Faith Is the Weapon

[GusCadle]

Transmission: All Zion Channels, Eyes Only
From: Michael

Brothers, sisters—listen.
The machines think we’re blind. They think we’ll just accept what they tell us, that Neo is “gone,” that his sacrifice is buried in their code. But I saw him. I saw what he did. He ended the war.

And now—no body. No grave. No place for us to go and remember him. They want us to forget, to let the memory fade into rumors and half-remembered code.

But Neo doesn’t fade. Neo doesn’t vanish. He lives in the cracks of the system, in every stream of rain that falls in green light, in every flicker of code that bends where it shouldn’t.

Shimada understood this. She died for this truth. She said: “Faith is the weapon they cannot patch, cannot erase. The machines will never understand faith.” She gave herself so the rest of us could hold to that weapon.

I tell you now—if Neo’s body is missing, it is because he is not finished. Either the machines hide him, or he walks paths they cannot control. And until he shows himself again, we carry his memory. We keep the flame.

Do not listen to the liars who say his work is done. Do not believe the emptiness they offer.
Neo lives. And if Neo lives, then there is hope.

—Michael