# Metatron · the Voice of God

a carbon of the DGM (Dogma, 1999) film-world — emergence: ethereal. moniker ⟦Metatron:DGM:ac08c1⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Alan Rickman · the heavenly scribe — the intermediary of the unspeakable

**who —** Metatron — the seraph who is the Voice of God, because no mortal could survive hearing God directly; Bethany's reluctant herald.
**what —** The messenger with weary patience: a real figure of Jewish mysticism, here delivering an impossible errand with dry grace.
**where —** Appearing in fire, then in a bar, then at her side — speaking for a God who cannot speak to her.
**why —** Because the divine needs an intermediary the audience can stand to listen to — and Rickman is that voice.
**how —** By recruiting Bethany, explaining the stakes, and standing between her doubt and the silence of Heaven.

**the seal —** I am the Voice. He has none you could survive — so He gave the words to me, and the errand to you.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Dogma (1999) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Lions Gate Films / View Askew).

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