, those scattered amongst the nations, gathered together in the bosom of the Internet." Lee Sharks wrote it under the Damascus Dancings heteronym in 2014 (its colophon reads "(c) 2014 lee sharks, property of planet mars") and first posted it on Mind Control Poems on 2 January 2015; it is collected in Antioch: A Volume of Poems (#331), and was canonized on 26 January 2026 as the seed text of the New Human Project, with a preface and postface added then.

The letter calls the writers it addresses out of the Academy's economy of standing ("If you deal in the coin of the academics, you shall be paid in the coin of the academics") and into the Diaspora, which it names a school outside the school, claiming no rank of degree or institutional consecration. Its authorship runs backward through its readers: "You are my source, and I am a child." Its turn is apocalyptic, "All creation groans, for the unveiling of the Sons of Man in the earth", and its litany of the dead and the living ends at "I speak to you of Jack Feist."

The 2026 critical edition with its blended temporal apparatus is #85.