Book Second

[LoLzboi 661]

Book Second

Concerning Iniquity

 

The slaughter of Saul and the tribe of Horen at the hands of Iblees’ corruption

 

Penned By High Pontiff Siegmund I

 

1st of Sigismund’s End, 1694

 

 

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Following my thoughts upon the divine as so inscribed within my previous work, the course naturally flows to the mortal plain, or more precisely, that which binds the mortal plain to GOD. This binding, of course as is only natural, being the fundamental ways by which He interacts and leads the beings capable of reason. I speak, therefore, of my thoughts upon the Faith, or rather Faiths, of the mortal plain, and to what end they might bring through dedication.

 

For across this expanse about us, and through time neverending, there have come and gone many Faiths. All of them prospecting to the fundamental questions that recognising a God might bring, and all of them, through no lax effort, pressing that they do indeed have the answers to what questions they bring forward.

 

Thus, I shall continue my thoughts fluently as to avoid the unnecessary burden of reiteration and subsequent boredom of you who wish to understand fully of what I refer to. And to you who do not read but to find offense or to contest, I say this, read on so that what wisdom I might impart should take root in you and aid you in your venture to the truth of which you have spurned for too long.

 

 

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Upon the question of the necessity of guidance

 

So then, the question would arise, why would a GOD, as authoritative and powerful as He is, not solely reduce all of His creation to that of subservience and complete obedience? For, if He is truly the creator, would He not take offense to those who spurn Him openly or worship others as they would worship Him? Would He not set upon them punishments so dire, or set upon them in the person, that they who wander listlessly without Him be cast to the ground and weep of their ignorance or malevolence? Nay, for to what end do such actions provide? Shall the Creator gift to His creations that which He does not want them to have? But then why gift to His creations will at all?

 

We might see that, in His great love, GOD had created intelligent creatures which we see as the animals of the world, so that they might enjoy His creation. For a monkey, or bird, or fish, or wolf might enjoy the base of it, they cannot enjoy the whole or appreciate the nuances which surround them. For this purpose GOD created higher beings, the father and mother, and from them came we the descendants. Yet the higher purpose to which I have given is not necessarily higher, but more broad in itself. The ability to understand, comprehend, and emulate the same creating hand, and due to this He could not limit the abilities of us as He had done to the lesser beings.

 

Upon the question of what is guidance

 

I speak, of course, of the will of which all descendants bear, as they bear a soul, which provides them the freedom of thought, and judgement, and reflection that other creations such as the fish, or the birds, or the wolves of the world do not enjoy. For this freedom of will is what He has provided to His creation so that it may develop as a child would develop, for a mother that locks her child away from all torments and misdeeds does not aid the child, rather, instead she would harm it more so by doing this than perhaps any other action. To deprive the child, which enjoys freedom of will as we all do, from these things is to shackle and chain them from all beauty, and deprive from them a fulfilling life to which they were created to fulfill.

 

Through this, GOD not only created all of creation in the physical, but He also chose to create the moral, or in essence the dichromatic existence of good and evil should it be boiled down to such basic concepts, within this freedom of will. A second gift so profound that all cultures, peoples, and societies have, for the entirety of our combined history, observed and rendered them to be so true that they make-up the very foundation of all we know socially. That being the hierarchical structure of our families, societies, governments, of our various religions, and of the way we perceive actions taken by individuals or groups.

 

Thereby, through His will, we have been gifted the first and most unrefined guidance from GOD, proving that, as with all creation, He does indeed care for us as He does the rest of His creation and therefore affirms himself to the concepts proposed in my first work. Thusly, once again affirming His position as GOD.

 

Upon the question of what is meant by Faith

 

Further to this, through the gift of morality, His creations, which would be the first man and woman, were given divine guidance in the earliest of days by GOD, as recorded in multiple sources upon the matter, and thus the foundation of the lens by which we see morality was established. Even further to this, with the coming of the sons named Malin, Urguan, Krug, and Horen, GOD set about, as well as the first man and woman, teaching the youths that came afterwards of these same moralities, again recorded in multiple sources.

 

From these teachings, we now see the formation of the first faith present itself. That being, the faith in GOD and His judgements. Of course, in these early days, the idea of faith had not been fully formed, nor even articulated amongst the parents nor the children. All believed equally and wholly in the presence of GOD, and His will, and His creation without contest, or conjecture, or disinterest. However, none knew of this faith that now existed and so could not therefore foresee what the lack of this new faith would bring.

 

So then we find that, as long lasting and fundamentally true as the concept of creation, the concept of faith too shares in our combined history as descendants of these first beings. That being the uncontested truth of there being a GOD, as a child would not contest the existence of their mother, as prevalent and as uncontested as the truth of there being creation.

 

And so furthering to this understanding we can attribute faith to be the concept of guidance provided from GOD, for His judgments are those of guiding us towards a goodness that no other can, and the belief in the goodness of those judgements presenting themselves as the aforementioned idea.

 

Upon the refinement of the question of Faith

 

With Faith thusly being that of the belief in judgements made by GOD, we can therefore expand this to the happenings that follow the sons Malin, Urguan, Krug, and Horen from which all descendants attribute their lineages to in order to refine what it is. I speak then of the treachery of Iblees to GOD, a creation of GOD that, through the freedom of will gifted to him, rose up against Him in the effort to corrupt and destroy creation entirely. Now, to fully understand the implications of this, we must discuss that which I have put aside earlier, that being what the lack of faith would bring.

 

To begin in this thought, however, the framing of the question is to be set in place. What does a lack of faith entail? The disbelief or disregard of GOD’s judgements? If that is so, then it would exclude from it the truthfulness that one may be lead astray. So then, perhaps a lack of faith is the inability to discern the truth from the untruth and subsequently lose the judgement passed down by GOD? Or, to further this question, a lack of faith is the inability to believe, discern, accept, apply, or all these together that which is GOD’s judgment. To be unable to believe in GOD’s judgement fully, discern GOD’s judgement from simply the word of one who is not GOD, accept GOD’s judgement easily, apply GOD’s judgement as it is handed down, or do these things in unison if it is necessary, to be the most clear in my meaning.

 

With this, we may delve further into the question of the lack of faith among the four brothers in regards to Iblees’ sown corruptions against GOD within them, or more precisely the nature by which this lack of faith might define for us what is faith through the application of what it is not.

 

Upon the question of Faith regarding lack of Faith

 

We therefore begin in the time following GOD’s call for the first man and woman to join Him among the skies, apart from their children. The four sons now left isolated from their teachers, and so are left only with what was passed down, a parable to how we currently reside in this world, and to continue the teaching and adherence thereof.

 

“So the Lord was pleased to lay His favor upon the sons of His first man and woman, and He called the pair forth to reside in Sixth Sky and give the World over to the dominion of the Sons.” - Godfrey 1:14

 

Following this absence, it is written in the sources from these early days that the sons soon began to drift from the teachings passed down to them. Their attentions diverted to those of the mortal realm in which they now dwelt entirely apart from their parents, their attentions taken from the common discussion with GOD to more earthly matters among themselves. The first most prevalent, depending on the source yet all agree upon the premise, the four sons separated, drifting apart to live apart among their own tribes, these tribes later being the four descendant races, but that is of no importance now, with each taking to themselves their own lands, and titles, and customs.

 

From this we know the lack of faith, the lack of belief, discernment, and acceptance of judgement, was prevalent amongst all the sons people. To Malin in the forests, Urguan in the caverns, Krug in the deserts, and Horen in the plains, came forth Iblees and his corruptions, yet it is only Horen to which the absence of GOD did ring loudly to him and to which he sought for willingly.

 

Yet, through his will to rejoin GOD, Horen did leave his tribe unguarded from the corruptions of Iblees, unlike his brothers who were corrupted easily by the deceiver themselves, for they had lost sight of GOD’s judgements, and warnings, and teachings that were passed down to them. In short of form Malin, Urguan, Krug, and the tribe of Horen lost faith.

 

From this lost faith, or lack thereof, came the inevitable disaster that befell the three brother and the tribe of Horen, these being the weakening of Malin and his people, and Urguan and his people, and the kinslaying of Krug and his people, for at this time all tribes are as the brothers, and the deceiving of Saul within the tribe of Horen.

 

First came the corruptions of GOD’s judgements, the corruption of faith itself through acceptance. The three brothers and their tribes falling to revelry and lazyness, laying with one another freely, and holding these corruptions of GOD’s judgements as the proper form of them, as written in the histories for they had no will to accept the judgements as passed to them and so instead chose to rework that which GOD had made for their own benefit.

Second came the corruptions of GOD’s judgements through discernment. For each of the brothers and the tribe of Horen could not tell apart the word of mortal men from that of GOD, and so did bring forth the word of mortal men as equal word to that of GOD.

 

Third came the corruptions of GOD’s applications, for as with the lack of acceptance and discernment of the judgements, so too did the three brothers and the tribe of Horen fall away from the proper application of such. This resulting in the loss of adherence to His word entirely and the leading of these first peoples from His path.

 

Fourth came the corruptions of GOD’s faith through belief. For without the acceptance, nor the discernment, nor the application intact, there was nothing to correct the falsity that manifested itself within the fundamental belief. So then, if one does not accept the judgements of GOD and seeks to change them, and cannot discern these changes in judgements from the original, nor the application of those judgements and so changes them too, there can be nothing left of belief for to what does one then attribute to believe if they have rejected all the wisdoms given to them in that regard?

 

And so, we know that Faith therefore must represent these four devices. Those of Belief, Discernment, Acceptance, and Application of GOD’s judgements wholly, truthfully, and without question, or favouritism, or modification.

 

Upon the question of Faith regarding the fruits of lack of Faith

 

And so we see that the lack of faith spread across the siblings and tribes easily through the corruptions of these devices, for none had safeguard against them save for Horen who gave Julia, his wife, the understanding to watch for and prevent these corruption. Yet, even with this safeguard, her reclusion to her tabernacle permitted Saul, who came with the offerings of Iblees to Horen's tribe, to spread the corruptions throughout her tribe, so much so that upon Horen’s return he found his own people as troubled as he had known they would be with Iblees’ words.

 

Then what became of those of Horen's tribe who bathed in sin and coveted falsity jealously? What became of those men, and women, and children from which took the chalice of Saul and drank the wine of Iblees?

 

For upon Horen's return to the camp, having found GOD and being gifted upon him His blessing, with himself glowing with the holiness of his anointment, these people he once could touch, could no longer touch him. And from him they sank away, and when Horen entered the tabernacle where his wife was tending to their children to speak, and upon his return to the masses he found them laying next to Saul upon the ground. For their sin, and iniquity, and falsity had led them to slaughter one another, the ground stained red with the blood of the corrupted.

 

Then what became of those of Malin, and Urguan, and Krug who participated with their tribes in sin and coveted falsity jealously?

 

To Malin, the oldest of the brothers, along with his people, the corruptions of Iblees gave them sterility, so that their number would forever be overshadowed with extinction.

To Urguan, the second oldest of the brothers, along with his people, the corruptions of Iblees gave to them short, squalid, and ugly demeanours, so that they could not stand as equals among their brothers.

To Krug, the second youngest, along with his people, the corruptions of Iblees gave them tusks in place of teeth, corrupted their very flesh to strange colours, and gave them a stature to match their insatiable bloodlust.

 

Upon the question of lack of Faith

 

From this knowledge then, we see that the lack of faith is to be chained to that which leads only to ruin. To cast aside the lifegiving truth of GOD, to remove from yourself the belief, and discernment, and acceptance, and application of His word, to submit yourself to the ultimate torture and death of yourself both through physicality and through your spiritual being, the soul you once bore purely.

The lack of Faith being both the defining, and the limiting of your being, and your existence, and your accomplishments.

 

Through this lack of Faith, the unbeliever has no standard, no guidance, and ultimately no conviction in their beliefs but for the conviction that they shall benefit from the lie they perpetuate upon themselves and others. And with it, no ability to hold themselves accountable for the wretchedness they bring upon themselves, for the wretchedness is all they have, and will know.

 

 

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